The Emanuela Orlandi Case: A Mystery That Still Haunts Italy
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The disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi on June 22, 1983, remains one of Italy’s most baffling and disturbing unsolved cases. At the time, Emanuela was a 15-year-old Vatican citizen, living with her family inside Vatican City where her father worked as a lay employee. That day, following a minor argument with her brother Pietro, she left home to attend a music lesson—and never came back. From that moment, her fate has been cloaked in mystery, giving rise to a web of theories, suspicions, and unresolved questions.