{"id":1979726,"date":"2023-07-21T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unsolved-the-disappearance-of-vatican-girl-emanuela-orlandi\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:40:06","slug":"unsolved-the-disappearance-of-vatican-girl-emanuela-orlandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unsolved-the-disappearance-of-vatican-girl-emanuela-orlandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Unresolved: Vatican Girl Emanuela Orlandi&#8217;s Disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funsolved-the-disappearance-of-vatican-girl-emanuela-orlandi%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979726&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi: A Haunting Mystery<\/h2>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/something-has-to-change-photos-show-hundreds-of-migrants-housed-under-texas-bridge-in-scorching-heat\/\" title=\"\u2018Something Has To Change\u2019: Photos Show \u2018Hundreds\u2019 Of Migrants Housed Under Texas Bridge In Scorching Heat\">scorching heat<\/a> of \u200bJune \u206222, 1983, in Rome, Italy, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi asked her older brother Pietro\u2064 for a ride to her flute lesson. Despite \u200dthe unbearable temperature, Pietro refused, and Emanuela walked alone to her music school outside Vatican City.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s \u2064a\u2063 very painful memory \u2013 she insisted I take her, and we rowed over it,\u201d Pietro \u200brecalled. \u201cThen she left,\u2062 slamming the door. I never thought \u200dit would be the last time I saw her. I\u2019ve gone over it so \u2063many times, telling myself if only I \u200bhad accompanied her, maybe it wouldn\u2019t \u2062have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before\u2064 reaching \u200cthe school,\u2063 Emanuela received a\u2062 job\u200c offer from a man claiming to \u200drepresent \u2062Avon Products. She called her sister Federica\u200b to discuss it, but Federica advised against accepting the\u200d offer. Undeterred, Emanuela \u2062shared the\u200b news with her classmates and waited at a bus stop with another \u200bgirl.<\/p>\n<p>When Emanuela didn&#8217;t return home, her family grew worried and\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mom-admits-to-drowning-her-three-kids-softly-while-apologizing-to-them\/\" title=\"Mom Admits To Drowning Her Three Kids \u2018Softly\u2019 While Apologizing To Them\">began searching<\/a> for her. They reported her missing, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unsolved-the-disappearance-of-vatican-girl-emanuela-orlandi\/\" title=\"Unresolved: Vatican Girl Emanuela Orlandi's Disappearance\">initial \u200cpolice dismissiveness delayed<\/a> the investigation. However, the\u200c family&#8217;s persistence led to newspaper notices\u200c and eyewitness accounts of\u200d Emanuela speaking to a man with an\u2063 Avon cosmetic\u2062 bag.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_591469\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-591469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pietro Orlandi (C), Emanuela Orlandi\u2019s \u200cbrother, attends the march \u2063to St. Peter\u2019s Square on June 25, 2023 in \u200bRome, Italy. \u200dPope Francis expressed his \u200bcloseness to the \u200bfamily of Emanuela\u200b Orlandi,\u2063 on the \u200b40th \u2063anniversary of \u200dher\u200c disappearance. \u2062(Photo by Stefano \u2063Montesi \u2013 Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>And Then The Phone Calls Began<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The Orlandi family \u2063received \u2063numerous\u200d phone calls after posting their number in\u200d the \u200dpaper. \u200bThree calls stood\u2063 out, including one\u200b from a man named\u200d Pierluigi who\u200b claimed to have\u2063 spoken to Emanuela on the day she disappeared. Another call came from a man\u200c named Mario, who said a\u200b girl \u200cresembling Emanuela had visited his\u200b bar and claimed to have run away.<\/p>\n<p>On July 3, \u2063Pope John Paul\u2063 II mentioned Emanuela in \u200dhis \u2063weekly remarks, urging her kidnappers to release her. This led to speculation about the Vatican&#8217;s involvement. Shortly after,\u2062 an \u200bAmerican caller demanded\u2062 Emanuela&#8217;s release in exchange for the freedom \u200dof Mehmet Ali A\u011fca, the man who attempted\u200b to assassinate the pope.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, \u2064the identities of these callers \u200bremain unknown.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Theories<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Over\u200c the next four decades, various\u200d individuals\u200b claimed knowledge of \u2063Emanuela&#8217;s kidnapping. Theories ranged \u200cfrom involvement\u200d of\u2062 a \u2064Turkish organization called Turkesh to the\u2062 mafia&#8217;s\u2062 attempt\u2063 to extort money from the\u200b Vatican.\u2063 Some even suggested a cover-up\u200b within the Vatican involving high-ranking officials and sexual scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these\u2062 claims, \u2064investigators\u2063 lean towards the\u200c possibility that\u2062 Emanuela ran away or left\u2063 with\u2063 someone she knew.\u200d They \u200cquestion\u200b how she could have been kidnapped\u2062 on \u2062a\u200c busy\u200c street without anyone noticing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_591453\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-591453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela \u2062Orlandi\u2019s\u2062 brother, speaks participants\u200d before the \u200bmarch to St. Peter\u2019s Square on June 25, 2023 in Rome, \u200cItaly.(Photo by\u200b Stefano\u200d Montesi \u2013 Corbis\/Corbis\u200b via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/15\/europe\/italy-vatican-girl-case-intl-cmd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The most recent theory<\/a>,\u200b which the Orlandi family vehemently denies, suggests \u200cthat Emanuela&#8217;s now-deceased uncle, Mario\u2063 Meneguzzi, may\u2063 have\u200c been responsible. However,\u2063 documents provided by the Vatican indicate that Mario was on holiday with his family \u2063at\u200d the time of Emanuela&#8217;s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 40 years since Emanuela vanished, leaving her family\u2064 with unanswered questions and no\u200b closure. Her body remains undiscovered, and the truth behind \u200cher disappearance remains elusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>time, agreed to drive her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1979727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}