“ Once a sacred place now crucified by humans crimes”
Recently a 40 year ago missing girl case Emanuela Orlandi again in the news. As Pope Francis remembered in his latest prayer and break the taboo. Now Rome prosecutor announces they reopened the age-old case. As the Vatican announced that it found new leads in the investigation which is worthy of further investigation.
A Vatican City is the smallest sovereign place in the world located in just tiny 100 acres area of Italy’s capital Rome. It is marked by the agony of crimes conducted by none other than those churchmen, we can be called them the devil dressed in a holy man.
Orlandi family’s attorney told the press that “A taboo has fallen,” “It wasn’t a given, and we are grateful to Pope Francis for this gesture.”
Emanuela’s disappearance case is always a hot topic in the holy town, her family is still in search of her.
Her disappearance becomes world interest with the release of her Netflix documentary called “ Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi” It gives us multiple chilling details of her disappearance.
Who is Vatican Disappeared Girl Emanuela Orlandi?
Emanuela Orlandi is an ordinary girl in her early 20s when she disappeared. Orlandi family had lived and worked in the city for more than 100 years, they served seven popes as ushers and messengers.
Her father Ercole Orlandi lived in an apartment there with his wife, son, and four daughters. Emanuela was the second youngest.
On the afternoon of June 22, 1983, Emanuela went to flute lessons in Rome. In the early evening, she called home to say that man had offered her a quick job handing out leaflets for Avon cosmetics and that she would be late. When she didn’t return home that night, the family immediately began searching for her. They went to the police, ran ads in the newspaper, and covered the city with posters of her face.
She was a Vatican citizen, but she had been last seen in Rome, the Vatican left the investigation to Italian authorities, who had first suspected that girl had run away.
But when a man with an American accent began calling the Orlandi home soon afterward, claiming he knew where Emanuela was, instead of money he demanded the release of prisoner Mehmet Ali Agca, the two years earlier had attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
The American man called the family and played the recording of Emanuela saying the name of her school and sent the media a photocopy of her school ID with a note in her handwriting. Another tape, he sent to the media revealed the sounds of a young woman crying in pain and agony.
Then Pope John Paul II made a public appeal “ in the name of god and humanity” that the kidnappers return Emanuela unharmed.
The Turkish criminal Agca didn’t release by the Italian authority, and the American guy stop calling.
After that many bizarre theories of her abduction resurface from time to time but none of them have solid potential.
The Bizzare Theories About Emanuela Abduction?
Emanuela Orlandi brother Pietro Orlandi
There are many theories that resurface after the disappearance of Emanuela. Many people came forward with their own stories that they know about Emanuela but there is not a single clue of her whereabouts ever found.
Check out the many theories that resurface after her disappearance -:
- An Italian journalist followed the tip from her own girlfriend, who belongs to the Italian mafia family, she claimed she hid Emanuela at several locations before delivering her to a man dressed as a priest at a Vatican gas station.
- Some journalists followed that her case could be connected to an Italian banking scandal and that Pope John Paul II used mafia money to fund the anti-communist groups in his native Poland. The mafia kidnapped a Vatican citizen to get their money back, according to the theory goes.
- Another journalist, fetching the documents from the 2012 scandal dubbed “Vatileaks” claimed in 2017 that they got the clue that Emanuela was living in London under the care of Catholic priests until 1997 when she appears to have died. The Vatican called the document falsified.
- In Netflix documentaries, producers take interviews with Emanuela’s childhood friend, who claimed that Emanuela told her about her molestation incident with the pope.
- In 2013 a man named Marco Accetti, claimed to be “ the American” from the ransom calls. He told that he kidnapped Emanuela and another girl for a secretive Vatican faction for reasons he could not reveal. He even said that her family also confirmed his identity a man Emanuela had last time seen before her disappearance. But her brother Pietro Orlandi told that his claim is wrong.
- In 2019, an attorney representing the Orlandi family received a tip suggesting Emanuela’s body’s remains were buried inside the grave of a German royal princess. Interestingly though a Vatican who were moving away from the case, allow to open the tombs. But tombs were empty, even the remains of the princesses were missing. Isn’t it strange that remains of the queen are not found here?
So these claims arise from time to time but no one proves of actual truth. The questions still remain unanswered where Emanuela is?
At the behest of Pope Francis, the case is reopened again and investigators are investigating the case with a new angle, hope so they can solve the mystery behind her disappearance.