[Vision2020] Two Mysteries

Art Deco art.deco.studios at gmail.com
Wed May 16 20:06:42 PDT 2012


Great shot!

w.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Donovan Arnold <
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is an unusual story. News regarding the Vatican most often involves
> live boys, not dead girls.
>
> Donovan J. Arnold
>
>   *From:* Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>
> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:47 PM
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Two Mysteries
> **
> " The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican
> property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl's
> disappearance."****There are two mysteries here.  The disappearance.  And
> why is a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops?  From my point of view
> there is little to choose between them.  But one might expect the Catholic
> Church to be a bit more discerning.****
>
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>      *Mobster's body exhumed from Vatican site in search for teen who
> vanished
> *From Barbie Latza Nadeau , for CNN
> updated 11:26 AM EDT, Wed May 16, 2012
>  CNN.com
>  Rome (CNN) -- The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops
> on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage
> girl's disappearance.
> Investigators at the church of Sant'Apollinare in central Rome opened the
> tomb of Enrico "Renatino" De Pedis on Monday in the search for clues
> about what happened to Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a prominent
> Vatican employee.
> The 15-year-old vanished without a trace after leaving her Vatican
> apartment for music lessons on the afternoon of June 22, 1983.
> The mystery has captivated people throughout Italy and triggered numerous
> conspiracy theories.
> In the crypt, in addition to De Pedis' body, investigators found dozens
> of boxes of human bones, which they are testing.
> At the time of Emanuela's disappearance nearly 30 years ago, a witness
> reported seeing a girl who fit her description getting into a dark green
> BMW near the music school, which was adjacent to the Sant'Apollinarechurch.
> That lead was never corroborated.
> In 1981, two years before the girl's disappearance, Turkish national
> Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II.
> In the days after Emanuela disappeared, her parents received anonymous
> phone calls from someone promising the safe return of their daughter if the
> Vatican released Agca.
> Meanwhile, an anonymous caller told police that Emanuela was kidnapped to
> keep her father, Ercole Orlandi, quiet.
> That caller said Ercole Orlandi had stumbled upon sensitive documents
> that tied banker Roberto Calvi to an organized crime syndicate. Calvi was
> known as "God's banker" for his close association with both the Holy See
> and its primary banking facility, Banco Ambrosiano.
> Orlandi worked in the Vatican's special events office that organizes
> papal functions and Catholic celebrations.
> Calvi was found hanged in London in 1982. Speculation turned from suicide
> to homicide in that case. The tipster to police in Italy said Orlandi'sdaughter was nabbed to ensure her father's silence.
> Ercole Orlandi died in 2004.
> In 2005, another anonymous call to an Italian detective said Emanuela was
> kidnapped on the orders of the then-vicar of Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti,
> and that "the secret to the mystery lies in a tomb in Sant'Apollinarebasilica" -- specifically De
> Pedis' tomb.
> De Pedis was gunned down in Rome in 1990 and his body was moved to the
> basilica some time before 1997, presumably either as part of a secret deal
> for a massive loan De Pedis made to the Vatican or to protect his tomb
> from being desecrated by rival gang members.
> In 2008, De Pedis' mistress said he was involved in Emanuela's kidnapping
> and that the girl was buried under the foundation of a house outside of
> Rome. Investigators searched that house but found that the concrete
> foundation was poured the year before the girl's disappearance and could
> not have been connected to the crime.
> The Vatican has distanced itself from the Orlandi controversy.
> In a three-page letter broadcast on RAI television, Vatican spokesman
> Federico Lombardi said he asked Vatican cardinals whether the Vatican's
> failure to collaborate in the original kidnapping probe was "normal and
> justifiable affirmation of Vatican sovereignty, or if in fact circumstances
> were withheld that might have helped clear something up."
> The Vatican cooperated immediately with the exhumation.
> After opening the tomb Monday, investigators found De Pedis' body so well
> preserved that scientific police were able to confirm his identity through
> fingerprints. Also inside the crypt were the boxes of bones, according to
> investigators on the scene.
> The church has been used for burials for two centuries. Still, all of the
> bones will be tested to determine whether they are tied to De Pedis or to
> Emanuela's disappearance.
> De Pedis will not be reburied in the church, the Vatican said.
> De Pedis family lawyer Lorenzo Radogna said the remains will either be
> cremated or reinterred in a public cemetery in Rome.
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> Reserved.
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