Images captured on Google Maps give police important clue in Spanish murder case – National
Google Maps Cameras have captured some pretty interesting photos in the past, which have been stored in mapping software for the world to find, but this time the images have given police an additional lead in the arrest of two people in connection with a murder investigation.
The images in question were captured by a Google Maps car camera in October. It shows a man leaning over the trunk of a car on a nearly deserted street in Spain, loading a large, bulky object that appears to be wrapped in white sheets or bags.
Police believe the object is related to the death of a Cuban citizen living in Spain who was reported missing by a relative in late 2023.
According to the newspaper El País, the man lived in the northern Spanish municipality of Soria, where he had turned up in the hope of getting there Track down a woman you believe is his partner.
The missing man’s relative contacted police and said he received some suspicious text messages on the man’s phone saying he had met another woman and was leaving Spain and giving up his phone.
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“This led the complainant to suspect that the messages had not been sent by the missing person and led him to do so Report it to the police,“Police said in a statement.
Last month it was a man and a woman, according to Reuters initially arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. On December 11, part of the man’s dismembered body was found buried in a cemetery in the local hamlet of Tajueco, confirming that he had been murdered.
Now police say they are continuing to investigate possible role The arrested man played a role in the man’s death. Their statement, translated from Spanish into English, said they became aware of “images in a location application” that appear to be “a vehicle detected which may have been used in the course of the crime.”
BBC reports that this was the case For the first time in 15 years that a Google Maps car had been driving through the streets of the small Spanish town, which is home to fewer than 60 people.
Police described the pair as “suspected perpetrators of a serious unlawful detention without providing a reason for the whereabouts of the disappeared person,” and said a woman arrested appeared to be a partner of the missing Cuban man and a man arrested “was a “Been the prisoner’s partner.”
El País spoke with several residents in Tajueco who told the outlet they saw the images on Google Maps, however didn’t pay much attention to them before this week.
“We never thought he would do anything and we thought nothing of it,” one resident said, while another noted: “We didn’t think there would be a body in the photo of the trunk.”
The investigation is still ongoing, police said, noting that the Google Maps image is just one of several clues in the case.
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