The Vatican judiciary announced Monday that it will reopen the cold case of a 15-year-old girl who disappeared in 1983 and is the subject of a recent Netflix docuseries.
Pope Francis’ new chief prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, will lead the investigation into the mystery of the cold case that has sparked conspiracy theories involving the Holy See and captivated the public for nearly four decades.
The Vatican plans to carry out “360-degree work” to leave no stone unturned in the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, including reviewing all files, reports and testimony, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.
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A protester holds a sign of Emanuela Orlandi reading ‘Disappeared’ during Pope Benedict XVI’s Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter’s square at the Vatican May 27, 2012. Emanuela Orlandi, fifteen, the daughter of a Vatican messenger who lived with his family in Vatican City, disappeared in 1983.
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Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee, was 15 when she disappeared on June 22, 1983, while returning home from a flute class in Rome. Her family asked Italian lawmakers to reopen the case last month.
“We don’t know, we know from the press, but certainly we have been waiting for a year to be heard,” the Orlandi family lawyer, Laura Sgrò, told ANSA about the reopening of the investigation.
The news comes months after the release of Netflix’s four-part series “Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi.” The series featured a new account from a childhood friend who said Orlandi told him a week before he went missing that a high-ranking Vatican cleric had made sexual advances on him.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Monday that the decision to reopen the case, which was shelved in 2016, was based in part “on the request made by the family in various places,” the New York Post reported.
In 2019, the Vatican ordered the opening of the graves of two 19th-century German princesses in the cemetery of the Pontifical Teutonic College, but no new evidence was found.
A mural to remember Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori, girls who disappeared in 1983, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Emanuela Orlandi, a girl who mysteriously disappeared on June 22, 1983.
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Other theories have linked the teen’s disappearance to Vatican financial scandals and possible criminal elements.
