José Díaz-Balart

He looks up at the camera before heading upstairs.

And then... After three or four minutes, that same person comes down, looks 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 Montilla.

What did that lead tell you?

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?

The person was just a blur, barely visible through the painted lens.

But as Agent Montilla studied the images, she spotted something flashing.

It looked like the reflective vest the man in the helmet was wearing.

What do you believe was in that suitcase?

Inside that suitcase, but was she dead or alive?

Agent Montilla didn't know.

The question was, who took her?

Ana was active on dating apps, including Bumble.

That gave investigators a series of new leads.

Lieutenant Emilio Tremino Leva, an investigator in the Missing Persons Unit, helped identify and interview everyone Ana contacted through the site.

There was an Italian man.