A Google Street View picture of a person loading a big white plastic bag into the boot of his automobile has helped unravel a homicide case in a northern Spanish city, police say.
The Google app permits customers to see photographs of streets all over the world – filmed by automobiles mounted with cameras.
It captured the precise second the physique of the sufferer was allegedly being eliminated.
Two folks had been arrested final month, accused of being chargeable for the disappearance and homicide of a person in October final yr. His dismembered stays had been present in a cemetery final week.
This was the primary time in 15 years that the Google automobile had been to the city of Tajueco, within the northern province of Soria.
Officials say one other picture sequence reveals the blurred silhouette of somebody transporting a big white bundle in a wheelbarrow.
However, police mentioned the photographs weren’t “decisive” in fixing the case.
The male sufferer, mentioned by El Pais newspaper to be a 33-year-old Cuban nationwide, was reported lacking in October 2023 after a relative obtained textual content messages from the sufferer’s telephone which he discovered suspicious.
The relative advised police they mentioned the sufferer had met a lady, was leaving Spain and could be eliminating his telephone.
On 12 November this yr, police arrested a lady mentioned to be the lacking man’s companion and a person mentioned to be her ex-partner.
Earlier this month, a severely decomposed torso, considered the sufferer’s, was dug up in a close-by cemetery.
The accused have been remanded in custody and the investigation continues.
