Ana Knezevich Henao vanished in Spain during a turbulent divorce. Her spouse faces kidnapping charges. Where is she now?

The last time anyone spoke to Ana Maria Knezevich Henao she seemed happy and “totally normal,” but a day later, she disappeared into thin air.

A couple months later, Ana’s estranged husband, David Knezevich, was arrested at the Miami airport and charged with kidnapping, People Magazine reported. He has not been charged with her murder, and she is still nowhere to be found.

Ana, who was born in Colombia, left her home in Florida and traveled to Madrid, Spain, on December 27, 2023, just after she separated from her husband, a Serbian immigrant whom she had been married to for 13 years. The couple owned a tech company together, and splitting up the company became the crux of their contentious divorce.

Ana’s brother, Felibe, told People that the couple were “going through a nasty divorce and there is a substantial amount of money on the line to be split up between the two and Knezevich is not happy about it.”

Her best friend, Sanna Rameau, told People that Ana “really liked the culture in that city and the atmosphere, and she said she wanted to go and live there.” In Spain, Ana wanted to create a non-profit that would help “women that have been abused or been in a bad situation.”

In January 2024, Rameau was able to meet with Ana in Austria, and the two made plans to get together in Madrid on February 8. Rameau told the outlet that she spoke to Ana every day, but as their meeting in Spain approached, Ana disappeared.

Rameau knew something was wrong when she received troubling text messages from Ana’s phone on February 3.

“I met someone wonderful,” one message said, according to People. “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’ll call you when I come back. Kisses.”

Rameau told the outlet that she “was very confused” by the texts.

“I was like, ‘What are you talking about? What is going on? This is not safe. Share your location. Something is wrong,’” she said.

But Ana stopped responding.

Rameau contacted a friend of Ana in Madrid and also called the authorities.

The last confirmed contact with Ana was on the evening of February 2, Rameau told the outlet, saying her friend was “just goofing around” and acted “totally normal.”

Security cameras at her apartment building captured footage of Ana entering her home around 2:30 p.m. Around 9:27 p.m. that same day, the cameras captured a man wearing a helmet enter the building and cover a surveillance camera lens with spray paint. Police have said the man resembled Knezevich.

A federal complaint obtained by People revealed that the man was also seen “fastening a piece of duct tape to the lock of the building entrance to prevent the lock from engaging to allow subsequent entry.”

Around 10:30 p.m., the man was seen leaving the building with what appeared to be a suitcase.

When Spanish police searched Ana’s apartment after she was reported missing, they noted that her cell phone, laptop, and chargers were all missing.

Police also tracked down the shop that sold the brand of spray paint used by the man in the surveillance footage. The shop’s security cameras “depicted an individual who appeared to be Knezevich purchasing the spray paint along with two rolls of duct tape,” on February 2, according to the complaint against Knezevich.

Investigators working on Ana’s disappearance also discovered Knezevich contacted a Colombian woman online in October 2023 who said he asked her to translate a message into “perfect Colombian,” People reported.

She claimed Knezevich told her he needed the translation for his friend in Serbia “who is writing a script about a Colombian character.”

The woman said the message Knezevich asked her to translate was the same one that Ana’s friend Rameau received the day after Ana disappeared, about meeting a man and spending days with him in a place with spotty cell service. Knezevich also allegedly asked her to translate another message that read: “yesterday after therapy I needed a walk and he approached me on the street! Amazing connection. Like I never had before.”

Authorities contend that Knezevich flew from Miami to Istanbul on January 27 and then rented a car in Serbia on January 29 before driving to Spain to allegedly kidnap his estranged wife, People reported. The owner of the rental car company reportedly told authorities that Knezevich returned the vehicle with tinted windows and different frames for the license plate.

On April 24, nearly three months after Ana disappeared, one of Knezevich’s employees told police that he had asked her to “impersonate” Ana to open a new bank account. The employee said Knezevich provided her with Ana’s social security number to use as identification. When the employee said she was uncomfortable doing so because Ana was missing, Knezevich allegedly told her that it “needed to be done” in order to pay all the employees. Knezevich allegedly added that “I cannot call with my voice because I sound like a guy.”

Knezevich maintains his innocence, with his attorney claiming his client was in Serbia when Ana disappeared, some 1,600 miles away, WSVN reported.

Even with Knezevich’s arrest, Ana’s friends and family still wonder where she is.

“Nothing of this makes sense to me,” Rameau told People. “It’s devastating. We just want to know where she is.”

“I am not going to stop until justice has been served,” she added. “I miss her every minute. I just dream that she would come back. She was a sweetheart.”

Ana’s younger brother Felipe still hopes his sister can be found.

“If anybody out there has any information about her whereabouts, we still have hope that we can find where my sister is,” he said during a press conference on May 8, just days after Knezevich was arrested, WSVN reported. “If she’s out there, somewhere, I just want to tell her we all love her, we miss her, we support her, we’re her voice.”

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