Google Street View Image Aids Spanish Police in Solving Murder Case
- A Google Street View image helped Spanish police solve a murder case in Tajueco, showing a man loading a large white plastic bag into his car's boot.
- The case began when a relative reported a man's disappearance after receiving messages about leaving the area.
- Police stated that Google Maps was 'one of the clues that investigators had to use to solve the crime.'
- A police search in Andaluz found the buried torso of the missing man, with ongoing efforts to locate other body parts.
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Photo on Google Street View convicts suspected murderer in Spanish village of Tajueco
For the first time in 15 years, a Google camera car wanders into the isolated village of Tajueco. It records a man who clearly thinks he is not being watched. One of the greatest coincidences in Spanish criminal history.
Two arrested in Spain after Google Maps gives clue in missing persons case
Police in the Spanish municipality of Tajueco have arrested two people in connection with a missing persons case, but how they were found has gripped headlines. A report by CNN late Thursday (Dec 19) said a man and a woman were arrested after Google Maps took a photograph of one of them loading a large object in the trunk of a car.
Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car
Red Handed An image on Google Street View that appears to show a man stuffing a body into the trunk of a car provided Spanish authorities with a breakthrough in a year-long missing person investigation, The New York Times reports. On Wednesday, the country's National Police announced that it had arrested two people last month in connection with the disappearance and death of an unnamed man who went missing in the country's northern province of S…
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