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Florida Man Accused of Murdering Wife in Madrid Dies in Federal Lockup

David Knezevich was awaiting trial after he was charged with the kidnapping and murder of his wife, who vanished in Madrid last year.

A Florida businessman accused of killing his estranged wife in Spain last year has died from an apparent suicide in jail. David Knezevich, 37, was awaiting trial after he was charged with the kidnapping and murder of Ana Maria Henao Knezevich, who vanished in Madrid last February, five weeks after moving from Fort Lauderdale to Spain’s capital amid a nasty divorce. Knezevich was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Detention Center in Miami at 8:15 a.m. Monday, NBC News reported. Emergency medical services gave life-saving measures before he was pronounced dead. Knezevich’s defense attorney later confirmed he died by suicide. Henao Knezevich disappeared on Feb. 2 last year, just after an unidentified man wearing a helmet was seen spray-painting over security cameras at her Madrid apartment complex, and leaving an hour later carrying a suitcase. Henao Knezevich’s body has not been found. In May 2024, Knezevich was arrested at Miami International Airport when he arrived on a flight from his native Serbia. Prosecutors alleged Knezevich of being the man in the helmet, saying he flew to Turkey from Miami six days before Ana’s disappearance and later traveled to Serbia. Knezevich, who faced up to a life sentence if convicted, had pleaded not guilty to the charges.