MISSING: Emanuela Orlandi
When a young girl vanishes in the summer of 1983 from the streets of Rome, Italy, after a music lesson, her family begins a desperate search for her. But this girl isn’t your average teenager, she’s a Vatican Girl who lives behind the mysterious, imposing gates of Vatican City. And while her family just wants her back, the search for answers about her disappearance leads to a public frenzy spanning several decades and the discovery of conspiracies and corruption that may go all the way to the top of Vatican City’s leadership.
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2 of the composite sketches police released, calling them “professional kidnappers”. The sketches were built from witnesses who allegedly saw Emanuela being stalked.
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