The bones found in the Vatican’s cemetery are “too old” to belong to the missing teenager Emanuela Orlandi

The Vatican has said human remains discovered during an excavation earlier in July do not belong to missing teenager Emanuela Orlandi, again dashing hopes that the decades-long mystery of her disappearance would finally be solved.

An anonymous tip given to Orlandi’s family led to the Vatican opening an investigation in the Teutonic cemetery to determine whether the daughter of a Vatican clerk, who mysteriously vanished when she was 15, was buried there.

An analysis of “several hundred partially intact bone structures” and “thousands of fragments” uncovered in the search was conducted on July 27, monitored by an expert appointed by the Orlandi family. But the findings showed that “none of the remains could be dated later than the end of the 19th century,” according to Vatican News

Via CNN

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