On June 22, 1983, Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican resident, left her home to attend flute lessons at a music school in Rome. She never returned. Her father worked for the Vatican, and her disappearance quickly became one of Italy’s most infamous unsolved cases. Days after she vanished, an anonymous caller claimed Emanuela had been kidnapped as part of a plot to free Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man who had attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Over the years, theories emerged linking her d