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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: What Happened to Emanuela Orlandi?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Vatican City resident Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson. Over the decades, numerous people claimed to have seen Orlandi, or reached out with leads on her fate. Yet even now, the case remains unsolved. Join the guys as they explore that facts of the case, the wide-ranging possibilities, the allegations of conspiracy, crime and cover-ups, ultimately asking: What happened to Emanuela Orlandi?

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0:00.0

Fellow conspiracy realist, it's June 22nd, 1983.

0:05.3

We're in Vatican City, where a 15-year-old resident named

0:09.5

Emmanuela Orlando disappears.

0:12.6

Do you guys remember this one?

0:14.1

Very much, too.

0:15.0

I remember hearing from some listeners who passed on some very interesting insight information about this

0:22.4

story as well guys i don't remember a ton about this specific thing i i'm really excited to

0:28.8

relisten especially given that uh three years after we initially recorded this episode in

0:35.5

2020 the case was reopened.

0:38.7

Whoa.

0:40.0

100%.

0:40.8

And then remembering back, there definitely was one particular listener that sent us some very remarkable documents and images related to this.

0:49.8

And I believe we talk about that in the episode.

0:51.8

So why don't we take a word from our sponsor really quickly? and then we'll jump right into this classic episode on what happened to Emmanuel

0:58.7

Orlando. This is an IHeart podcast. On America's Crime Lab, the podcast, we're revealing the

1:07.6

true story of the Idaho Four. I was so frantic that morning and scared that the person who did this would come from me next.

1:14.3

They were struggling to identify a direction, a person of interest.

1:18.7

And I said, why wouldn't we work this case?

1:21.4

This three-part series features never before heard interviews about a crime that shook the nation

1:26.0

and the forensics lab that cracked

1:27.9

the case wide open.

1:29.6

Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

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