Exactly 40 years after the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared, the Vatican said Thursday that new leads 'worthy of further investigation' had surfaced hopes of finally getting to the bottom of one of the Holy See's enduring mysteries.
vanished on June 22, 1983, after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See, the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome headed by the Pope.
The Vatican's criminal prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, said Thursday he had recently forwarded to prosecutors in Rome all the relevant evidence he had gathered in the six months since he reopened the investigation into Orlandi's disappearance. In a statement, he vowed to keep pursuing the case. Posters from the Netflix series Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi are seen in Rome.After the documentary aired and with the 40th anniversary of her disappearance nearing, Orlandi's family — backed by some lawmakers — pressed for an Italian parliamentary commission of inquiry. Separately, the Vatican and Rome prosecutor's offices reopened the investigation.
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