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We talked about all the trips we were going to do She wanted to go to Madrid She was thriving here. She made a lot of friends. I see these messages that were Ver strange. She had met a wonderful man and she's going away in a summer house with him It wasn't written the way Anna and I write to one another. She went radio silent. It's as if she just Yes I wanted to come here to find my friend You'reging I could detect it here. I felt that I had to We have Anna coming in around two o'clock. All of a sudden you see this man Then you see him spraying the lens. I started screaming in my squat. We have it, we have it He was shocked to learn what he was accused of doing. His personality, he was so sure of himself That's a mindset of a murder. She moved across the world looking for a new life soon friendriends and law enforcement were looking for her I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline Here iss Jose Diaz Billard with Missing Anna What would you do if your best friend suddenly disappeared? It was an unimaginable situation. Like I had thousand thoughts in my head If the woman who loved to sing and laugh and make plans simply vanished I say tomorrow, but tomorrow never came What if it was your job to find her? You really are in a race against time. Everybody at this point was a suspect. For these three women, There was only one option I need to see someone now. I'm not leaving. I was trying to do all I could do to find my friend. It was very overwhelming, but it takes a village Sana Ramo first met thirty nine year old Anna Kenesovic at a local happay hour in Fort Lauderale, Florida It's almost as if you clicked almost immedately. Yes, I want to say we did, we did. And we immediately started talking about travel memories and discovered that we have the same interests. You know, you could tell she's adventurous, telling me about places that she wanted to go in the future as they got to know each other Sana learned that Anna was a successful businesswoman who had the freedom to go where she pleased place she really wanted to go It was Madrid, Spain She was drawn to the way the city pulses with culture, history and light love the passionate nature of its people The winding cobblestone streets, she believed, could be the stepping stones for a simpler, more authentic life to her. Living in America in that big house with a swimming pool wasn't her dream anymore said I'm going to go to Madrid and be there by myself for a little while just to get away just to Clare my thoughts So in December of twenty twenty three, Sana said goodbye D. she packed up and moved from Fort Lauderdale to Madrid She checked in with Sana almost every day I just landed in a drip and And then you know how everything goes. Bye This is a happy time for her Yeah, she was very happy Happy New Year. Everything that where we suck this year, we're gonna make it better next one She wanted to start fresh to have a new story Eliza Romero was one of Anna's best friends in Madrid She let Anna live with her until she found her first home, a sixth floor apartment in Salamanca, Madrid's most upscale neighborhood She felt safe and comfortable here. Y Because here she made a lot of friends and she was having a lot of support from us Anna needed that support. She wasn't just leaving behind her successful businesses She was also separating from her husband of thirteen years, David. She was growing and improving. so it was going to be a good beginning for her We were talking about me coming there. I had plans to go and see her in Madrid. I don't know if we want to go maybe to Astodia which I know is beautiful. Anna promised it would be the adventure of a lifetime So there's just so many places that I don't know Less than a week before that trip. Sana got a text from her It's said that she had met a wonderful man on the street and she's going away on a summer house with him and it's couple of hours outside of Madrid The cell signal would be spotty on a texted. So she promised to call when she returned to Madrid Sana got worried It wasn't written. The way Anna and I write to one another. What did you answer? I said, what are you talking about, Anna? This is not sounding safe at all. Please share your location. Like who is this man? I mean you were exchanging information twenty four hours before. she never mentioned it. She never mentioned it She says in the message, I met a man instant connection like I've never felt before. And you haven't called to tell me this? Sana called Anna' estranged husband, David. He said he was at home in Florida and had not heard from him. He has no idea he has not had contact with Anna Then she called Eliza who told her she had received the same strange text from A. but in Spanish I start to message her friends on Instagram When was the last time that you talked to Anna Eliza learned that Anna failed to show up for a train trip she had planned with another close friend So the friend reported her missing That's when panic set in For me, it was like it was not real. It's like a dream, It's like a nightmare. Firefighters went to Anna's apartment to conduct a welfare check Spanish police follow They found no forced entry. No signs of violence, and no honor Sana couldn't wait any longer jumped on a plane bound for Madrid. hoping she and Eliza could find Anna. and they wouldn't have to do it alone My last eighteen years, I worked crimes against U.S citizens. Mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Alex Montilla, then an agent with the FBI, took on the case after Hana's family notified the bureau that she was missing What did your gut tell you My God told me that this was not a deliberate disappearance from Anna. becausecause Anna was thriving in Madrid, she had future plans. This is not a behavior of someone that would just disappear Agent Montilla would eventually fly to Madrid herself to investigate That is her apartment. That's her apartment building. And