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[keyboard clacking]

[dial tone]

-[indistinct radio chatter] -[thunder rumbling]

[George H. W. Bush] We have agreed to eliminate… most dangerous weapon.

[Andrea] After the end of 1983…

[thunder rumbles]

…there were no more phone calls from the American,

and the case gets cold.

Certainly, I agree with what President Yeltsin said,

that there is no, no animosity.

The Cold War days are over,

and he came here…

[Pietro] After the various calls from the American,

other groups got involved.

The Turkesh got involved, the NOMLAC, a series of groups

which claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

Unfortunately, nothing came from this.

It was the beginning of a very frustrating time.

More than ten years with no evidence,

no news, with the family waiting for something which never came.

[Pietro] Then in 1993, we got a call.

My dad and I go to the magistrates'.

And they tell us, "Do you think this could be Emanuela?"

They showed us a photo. It was this one.

[pensive music]

[Pietro] These photos had been taken from inside a convent. In Luxembourg.

-[keyboard clacking] -[mouse clicks]

It was a girl, a novice, a girl about to take her vows.

[Natalina] You think she's shut away in a room.

My mom said,

"They like brainwashed her, so she's alive and well, but can't remember us."

"That's why she doesn't reach out to us."

[keyboard clacking]

[Pietro] The Magistrates said, "Don't say anything,

don't speak to anyone."

I remember I furiously rushed to get these plane tickets,

and me, my dad, and my mom left.

[intense music]

[keyboard clacking]

[airplane whooshing]

[Pietro] We got to Luxembourg.

I had a quick look around the shops,

and this little object caught my eye.

Two penguins made of marble dust.

One was little, and the other was bigger.

And they were hugging.

That was the hug I've wanted to give my sister for ten years.

We stayed at home with Federica. Me, Federica, and Natalina,

And I still remember we slept in Mom and Dad's bed with Federica.

[clock ticking]

[car door opens]

[car door closes]

[Pietro] The next day,

the local police and Interpol surrounded this convent…

and they took her somewhere else…

[tape player whirring]

…to meet with my mom.

[tense music]

[clock ticking]

[Pietro] I vividly remember that the Head of the Flying Squad,

Mr. Cavaliere, was there with us.

I remember he called Rome and spoke to a journalist,

I don't remember who.

"Get ready, because we're bringing Emanuela home."

[tape player whirring]

The door opens.

[slow suspenseful music]

-[clock ticking] -[heart thumping]

[phone ringing]

[ringing continues]

It took me a second to see my mother's face,

to understand that it wasn't Emanuela.

[tape player whirring]

[Pietro] They both cried, they started to cry,

both of them, my mother and her.

And we went back home with this, with this sadness,

ready to start over.

[airplane whooshing loudly]

[crowd cheering, applauding]

[tense music]

[Pietro] My father died in 2004.

He had always had faith,

thinking that investigators and the Vatican

were going to somehow help us

bring Emanuela home.

But, before he died…

he said, "I was betrayed by those I served."

[journalist 1] This is a CBS News Special Report.

[Pietro] Pope John Paul died a year later.

[journalist 2] The funeral of Pope John Paul II.

[journalist 3] What you're looking at now, again, are live pictures

of St. Peter's Square outside St. Peter's Basilica.

With the funeral of Pope John Paul.

You see Prince Charles there.

[journalist 4] The body of Pope John Paul II

lies tonight beneath St. Peter's Basilica,

near what are believed to be the remains of St. Peter himself.

[Andrea] Probably a lot of people in the Vatican

thought the secret is buried forever.

[bells tolling in distance]

[Andrea] And it is interesting

that a few weeks after the Pope dies,

suddenly, a new witness emerges.

[Raffaella] My name is Raffaella Notariale

and I'm a reporter with the program Chi l'ha visto?,

one of the longest-running programs on RAI,

which is the Italian state TV channel.

[in Italian] When, last July, we came back

to this complex and unresolved case,

the case of Emanuela Orlandi…

[Notariale in English] In 2005, 22 years

after Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance, a message was left for me

on the television program answering machine.

We don't know who left this message.

I'll play it for you.

[man in Italian] "Regarding Emanuela Orlandi,

to find the solution to the case,

investigate who is buried in the crypt of Sant'Apollinare Basilica

and the favor Renatino did for Cardinal Poletti at the time."

