Episode 286 - Emanuela Orlandi: The Vatican’s Only Missing Citizen

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Organised crime, sex scandals, terror plots, hundreds of millions of missing dollars, a gangster known as ‘God’s Banker’ found hanging from a bridge in London, a 100-year-old apocalyptic prophecy, an anonymous tip-off that sounds like it comes from Dan Brown’s never-released Godfather sequel, and messages hidden in crypts…this is the story of Emanuela Orlandi, the only missing citizen of the smallest country in the world.

And though she disappeared more than 40 years ago, Emanuela’s story remains, to this day, one of the biggest mysteries in Italian criminal history.

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:15.5	I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome to Catholicism. And also Redhanded. We're going to the Vatican this week,
0:23.4	but before we go there, you have to go to RedhandedPolkoss.com and buy your tour tickets.
0:27.2	Yes, please. We're not doing a show at the Vatican, but we are doing a show in 15 cities across the US and Canada.
0:34.2	And also one in Dublin. So go to RedhandedPolkoss right now.
0:37.2	Yes, right now. And get your tickets because we are coming for you North America and Dublin in an alarmingly short amount of time.
0:44.2	Yeah, assuming my passport ever leaves the US Embassy.
0:47.2	Today's case is that of the only missing citizen of the smallest country in the world.
0:54.2	This took place about 40 years ago and in January 2023, the Vatican announced its decision to reopen what remains to this day,
1:04.2	one of the biggest mysteries in Italian criminal history.
1:08.2	It's got everything. We've got organized crimes, sex scandals, terror plots, hundreds of millions of missing dollars,
1:14.2	a gangster known as God's Banker found hanging from a bridge in London, a 100-year-old apocalyptic prophecy,
1:22.2	and an anonymous tip-off straight out of the page from Dam Brown's never released Godfather sequel.
1:30.2	It is very Dam Brown today. Yes, yes.
1:33.2	And it all ties into just one thing, the disappearance of a manuela or landi, a 15-year-old girl and resident of the world's oldest and most secretive autocratist.
1:43.2	The 40-year-old cat and mouse game between the Italian police, the Italian criminal underworld and, at the centre of it all, the Catholic church.
1:56.2	They're always on.
1:59.2	A manuela or landi was born on the 14th of January 1968, the fourth child of a collet and Maria or landi.
2:07.2	The Orlandi family were one of just 13 families living in the Vatican.
2:12.2	The family had lived there for over 100 years and had served under seven popes.
2:17.2	A collet worked as a clerk for the prefecture of the Pontifical House, and at the time his children were some of the only young people with Vatican citizenship.
2:28.2	That is crazy.
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