A Vatican prosecutor said on Thursday he had uncovered new leads 'worthy of further investigation' into the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl, who vanished 40 years ago.
In this file photo taken on May 27, 2012 a demonstrator holds a poster of Emanuela Orlandi reading"Missing" during Pope Benedict XVI's Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican. Filippo Monteforte/ AFP
Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return home on June 22, 1983 following a music lesson in Rome. She was 15 at the time and lived inside the Vatican City. Her disappearance is one of Italy's most enduring mysteries. On Thursday, he said his team had reviewed all the available evidence and spoken to people who had worked in "certain offices" four decades ago "confirming certain lines of enquiry worthy of further investigation."
Pope Francis publicly criticized Orlandi's brother in April after he played an audio tape on national television from an alleged gangster who said girls were brought into the Vatican to be molested and that the pope at the time, John Paul II, knew about it.
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