[Andrea in English] There were many tip-offs,

but this one was very strange,

and very important.

If you want to know what's behind the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi,

you get to go to see who's buried

into the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare.

-[mouse clicks] -[keyboard clacking]

[Notariale] I had no idea which Basilica this was.

I then discovered that it's a basilica

at the center of Rome,

In front of Piazza Navona.

And, incredibly, next to Emanuela's music school.

[suspenseful music]

It's the last place Emanuela surely was,

before disappearing forever.

I went to the Basilica

and there was some work being done to the facade.

I had a look around to see

how I could get down to where the crypts were.

[echoing footsteps]

The crypt was to the right of the nave,

inside this little room, there was a big white marble sarcophagus.

[door opens heavily]

In front of the sarcophagus, in big letters,

there was a name, Enrico De Pedis.

Everyone in Rome knew who Enrico De Pedis was.

[keyboard clacking]

[Andrea] Enrico Renatino De Pedis

was the most powerful gangster in Rome,

the king of Rome,

the king of the underworld in Rome.

[journalist 5 in Italian] Rome, 2 February 1990,

close to Campo de' Fiori, Enrico De Pedis is killed.

Known as "Renatino", he was the boss of the Banda della Magliana.

[keyboard clacking]

[Andrea in English] The Basilica of Sant'Apollinare

is a Vatican-owned church,

and nobody can be buried inside,

unless you have a special permission

or you made a very big favor to the Vatican.

What was the favor the anonymous caller spoke about

on the message to Chi l'ha visto?

[man in Italian] "…and the favor Renatino did to Cardinal Poletti

at that time."

[Notariale in English] I absolutely had to work out what the links were

between the Vatican, the Banda della Magliana,

and Emanuela Orlandi.

So, I got my computer and started looking up

"Banda della Magliana."

-[keyboard clacking] -[suspenseful music]

"Renatino."

[keyboard clacking]

And I found out that in 1984,

the police arrested him by following his lover,

Sabrina Minardi.

[suspenseful music]

[Notariale] I tracked down her address.

I was 28 at the time.

When I was 50 meters away from her address,

I called the senior editor at Chi l'ha visto?

and I said, "Listen, I am at Sabrina Minardi's house,

if I don't call you in an hour,

send someone because something has happened."

I get there, and there's a doorman.

I asked him, "Excuse me, I'm looking for Sabrina Minardi."

He looks at me and says, "She hasn't lived here for some time now."

So I pretend I believed him and walked away.

I wait for lunchtime.

All the doormen in Rome take a break.

[suspenseful music]

[hurried footsteps]

I go door to door to see

whether they have the names and surnames of the people living there,

outside of the apartments.

I get to the top, and the surname "Minardi"

is nowhere to be found.

So I go back down,

and there were three apartments with no name on the doorbell.

I knock at the first.

A lady answers, "Who's there?" I introduced myself.

"I'm Raffaella Notariale, a journalist.

Can I come in?"

So she opens the door.

[door lock clicking]

She pats me down, my tummy, my hips, my back.

She reaches just below my breast and goes back down.

She reaches my backside and goes back up.

She was checking for a microphone,

if I had something on me.

[suspenseful music]

She says, "Okay, come in."

[Pope in Italian] I would like to express the heartfelt feeling

with which I join the Orlandi family…

[Sabrina in English] My name is Sabrina Minardi.

I was the lover of Enrico Renatino De Pedis,

the boss of the Banda della Magliana.

[Sabrina] I met De Pedis in a piano bar called La Cabala.

I was 22 years old.

[tape player whirring]

[Italian song playing]

[Sabrina] I went there one night,

I remember I was wearing this beautiful black dress,

and a really beautiful mink fur over it.

[singing in Italian]

[cheering and applauding]

[pensive music]

A bottle of champagne was brought to my table,

and the only person looking over at me was this gentleman,

leaning against the bar.

We left together.

And he asked me to go out, the following evening.

[distant car honking]

He was exuberant, he was cultured,

and he didn't do drugs.

Then one morning, after barely a month of dating,

I opened the paper and saw his face.

It said that he was wanted for eight murders.

[sirens blaring]

[Sabrina] He said, "No, I've never hurt anyone."

And I believed him.

It must have been love.

[chuckles]

Well, it wasn't easy.

And I ended up getting completely sucked into it.

