Who is the American heiress who disappeared in Madrid and why are they looking for her body in the Vicenza area?

The police are also looking for her in Italy, in the Vicenza area. Ana Maria Henao, a wealthy forty-year-old heiress originally from Colombia, is missing since February 2nd. She was last seen entering the apartment in Madrid where she had moved, from Florida, at the end of 2023, to get away from the man who had been her husband for 13 years, David Knezevic, of Serbian origin.

As reported Peoplethe couple was facing a “bad divorce,” with a significant amount of money at stake. According to local media, the division of assets was the likely motive behind Ana’s disappearance: she was already a wealthy heiress, and with her husband ran a profitable computer assistance and repair business in Fort Lauderdale.

The family began to worry about Ana after she started receivingand messages, from her phone, that didn’t seem to be written by her. “It’s like they were translated by Google. It wasn’t her. She didn’t say those things. No one in Spanish would have said those things to her,” her brother Felipe Henao explained. “We want to know the truth. We want to know where my sister is. If anyone has any information, any suggestions, please contact the FBI or the Spanish authorities.”

Last January 29th Knezevich had rented a car in Belgrade, and three days later he arrived in Madrid. The night before Ana Maria disappeared, he allegedly stole a license plate from a car in the Spanish capital and placed it on his rental car. On the day of his wife’s disappearance, surveillance cameras caught him in a hardware store, buying tape and spray paint. Knezevic was later caught spray-painting the camera in the building where his wife lived in Madrid.

The cameras near Ana Maria’s house reportedly filmed a man who He entered the woman’s house with a suitcase and left shortly after. In that luggage he allegedly hid his wife’s body, which he disposed of on the return trip to Belgrade. He was arrested upon his return to Serbia, where he had been for months, and was charged with kidnapping.

By order of the mayor, yesterday it was dirt road closed Cogollo del Cengioa small village of three thousand inhabitants, at the foot of the mountains. The road connects the plain to the Asiago plateau. With a bulldozer, the investigators are combing the area centimeter by centimeter, looking for the remains of Ana Maria. It was apparently her husband, in the last few days, who gave precise directions to find the woman and led the investigators into those woods.