A South Florida businessman was charged with murder and missing his estranged wife in Spain last year, his attorney confirmed Monday.

David Knezevich is accused of kidnapping, resulting in death, foreign domestic violence, resulting in death and foreign murder of American nationals On February 2, 2024, Ana Maria Henao Knezevich disappeared.

Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Prison Bureau said Kennevic was found at the Miami Federal Detention Center at about 8:15 a.m. Monday.

Officials said he was granted life-saving measures but was pronounced dead by emergency medical staff.

"The FBI and the U.S. Marshal Service have been notified. No employees or other incarcerated persons were injured and there was no danger at any time," the official said in a press release.

Further details of his death are not yet available, but Kennevic's defense attorney Jayne Weintraub confirmed that he died of suicide and issued a brief statement late Monday.

"This morning, the defense team was frustrated with knowing this. What we trust is to conduct proper investigations."

Henao Knezevich's family also issued a statement through a lawyer.

"The suicide of Anna's murderer ended the painful chapters of our lives, which were previously filled with fears that he might not face justice. Now, we may never know where he put Anna's body." "It's a cruel final insult, and we may never recover Anna's body or know the full scope of the betrayal she suffered. Nevertheless, we remain committed to seeking truth and justice for ANA through our lawyer Mr. Ingber, and keeping Ana's memory while respecting her life with dignity, strength and love in the hope that they will continue to investigate and search for Anna's institutions.

Knezevich, 37, was arrested in 2024 after arriving at Miami International Airport in Serbia in May 2024. While awaiting trial, he was held without a bond.

Henao Knezevich, a Colombian native and American who lives in Fort Lauderdale, appeared in Madrid last year and headed to Spain in a controversial divorce from her estranged husband.

Federal prosecutor Lace Monk said in court last May that prosecutors believed Anna was dead, and that the FBI and Spain's national police had a lot of evidence that Kennivic was behind his wife's disappearance, which happened five weeks after she left him and moved to Madrid.

She said the couple had been experiencing annoying divorces after 13 years of marriage, fighting over how to distribute the vast amount of wealth they have accumulated from computer companies and real estate investments. Monk said he didn't want her to have an equal share.

According to the indictment filed in November, Knivic traveled to Madrid from Miami-Dade with the aim of killing, hurting, harassing and intimidating his spouse and intimidating" and committed a crime of violence against her, resulting in her death.

Court documents show that authorities believe Knezevich is similar to a man wearing a motorcycle helmet, who sprayed security camera footage outside his Madrid apartment on February 2, 2024. An hour later, the man left a suitcase one hour later.

The security video shows that the man in a motorcycle helmet used in a security camera using cash to buy tape and sprays of the same brand are using the same spray paint, prosecutors said.

During that period, the stolen license plates in Madrid were found by police readers near the motorcycle shop where the same helmet was purchased, and on the streets of Anna the night she disappeared that night. Hours after the man with helmet left the apartment, Peugeot was the same one that Kennivic rented and recorded the stolen plates in a toll station near Madrid. Since the windows are tinted, the driver is not visible.

Prosecutors said Kennivic met a Colombian woman on a dating app to convert to "perfect Colombian" Spanish, two English, on two lines, prosecutors said. After the woman sent the men back to Kennivic, two of Anna's friends received the exact messages from her phone. The news said that Anna left with a man she had just met on the street, and a friend said something she had never done before.

Kennivic's lawyer said his 40-year-old wife disappeared 1,600 miles the day he was in his native Serbia. But agents said Klezvich rented Peugeot in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, four days ago.

Prosecutors said when Knezevich sent Peugeot back to the rental agency five weeks later, it had been driven 4,800 miles, its windows were painted in color, two identification stickers had been removed, and there was evidence that its license had been removed and then returned.

Knivic pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his lawyer insisted on his innocence.

The case has attracted international attention as law enforcement agencies from several different countries gathered together to try to help find Henao Knezevich and the person in charge of her disappearance.

Henao Knezevich's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Knezevich in February.

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