David Knezevich, the Serbian businessman accused of kidnapping and killing his wife in 2024 in Spain, took his life on Monday at the Federal Detention Center of Miami, according to both parties.
Knowing the suicide of the alleged murderer, the lawyer of the victim’s family in Spain, Juan Manuel Medina, has regretted that “Ana María’s murder is left without resolving forever for the death of the only investigated.”
“In addition to the loss of Ana María, what the family harms the most is that it is ever possible to find the body and give it the rest it deserves … This causes them even more pain,” he explained to Efe.
David Knezevich, 37 and was arrested when landing at Florida airport three months after his wife’s disappearance, was waiting for trial in a federal court in southern Florida, where he faced charges that included murder and domestic murder and violence.
The FBI and the Spanish Police concluded that the accused would have traveled from Serbia to Spain to follow his wife, 40, born in Colombia and American nationalized. He killed her and transported her body into a suitcase to a place she never revealed, while he left Spain.
The reason – according to the police investigation included in the summary – is that they were in the process of divorce and had disagreements for the distribution of a millionaire heritage.
Ana María’s disappearance was denounced by a friend with whom she met again in Madrid and told the agents who had reached Madrid two months before looking for a tranquility she did not find in Miami, where she resided and had her businesses and properties.
This friend assured that Ana María felt frightened and manipulated by her husband. Police looked for women for Spain, France and Italy, without success. EFE
