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Searching for the remains of a teenager missing for three decades, Italian police opened the Vatican-owned tomb of mobster Enrico De Pedis, but the boxes of bones they found interred with his corpse only deepen the mystery, Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.
The smell of death wafted through the 7th-century courtyard of Vatican-owned Sant’Apollinare church in central Rome on Monday as bricklayers pried open the tomb of notorious mobster Enrico “Renatino” De Pedis. Police scientists and criminal investigators at the scene quickly identified De Pedis first by sight and then by taking a fingerprint from his remarkably well-preserved hand. His dark blue suit and black tie were as pristine as the day he was buried.
But when investigators opened the mobster’s tomb on Monday, it was not to look for answers as to why such a man was interred in a church owned by the Vatican. Instead they were searching for the remains of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, who has been missing for three decades and who has been rumored to have been buried in DePedis’s tomb.
e Pedis died of gunshot wounds in 1990 and his body was interred in the Vatican-owned church sometime before 1997, when an investigative journalist discovered the tomb’s existence among those of important prelates. De Pedis’s was the only crypt with the last name written in diamonds. Why such a notorious mobster with an undisputed affiliation with the Banda della Magliana criminal gang was buried in the company of bishops, cardinals, and popes in a Vatican church has been a question that has dogged the Holy See for the last 15 years.
Originally posted by Monkeygod333
You know, if this was 'Supernatural' I would vemture to say the bones are that of his victims meant to accompany him in the afterlife.
One thing that cannot be argued is that somebody had placed the box inside the tomb. If it was something to do with witchcraft others were involved to complete the... circle, if you will.
The part that gets me is that the body is so well preserved. Is that normal.
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Originally posted by CaptainLJB
Mobsters and the Vatican.
Does Not surprise me in the least!
Originally posted by AGWskeptic
The Vatican is nothing more than a front for organized crime.
But since they have soveregn nation status nothing will ever change.
Originally posted by Monkeygod333
You know, if this was 'Supernatural' I would vemture to say the bones are that of his victims meant to accompany him in the afterlife.
One thing that cannot be argued is that somebody had placed the box inside the tomb. If it was something to do with witchcraft others were involved to complete the... circle, if you will.
The part that gets me is that the body is so well preserved. Is that normal.
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The Vatican is facing a deepening controversy over the burial 22 years ago of a notorious crime boss, with reports emerging that the church accepted a 1bn lire (€500,000) payment from the mobster's widow to allow his interment in a basilica.
Vatican-owned Sant’Apollinare church
Tradition says that a holy man named Apollinario from Cordoba, had a vision of the Virgin Mary. In this vision he was told he would be the savior of Spain and drive out the Moors. He claimed that the Virgin Mary had given him a button which she said had been taken from the robe of Christ. (The mafia soldiers are also called ‘Buttons’, it could be that is where the term originates, its religious sense)