01x02 - Part 2

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After the calls from The American,
other groups followed.

First came the "Turkesh,"
the "NOMLAC," a series of groups

that claimed responsibility
for the kidnapping.

But unfortunately
they didn't lead anywhere.

Then in 1993, we got a call.

My father and I
went to the Prosecutor's office.

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

They showed us this photo.

One of them was this one.

These photos had been taken
inside a convent.

In Luxembourg.

The girl was a novice
who was about to take her vows.

You imagine her shut away in a room.

As my mother said

"They must have brainwashed her."

"She doesn't remember us,
that's why she doesn't contact us."

The Magistrates said

"Quiet, don't talk,
don't say anything to anybody."

So I remember
I rushed to buy plane tickets

for me, my father, and my mother.

We arrived in Luxembourg.

I went around a few shops

and I spotted a small object.

It was two penguins made of marble dust.

One was smaller, one larger.

They were hugging.

It was the hug that I'd been wanting
to give Emanuela for ten years.

We stayed home.

Me, Federica and Natalina.

I still remember that Federica and I
slept in Mamma and Papà's bed.

On the following day

the local police and Interpol
surrounded this convent.

And they took her to another location...

for my mother to identify her.

I remember very clearly that with us

there was the Head
of the Flying Squad, Mr. Cavaliere.

I remember him

calling a journalist in Rome.

He said, "Get ready
because we're coming back with Emanuela."

The door opened.

It took me just a second

to see my mother's face

to realize that she wasn't Emanuela.

They both started crying.

She and my mother were crying together.

We went back home with such sadness

ready to start over.

In 2004 my father died.

My father had always trusted
the investigators and the Vatican

to somehow help us
bring Emanuela back home.

But before he died...

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

This is a CBS News Special Report.

A year later, John Paul II died.

I'm Raffaella Notariale

and I am a reporter
for the TV show "Chi L'Ha Visto?"

One of the longest TV shows on RAI

which is Italy's state television.

When last July we came back

to this complex and unresolved case.

The case of Emanuela Orlandi...

In 2005, 22 years
after Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance

on the answering machine of the TV show

we got a message,
a message from an unknown person.

I'll play it for you.

"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."

I had no idea which Basilica it was...

then I found out it was
in the heart of Rome.

In front of Piazza Navona.

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

Which is the last place Emanuela was seen

before disappearing forever.

I went to the Basilica

and there was some work
being done on the facade.

I went around to see
where I could go down into the crypt.

The crypt was
on the right side of the aisle.

Inside there was a large tomb
made of white marble.

On the front of the large tomb,

there was a name, Enrico De Pedis.

In Rome everyone knew
who Enrico De Pedis was.

Rome, 2 February 1990

close to Campo de' Fiori
Enrico De Pedis is k*lled.

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

What was the favor
the stranger referred to

on the "Chi L'Ha Visto?"
answering machine?

"...And the favor 'Renatino' did
for Cardinal Poletti at that time."

And I absolutely had
to understand what were the links

between the Vatican,
the Banda della Magliana

and Emanuela Orlandi.

At that point, I turned on my computer.

I started searching...

And I found out that in 1984

the police arrested him
by following his lover

Sabrina Minardi.

I tracked down her address.

I was 28 years old.

When I was 50 meters away
from her address

I called the senior editor
of "Chi L'Ha Visto?"

and I told him, "I am under Minardi's
house, if I do not call you in an hour

send somebody because it means
something has gone wrong."

When I arrived, there was a doorman.

I told him, "Excuse me,
I am looking for Sabrina Minardi."

He says "She doesn't live here anymore."

I pretended to believe him

and I went away.

I waited for lunchtime.

Doormen in Rome take a break.

I checked every single doorbell inside

to see if there was any name or surname

of who was living in the apartment.

I arrived at the top,
but the surname Minardi wasn't there.

So I went down again.

There were three apartments
with no name on the doorbell.

I knocked on the first one.

A girl answered, "Who's there?"
I introduced myself.

"I'm Raffaella Notariale, a journalist.

Can you let me in?"

She opens the door.

She patted my stomach

my hips, and my back.

She felt under my breast and she went
down to my bottom, then moved up.

She wanted to check if I had a microphone

or something on me.

Then she said, "Okay, come in."

