Missing Florida woman’s husband has possible conflicting alibi

Ana Knezevich has been missing in Spain since Feb. 2: Family
Unidentified individual was spotted vandalizing security cameras
Friends: Disappearance inconsistent with meticulous character

Updated: Feb 21, 2024 / 11:18 PM CST

(NewsNation) — Florida woman Ana Knezevich has been missing in Spain for nearly three weeks, and it’s unclear where her estranged husband was at the time of the disappearance.

According to the husband’s attorney Ken Padowitz, David Knezevich was in Serbia when Ana disappeared and has been cooperating with both Spanish police and the FBI.

“He’s spoken to the police a number of times,” Padowitz said during an appearance on “CUOMO.” “I have reached out to the FBI and let them know that we are available to aid in any way. He’s given police information on credit cards, attempted to hire a lawyer in Spain.”

However, Sanna Rameu, Ana’s best friend, says David was at the couple’s Fort Lauderdale home, not in Serbia, when Ana disappeared.

Madrid police said Tuesday that the investigation is ongoing, but did not release further details.

Ana traveled from South Florida to Spain in December to get away for awhile, according to her family. She is originally from Colombia and was going through a divorce from her Serbian husband.

While traveling, she vanished — shortly after a man wearing a motorcycle helmet disabled the security cameras at her Madrid apartment building by spray painting the lenses.

The next day, friends of Ana’s say they received mysterious text messages from the 40-year-old’s phone. One text was in English and another one was in Spanish, saying she was running off for a few days with a man she had just met.

Brandee Smith, a longtime friend of the Knezevichs, told NewsNation that Ana is a calm and intelligent person, asserting that the purported text messages from Ana do not align with her character and historical texting voice. Smith, along with others close to Knezevich, insists that she would have maintained communication with friends, making her sudden silence highly unusual.

“It absolutely feels like a missing persons investigation because she would have messaged her friends, her girlfriends. This is what women do. Women message each other and tell them what’s going on,” Smith said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.