Emanuela Orlandi was the daughter of a member of the Vatican’s
Vatican Spokesman Sgro received a note last year telling her to “look where the angel is pointing”, along with a photograph of the tomb, it said. The grave in question features a marble angel holding a tablet reading “Rest in Peace” in Latin, above a tombstone with an inscription dedicated to a German prince who was nominated archbishop by Pope Pio IX in 1857, and his wife.Tests done on the tomb since the tip-off show that it has been opened at least once, and the date of the tablet is different to that of the tombstone, the Corriere said.
There was a claim that she was taken to force the release from prison of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who attempted to assassinate Pope Jean Paul II in 1981. In the latest anonymous tip-off, her family’s lawyer was told to look inside the tomb, which lies in a German cemetery within the Vatican walls. “I can confirm that the letter by Emanuela Orlandi’s family has been received and the requests it contains will be studied,” Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said in a statement. That followed the publication in Italy’s Corriere
Sgro said she had also been able to “verify that some people knew there was a chance Emauela Orlandi’s body had been hidden in the German cemetery,” her letter to the Vatican read. People had also been leaving flowers on the tomb, she said.