At the beginning of December, Spanish police discovered the body of a man, dismembered, which could be that of a Cuban missing since 2023. And all thanks to the photo of a man appearing to place a body in a car, captured by Google Maps.
A year later, the affair took a surprising turn. On Tuesday, two people, a woman and a man, were arrested in Tajueco, a small village of 50 people in northern Spain. Both are accused of the murder of a man, a 33-year-old Cuban, who was reported missing in November 2023.
The police, already on the trail of the two suspects, were able to obtain confirmation of their doubts thanks to… Google Street View, reports El Pais.
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Car captures man placing body in trunk
It was the family of the missing person, worried about no longer hearing from him, who filed a complaint with the Spanish police more than a year ago.
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But it was thanks to an event that occurred last October that the trajectory of the investigation changed. The Google Maps car, responsible for capturing images of the village, passes near a street. In one of the photos, posted online, a man is caught red-handed: he is placing a mass, which looks like a body, covered with a white sheet in the trunk of his car. .
At first, the villagers don’t notice anything. “We didn’t know what he was doing in the image,” one of them explained to the Spanish media.
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Finally, a month later, on November 12, two people were arrested. The police’s doubts were initially directed towards them, but the Google photo provided the last “decisive clue”. A few weeks later, the victim’s presumed body was found dismembered in a village cemetery. “A human torso in an advanced state of decomposition, buried in the cemetery of a locality in Soria,” specify the Spanish authorities in a press release.
A nice combination of circumstances in an investigation full of twists and turns, since the Google Maps car had not passed through the village since… 2009.
