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Date Published: 20/02/2024

US citizen missing in Spain

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The woman has not been heard from since the beginning of this month, when family and friends received a text message claiming to be from her

The family and friends of a Colombian-American woman who has been missing in Madrid since the beginning of February have launched crowdfunding to help in the search for her.

Ana Maria Henao, a 40-year-old and resident of Florida, disappeared in the capital of Spain on the night of Friday February 2, when her loved ones lost track of her.

The crowdfunding, which has been launched through a GoFundMe campaign, is trying to get enough money to hire a private investigator to find her.

According to what her friend Sanna Rameau told Channel 6 South Florida, the same night she went missing “a man with a helmet forced the security cameras and the door of the building where she was staying,” before all contact was lost.

The missing woman’s brother, Felipe Henao, said in an interview with W Radio that the family became concerned after receiving “a series of messages” from Ana Maria’s mobile phone that “did not seem to be written by her”.

“We believe they were translated from Google into Spanish,” he said. “We are concerned that it was planned, so time is of the essence.”

The SOS Desaparecidos association for missing people in Spain explained that Ana Maria had moved to Madrid from Florida a few months ago due to her divorce from a Serbian man.

Apparently, this process began in January and became “very hard and complicated”, to the point of “asking for medical help for depression,” said the president of SOS Desaparecidos and spokesperson for the family, Joaquín Amills.

The last reliable communication anyone had with her from the missing woman was on February 2, even though she was supposed to be meeting her friend to travel to Barcelona together.

What two of Ana Maria’s friends did receive were identical WhatsApp messages, one in Spanish and the other in English, apparently coming of Ana Maria’s phone, telling them that she “had met a wonderful person and that she had gone with them to a country house located two hours from Madrid”, but that there was a bad signal there so she would contact them when she got back.

They never received any more messages from her again. None of Ana Maria’s friends or family believe she actually wrote that last message as it just isn’t her way of talking or writing.

The police have been notified and have come to look through a window of Ana Maria’s home in Madrid, but they saw no signs of violence or disorder.

However, one of the neighbours who lived in the same building said that someone had tried to rob the place on the weekend in questions, and that they had used black spray paint to cover up the security cameras.

Police are now investigating to find the last place where Ana Maria’s phone had signal and to check the security cameras in the building where she lived, but the family and friends are still trying to hire a private investigator to try and find Ana Maria as soon as possible, in these crucial first days after her disappearance.

Image: SOS Desaparecidos

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