“The Vatican’s top exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, was the first to endorse the theory that Orlandi had been kidnapped for sexual reasons. Months before his death in 2012, Amorth told CNN the investigation “should be carried out inside the Vatican and not outside.”
“Parties were organized in which a gendarme of the Holy See was involved as a recruiter of women,” said Amorth, as previously reported by The Daily Beast. “I believe Emanuela is a victim of that racket…. I have reason to believe that it was a case of sexual exploitation resulting in murder shortly after the disappearance, and [then] concealment of the corpse.”