this is where the investigation begins. Yes What all three women discovered would become the focus of an international manhunt. and a man with a helmet, spray painting the surveillance cameras For me, that's A mindset of a murdererer Less than one week after her best friend Anna disappeared Sanna Ramao flew to Madrid, determined to find out what happened to her And I wanted to come here and just do everything that I can in my power to find my friend Her first stop, the American Embassy. I said this is regarding an American citizen who has been missing for several days. There has been no sign of life I need help The emmbassy's initial suggestion send an email with her concerns I didn't give up. I said, I'm not leaving. I need to go in. I need to see someone now. I'm not leaving And you did, and I did Sana got her meeting and learned the embassy was aware of Anna's disappearance and was working with police Then Sana went to meet Eliza The two friends plotted their next move They would scour Anna's neighborhood looking for any signs of her So I said, W Eisa, let's go here. let's ask around. Let's look for surveillance cameras so I can take pictures of them and then take it to the police station Youre Iging I could detect it here I felt that I had to because Anna is still missing. I don't know what's being done. The international search for an America. Within weeks, the story of Anna's mysterious disappearance hit the news An international search is underway for an American woman who went missing in Madrid. Sana became the family's spokesperson. Someone has done something to her and I'm trying to understand who it could be And why Sana felt sure her friend was in danger, but She couldn't imagine anyone wanting to hurt the vivacious hor. Talk to me about your best friend, Anna, what was she like? She iss very bubbly person, great smile and I was very easy going. She always was looking or finding the good things of the people every time. She never got angry, never And I was full of life, you know. She was a dreamer, She was so romantic Those dreams led Anna to leave her hometown of Bogota, Colombia when she was in her early twenties and move to the US She had a difficult life back in Colombia and she wanted a better life for herself. She didn't know English when she first came and she learned English. later on, you know, she met David, her husband, David was a fellow immigrant from Serbia. The two bonded over their love of travel and the American dream They quickly fell in love and got to work They built two successful businesses together, real estate and IT So they worked very hard and became successful. Successful is an understatement Their two companies took off. eventually worth more than ten million dollars. Anna told me that David was Extremely driven in their marriage, a lot was about just working hard all the time and making money. But after thirteen years, Anna and David decided to split The separation seemed amicable B by the time Anna left for Madrid, she told Sanna that she and David had agreed to split their assets fifty fifty She had decided with David that They were going to wait a month with the official filing of the divorce. Anna didn't mind waiting, especially now that she'd found a new life in Spain So why would she suddenly disappear She was missing from Salamanca and I had lived here before. This neighborhood is a very high end low prime neighborhood FBI agent Alex Montilla knew this was much more than a missing persons case. The only things that were missing from the welfare chck was her computer and her cell phone She also went radio silent that day, and that was very telling. She was a very social person. She was always in contact with her friends and family. Agent Motia learned that Anna usually raved about her new adventures And yet The friend who first called police to report her missing told them Anna had been depressed lately. She said I fear she may have t her life. Anything was a possibility. So she thought maybe she overdosed in her pills. Anna had been going to therapy because she had some childhood trauma and because of her divorce with David, she was taking antidepressants But when Agent Montilla spoke with Sanna and Eliza, they told her on the day she disappeared, Anna seemed perfectly happy. In fact, she was looking for a new apartment She left Sana a voice message about. I saw an apartment that I love Yesterday I am now on my way to see another one Everything is doing great I'm feeling I should be really good Llisa and Sanna didn't believe Anna had harmed herself. They were convinced someone else was to blame. and they were about to find proof at Anna's apartment building We came here first and looked around. We tried to enter the building and there was a door lady there. It was the building super, and she told them something harrowing. She told us that the same night that Anna had disappeared, there there was a man spray painting the surveillance cameras in the building. And the paint was still on it. The paint This paint was still on it Someone sabotaging the camera Sana knew it was a bad sign It was a complete shock. I had a thousand thousand thoughts in my head, but I was convinced obviously that A terrible crime had happened and someone had kidnapped her Sorry, Oh my god, sorry I'm so sorry. No, no no Sana didn't know that El Grupo Dos, one of Spain's most elite police squads, was about to join the investigation. their specialty, cracking the most impossible cases. Vetveeran Detective Remelo Rodriguez took the lead. I think everyone has their own way of working Mine in particular is to go little by little, pulling a thread, which leads me to the next one and which leads me to the next one? his first thread That man spray painting the security camera Who was he And what if anything did he have to do with Anna's disappearance When you're a maintenance engineer in a beverage manufacturing plant, you keep production lines moving and quality on track because there is no room for slowdowns. With Granger's vast selection of high quality motors, sensors, belts, and hard to find parts, you can get what you need fast and all in one place, so nothing gets in the way of getting the job done Call one eight hundred Ganger clickranger d. com or just stop by. 