The remains of Orlandi still do not appear after a new search

The Vatican yesterday completed a new search in search of the remains of the young Italian woman who disappeared 36 years ago, Emanuela Orlandi, who became negative again because only human bones were found before 1900.

The Holy See announced yesterday that during the excavation in an ossuary of the so-called "German cemetery" located a few meters from St. Peter's Basilica, he had found "no bone structure dating from the end of 1800" .

The case of Orlandi, daughter of a 15-year-old Vatican employee who disappeared on June 22, 1983, has since become one of the strangest mysteries of recent decades in Italy, with major international repercussions.

Excavations in the ossuary, where were found "hundreds of bones" badyzed last week, took place after opening at the beginning of the month of two graves in search of the remains of Orlandi empty.

This Saturday, the forensic investigator, Giovanni Arcudi, "has completed the morphological badysis of the findings found in the ossuaries, several hundred partially intact bone structures and thousands of fragments," according to the Vatican.

"During the forensic anthropological investigations, Professor Arcudi did not find a bone structure dating back to the end of the nineteenth century," the statement added.

The Orlandi family itself had asked to investigate a grave in the German cemetery after receiving a letter from a source they kept secret with indications that it was "investigating the angel", referring to the one of the tombstones of the place.

Vatican prosecutor Gian Pietro Milano had ordered the two graves to be opened in order to dispel any possibility of error in the signaling. Although they were discovered in early July, they were found empty. The investigation has therefore resulted in the ossuary located in the interior. The same structure.

Last year, the appearance of human bones in the Vatican nunciature in Italy had fueled suspicions about a possible relationship with the Orlandi case, but they were later dismissed by experts .