
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
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<p>In 1983, the disappearance of a teenage girl who was a citizen of Vatican City led to a scandal.</p><p>When Pope John Paul II made a public appeal to the people holding Emanuela Orlandi captive, the world took notice and her case was treated as a suspected kidnapping.</p><p>Forty years on, the reason she vanished is still unclear.</p><p>Emanuela’s brother, Pietro Orlandi, speaks to Daniel Gordon about his life-long mission to find out what really happened to his sister.</p><p>(Photo: A protester holds a photo of Emanuela. Credit: Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images)</p>