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Florida Woman Vanishes During Madrid Trip Under Strange Circumstances

SUSPICIOUS

Friends of Ana Knezevic said they received “strange texts” that didn’t add up.

Vehicles and National Police officers in Madrid, Spain.
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A 40-year-old Florida woman vanished during a getaway trip to Madrid under mysterious circumstances, authorities said. Ana Maria Knezevic had been living in Madrid since December to get away from a nasty divorce process, but disappeared in early February, just after an unidentified man wearing a helmet was seen spray-painting over security cameras at her apartment complex, the Associated Press reports. A day later, Knezevic’s friends reported receiving odd text messages from her phone, which didn’t sound like their friend at all. “I met someone wonderful!! He has a summer house 2H (hours) from Madrid,” one of the texts read. “We are going there now and I will spend a few days there. Signal is spotty. I’ll call you when I get back.” Another friend received a similar text in Spanish, which appeared to be computer-translated. But beyond the suspicious texts, the friends say Knezevic never mentioned meeting anyone, and said it was out-of-character for her to run off with a stranger. Police in both the U.S. and Spain are investigating.

Read it at Associated Press