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Let us surprise you Two women were on a mission in Madrid Find out what happened to their friend, Anna Sana was terrified that she had been kidnapped I was thinking about Anna's vysique. like she weighed barely ninety pounds. It's easy for anyone to just take her. And I thought, maybe she's been trafficked. I can go and just pick her up under one arm and just carry her away. Eliza hit the streets of Madrid, canvassing Anna's neighborhood And what I did was to print on flyers And I put them on around Anna's house. How many did you print It was around one hundred. It has her picture, the name, the day when she disappeared, the year and how she looks like, and the numbers where the people could call with any information. And did anyone call with any information? No, no one. Never. No. No one It's as if she had just vanished. Yes Eliza was haunted by her last conversation with Anna just hours before she went missing. She asked me to go out three times that day. They said, No, mayaby today no. And I said tomorrow. but tomorrow never came As Anna's friends desperately searched for her, detective Rodriguez focused on the building' security footage from the day Anna disappeared. The first thing we did was ask for the videos and watch them And When he hit play, he saw Anna entering the apartment at around two twenty PM Later that night Someone dressed like a food delivery man walks down the hallway He looks up at the camera before heading upstairs And then After three or four minutes, that same person comes down. lookooks at the camera again. and takes out spray paint and paints the camera It seemed that whoever had done it had been thinking for a long time about how they were going to do it The fact that he painted the camera and he was concealing his identity, told us that his intentions were to do something really bad Detective Rodriguez shared what he found with Agent Montty Le tellell you That was huge For me, I saw that. I'm like, we have our guy Agent Montilla watched the video over and over again And she kept watching Even after the man spray painted the lens Even while the paint was drying, there is information you could gather. Yes. So once the paint started drying in the surveillance camera We can see the suspect exiting the building. A few minutes later You see somebody come in the building because the light in the lobby turns on. The person was just a blur, barely visible through the painted lens. But as Agent Monta studied the images She spotted something flashing It looked like the reflective vest the man in the helmet was wearing You can see the reflective vest go into the elevator and then the elevator comes down and then you see the reflective vest dragging what we believe is a suitcase, exiting the building What do you believe was in that suitcase? I believe Anna was in that suitcase. Anna was a very small petite woman, and she could easily fit in that suitcase inside that suitcase, but Was she dead or alive? Agent Montilla didn't know The questestion was, who took her We traced back the days before she went missing, and we identified every single person that she came in contact with. Bumbble and other applications. Anna was active on dating apps, including Bumbble That gave investigators a series of new leads This has opened the case to many people that we will have to investigate. So I named it Operation Bumble from the beginning. Lieutenant Emilio Treminio Lva, an investigator in the missing persersons unit, helped identify and interview everyone Anna contacted through the site The people Anna had relationships with were people who had a high level of intellectual and economic status She didn't date just anyone. cultured people, educated people people that added something to her life There was an Italian man He cooperated with police, but after his first interview, he left the country It could raise alarm bells. Why has this person were trying to contact left Spain and gone to Portugal There was a married Spanish CEO. We had an open relationship, and among these relationships there was Anna. then there was the youngest of the bunch, an engineer He had a closer, more intimate relationship with Anna compared to the others. I believe Anna wanted something more serious with him, but he wasn't ready Every single person she met could be a possible suspect. So we had to locate and interview each one of them It was a challenge because a lot of them were hesitant to give us an interview. Some of them had already left the country. As police worked their way through Operation Bumble They were gathering information on another man one who didn't need a dating app to find honna Police searching for Anna Kenesovich were focused on finding the man in the helmet They knew she had been dating men in Spain But they were also curious about her husband, David. who lived in Florida Anna's friends said their recent split seemed friendly enough. She still loved him a lot. She said He was trying to do his best. I think that team admire him lot It's not like They were at war. They were talking But as police continued their investigation, they were hearing something else An of the other interviews you had with people who knew David Paint a picture of him. in any way Yes, they all said David was very controlling. Oh fina He controlled everything from the economic aspect to her social aspect all through their marriage Sana saw that aspect of David too and said it was a factor in their separation Did you get a sense that he was? Rrolling Yes Anna was basically a tool. to David to becoming successful. She was the passenger in the back seat of that car. and he was the driver, always deciding