[tape player whirring]

[reporter 1 in Italian] Welcome back everyone.

African high pressure is affecting the Lazio region…

[Pietro in English] Emanuela went missing on June 22nd, 1983.

[Sabrina] It was a summer's day, in 1983.

And I had started using a lot of coke.

[clears throat]

[heart thumping]

[Sabrina] Renato and I went to a lake nearby.

ROME - EUR

[tense music]

[tape clicks, whirrs]

[Pietro] Before leaving school, Emanuela calls home…

[Federica] …to tell me that a man had approached her outside of school…

[Mauro] …then he parked his car,

which was described as a green BMW…

Then, his driver came.

And the girl was there.

[interviewer] You didn't know who this girl was?

No.

And he came up close to me and said, "Listen,

we've got to take this girl to yours

in Torvaianica for a few days."

He says, "Okay? Two or three days."

I said, "Fine."

And so it was.

My parents had a house

in Torvaianica, which is a little town half an hour outside of Rome.

[suspenseful music]

[Sabrina] A detached house.

[heart thumping]

-[car revving] -[car door opens]

[car door closes]

Then a lady named Adelaide came over.

And she was going to take care of this girl.

[background radio chatter]

[Sabrina] Emanuela was in a bedroom,

she spent the whole day there.

I heard her moaning, poor thing.

Thinking about it is distressing.

But she moaned a lot.

[interviewer] Was she locked up?

Yes, she was locked up.

Mm-hmm.

[slow tense music]

[indistinct chatter on radio]

[Andrea] While Emanuela was locked up, according to Sabrina Minardi,

the family was increasingly panicked.

[tape player whirring]

[Pietro] My father decided to file a report

because it had gotten late, maybe it was already…

It must have been eleven o'clock at night.

[Sabrina] This lady would go there every so often and give her pills.

She would say, "So she behaves."

So, I think they must have been psychopharmaceuticals,

something to keep her calm, I don't know.

[Pietro Meneguzzi in Italian] So I said to Pietro, "Look, Pietro,

let's go take a look around Rome."

[bike rumbling]

[Sabrina in English] Emanuela was so spaced out,

I don't know how to explain it.

She wasn't capable of looking after herself,

because, in my opinion,

they were filling her with drugs.

[reporter 2 in Italian] The temperature is much higher than normal

in most of Italy. Here is the graphical form…

[phone ringing]

[Pietro in English] My uncle called the newspaper Il Tempo.

[Natalina] That's when things got crazy, all these telephone calls.

[phone rings]

[Sabrina] I recognized her when the posters were put up in Rome.

They'd cut her hair,

but it was the same face.

This Adelaide made her food, took care of her,

for example, if she needed to have a shower,

I mean,

she took care of it.

Um…

Adelaide took care of it.

[Pope in Italian] I would like to express the heartfelt feeling

with which I join the Orlandi…

[Sabrina in English] Ten days had gone by.

[Sabrina] The girl had to be moved.

[Pope in Italian] …a 15 years old girl, who, since Wednesday 22 June,

-has not returned home. -[clock ticking]

[car engine starts]

[interviewer in English] Where was she moved?

As far as I know, she was moved to a house in Monteverde,

specifically, Via Pignatelli…

where there was a house with huge basements.

[journalist 6] All the police and voice experts have to work on

is a tape-recorded message received this week,

[girl in Italian] Oh God, why? Oh God, yes.

[heavy breathing]

Why are you doing this?

[Sabrina in English] Some time later, and almost…

summer afternoon, the sun was still out,

and De Pedis and I were in a car, and he said,

"Go to Bar Gianicolo. Go to Bar Gianicolo for a moment."

After a couple of minutes, a Renault 5 arrived, driven by a woman,

with a girl inside.

With Emanuela inside, pardon me.

[suspenseful music]

There was a parked BMW and Renato said to me,

"These are the keys to the BMW. You have to take this girl

just below here, to the Vatican petrol station…"

-[interviewer] To the Vatican? -To the Vatican.

[tape player whirring]

[Pope in Italian] I would like to express the heartfelt feeling

with which I join the Orlandi family.

[Sabrina in English] "Where there will be a person

with a Vatican City license plate car that will take her.

Deliver her to this person."

It's a short drive, about five to seven minutes.

It's called The Road of a Thousand Bends

because there are so many bends.

