The work of the Central Brigade for Missing Persons and Homicides of the Spanish UDEV, with the support of the FBI, has achieved what until recently seemed unlikely: David Knezevich, ‘Dusa’, born in Serbia but resident in the US and 36 years old, will sit in the dock of the Florida Court accused of murder. This is what ABC has learned from both reliable police sources and judicial informants.
The achievement is quite a script twist in this story, because, until now, the accusation that fell on him was kidnapping, for the disappearance of his ex-wife, Ana María Henao, with dual Colombian and American nationality. The aggravated crime seemed far away as there was no trace of his remains.
The event occurred at the beginning of this February in Madrid, where the victim had lived for a month, after a difficult separation from David. He was captured upon arriving at the Miami airport from Belgrade after allegedly killing Ana. The background of the crime would be that the businessman refused to divide his 12 million dollars in the separation.
Judicial times in North America are very different from those in Spain. The oral hearing was to have begun in October, which had already been postponed, but finally, as ABC announced, it will begin on February 15, 2025. That time has been providential for our agents to have issued letters rogatory to telephone companies in five other countries : France, Italy, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. They are the territories through which Knezevich passed on his round trip between his country and Spain.
The triangulation of both its three terminals and that of Ana herself, already dead, in part of that return trip to deliver in Belgrade the rental car with which she traveled to the crime and set up an alibi that for now (“for circumstantial evidence,” say the Americans) is being ruined.
The Italian track
A month ago ABC published the practically complete report on the geolocations, which revealed that David, after killing Ana, took her in the car at least to France; Her terminal broadcast a signal within the French country. Then, due to a detour he took in a wooded area in northern Italy and which made it take him a total of 27 and a half hours with the Peugeot 208, instead of 8 and a half, investigators suspected that he had decided to get rid of his ex-wife’s body. , which has never been found. The Missing Persons and Homicide agents traveled to the transalpine country to comb that entire area, without success.
According to French repeaters, David sent the following text to her friends via WhatsApp, posing as Ana, to one of her friends, Sanna, on February 3 at 2:03 p.m.: «I met a very cool person. He has a recreation house about 2 hours from Madrid. Now we’re leaving and I’ll spend a few days there. Although there is hardly any signal. I’ll call you when I get back.” Apparently, he asked an ex-girlfriend to write the message in Spanish beforehand and then send it to him, according to this same person.
At 4:16 p.m., another friend received a WhatsApp apparently from Ana María Henao, in which she justified her absence. It was the same text as the previous one, but in English. Some informants relied on a confession from Knezevich to be able to charge him with the murder, and not kidnapping. But the accused has always denied not only that he took and killed the woman; but even that he has never been to Spain.
His lawyer directly requests acquittal, while that of the Henao family and the victim’s own brother highlighted on Thursday, after hearing the news, the value of journalistic publications and the investigations of the Spanish Police in getting the court to accept who goes from being an alleged kidnapper to a textbook uxoricide.
Recorded by cameras
And here another piece of evidence plays a fundamental role: the cameras captured his rented car, whose license plates were changed by the Serb for ones stolen in Alcalá de Henares, when he went to buy spray paint at a hardware store in Coslada; a black can with which he was also captured in the Francisco Silvela building, 65 (Salamanca district), where Ana had rented an apartment, spraying the interior surveillance cameras. That February 2, 2024, he was disguised with a motorcycle helmet, so that he would not be recognized, and that happened shortly before he supposedly killed her. The National Police believes that he did it due to mechanical asphyxiation, since the Scientist did not find a single drop of blood in the apartment. And that David then put the woman’s body, of small build, in a suitcase that he took in the Peugeot.
The toll controls and traffic cameras also place it in Spanish territory from Madrid to the La Junquera border crossing (Gerona), and the repeaters of the other five countries also put it on the ropes. And he had told his mother that he was going to spend a few days in Montenegro, even sending her photos supposedly taken on the coast of that country. «I had woven the plan meticulously; but perhaps he thought that we were not going to investigate so thoroughly. He doesn’t know the National Police Spanish,” highlights one of the team members who have managed to turn the complicated case around.
Florida is one of the states where the death penalty is still applied. The next step is for the American Prosecutor’s Office to issue its initial indictment, in which it must clarify whether it requests the death penalty for Knezevich or requests prison. The businessman has it complicated. Donald Trump, during the recent electoral campaign that will bring him back to the White House on January 20, announced a tougher hand with these cases and was in favor of annulling more executions. A punishment rejected by legal and social consensus in Europe but which, despite being considered the largest democracy in the world, remains in force in a good part of the fifty states into which the Union is divided. And, furthermore, they still have a sufficiently large niche of popular acceptance in certain cases at least.
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