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Italian Police to Open Tomb to Solve Girl's Disappearance

(July 6) -- For almost three decades, the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, 15, has haunted and fascinated the Italian public. The daughter of a Vatican employee vanished in June 1983 as she walked home from a flute lesson in central Rome. Some commentators have claimed she was kidnapped on the orders of a corrupt priest,...

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Vatican Exhumation: Body Of Mobster Enrico De Pedis Exhumed

Coroners and medical technicians swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee.

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05/16/12 Former gangster says mob kidnapped daughter of Vatican... Source: Catholic World News An admitted Italian gangster has said that the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee was killed in 1983 because a criminal gang was irate over the loss of funds deposited in the Vatican bank.
04/16/12 Papal spokesman says Vatican knows nothing about... Source: Catholic World News Responding to a fresh outbreak of rumors about the unresolved disappearance of a teenage girl, the director of Vatican press office has insisted that there are no clues being hidden at the Vatican.

Background on Enrico De Pedis

Enrico De Pedis (May 15, 1954 − February 2, 1990) was an Italian criminal and one of the bosses of the Banda della Magliana, an Italian criminal organization based in the city of Rome, particularly active throughout the late 1970s until the early 1990s.

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