where to go would turn to make until Anna realized that, hey, I think I belong in the front seat The couple turned to therapy to try and salvage their marriage until Anna discovered David had been cheating on her She confided in her friend's amount I told my psychiatrist the couple's one that I didn't want anything more since, you know, again, he cheated on me again He was using Tinder He had been seeing a Colombian woman he matched with on the dating app Tinder. And that to her was the last straw. Y, exactly It was when they decided to get deportced Anna loved David She never really wanted to divorce him, but She realized that There was no turning back after everything that had happened The couple managed the separation themselves without help from attorneys Once Anna was living in Spain David changed his mind about that fifty fifty split they had originally agreed to She tells me that David doesn't want to give her half of the assets in the divorce He believed that he should take seventy five percent She should get twenty five percent. Then he changed it to that she wasn't going to get anything. He was going to give her a monthly allowance Agent Monta wanted to speak with him I called him, I texted him. I never heard from him, but I did hear from his attorney And his attorney told me that David is in Serbia taking care of his mother So David was not in Florida like he told Sona He was in Serbia Still, more than sixteen hundred miles away from Anna's apartment His attorney went on TV to defend him. But David has nothing to do with this. He was in another country But while his attorney was communicating with police, David was not He never called and asked where is my wife? I haven't heard anything about her. He acted completely absent and didn't want to have any kind of relationship with us. If he was getting a divorce or not, this is a person that he spent the last thirteen years with I would think you know, that he would want to help the FBI, especially to eliminate him as a suspect Investigators searched for any sign David had been in Spain. He was not registered as having come in at any airport. Any airport? Any hotel, any place. David did not show up So we asked Serbian police Serbian police gave them what appeared to be a lead David had rented a car four days before Anna disappeared blew Pujo three hundred eight and crossed the border into Croatia And the Serbian police gave us the license plate number of the rental car with which David had left Serbia David have driven the twenty five hours from Serbia to Madrid. Detective Rodriguez tried to find any trace of David's rental car in Spain We ask the Madrid City Hall and the Department of Transportation If that Serbian license plate number had been registered by any of the license plate readers, there are throughout Spain including Like that reader, right? That reader over there. And the Spanish authorities said That Serbian license plate has never come to Spain. It doesn't appear anywhere in Spain So that lead seemed to be a dead end And Operation Bumble wasn't getting them any results either. 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Visit a Beauty Rst retailer today Three weeks passed with no trace of angna Investigators feared that the worst case scenario was true Sirana was dead Her friend Elisa, couldn't bear the thought I always have the hope always, always had the hope that she was going to appear. You know She was going to say hello, I'm here and then I'm back But the truth Tim has a way of Removing your hopes. Yes, exactly as Eliza's hope gave way to overwhelming loss C't wop place Detective Rodriguez was out for justice As a seasoned investigator, he'd learned long ago to keep his emotions at bay. There was something about hna. You put yourself in that situation of a young person with her whole life ahead of her who came to Spain to discover another world and start a new life Investigators now believed that Anna's husband David had something to do with her disappearance, but they couldn't prove he had driven his rental car into Spain We had no tracking information from Croatia And at this point, we needed to put him in Spain with the car None of the license plate readers in Spain had picked up David's car. So detectives wondered, did David switch license plates so he could get into the country undetected The only way to tell was to get a list of all the plates that crossed into Spain the day before Anna disappeared and see if any of them had been stolen It total over one hundred thousand license plates Detective Rodriguez's team spent five weeks going through each and every plate Finally, they got a hit. They discovered a stolen Serbian plate had entered into Spain through Italy When they looked for it in Madrid, it was nowhere to be found. Detective Rodriguez was exasperated He had a hunch If it was David who stole that Serbian plate. Perhaps he swiped a second one in Spain and used it to secretly drive around Anna's neighborhood just I was totally desperate. I wouldn't stop annotating and searching for license plates It was the end of the workday at the station Everyone had gone home except Detective Rodriguez He scribbled down one last plate And then They find out that there was a license plate reported stolen in Alcaladen Ares, which is on the way into Madrid I Madrid That license plate had moved a lot throughout Madrid, particularly this reader got it several times And we said, this is the license plate Police tracked that stolen plate to this toll booth the night Anna went missing They checked the security cameras and there it was The Blue Pugeaot three hundred eight David rented in sererpi its windows were tinted And even though it was past midnight The driver had pulled the sun visor down As it goes through that toll booth Are you able to see him? Look at What we could actually see inside was that there was only one person driving but we couldn't actually see the person. Investigators traced the car to a neighborhood