#26 For Italy I’d say Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance.
She was a 15-year-old Vatican citizen who went missing on June 22, 1983 in Rome after she finished her routinely music lessons at school. Her schoolmates, who were the last people who saw her, claim that the last time they saw Emanuela was at the bus stop where she told her friends she wouldn’t take the bus with them because it was too crowded. She never made it back home.
Her disappearance still haunts Italians and after more than 40 years it’s still a mystery than everyone has heard about. She was never found and it’s still unknown if she is still alive or not (even though it’s highly likely that she’s died at this point).
Her family and the public opinion generally agree that the Vatican state has something to do with her disappearance and that people in the h**h places don’t want anyone to discover the truth because of the scandal it would cause.
Many tracks have been followed, including that it was a political kidnapping related to the attempted m****r of Pope John Paul II by Mehmet Ali Agca (who still claims that Emanuela is still alive hidden somewhere in either France or Switzerland).
The disappearance of another 15-year-old girl just a month before Emanuela’s (Mirella Gregori, disappeared on May 7, 1983) and the unsolved m****r mystery of a 17-year-old girl (Katty Skerl, found dead on January 21, 1984), both in Rome, have also been linked to the Orlandi case.
