FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Ana Knezevich was last heard from on Feb. 2 while she was away in Madrid. Loved ones and friends of the missing Fort Lauderdale woman are worried sick.
Her friend, Sanna Rameau, told Local 10 News Tuesday that 18 days have passed since Knezevich was last seen while away in Spain.
“I’m absolutely devastated. I think about Ana every minute of the day,” Rameau said. “I couldn’t imagine anyone that would want to hurt her. She’s the sweetest person.”
The search for the missing 40-year-old has intensified, with posters popping up in Madrid.
“The police have entered her apartment. They are not saying much about the investigation,” said Rameau. “It’s a top priority case, from what I understand.”
Knezevich left Fort Lauderdale for Spain in December following a split with her husband of 13 years, David Knezevich.
Friends and family said she was supposed to take a train on Feb. 5 with a friend to Barcelona, but she never showed up at the train station.
Rameau says she last spoke to Knezevich on the day she disappeared, Feb. 2, and received a strange message from her, claiming to have met someone.
Rameau doesn’t believe the message came from her friend.
“The way they were written, it was strange -- that’s not how she writes,” Rameau said. “Also, it’s false information in there because it said she met a man the day before, referring to that Friday. She hasn’t mentioned to anyone that she met anyone that day.”
Around the time of Knezevich’s disappearance, someone spray painted the lenses of two security cameras of the apartment building she was staying at, and disabled the cameras at the building’s entrance.
Knezevich’s loved ones say her estranged husband left for Serbia in January.
There was no sign of David Knezevish at the couple’s Fort Lauderdale home on Tuesday, and calls to his phone were not answered.
Rameau said she went to Spain to help search for Ana Knezevich. She said David Knezevich never went to help look and she was disappointed that he failed to do so.
“He believed that he didn’t have anything to do (with it) -- that he couldn’t do anything in Spain with her investigation to be there,” she said.
David Knezevich is not facing any charges and he has not been named a person of interest in the case.
Local 10 News had reached out to his attorney, but has not heard back at the time of this story’s publication.