To be honest, I thought about letting her go, but couldn't do it.

I asked her, "What's your name?"

But she didn't answer me.

There's a big wall and a gate.

Three hundred meters on,

you'll find the Vatican.

The Vatican petrol pumps.

There was a Mercedes with a Vatican City number plate. Black.

A priest got out, or at least someone dressed as a priest,

with a tunic and little buttons down the front,

and a hat with a wide brim.

So, we took the girl

and forced her to get into his car.

[car revving]

I went back to Bar Gianicolo,

I said to him, "What mess did you rope me into?

First Torvaianica, now here. That's Emanuela Orlandi!

I don't need posters in the streets to tell me that. I'm not an idiot."

And he said, "Sabri, it's all a game of power.

Don't you get that?"

I made no reply.

-[Sabrina] I knew. -[interviewer] What did you know?

That he had relations with the Church, with The Vatican,

with, uh, important people.

I heard her story,

over the course of a year.

I met her countless times, okay?

I believed almost all her story,

due to the amount of details,

the way she recounted something.

Other things, I think, she embellished

to make herself sound a bit more…

perhaps, brave, maybe, or,

more authoritative than what she really was.

A pawn.

[suspenseful music]

[tape player whirring]

[reporter 3 in Italian] Sabrina Minardi, ex-lover of crime boss

Renato De Pedis,

confessed that she held Emanuela hostage

in an apartment in the center of Rome.

[Pietro in English] Of course, that changed everything.

For years, we had followed the international terrorism theory.

Now, everything was different.

It had become…

It seemed linked to criminal organizations in Rome.

They reopened the inquiries

based on this woman's revelations.

My name is Giovanna Petrocca.

I was the Deputy Chief of the Rome Flying Squad in 2006,

and I tracked down Sabrina Minardi.

I didn't believe her at first.

A priest,

wearing a cassock…

personally went to pick up a kidnapped girl

everyone in Rome and the world was talking about?

It seemed a little far-fetched.

But I have to say, as we spoke, as she spoke, as she told me about it,

she answered accurately, with a recollection that was really…

admirable.

The first thing we did, we went to retrace the Road of a Thousand Bends.

We had to confirm where the Vatican petrol station was.

The next step was to verify the existence

of this apartment in Via Pignatelli…

where, she said, Emanuela Orlandi had been kept.

And we immediately found out, by examining the cadastral maps

and checking the cadaster

that the apartment had been bought

by a woman named Daniela.

[suspenseful music]

[interviewer] Who was this Daniela?

Daniela was a woman who belonged to the group

involved with the Banda della Magliana.

[keyboards clacking]

And so, we saw that in reality,

the descriptions Sabrina had given were truthful.

She described this apartment very precisely,

very truthfully with regards to what we were able to confirm.

I remember the day I went into that apartment very well.

From the cadastral maps,

we saw that one of the walls, I think going in,

the one on the left if I'm not mistaken,

was built afterwards to create a little secret room.

[Giovanna] My imagination started taking over and I saw,

scenes I didn't even want to think about.

[foreboding music]

[Federica] Over the years, you became tougher,

because there had been an infinite number of leads.

And in the end,

most of them have led nowhere.

So I move forward more and more cautiously.

Either you grow thick skin,

or you don't survive.

[Federica] But, let's say, there's one thing I'm certain about.

I think the Banda della Magliana

are involved in some way.

Twenty-two years before Sabrina Minardi

gave her testimony to the prosecutor,

I wrote an article for Corriere della Sera

saying exactly this.

[in Italian] "The investigators seem certain of one thing.

Since the 20 July,

the kidnapping was managed by a criminal organization,

not a political one."

[Andrea in English] So, if a gang,

a criminal gang like the Banda della Magliana was involved,

for what reason?

I thought that possibly,

someone is trying to get a ransom from the Vatican.

[in English] In 1983,

when Emanuela disappeared,

the Banda was divided into two branches,

the Testaccini,

from the area of Testaccio in the center of Rome,

and the Maglianesi

from Magliana, which is another area of Rome.

The Testaccini were led by Renatino De Pedis.

While the Maglianesi

were led by Maurizio Abbatino…

[keyboard clacking]

…until 1992, when he was arrested

and became a police informer.

