A 40-year-old Florida woman temporarily living in Madrid amid her divorce has gone missing.
Ana Knezevich was last seen on February 2 at around 10 p.m. at her Madrid apartment. Friend Sanna Rameau told 7News Miami that Ana had planned to meet a friend a few days into her visit, but failed to show up.
Ramaeu added that a suspicious man wearing a helmet tampered with the surveillance cameras outside and inside the elevator of Ana’s apartment building by blacking them out. The same person then proceeded to walk into Ana’s apartment.
That same night, Ana told Rameau that she intended to stay home due to the cold weather. The next day, Rameau received a supposed message from Ana, claiming that she had met someone and that they were heading to a summer house around two hours away.
“We received very bizarre messages from her phone, I have to say from her phone because I don’t believe it was her sending it, that Saturday afternoon after she disappeared. That she had met a man on the street,” Rameau explained.
“When we tried to respond, the messages were not going through and the phone is off. She has not left on her own. She has been taken against her will and by who, I don’t know.”
Ana Knezevich – from Fort Lauderdale, Florida – went missing in Madrid, Spain on February 5th.
She went to Madrid on a trip while going through a divorce, her family says.
They say a man in a helmet blacked out security cameras where she was staying before she vanished. pic.twitter.com/2YLrxQV5qQ— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) February 13, 2024
NBC South Florida reports that loved ones called police on February 4 and requested a welfare check, but Ana was not home and hasn’t contacted friends or family.
“They didn’t find her,” Ramaue said. “Looks like she left the apartment locking it from the outside. That’s the last we know.”
Ramaeu said Ana is going through divorce proceedings and has been going through a stressful time in her personal life. Rameau subsequently flew to Madrid to speak with Spanish police and is now hoping that the U.S. Embassy will help.
“I just want her back. I want the American authorities to help. We have an American citizen that has disappeared abroad and no one in the America is doing anything about it. There is high suspicion of foul play regarding her disappearance. She has not just left. There is high suspicion that someone did something to her,” said Rameau.
The FBI and Spanish authorities are currently investigating. Check back for updates.
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