‘We had a row, she left. It was the last time I saw her’: anguish of Emanuela Orlandi’s brother

Brother tells of his family’s pain as 36-year investigation into missing Vatican teenager takes another bizarre twist

A missing teenager, an empty tomb, a swirl of dark theories, and the closed doors and habitual secrecy of the Vatican. It sounds like fiction, but it is a real-life mystery that has gripped Italy for more than three decades and has embroiled the powerful and inscrutable Holy See.

For 36 years, the family of Emanuela Orlandi has sought answers about the fate of the 15-year-old girl who vanished from the streets of Rome on her way to a flute lesson.

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