[mouse clicking]

THE KIOSK

[Fanelli] I am Raffaella Fanelli, I am a journalist,

and I have written about the Mafia,

particularly about the Banda Della Magliana.

In 2017, I went to Maurizio Abbatino, because…

no one had been able to interview him,

no one had managed to talk to this boss.

What's more,

he had recently left the protection program.

-[phone keyboard clacking] -[phone chimes]

[Fanelli] I bombarded him with messages for two years.

And I think I got him in the end because he was fed up.

[foreboding music]

When I met Abbatino, I interviewed him, I asked about Emanuela Orlandi.

Abbatino told me about the time he spent in detention in Villa Gina.

During his detention,

another member of Banda della Magliana

went to visit him, and…

updated him on what was going on on the outside.

[Abbatino in Italian] During my incarceration at Villa Gina,

Claudio Sicilia mentioned something to me.

I didn't give it too much attention,

because I had my own problems.

[in English] He said it was for money.

Money that the mafia had given to De Pedis,

that had ended up in the Vatican banks and had not been paid back.

[Abbatino in Italian] Renato had a good relationship

with the Mafia in Rome.

So I know that there was money from the Mafia,

I know there was money from Renato that went into the Vatican coffers.

This money was never returned. So he could have been the middleman.

[Fanelli] So, the reason for the kidnapping

was actually all linked to money?

[Abbatino] I'm convinced that this is the reason.

[car honking]

[Andrea in English] In 1983,

when you think about, uh, financial scandals,

Mafia money, the Vatican Bank, corruption,

there's only one name which comes to mind.

-[heart thumping] -[sirens blaring in distance]

Roberto Calvi.

[water sloshing]

Roberto Calvi.

[engine rumbling]

[Andrea] Roberto Calvi.

[train approaching]

[Larry] My name is Larry Gurwin.

In 1982, I was the London correspondent

for an American financial magazine called Institutional Investor.

[fast-paced classical music]

Roberto Calvi was chairman and CEO of Banco Ambrosiano,

which was, uh, one of the largest private banks in Italy.

It was regarded by Italians as a Catholic bank.

For that reason, he was often referred to as God's banker,

and was closely associated with the Vatican Bank.

The Vatican Bank was headed by a very interesting character,

an American archbishop named Paul Marcinkus.

Both the Pope and Archbishop Marcinkus

were strongly anti-communist.

The Soviet system promoted atheism and was very much anti-religion.

On Thursday, the pope returned to his native Poland…

[Larry] John Paul II was from Poland.

So, the Pope grew up in a country

dominated by, by the atheistic, uh, Soviets.

[crowd applauding, cheering]

[Andrea] In that period, in this Cold War scenario,

there was a-- a United States President and a Pope who had a common interest.

[camera shutters clicking]

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party.

The interest of Ronald Reagan was a political one.

The interest of the Pope was a religious one.

[tape player clicks, whirrs]

[crowd cheering]

-[gunshots] -[crowd screaming]

[Andrea] The date of the attempted assassination of the Pope,

13th of May, and the hour 17:17, correspond exactly

to the date of a very important Catholic prophecy,

which occurred the 13th of May 1917.

The prophecy is known as the Fatima prophecy.

Three kids, two boys and one girl,

claim that they were visited by the Virgin Mary.

The Virgin Mary told the three teenagers

that a Pope would be killed…

-[tape player clicks, whirrs] -[crowd screaming]

…unless the Russian empire was brought back to the Catholic faith.

[tape player whirring]

[journalist 7] A nurse said his words when he was wheeled

into the hospital after the attack were,

"How could they do this?"

[Andrea] From his hospital bed, the Pope said,

"Could I forget that the event in St. Peter's square

took place on the day of Fatima?"

The words of the Pope are very clear,

he recognizes himself as the Pope of the prophecy,

and now he has to bring back Russia to the Catholic faith.

The Pope and Marcinkus decided that the best thing to do

was to channel secretly money from Vatican

to the anti-communist movements in Poland.

And the number one anti-communist movement in Poland,

was Solidarność.

[crowd] Solidarność! Solidarność! Solidarność! Solidarność!

[Ferruccio] My name is Ferruccio Pinotti,

I'm an investigative journalist. I work for Corriere Della Sera.

The Pope, uh, had understood

that Solidarność was the best way to destroy the,

the Polish dictatorship, and,

and so on, like a domino, to destroy the Soviet Empire from the inside.

