Ana María Knezevich, an American of Colombian origin, arrived in Madrid with the intention of rebuilding her life immersed in a difficult separation process from her husband, but two weeks ago her relatives and the authorities lost track of her. The young woman had a good purchasing power.
He disappeared on February 2 and, despite the fact that the alerts issued by the SOS Missing Persons Association and the National Center for Missing Persons (CNDES) have reached millions of people, no one has been able to provide a clue as to his whereabouts.
The president of the association, Joaquín Amills, who serves as spokesperson for the family of the missing woman, has expressed his concern about this situation. In his 14 years of service, he remembers only a few similar cases that, he admits, did not end well.
“We are very used to receiving calls and sifting through information, and it is curious that in this case, in which we will be around a diffusion reach of three million people, we have not received any calls,” he explains in statements to Efe.
Ana María, 40 years old and owner of a successful company in the United States, settled in the Salamanca neighborhood in December, where she rented an apartment. She arrived in Madrid looking for a break from a complex divorce process that caused her depression, for which her doctor in the United States prescribed medication.
Her last movements before disappearing, as she told a friend of hers, were to visit one more apartment in her search for a place to settle long-term in the capital.
On the 3rd, two of her friends received messages from her that caused them surprise, in which she told them that she had met a person and that at that moment they were embarking on a trip to a place two hours from Madrid where she would barely have coverage.
The messages, however, were sent three hours apart, one in English and the other in Spanish and with expressions inappropriate for Ana María, which made them suspect that she did not send them.
The next day, a friend tried to locate her at her house and, in the absence of answers, alerted the police. The firefighters entered the house through a window and did not find anything suspicious, since the disorder was normal and none of her belongings were missing.
Concerned, on the 4th she filed a complaint with the National Police, which began an investigation that has so far not borne fruit, police sources have said.
The suspicious messages, her plans to settle in Madrid and the appointments she had soon – such as a trip to Barcelona on the 5th or the visit of a foreign friend that same week – make it difficult to imagine that it was a voluntary disappearance, he said. Amills.
Although it has not been revealed whether the investigators have made any relevant findings, the president of SOS Desaparecidos considers it essential to track the geolocation of his phone, make a copy of his SIM card, view the enormous number of cameras in the Salamanca neighborhood and collect all possible testimonies.
Amills assures that both the US authorities and their embassy in Spain are aware of the disappearance and are in direct contact with his relatives in Florida to try to clarify what happened and find his whereabouts.
According to data provided by SOS Desaparecidos and the CNDES, Ana María is 1.45 meters tall, has a slim build and has long, brown, wavy hair and brown eyes.