673 // Emanuela Orlandi - Vatican Mystery?

An Italian traffic warden and a state security agent stationed outside the Senate notice a young girl matching Emanuela's exact physical description speaking to an unknown man next to a dark green BMW, and the vehicle is illegally parked.

The officers do not intervene, assuming it is a routine interaction, and this constitutes the last verified sighting of Emanuela Orlandi.

In today's new episode of Missing, we are discussing the mysterious disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi from Rome, Italy on June 22nd, 1983.

And the disappearance of Emanuela remains the most enduring and legally volatile mystery in modern Italian and Vatican history.

And for over 40 years, the case has bounced between grand geopolitical conspiracy theories and dark domestic coverup hypotheses.

And we got the Vatican in here, so this is gonna be quite a story with all of the conspiracy theories and the Vatican.

Three separate investigative bodies are actively probing the case simultaneously now.

The Vatican's Promoter of Justice, the Rome Prosecutor's Office, and a bicameral Italian Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry.

Lot of things to roll around in the, in the mouth right there.

[laughs] Recent breakthroughs though have stripped away decades of international mythologies, refocusing the in- investigation on local actors, institutional concealment, and the final recorded hours of a 15-year-old girl.