Saturday's search took a forensics team underneath Vatican City, through a trap-door and into so-called "ossuaries" — a sort of sacred storage deposit for bones. Thousands of bones and bone fragments — many more than expected and some believed to be quite ancient — were discovered and collected as Federica Orlandi, the sister of a missing woman, looked on. This is just the latest twist in an unsolved mystery that has stretched on for 36 years.
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