Man Accused Of Kidnapping Wife Painted Over Security Cam The Day She Vanished: FBI
The estranged husband of a missing Florida woman has been arrested on a federal kidnapping charge after authorities said someone matching his appearance was seen blacking out the security camera at her apartment building in Spain on the day she disappeared.
David Knezevich, 36, was arrested at Miami International Airport Monday when he arrived on a flight from Serbia, authorities said. His wife, Ana Maria Knezevich Henao, 40, vanished in Madrid, where her brother told police she had gone to “clear her head” amid the couple’s acrimonious divorce.
“Ana and David are going through a nasty divorce and there is a substantial amount of money on the line to be split up between the two,” her brother, Juan Felipe Henao, told police, according to an incident report obtained by the Sun Sentinel .
The former couple shared a real estate business in Ft. Lauderdale and worked together at an IT company called EOX Solutions , where David Knezevich served as CEO, the Sun Sentinel reported .
The FBI laid out an eyebrow-raising case against Knezevich in a detailed criminal complaint obtained by HuffPost.
Knezevich Henao, a native of Colombia, was last seen alive on the afternoon of Feb. 2, when a security camera captured her entering a Madrid apartment building, authorities said. At noon that day, security cameras filmed a man who authorities said appears to be David Knezevich at a Madrid store, where he purchased two rolls of duct tape and spray paint — the same brand used in an attempt to disable the security camera at Knezevich Henao’s apartment building at around 9:30 p.m.
The paint didn’t completely obscure the lens though, so the camera captures the man fastening duct tape to the building’s entrance door, preventing it from