The Vatican and John Paul II, uh,

started to channel at least, uh,

200 million dollars to the movement of Solidarność.

It was a sort of declaration of war to the Soviet Empire.

[fast-paced classical music]

[Andrea] I mean, the Vatican was supposed to give money to churches, to missions,

to Catholic institutions, not to political movements.

That's why there was no way

that this could appear on the books of the Vatican Bank.

So Bishop Marcinkus turned to Roberto Calvi.

[Larry] The problem was, at the same time,

Calvi was heavily involved

in laundering money for organized crime.

[Andrea] According to investigations,

this is the way

Roberto Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano worked with the Vatican Bank.

Here we have the Banco Ambrosiano,

collecting money from

private investors…

and…

Mafia.

Roberto Calvi couldn't use the money in a free way

because the bank was subject to foreign exchange control,

so he had an idea.

To send it to the Vatican bank.

A different state. A state with different rules,

and a bank without any kind of foreign exchange control.

[tape player whirrs, clicks]

[Sabrina] Through De Pedis, I met Monsignore Marcinkus.

I had to take enormous Vuitton bags,

filled to the brim with money.

I did the whole route

up to Monsignore Marcinkus's offices,

carrying the bag.

No one stopped me.

-[interviewer] Did you meet Marcinkus? -Of course.

[Andrea] From the Vatican Bank, the money went

to shell companies in order to be laundered.

[Larry] The whole concept of laundering

is to take money, which is of criminal origin,

and disguise the origin

so that it appears to be, quote, unquote, "clean money."

[Ferruccio] Paul Marcinkus, together with Roberto Calvi,

built a company in Nassau, Bahamas,

where they channeled, uh,

uh, 500 million, uh, dollars of that time.

So an enormous amount of money.

[Andrea] When the money was clean, it went back to the Vatican Bank,

and from the Vatican Bank, back to the Banco Ambrosiano,

and to the private investors and the Mafia with profits.

[Larry] It worked for a while.

But in the spring of 1982, Calvi was in a desperate state.

[news in Italian] The interim commissioner appointed by the Bank of Italy

to manage Banco Ambrosiano

is examining financial documents

which Calvi would not have been able or willing to explain.

[Andrea in English] The Banco Ambrosiano went into a spectacular,

tremendous bankruptcy,

losing billions and billions of lire.

[Larry] And in the midst of all this, Calvi suddenly disappeared.

[reporter 4 in Italian] If he had remained in Italy,

Calvi would have had to supply explanations

on the situation of the bank's off-shore accounts,

which appear to be losing colossal sums

towards creditors yet to be identified.

With Calvi gone, and the board of directors disbanded,

now the only thing to do is try to save the Banco Ambrosiano,

the most powerful Italian private financial group.

[distant siren blaring]

[Andrea in English] Every journalist in Italy, including me,

was trying to, to discover where the hell he was gone.

[tense music]

[clicking]

[Larry] On the morning of Friday, June 18th, 1982,

a postal clerk from the Daily Express newspaper

was walking across Blackfriars Bridge

on his way to work in the city of London.

And he happened to glance down

and he saw what appeared to be a man,

the body of a man hanging underneath the bridge.

[reporter 5 in Italian] Roberto Calvi mysteriously found

in an apparent suicide in London.

[Angela in English] My name is Angela Gallop

and I'm a forensic scientist.

The original verdict was that the death was a suicide,

um, and the family thought that that was very strange, very unlikely,

because Roberto Calvi was a very good Catholic

and it was the very last thing, they said, that would cross his mind.

So they wanted me to review the forensic work

in order to address the central question of was it murder or was it suicide.

There were some very unusual aspects

to, uh, the discovery of Calvi's body.

Uh, and one of them was the fact

that Calvi had quite a lot of money in his pockets at the time,

um, amounting to a total of about 16,000 dollars.

And it was in various currencies. It was in US dollars, it was in UK pounds.

It was in Austrian shillings. There was also an Italian lira.

He was found hanging

on the end of, uh, an orange polypropylene rope,

uh, one arm was within the scaffolding,

the rest of his body was hanging outside the scaffolding.

When his body had been taken down, it became perfectly clear

that there were some really large stones

uh, in his pockets, and, uh,

the suit and the trousers, and here are four of the stones.

