In Spain, the Street View function of Google Maps was able to provide a crucial element to the authorities to identify the murderer of a man who had been missing for several months.
Thanks to its Street View function, which immortalizes the streets of the whole world through photos, Google Maps allows you to travel the world from your computer or smartphone. Including the small town of Tajueco (Castile and León), Spain, 56 inhabitants.
As reported by the Spanish daily El Pais this Wednesday, December 18, it was thanks to a photo taken by chance by Google’s car in one of its alleys that a murder case could be solved.
No Google car for 15 years
After an investigation lasting several months, local authorities found the body of a man of Cuban origin in his forties, dismembered, in a nearby cemetery, before announcing the arrest of two suspects. December 17: his wife, and a man, probably her lover, residing in the town of Tajueco. The victim’s disappearance was declared in November 2023.
If, as the Spanish edition of the site 20 Minutes recalls, other clues already made it possible to suspect the two individuals, in particular telephone tapping, the photo of the suspect placing a large bag in the trunk of a red car constituted a important piece.
It is above all the result of an incredible combination of circumstances: according to Google Maps data, the last photo of this street in Tajueco dates back to… November 2009.
If the details surrounding the case still remain limited, the photo has already gone viral on social networks. On Twitter, it has been viewed several million times. “You kill a man in a lost city and you get caught because of Google Maps, I can’t believe it!”, comments one Internet user.