I'm Sabrina Minardi.

I was the lover
of Mr. Enrico "Renatino" De Pedis

the boss of the Banda della Magliana.

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

I was 22 years old.

One night I went there...

I was wearing a beautiful black dress

and on top of it a very nice mink coat.

I received a bottle
of champagne at my table...

And the only one
looking at me was this gentleman

leaning against the bar.

We left together.

And he asked me to go out the next night.

He was exuberant.

He was cultured.

He didn't do drugs.

Then one morning,
after less than one month of dating

I open the newspaper and see his face.

I mean, the paper said
he was wanted for eight murders.

He said, "No, I never hurt anyone."

And I believed him.

It was my heart, perhaps.

I mean, it wasn't easy.

But then I got in too deep.

Welcome back, friends.

African high pressure
is affecting the Lazio region...

The day Emanuela went missing

was 22 June 1983.

It was a summer day, in 1983.

I had started taking a lot of cocaine.

Renato and I went out.

We went to the EUR lake.

Before leaving school,
Emanuela called home...

To tell me that a man approached her

just outside the school...

He had parked his car

described as a green-colored BMW...

Then his driver arrived...

And with him there was the girl.

-You didn't know who this girl was?
-No.

And then he came next to me and said,

"Look, we have to take this girl

to your house in Torvaianica."

He said, "Okay? Just two or three days."

And I said, "Okay."

And that's what we did.

My parents had a house

in Torvaianica, a small village,
about half an hour from Rome.

The house was detached.

Then a lady came over.

Her name was Adelaide.

And she was going
to take care of this girl.

Emanuela was in a bedroom.

She was in there all day long.

I could hear her whine, poor thing.

I mean, it really hurts
when I think about it.

But she kept whining a lot.

Was she locked up?

Yes.

Yes, she was locked up.

My father decided to file a report

because it was getting late.

It was already 11:00 p.m.

This lady occasionally would
go in there with some pills to give her

and she would say to me,
"This way she'll stay quiet."

So, I think they were psychiatric drugs.

Something to keep her quiet. I don't know.

So I told Pietro

"Let's take a look around Rome."

Emanuela, she was so... bewildered...

I don't know how to explain it.

She wasn't able to take care of herself.

Because, in my opinion

they pumped her so full of drugs.

The temperature is much higher
than normal in most of Italy.

Here is the graphical form...

My uncle called the newspaper Il Tempo.

That's when delirium ensued.

A delirium of calls.

I recognized her the moment
all the posters went up in Rome.

They'd cut her hair

but it was the same face.

This Adelaide cooked for her,
took care of her.

I don't know,
if she needed to take a shower

she took care of it.

Adelaide took care of it.

After about ten days had passed

the girl had to be moved.

And where was she taken?

To my knowledge,
she was moved to a house in Monteverde.

On Pignatelli street, to be precise...

where there was a house
with huge basements.

Some time later...

It was an afternoon...

It was almost summer,
the sun was still out.

De Pedis and I
were going around with the car

when he told me
"Stop for a moment at the Bar Gianicolo."

A few minutes later,
a Renault 5 arrived, driven by a woman

with a girl inside.

With Emanuela inside, sorry.

A BMW was parked there,
and Renato told me

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

down to the Vatican petrol station."

-To the Vatican?
-To the Vatican.

I would like to express
the heartfelt feeling

with which I join the Orlandi family.

"There is going to be someone whose car
has the Vatican City number plate

who is going to take her.

You have to deliver her to this person."

It's a short journey

about five or seven minutes.

It's called The Street of a Thousand Turns
because there are so many curves.

Honestly

it even occurred to me to let her
run away but she wasn't up to it.

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

But she wouldn't answer me.

There is a big wall.

And there is a gate.

After about 300 meters

you find the Vatican petrol pumps.

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

A priest got out, dressed like a priest

with a cassock

with small buttons all down the front

and a wide-brimmed hat.

We took the girl

and made her get into his car.

I went back to the Bar Gianicolo

and I said to him, "What kind
of trouble have you got me into?

First in Torvaianica, now this.
This is Emanuela Orlandi!

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

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

Do you understand this?"

I didn't say anything.

-I knew it.
-What?

That he had dealings
with the Church, The Vatican.

