Vatican Braced for Exhumation in Old Kidnap Case Indications mounted Monday that the tomb of a reputed mobster was to be opened inside a Rome church as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee. Prosecutors, police and Pietro Orlandi, brother of the missing girl Emanuela, arrived Monday morning at the church of Sant'Apollinare, amid a scrum of police and television cameras, for what was believed to be the exhumation of the tomb of Enrico De Pedis. De Pedis, a member of Rome's Magliana mob, was killed in 1990. His one-time girlfriend has reportedly said he kidnapped Orlandi, and an anonymous caller in 2005 told a call-in television show that the answer to Orlandi's disappearance lay in his tomb. Amid a new push to resolve the case, the Vatican said last month it had no objections to opening the tomb. Emanuela Orlandi was 15 when she disappeared in 1983 after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See. There had initially been speculation that her kidnapping was linked in some way to the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, which had occurred two years earlier, and the jailing of the gunman, Ali Agca. Doubts have also been cast on whether the Vatican itself had cooperated fully with the investigation. In a lengthy statement last month, the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi insisted the Holy See had done everything possible to try to resolve the case. Outside the basilica, Pietro Orlandi said the move to exhume the tomb was a step forward in the investigation into his sisters' disappearance. "I think it's something very positive, both from the point of view of the Vatican and the prosecutors," he told reporters. Speculation has long swirled around De Pedis' tomb, since it's buried in a prominent church alongside other cardinals - an unusual final resting place for a reputed local mobster. Sant'Apollinare church is right next to the elegant Piazza Navona in Rome's historic center and is adjacent to the Opus Dei-run Pontifical Holy Cross University. Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield