Investigators comb Italy to find body of Fort Lauderdale woman who vanished in Spain

Investigators from Spain, Italy and the FBI have been combing through a heavily wooded area in northern Italy, searching for a Fort Lauderdale woman who prosecutors say was kidnapped from her apartment in Madrid by her estranged husband amid their bitter divorce over millions of dollars.

Ana Knezevich Henao was reported missing in early February in Spain and her body has not been found.

The FBI believes the husband, David Knezevich, carried her body in a suitcase out of her Madrid apartment building on Feb. 2. But if he did kill her, which investigators have been unable to prove, where is the wife’s corpse?

Investigators now suspect that Knezevich, a 36-year-old Serbian native, may have transported her body in his rented Peugeot 308 on his return trip from Madrid to Belgrade between Feb. 2 and Feb. 5.

A GPS signal generated on Feb. 4 by Knezevich’s rental car recently led Italian and Spanish investigators to a wooded area in the province of Vicenza in northern Italy — west of Venice and east of Verona — where they say he may have taken a detour off the main highway to dump the wife’s corpse.

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