Italy - Mirella Gregori, 15, Rome, 7 May 1983

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Mirella_Gregori

Mirella Gregori
(born October 7, 1967) mysteriously disappeared from Rome in May 1983, about 40 days before the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a citizen of Vatican City. Both vanishings are unsolved as of today.

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International events


Gregori's disappearance took place during the Cold War; both the Gregori and the Orlandi case led to the Grey Wolves, an extremist Turkish group, claiming to be involved in the abductions and demanding the release of Mehmet Ali Ağca, the assassin who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. According to Mehmet Ali Ağca's autobiography, the two girls' disappearances as well as the disappearance of Soviet journalist Oleg G. Bitov from the Venice Film Festival on September 9 that same year are closely linked.

Circumstances of disappearance


In different releases of 1983 and 1984 the organization of extreme right Turkish Gray Wolves claimed to cherish both girls. Actually the story is more complex. According to a statement by former officer of the Stasi, the secret service of East Germany, Günter Bohnsack a journalist with the daily La Repubblica, would be the services of East Germany, together with those from Bulgaria and the Soviet KGB, to use appropriate Orlandi (which has been linked to Gregori) fabricating false communicated from different acronyms (including Turkesh Front, connected to the Gray Wolves) just to divert the parallel investigations on the "Bulgarian connection" for the attempt on Giovanni Paolo II.

In fact, they have never surfaced concrete elements that could corroborate a any link between the disappearance of Mirella and that of Emanuela Orlandi, nor has it ever been - however - certain whether behind the disappearance of Orlandi will be directed by some other person, nor related terrorism. The two girls, despite being the same age, were not known nor had acquaintances in common.

Mirella Gregori, youngest daughter of the owners of a bar in via Volturno Rome, at the time he was 15, was described by all as a completely normal girl and profitably studied at a technical school in the capital. On the day of the disappearance, she regularly went to school and came home around 14, having entertained some time in a bar near his home together with a friend. The latter declared that she and Mirella had talked of this and that and could not provide other information.

Back home, Mirella was called to the telephone by a so-called friend, the "Sandro", whose requests to leave would have exclaimed: "If I do not say who you are, do not go down!" And then take time and propose to see each other around 15:00 . At that time, the girl actually came out and said to his mother that "he had an" appointment at the monument to the soldier of Porta Pia with an old classmate, who, however, that afternoon was busy elsewhere. Since then the family has had no news of the girl.

It seems that shortly before he disappeared, Mirella had boasted with the mother to be able to find the money needed to purchase an apartment that his parents could not afford; However, this output was dismissed as an adolescent bravado.

The mother of Mirella, during a papal visit to the Roman parish of St. Joseph December 15, 1985, recognized in a man of the Vatican Security is part of the escort, Raoul Bonarelli, a person who often had with his daughter and a her friend in a bar close to home.

As reported by a document Sisde of 31 October 1983 published novel by journalist Tommaso Nelli on "Cronacaedossier.it", the daughter of the bar managers located at the time under the house of Gregori would be the identity of the current 'Mirella man who convinced to follow him. Although they have not had in hand for more than a year after its acquisition, the magistrates of the last judicial inquiry have not yet studied the information contained in this act.


To date, the case of Mirella Gregori remains open and unsolved.

Suspects


During a visit of the Pope to a Rome parish, on December 15, 1985, Gregori’s mother recognized a man in the papal escort as the person who often came to pick up her daughter at the house. The man was identified as Raoul Bonarelli.
 
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Also posted on Ws thread..
Italy - Emanuela Orlandi, 15, Rome, 22 June 1983

Missing girl's family presses Vatican about found bones
Oct 31 2018 rbbm.
"VATICAN CITY - Lawyers for the family of a 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983 pressed Italian prosecutors and the Vatican on Wednesday for more details regarding human bone fragments found in an annex of the Holy See's embassy in Rome.

The find, announced late Tuesday, raised immediate speculation over possible links with the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee whose fate remains one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries. The news agency ANSA reported that prosecutors were focusing on whether the remains could be linked either to Orlandi, who disappeared on June 22 1983, or another 15-year-old girl, Mirella Gregori, who went missing a month earlier in Rome, on May 7, 1983."
 
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Mystery surrounding the disappearance of Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi grows as the age of the bones found at the Vatican embassy fuels wild speculation she was held captive

08 Nov 2018

"Late last month, two sets of bones were found beneath the flooring in the Vatican's embassy to Italy in Rome.

The Italian media immediately reported that the bones were being investigated to determine whether they belong to either Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori, two local teens who disappeared in 1983.

Police have since dated the remains and believe that one set belongs to a woman in her 30s, and the other to an older person.
Meanwhile, more bones have been found at the embassy....

Coroner Giovanni Arcudi told Italian wire service ANSA that a preliminary examination of the bones shows one of the sets of remains appear to belong to a woman in her 30s and "not an adolescent." The other set of bones were older, but it's not known how much older.

