A Google Street View image helped solve the investigation of a missing person in Spain. according to BBC reports and The New York Times. The image, which can still be seen on Street View, shows what appears to be a person loading a large object into the trunk of a car, while Gizmodo points out. Another image showed someone “carrying a large white bundle in a wheelbarrow,” the BBC reports.
Part of the human remains of the missing person have been found buried in a cemetery in a town in the province of Soria and it has been necessary to resort to advanced technical means to locate them.
One of the clues that investigators had to solve the crime, although it was not decisive, were some images that they detected during the investigations in a location search application.
Although the press release does not explicitly mention the location application he used, a spokesperson for the Spanish National Police confirmed to The New York Times which was Google Maps and at the same time said: “The image was not the key to solving the case.”
Authorities are investigating the case of a 33-year-old man who disappeared last year while visiting a couple in Tajueco, Soria. according to the Spanish media The Country. Police arrested a woman and her ex-partner in connection with the crime in November.
