A federal grand jury has indicted a Florida man, already in jail on kidnapping charges, on charges of killing his wife in Spain.
The indictment charges David Nezevich with kidnapping resulting in death, foreign domestic violence resulting in death, and foreign murder of a US national, WTVJ reported.
Knezevich, 36, was arrested in May and charged with kidnapping Ana Maria Henao Knezevich in Madrid, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Henao, a naturalized American citizens originally from Colombia, was last seen in Madrid on February 2. She and her husband had been going through a nasty divorce.
Kenezevich’s attorneys claim he was in his native Serbia at the time Henao disappeared, but prosecutors say he had actually rented a car and driven to Spain, where he stole a license plate and put it on the rental, and was seen on surveillance video at a Madrid hardware store buying duct tape and spray paint on the same day Henao disappeared.
On that day, a man in a motorcycle helmet used the same brand of spray paint on Henao’s security camera in Madrid. Prosecutors also said that Knezevich’s cell phone connected to Facebook from the Spanish capital and that the stolen license plates were spotted in several locations in Madrid, including near a motorcycle shop where someone bought a helmet similar to the spray painter was wearing and at a toll booth near Madrid. The car at the toll booth was identical to the car Knezevich rented in Serbia, but the windows had been tinted too dark to see the driver. The car did not have tinted windows when Knezevich rented it, although it did when the vehicle was returned to Serbia weeks later with 4,800 miles on it.
Rental officials said the car again had its original license plates when it was returned, with evidence that they had been removed and put back on, and two identifying stickers were missing.
Jayne Weintraub, Knezevich’s attorney, said in September the prosecution’s case was “built on assumptions.”
The new indictment accuses Knezevich of traveling to Madrid “with the intent to kill injure, harass, and intimidate his spouse and intimate partner, WTVJ reported. Knezevich “did willfully and unlawfully seize, confine, kidnap, abduct, and carry away” Henao and then did “willfully, deliberatively, maliciously, and with premeditation and malice aforethought, unlawfully kill” her.
The indictment includes images of the man buying spray paint and duct tape at the hardware store and the helmeted man in the hallway Henao’s apartment as he spray paints the security camera.
On Thursday, Weintraub said there’s “no evidence of any of this and we’re just dumbfounded.”
Knezevich remains jailed without bond.