Uh, the fifth stone is still in his clothing.

In other words, his body was weighted down.

We, uh, constructed a model,

um, of the whole thing so that we could visualize the-- the scene.

The suicide route involves him climbing down the ladder,

crossing onto the scaffolding,

across the scaffolding, and suspending himself at that point.

[Angela] Using a man of similar size, similar weight to Calvi,

we had a look at the effect

of climbing down ladders and walking across scaffolding.

[suspenseful music]

Calvi's body didn't have the sort of marks

that we got in our experiment,

the rust traces, the yellow paint, the green paint

that we got from the scaffolding when we did the same thing.

And so we really, as, as I say,

effectively were able to rule out suicide.

[Angela] Having established that Roberto Calvi had been murdered,

and we thought the most likely route

would have been to take him there by boat,

uh, we decided to come up the river

and see whether it would've been possible to do

what his murderers would have to have done.

One of the most striking things that, of that boat journey that night

was the turbulence of the water,

and the way that, you can see it over there, very turbulent, boiling.

[water sloshing aggressively]

It really made me think

that whoever had murdered, uh, Calvi

with all of the difficulties associated with getting in there

and hanging him and all the rest of it,

had really wanted to do it under Blackfriars Bridge.

The whole thing was so theatrical and so staged,

the rocks, and the different currencies,

which made me think that there was a message

that his murderers were trying to send.

This was a murder with a message.

[Larry] I think there's little doubt

that the deed was done by gangsters.

It's well known that when the Mafia

murders somebody, they often…

stage the murder in such a way as to send a message.

The currency could refer to the fact

that this was a financial scandal.

And the location next to Blackfriars Bridge

could have significance for the Vatican.

Blackfriars refers to an order of Catholic monks

who used to operate near the city side of the bridge.

Mobsters were owed money by Calvi and he didn't give it to them.

And therefore, they're sending a signal

to others who were in a position to make them whole.

He didn't pay us back,

so this is what we did to him…

so you better pay us.

[Andrea] And now you can see how Roberto Calvi could be

directly connected with the kidnapping of Emanuela.

It seems that the two crimes were committed by the same people,

the Mafia, with the same target, the Vatican, and the same message,

"Give back our money."

[tape whirring]

[reporter 6 in Italian] Welcome back friends.

African high pressure is affecting the Lazio region,

causing scorching days across the area.

In central Rome, temperatures will reach 37°C.

["Fotografie" by Claudio Baglioni playing]

[Andrea in English] Emanuela was not an ordinary child.

She was a Vatican girl.

And the date she was kidnapped,

22nd of June 1983,

was a symbolic date.

[crowd protesting]

[Dan] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening News.

Dan Rather reporting.

Pope John Paul II returned home today…

[Andrea] It was the same day while she's disappearing,

the Pope is in Poland.

[Dan] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening News.

Dan Rather reporting.

Pope John Paul II returned home today…

[Andrea] Surrounded by millions of people

which are celebrating him like a national hero.

It was the crowning glory of his papacy.

[suspenseful music]

That very day, there was a kidnapping of Emanuela.

It was no coincidence.

This is a powerful message to the Pope

saying, "Listen, we know that you used, uh, our money, the money of the Mafia,

the money of the Banda della Magliana

to fund the Solidarność.

Pay attention.

We have this Vatican girl in our hands,

so, give us our money back."

[Pietro] There are shreds of truth in every lead.

The Mafia money may be connected to Emanuela's case.

So, if what Minardi said is true,

what happened to Emanuela?

How long did she stay in the Vatican?

Or did she not come to the Vatican at all?

Was she taken somewhere else?

The only thing I'm sure of

is that the Vatican knows the truth.

[Federica Sciarelli] Minardi is very important because she was

Enrico De Pedis partner for many years,

and something from her stories…

[Andrea] April 2013,

just 6 years after Sabrina Minardi's testimony.

With all the questions still open about the Banda della Magliana…

[phone ringing]

…suddenly shows up

a new mysterious witness.

[phone ringing]

[Marco] Oh, listen, later it seemed like the Magliana

was the only one behind the whole thing,

but that's not so.

[rain pattering]

[bell tolls]

The truth is that members of the Vatican City

had kidnapped one of their own citizens,

Emanuela Orlandi.

Sweetheart, you are talking to the person

that humbly created the Orlandi case.

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