FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Court documents reveal surveillance images that authorities say show the estranged husband of a South Florida woman, who is charged in connection with her disappearance.
David Knezevich, also known as Dusan Knezevic, is charged with one count of kidnapping.
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Spanish authorities say his wife, Ana Knezevich, 40, vanished in February.
According to authorities, the Colombian-American who lived in Fort Lauderdale with her husband, moved to Madrid in December after their 13-year marriage fell apart.
Police say the images show the woman’s husband purchasing spray paint and duct tape at a store in Madrid before spray-painting a security camera at the victim’s apartment building.
The images from the apartment building show the suspect wearing a helmet and mask to obscure his identity, but the man’s eyes and eyebrows are clearly visible.
On Sunday, Spain’s national police released a video showing FBI agents in a desolated area and men searching in shallow water for Ana Knezevich’s remains.
Detectives believe David Knezevich, 36, a Serbian-American businessman, carefully planned her kidnapping and possible murder.
A witness, according to a detailed complaint in the case, said she had met him on a dating site and he asked her to re-write a message to “sound Colombian.”
The message: “I met someone wonderful. He has a summer house about 2h (two hours) from Madrid. We are going there now and I will spend a few days there. There is barely any signal though. I will call you when I come back. Kisses.”
It was a bit like the message that Ana Knezevich’s friend, Sanna Rameau, said she received and found off-tone and concerning before finding out that her friend was missing.
The couple co-owned an IT service provider and real estate properties, including their home in Fort Lauderdale. They were going to have to divide it all during a divorce that her brother, Juan Henao, had described as “nasty.”
FBI agents and the Spanish national police are investigating the case. David Knezevich’s defense claims a travel itinerary shows he was back home with family and friends in Serbia at the time of his wife’s disappearance.
According to the complaint, the FBI believes David Knezevich rented a Peugeot in Belgrade four days before the murder, drove it for about 4,800 miles to Spain, got tinted windows, changed the license plate, and returned it five weeks later.
Investigators believe he was in his wife’s apartment for about an hour — before he left the building with a suitcase. What was in that suitcase? Investigators have yet to answer that question.
David Knezevich was arrested May 4 at Miami International Airport after he returned to South Florida from Serbia.
FBI agents ask that anyone with information about the case calls 1-800-225-5324.