Emanuela Orlandi

Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing woman
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Jul 29, 2019
The Vatican press office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, a young Italian woman who has been missing for more than 30 years.
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Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones’ found in Vatican ossuaries
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Jul 22, 2019
During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery.
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Vatican mystery over missing girl deepens; 2 ossuaries found
- Associated Press, Vatican
- Jul 13, 2019
The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery.
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Vatican tomb examinations come up empty-handed
- Vatican
- Jul 11, 2019
On Thursday much of the excitement over the opening of two Vatican tombs in search of the remains of a missing Italian teen was put to rest when the graves, belonging to two German princesses, were found empty.
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Could today’s Vatican tomb exams finally end Rome’s favorite mystery?
- News Analysis
- Jul 11, 2019
On June 27, the Vatican’s Promoter of Justice, more or less the equivalent of a District Attorney, ordered two tombs located near the statue to be opened in an effort to determine if Emanuela Orlandi’s remains are actually there.
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Forensic study of remains may shed light on young woman’s disappearance
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Jul 10, 2019
The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA will be crucial in determining whether the remains in a small Vatican cemetery belong to Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983, a Vatican-appointed forensic anthropologist said.
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Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing woman