23 months old Danka Ilić vanished in Banjsko Polje on March 26, 2024 — the first-ever Amber Alert in Serbia.
She was with her mother and older brother playing in front of the old house they wanted to renovate. 2 minute later and she was gore.
Mother went looking for her and called her husband who came by shortly. They assumed she was around because a 2 year old can not walk long.
The father saw a communul service car and workers and asked if they saw a 2 year old girl, not knowing she was at the time in the trunk of their car.
They searched the area for days but after 10 days came the shocking reveal.
Allegedly, communal‑service workers struck her with a utility truck while she was walking on a road near the house and dumped her into the trunk. They thought she was dead but she woke up and they strangled her, then disposed of her body in a landfill.
They confessed—but later retracted their statements weeks later, citing torture and coercion.
No body has ever been found, they searched everywhere for months. It seems the body was moved more than once.
One suspect’s brother died in police custody shortly after the arrest—officials claimed natural causes, but an autopsy revealed severe injuries. He was in custody because allegedly he and their father moved the body to another location.
Nobody knows what happend.
Some people think she was sold by her mother who was at the time pregnant.