Pope Offers Prayers for Family of Vatican Teen Missing for 40 Years
- Pope Francis offered prayers for Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared 40 years ago after a music lesson in Rome.
- Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance remains one of Italy's most enduring mysteries, but new leads in the case are being investigated.
- The Orlandi family has spent decades searching tirelessly for Emanuela.
- Both the Vatican and Italian investigators have reopened the case with possible new evidence uncovered.
- Theories about Emanuela's disappearance have ranged from kidnapping to plotting to kill Pope John Paul II to priestly pedophilia.