Next June 22 will be fulfilled 40 years of that afternoon when the track of the young man was lost Emanuela Orlandi. She was 15 years old and was returning to her house, in the Vatican, after a music class in Rome. Nobody saw her. no one saw no one. It was as if, suddenly, the earth had eaten her. So that 1983, with her disappearance, was born one of the most disturbing cases in Italian history. What happened to Orlandi?

During these four decades, cHundreds of theories and clues They have fed that mystery. The last one, the testimony of the former carabinieri Antonio Goglia. He has written to the new prosecutor in the case assuring that the remains of the fifteen-year-old, as well as Mirella Gregori (another young woman who disappeared in the same circumstances as Orlandi, also in the Vatican) are inside one of the most famous and mysterious monuments in Rome: the Castel Sant’Angelo.

The Castel Sant’Angelo

Also known as Hadrian’s Mausoleum, or Mole Adriana, the Castel Sant’Angelo is located just over a kilometer from the St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. Somewhere in its basements, the agent points out, is where the police of the city of Rome (which manages the monument) must search for the remains. In his letter to the prosecution he even gives details: “In the basement of Castel Sant’Angelo (…) behind an armored door there should be a room of about 20 square meters. There should be human remains there, including those of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori”.

Despite being so forceful, Emanuela’s brother, Pietro, says he doesn’t believe Goglia’s testimony, whom he accuses of “lying” and of having changed his version several times in these 40 years.

Less Reliable Tracks

Despite what the family thinks, the excarabinieri’s testimony could be enough to start a new search taking into account that, in this time, they have been carried out on much less forceful tracks.

In 2005 a call to the Italian version of the program ‘Who knows where?’ claimed that the body of the young woman was in the church of Sant’Apollinare. However, the remains found inside were not those of Orlandi, but those of Enrico De Pedis, known as ‘Renatino’, a mafia bossspecifically of the Magliana.

14 years later, the Orlandi family receives another intriguing anonymous letter: they claim that the young woman is in a tomb in the Teutonic cemetery. They were told to look at the feet of an angel… and he looked for himself: sand two graves were opened. However, they were empty.

Will it be searched again?

has been his own Pope Francis who, last January, ordered the reopening of the case falling into the hands of new researchers. Those who have not yet ruled on this new revelation, which makes the level of credibility given to the testimony is unknown from Goglia.

In any case, the letter you sent serves to feed, once again, one of the most mysterious cases in Italy that, forty years later, keeps public opinion in suspense due to its thriller overtones.