With... people who were important.

Her story took...

a year.

I met with her countless times.

I believed most of what she told me.

Because of the details,
the number of details

the way she told the story.

Some things

some other things she spiced up a bit.

because they made her a character.

They made her feel...

a little more...

brave maybe...

more authoritative than
she really was, just...

a puppet.

Sabrina Minardi, ex-lover of crime boss

Enrico De Pedis

has confessed that
she herself held Emanuela hostage

in an apartment in the center of Rome.

Of course, this changed everything.

For years we have followed
the theory of international terrorism.

Now it was totally different.

It became a lead
linked to criminal organizations in Rome

and in the following days,
they reopened the inquiry

based on the revelations of this woman.

My name is Giovanna Petrocca

and in 2006 I was Deputy Chief
of the Flying Squad in Rome.

And I tracked down Sabrina Minardi.

At first, I didn't believe her.

A priest

all dressed up in a cassock

who went in person

to pick up a kidnapped girl
who all the world was talking about.

It seemed to me
a bit of an invented story.

However, I must say that
as we talked and as she told me more

she answered very precisely,
with a memory that was truly...

The first thing we did was to drive
the Street of a Thousand Turns.

We had to verify
where the Vatican petrol station was.

The next step was to verify the existence

of this apartment on Pignatelli Street.

In where, according to her

they held Emanuela Orlandi.

We found out,
through an examination of maps

and Land Registry records

that the apartment was bought

by a woman called Daniela.

Who was Daniela?

Daniela was a woman

belonging to the group that hung around
with the Banda della Magliana.

So we saw that actually,
the description Sabrina gave

of these places was real

and she described this apartment

in a very precise and accurate way,
according to what we later found out.

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

From the Land Registry maps

we saw that one of the walls

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

had been built later on
to create a separate little room.

My imagination ran riot with scenes

I wish had never entered my mind.

As the years pass,
you get a little tougher

because there have been countless leads

and in the end, most of them

turned out to be unfounded.

So I got more cautious.

Either you get a thick shell

or you won't survive.

But about one thing I am certain.

For me, the Banda della Magliana
was involved somehow.

"The investigators
seem certain of one thing.

Since the 20 July

the kidnapping was managed
by a criminal organization

not a political one."

I'm Raffaella Fanelli, I'm a journalist.

I've written about the Mafia
but mostly about the Banda della Magliana.

In 2017, I tracked down Maurizio Abbatino.

Nobody had been able to talk to this boss.

And among other things

he had recently been ousted
from the witness protection program.

I bombarded him with messages
for two years.

And finally, I think I wore him down.

When I met Abbatino
I asked about Emanuela Orlandi.

Abbatino told me a story
from when he was in prison at Villa Gina.

While he was incarcerated

another member of the Banda della Magliana

went to see him and updated him

about everything
that was happening on the outside.

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.

He told me that it was about money.

Mafia money given to De Pedis

that went into the Vatican coffers
and hadn't been paid back.

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 middle man.

So the reason for the kidnapping
was actually all linked to money?

I'm convinced that this is the reason.

Through De Pedis,
I got to know Monsignore Marcinkus.

I had to deliver huge Louis Vuitton bags

full to the brim with money.

And...

I walked all the way

to reach Monsignore Marcinkus' office

with the bag in my hands

and nobody stopped me.

-Did you meet with Marcinkus?
-Of course.

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.

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.

Roberto Calvi was mysteriously found
in an apparent suicide in London.

Welcome back, friends.

African high pressure
is affecting the Lazio region

causing scorching days across the area.

In central Rome, temperatures
will reach 37 degrees Celsius.

In every lead, you find pieces of truth.

Mafia money can...

be linked to Emanuela's story.

So, if what Minardi said was true

what happened to Emanuela?

How long did she stay in the Vatican?
Or did she not even go to the Vatican?

Was she taken to another place?

The only thing I know for sure

is that in the Vatican,
they know the truth.

Minardi is very important

because she was
Enrico De Pedis partner for many years...

Look, the Magliana

in the end,
it looked like they did everything

but it wasn't like that.

The truth is
that members of the Vatican City

had kidnapped a fellow citizen

known as Emanuela Orlandi.

Honey, you're talking

to the one who,
in all modesty created the Orlandi case.