Rome: The 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared in 1983, and the Vatican reopened an investigation into her disappearance Monday, months after a new Netflix documentary claims to shed new light on the case. The Italian Parliament took up the issue weeks later at the request of his family.

According to Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, Vatican prosecutor Alessandro Didi opened a file on Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance "upon requests made by the family in various places".

According to a lawyer for the Orlandi family named Laura Sagro, Italian news outlets Adnkronos, LaPresse and ANSA were the first to report the development. She noted that the most recent Vatican filing of the matter was made in 2019.

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Orlandi disappeared on June 22, 1983, after leaving his family's apartment in Vatican City to travel to Rome for music lessons. His father worked as a layman for the Holy See.

One of the Vatican's enduring mysteries, his disappearance has been linked to a variety of things over the years, including an assassination plot against Saint John Paul II, a financial scandal involving the Vatican Bank and Rome's criminal underworld.

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In addition to exploring these possibilities, the recent four-part Netflix documentary "Vatican Girl" includes fresh testimony from a friend who claimed that Emanuela revealed to him a week before her disappearance that a The powerful Vatican cleric pointed him out.

Furthermore, Sgro and Orlandi's brother Pietro recently unveiled a new plan to form a parliamentary commission to investigate the incident.

According to Sgro and opposition lawmaker Carlo Calenda, despite three previous initiatives in the Italian Parliament being unsuccessful, the Vatican could not consider the matter closed when there were too many unanswered questions.

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According to Pietro Orlandi, who spoke to RyanNews24 on Monday, the Vatican has reportedly changed its mind, overcome its resistance, and will now review the matter from scratch. Orlandi described Didi's decision as a "positive step".