Spanish police announced Wednesday the arrest of a man and a woman for the disappearance of a thirty-year-old, in an investigation which notably used an image from Google Street View showing the suspect loading a large white bag into the trunk of his car.
The facts date back to November 2023. A disappearance complaint was then filed by a member of the victim’s family, a resident of the province of Soria, in Castile and León, in the northwest of Spain.
“Among the clues that investigators had to solve the crime, certain images that they spotted during their searches on a location application”, in particular the photo of “a vehicle which could have been used during the crime”, a the police said in a press release.
In these virtual navigation images from Google Street View, still visible and dating from two months ago, we see a person bending over placing a large white plastic bag in a car trunk, the shape of which can leave think that it contains a body.
“The person seen next to the car can probably be the author of the disappearance (…) This is a question which falls within the framework of the investigation which is still open,” declared Wednesday the subdelegate of the Soria government, Miguel Latorre, on public television RTVE.
The investigations then allowed investigators to find, at the beginning of December, “a human torso in a state of advanced decomposition, buried in the cemetery of a locality in Soria,” details the police in a press release.
His identification is in progress and “he could correspond to the missing person”, according to the same source.
To find the missing man, a 33-year-old Cuban, according to the daily El País, investigations focused on his “closest environment”.
On November 12, agents arrested his partner and one of his ex-companions in Soria. They were placed in pre-trial detention.
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