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On its mission to map the world, the Google Street View vehicle has apparently documented the exact moment crime suspects were holding what looks very much like a wrapped corpse in the back of a car.
The alleged body is believed to be a Cuban man whose relative reported him missing last year. The man had traveled to Spain and was living in a remote municipality in Soria at the time of his disappearance, reportedly hoping to find a woman he believed to be his romantic partner something is wrong. This year, part of a man’s dismembered body was found buried in a cemetery in the local village of Tajueco, confirming that he had been murdered.
In the statement now was released by the police (which was translated from Spanish to English, again via Google), investigators said two people have now been arrested in connection with the man’s disappearance. Interestingly, the main piece of evidence that helped police lock in on the suspects was “images in a location app” that apparently “discovered a vehicle that may have been used in the crime,” the statement said Apparently, it was Google Maps.
Indeed, the Google Street View car just happened to be passing by a street in Tajueco when one of the suspects in the case was packing…something…into a red car. The BBC reports that It was the first time in 15 years that Google traveled to the small Spanish town, a community of about 56 people.
Google Street View image helps police solve murder case https://t.co/swr2OSZXfF
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 18, 2024
The identity of the two arrested persons was revealed as “a woman, the partner of the disappeared person and a man who was the partner of the arrested person”. Police described the pair as “allegedly guilty of a serious offense of failing to account for the whereabouts of a missing person, aggravated unlawful detention”.
It should be noted that while the picture is circulating on the Internet sure, it’s like someone putting a dead body in the back of a car, the defendants haven’t been convicted yet, and they’re only alleged to have committed a crime.
This isn’t the first time Google Maps has played a key role in a police investigation. In 2019, a 22-year-old cold case was revealed after Google Earth images revealed the location On a car submerged in a pond in Florida. So I guess the surveillance industrial complex has its upsides.
