Family of missing Florida woman in Spain voices alarm over strange messages and surveillance footage
FLORIDA: A Florida woman went missing in Spain two weeks ago while going through a contentious divorce, her family and friends are concerned as they received "bizarre messages" from her before she went missing, as reported.
Concerned friends and family learned that Ana Knezevich, a US citizen originally from Colombia, chose to visit Europe while going through a divorce from her Serbian spouse.
Ana Knezevich's relatives claim to have received strange texts in Spanish
The forty-year-old resident of Fort Lauderdale rented an apartment in Madrid in December and has been in regular contact with friends ever since. However, friend Sanna Rameau informed WSVN that neighbors last saw her on February 2.
On the day she vanished, Rameau sent her a text but received no response. The following day, Knezevich messaged her, revealing that she had encountered a man on the street with whom she instantly "connected."
She informed Rameau that she didn't have a good cell signal and that they were traveling two hours from Madrid to a country house. “I’ll call you when I get back,” she said.
Knezevich confided in a friend that she felt a "connection" with a man she met on the street. Concerned, the friend requested Ana to email him the address of her planned destination and expressed reservations about her choice to travel with the enigmatic man she had encountered.
“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, February 10, the afternoon after she disappeared. That she had met a man on the street,” Rameau said, according to the New York Post.
“She has not left on her own,” Rameau said. “She has been taken against her will and by whom, I don’t know.”
Several relatives reported receiving oddly worded texts in Spanish from Knezevich, but they doubt she sent them herself.
Ana Knezevich's family claims spotting a man turning off security cameras
The family asserts that prior to Knezevich's disappearance, surveillance footage captured a man wearing a helmet shutting off the security cameras in the vicinity of her residence.
According to News Nation's report, “The fact that the building has the cameras spray-painted … It just makes us think it’s foul play. It’s not normal,” Ana Knezevich's brother Felipe Henao said.
Now that the family is collaborating with European authorities, obstacles are in their way.
"I know the police in Spain are working really hard. I just don’t know if they have all the tools they need. They don’t have a detective that speaks English. I find that ridiculous. I wish there was more communication with US law enforcement. An American citizen is missing abroad. I just want my sister back," Henao expressed.
“I’m living my worst nightmare. I’ve never felt this pain in my entire life because I don’t know what has happened to her, someone has hurt her and I don’t know why,” Rameau remarked, as per The New York Post.
After a few days, Rameau finally took a plane to Madrid to have direct conversations with Spanish officials, but he claimed that the response was insufficient.
