American woman goes missing in Madrid after helmeted man disables cameras
American woman Ana Maria Knezevic goes missing in Madrid after helmeted man disables cameras
MADRID — Ana Maria Knezevic traveled from South Florida to Spain in December to get away for a while. Her family and friends say the naturalized American originally from Colombia has been going through a nasty divorce from her Serbian husband, but the trip was also a chance to explore new places.
Then, she vanished — two weeks ago, 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, two friends received separate text messages — one in English, one in Spanish — from the 40-year-old’s phone saying she was running off for a few days with a man she had just met.
“She wouldn’t do this ... it is very unsafe and crazy behavior. She wouldn’t do that. She wouldn’t do that,” said Sanna Rameau, the friend who got the English text. It was written, she said, in an emotionless style that wasn’t Ana’s. The Spanish message was so flat it appeared to have been written in English and run through Google Translate, she said.
Sanna Rameau and Ana Maria Knezevic. Spanish police are searching for Knezevic, a Colombian American woman who went missing suddenly in Madrid.Sanna Rameau / AP“It just didn’t make sense,” Rameau told The Associated Press.
She’s also tiny — smaller than the 4-feet-11-inches tall listed on her driver’s license, Rameau said. “I can lift her up with one arm and carry her away,” the friend said.
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