For the primary time in 15 years, a Google Street View car drove by means of the Spanish village of Tajueco in October 2023, photographing its roadways. The timing could not have been higher. One of the numerous photos it captured—exhibiting a road abandoned aside from a single purple automobile and a person seen leaning into its trunk over a big white bundle—might have now solved a homicide case. National Police say the picture, printed on-line simply two months in the past, reveals a killer shifting the physique of his sufferer, a 33-year-old Cuban man whose decomposed torso was discovered final week in a cemetery six miles from Tajueco, per the Telegraph.
A cousin reported the unnamed man lacking in November 2023 after receiving textual content messages from his telephone, claiming he’d met a lady and deliberate to depart Spain and dump his telephone, per the BBC and Telegraph. The relative was satisfied the texts weren’t despatched by the person himself. This week, police introduced the Nov. 12 arrests of the person’s former romantic accomplice and her personal accomplice on suspicion of kidnapping, failure to report a lacking individual, and homicide, per the Telegraph. According to stories, the sufferer had traveled to Tajueco to go to his accomplice solely to search out the girl in a relationship with one other man.
Police mentioned searches of the suspects’ properties and autos turned up “parts related to the investigation.” But they famous it was by means of Google Street View that investigators “detected a car that would have been used in the middle of the crime.” Another Google Street View picture reportedly reveals the silhouette of an individual shifting a big white bundle in a wheelbarrow. The bundle seems to be “roughly the dimensions of a human physique,” per the New York Times. Police proceed to seek for additional stays of the Cuban nationwide, recognized solely by his initials: JLPO. (More homicide tales.)
