Williamsburg, Virginia: Jennifer was reported missing in February of 1997. Burden of Proof: Who Killed Jennifer Pandos? I: I Can No Longer Sit & Dwell, HBO/Sky Crime 2023
My father is responsible … My father was heavy for sure. ibid. brother Stephen’s quest
Kerry Hendrix [older man whose son Jennifer used to babysit]: He had numerous convictions for crimes … against women. ibid. rozzer
Dear Mr & Mrs Pandos, your daughter is with me … ibid. letter, handwriting disguised
This was the main thing for me … letter left in her bedroom. ibid. rozzer’s profiler
My mother failed her polygraph. ibid. Stephen
None of Jennifer’s things were missing. ibid.
My father had failed his polygraph. ibid.
You may not know this but there are great problems among my family. It just doesn’t seem that way. Burden of Proof: Who Killed Jennifer Pandos? II: Great Problems in My Family, Jennifer’s letter
When the police were trying to get a hold of my mother, Wendy [sister] called my mother seven times before my mother called her back. And during that period of time my mother is emailing my father asking, What do they want? ibid. Stephen
Why was it necessary to disguise the writing? ibid. investigator
The parents’ behaviour is bizarre. ibid.
I’m thinking she had some kind of accidental death. ibid.
The police are looking at other suspects now. Burden of Proof: Who Killed Jennifer Pandos? III: What I’ve Said, of Course, is All True
On February 10 2010 Margie Pandos agreed to undergo hypnosis as part of the investigation. Burden of Proof: Who Killed Jennifer Pandos IV? I Can’t Erase the Things I’ve Done, caption
We open the door. And there’s this pristine room. ibid. Margie under hypnosis
I just think they’re afraid to say, Hey, we blew this case from the very beginning. ibid. Ron
August [Jennifer] she has the abortion. October ’86 she’s still fooling around with Tony [Tobler]. He’s giving her bruises from this letter. She still loves him. ibid. investigator
He [Tony] told me he got in a fight with your sister. He hit her. She fell and hit her head and she was dead. ibid. Charlie May
It suggests that he [Tony] wrote it [note]. ibid. testing
Your parents are not suspects in this case. ibid. rozzer
Protesters Demand To Know What Happened To 40 Missing Students. This World: Disappeared: Mexico’s Missing 43 I, BBC 2023
‘The shooting got more intense. We threw at them whatever we could. I threw a stone and a water bottle.’ ibid. survivor
During the attacks Aldo is critically injured, three students and three members of the public are killed, and a large group of students go missing. ibid.
‘Who can you trust if the authorities themselves attack you?’ ibid. student
In September 2014, 43 students disappeared form passenger buses in the Mexico town of Iguala, Guerrero. The federal government took charge of the case. This World: Disappeared: Mexico’s Missing 43 II
‘The evidence is not matching the official story.’ ibid. investigator
At 12.42 a.m. on the 8th March 2013 Malaysia Airlines Flight NH370 takes off from Kuala Lumpa airport. Its destination Beijing. 239 passengers and crew were on board. 40 minutes into the flight something extraordinary happens. The plane disappears from the radar of Air Traffic Control. This World: Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370, BBC 2024
‘We waited. And waited and waiting. Every now and then, Any news? Nothing yet. Nothing yet. Just waiting for news, and they couldn’t give us anything at all.’ ibid.
Contact was lost three hours into the flight over a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean. ibid.
13th November 2020: Missing businesswoman Melissa Caddick’s disappearance is being treated as suspicious. The Real Vanishing Act: Missing Millionairess, Australian TV news, ITV 2023
She appears to have vanished without a trace. ibid.
It was my family’s entire life savings as well. ibid. victim
Suicide is the least likely option. ibid. dude
How her bad foot had become detached from her body. ibid.
July 2019: The Vatican has opened up two tombs inside a tiny cemetery in the hopes of solving a 36-year-old disappearance of a teenage girl. Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi I, TV news, Netflix 2022
Many Italians remain convinced there is a cover-up going on. ibid.
A man had approached her outside school saying he represented Avon. He offered her a small job handing out leaflets and advertising Avon’s cosmetics line. ibid. woman
We suddenly realised this girl was a Vatican girl. ibid. reporter
The secret service was at our house. ibid. family
No-one could ignore the posters. Not even the Vatican. ibid. reporter
The pope was talking [from balcony] about Emanuela. ibid.
Two days after the Pope’s appeal we got another call. On the other end of the line was the voice of a man who is Italian with a foreign accent. I remember my uncle said it’s a foreigner, sounds American. ibid. family
‘Don’t worry. Officials will be in contact very soon.’ ibid. phone call from ‘the American’
The family waiting for something which never came. Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi II, reporter
Suddenly, after the pope dies a new witness emerges. ibid.
Sabrina Minardi, ex-lover of crime boss Enrico de Pedis, has confessed that she herself held Emanuela hostage in an apartment in the centre of Rome. ibid. news
Roberto Calvi could be directly connected with the kidnapping of of Emanuela [Orlandi]. It seems that the two crimes were carried out by the same people, the Mafia. The same target, the Vatican, and the same message, Give back our money. ibid. reporter
We have this Vatican girl in our hands. So give us our money back. ibid.
You have to understand the significance of this: since Emanuela disappeared thirty years before there was not a single piece of evidence related to her. This which seems to be Emanuela’s flute, the most famous symbol of this Vatican girl. Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi III, reporter
A second girl whose name is Mirella Gregori. ibid.
There was no trace of DNA [on the flute] ibid. expert
So many Italians remain profoundly convinced there’s still a cover-up going on. Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi IV, US TV news
Pope Benedict: ‘Emanuela is in Heaven’. ibid. investigator
Then she was taken secretly to another country – to England. Taken to what was probably a Catholic environment. ibid.
That tip-off said she was buried just a few hundred metres from their home. ibid. Vatican lawyer
Finally these tombs were being opened. ibid.
The tombs are empty. ibid. Vatican press
For what reason did the Vatican do this … Why was Emanuela Orlandi kidnapped? Why her specifically? ibid. reporter
A cardinal had ‘bothered’ her.
A sexual secret like this one … or there’s the theory that it’s about financial scandals, the Vatican bank and the Mafia … or maybe the Soviet Union was behind the disappearance … ibid.
People’s fuel tanks got longer. People had less reason to stop. And it’s one of those towns that risk falling off the map. Last Stop Larrimah: An Outback Tale I, resident, Netflix 2023
A piss up, barbecue and a good sing song. ibid. reminisces
Now that Paddy’s gone there’s only ten. ibid. resident
38,000 go missing, or are reported missing, in Australia each year. ibid. rozzer
Reporter: How does everyone get on in this town?
Paddy: They don’t. ibid. TV interview
Who Whacked Paddy? ibid. TV news