filled with stores selling motorcycle gear We have the route the person traveled from one point to another, it took them longer than usual. somethingomething must have happened there They called every single store and asked if anyone had bought a helmet or a reflective vest around the time Anna disappeared They hit the bullseye right here at a place called Boutique Motor The owner told him that a foreigner paid cash for two items the exact helmet and vest that was seen in the surveillance video. So this is the helmet. that he picked up here This is the exact helmet, White sameame brand L fifty two. The owner tells me that these are pretty common helmets to sell. He sells about one hundred of these helmets here every year. But then there's another even more critical piece. Correct. He also bought this reflective vest which the owner said not sold that often But this was very critical because we were able to track him because of the reflectors. The evidence against David was mounting Investigators also found that wherever his car went We were able to identify a Serbian telephone number in the same vicinity. Huge break in the case. That's amazing Serbian police discovered that David had purchased a burner phone with that number But the clinzer came at this hardware store on the outskirts of Madrid Police found that on the day Anna disappeared customer bought the same exact painink the man in the helmet used to cover the security camer. There's a camera right here as he purchases this. Yes But There was a hitch. acccording to Spanish law, businesses are only required to hang on to security footage for two weeks, and Anna had by then been missing for much longer when The owner of the store says we have a surveillance video. It's like, oh my gosh. I'm just struck by the extraordinary luck. in this investigation. The fact that the suspect, when he spray paints the lens, shows for just a nanowcond, the brand of the paint And then this is way past fourteen days. And he had the video. And he had the video And for the first time, a clear image of the buyer. We didn't have any doubt that it was David and that David was the one who bought the spray paint. just can't imagine What your reaction was when you open up those files and see this. I started screaming in my squad. I went to my supervisor. We have it, we have it. What do you say when you say guy There's no ifs or buts Agent Monilla believes she had enough evidence to arrest David And since Anna was an American citizen David could face charges in the U.S. just one problem. It was back in Serbia We knew that it was going to be very hard for Serbia to approve an extradition of David to the United States a seemingly insurmountable hurdle O was it And so there you are at Miami International Airport And that flight arrives. I'm at the window like this Agent Alex Montilla was frustrated. She believed she found the man who killed Anna and thought she could prove it She just couldn't get her hands on him We knew David was back in Serbia So it's not that we had given up, but we knowew it's going to be a very Stuff rode ahead to get David in our soil So imagine her surprise When out of the blue, a source told her that David was boarding a plane back home to Florida I told all my coworkers, I wasn't gonna believe it until I was in the airport and I would see him walking out of that plane Holding her arrest warrant, Agent Montilla paced anxiously inside Miami International Airport lands and I'm glued to the window, I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it. As soon as they open the gate, there is David with his backpack Walking out of the plane. So then There you are face to face with David. My partner's like so ready to put handcuffs on him. I'm like, do it. And when he puts the handcuffs on him, I go, you're under arrest for the kidnapping of Anna Domingues Agent Monilla deliberately avoided using Anna's married name I didn't give him the pleasure listening to his last name Do you think he had a sense of how much information you had on him I don't think he did but I also think that He thought he could get away with it. Why His personality, I think you know, he was so Sure of himself The evidence against David was staggered And even more so, when the FBI got a phone call from the Colombian woman David had met through Tinder those strange texts Sanna and Eliza received about Anna running off with that man The girlfriend told Agent Montilla David asked her to translate that message from English to Spanish the exact Wording. the exact wording. It was David using Anna's phone And as soon as those text messages were sent He turned off the phone The stakes for David were high Especially after the U. S. district attorney upped his charge from kidnapping to murder. would David's motive murder be. He did not want to give Anna half of the marital assets But I also believe he was used to having total control of Anna Once Anna decided to move to Madrid and break free from him, he was not having it It was either his way or no way It was the most gruesome thing was To me, a worse of a shock almost in first learning that she was missing and that she was gone David's defense attorney, Jane Weintraub argued in pretrial hearings that the state could not prove her client killed his wife There's no evidence then and there' no evidence now that David kidnapped her, murdered her In fact, she said investigators couldn't even prove that Anna was really dead What we do know is that the agent testified there was no struggle, there was no taking, and there's no evidence of any foul play in that apartment She also took issue with that security video of the man in the helmet She said the lens was so covered in paint it was impossible to make out a reflective vest or a suitcase Agent Montilla disagrees I've seen the video a thousand times. It does look like a hard white case suitcase Still, this was a no body case, and the evidence was circumstantial until two months before the trial