The Associated Press reports that the age of the bones has only fueled speculation that Orlandi was held captive for years before being killed....

A lawyer for the family said they are still waiting on DNA results on the remains."

Mystery surrounding the disappearance of Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi grows as the age of the bones found at the Vatican embassy fuels wild speculation she was held captive
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Mystery bones found at Vatican embassy to Italy not from missing girls

Nov 22, 2018

"ROME - According to local news outlets the bones that were found on Vatican property at the end of October do not belong to two Italian girls who disappeared in the 1980s.

In an article by La Repubblica, the remains are said to date further back than 1983, the year when Mirella Gregori and Emanuela Orlandi disappeared under mysterious circumstances....

But inside sources have told the local press that the bones are too old to be related to these cases. It’s the deterioration of the remains that makes it difficult to extrapolate DNA from the samples and therefore establish their identity. Radiocarbon dating will begin Nov. 30, sources said, and take a couple weeks.

Until then, the remains “haven’t spoken yet,” investigators told local media."

Mystery bones found at Vatican embassy to Italy not from missing girls

Italy - Emanuela Orlandi, 15, Rome, 22 June 1983
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Vatican remains not those of two girls who disappeared in 1983
Families question how experts did not immediately recognise remains were ancient

1 Feb 2019

Vatican remains not those of two girls who disappeared in 1983
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Nunciature bone probe shelving asked

Bones found to be of man who lived between 90 and 230 AD


01 February 2019

"(ANSA) - Rome, February 1 - Rome prosecutors said Friday they would request the shelving of a probe into human bones found at the Vatican's nunciature to Italy, a discovery that had briefly raised hopes of solving the disappearance of two 15-year-old girls in Rome in 1983.

The latest tests have confirmed that the bones belong to a man, who probably died of natural causes, who lived some time between 90 BC and 230 AD, the prosecutors said.

The investigation has therefore ruled out any link to the disappearances of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori."

Nunciature bone probe shelving asked - English
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Bumping for Mirella - it's now been over 38 years.
 
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Timeline
Saturday, May 7, 1983

1:15 PM – Mirella leaves school, a commercial technical institute located in the center of Rome.

1:40 PM – Mirella arrives at the bar owned and run by her father (he had been working there since the morning and his shift was about to end). From the bar, she calls home to inform her mother that she will return home with her father.

1:50 PM – For unknown reasons, Mirella decides to return home alone. Her apartment is located at number 91 on Via Nomentana, about 1 km from her father's bar on Via Volturno.

2:00 PM – Mirella arrives home.

2:45 PM – The Gregori family's apartment receives a call through the intercom. Mirella answers. She is heard saying: “Who are you? If you don’t say who you are, I won’t come down,” and “Ah yes, Alessandro, I have to eat lunch, I’ll meet you at 3:30 PM at Porta Pia.”

3:25 PM – After eating lunch quickly, Mirella leaves home wearing the same clothes she had worn to school. She tells her mother she’s going to briefly greet an old school friend, Alessandro De Luca, but that she won't take more than 10 minutes. She does not take a purse, ID, phone tokens, or anything else.

3:30 PM – Mirella heads to the bar near her house, which belongs to the parents of Sonia De Vito, her best friend and confidante. There, they talk in the bathroom for 15 minutes. The details of the conversation are unknown.

3:45 PM – Mirella leaves the bar and walks toward the Porta Pia monument, which is just a few meters from the bar. This is the last time she is seen.

5:30 PM – Mirella’s mother begins to feel worried and has a strange feeling. Mirella had said she would be back shortly, and there was no sign of her. Whenever she went out, especially since her mother had heart problems, Mirella would always call to inform her of any change of plans or delays — but no call had come. The mother phones Mirella’s older sister, Antonietta, who had taken over their father's shift at the bar at 2:30 PM along with her boyfriend, to ask if Mirella was at the bar. When Antonietta replies that she isn’t, alarm bells go off.

6:00–7:00 PM – Mirella’s mother and sister go to Sonia’s bar, since Sonia and Mirella were very close friends and Sonia might know something helpful. Sonia says Mirella passed by the bar at 3:30 PM and said she was going to meet friends to play guitar at Villa Torlonia (a park, which at the time was in a state of abandonment, and located on the opposite end of Porta Pia, the place Mirella had told her mother she would be going). Antonietta questions this version, since Mirella had not mentioned anything about this to their mother — but Sonia has no further answers.

Meanwhile, Antonietta, her boyfriend, and some friends head to Villa Torlonia. The park is locked, but with the help of some police officers who happen to be passing by and see the commotion, they manage to contact the park's caretaker. However, he lives outside the city, and they are only able to reach him around 10:00 PM. He arrives at midnight. Once the park is opened, Antonietta, her boyfriend, and the police search the area with flashlights — but there is no trace of Mirella.
 
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Map showing the locations.

Red – Gregori Residence
Yellow – Gregori Family Bar
Black – Villa Torlonia
Porta Pia – Marked with name"
 

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