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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.
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