Overview
- Laura Casagrande has been registered as a suspect by the Rome prosecutor’s office on suspicion of giving false information to the public prosecutor in the Emanuela Orlandi case.
- Investigators are reviewing discrepancies between Casagrande’s 1983 statements and her 2024 parliamentary testimony, including three conflicting accounts of the last time she saw Orlandi and contradictions over the caller’s accent.
- A phone call to Casagrande’s home on 8 July 1983 was attributed in three voice analyses to photographer Marco Accetti, long linked to the anonymous caller known as “l’Amerikano” who dictated a message about using Orlandi to bargain for Mehmet Ali Ağca’s release.
- A musical score left by the kidnappers in September 1983 carried handwritten names and addresses, including Casagrande’s address on the cover, while a phone number appeared next to another student’s name, Carla De Blasio.
- The parliamentary commission received a memo asserting a strong resemblance between a new identikit tied to Mirella Gregori’s 1983 disappearance and a man arrested in 1984 for exploiting minors, prompting calls for deeper inquiry and renewed scrutiny of clustered disappearances near the Vatican.