When Google Maps solves a murder: the image of the killer with the corpse appears on Street View

Google Maps

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• Downloads:
  679
• Release date:
  13/12/2024
• Author :
  Google LLC
• License:
  Free license
• Categories:
  

  Leisure – Travel

• Operating system:
  

  Android, Online Service, iOS iPhone / iPad / Apple Watch
  

Street View allows you to view streets and move around on the map via photos taken by Google vehicles. One of them captured a photo that was strange to say the least in the small town of Tajueco in Spain, a town of 56 inhabitants. This image helped solve a murder.

Street View helps solve murder case

According to El Paísa man of Cuban origin was found dismembered in a nearby cemetery, after a reported disappearance in November 2023. On December 17, 2024, two suspects were arrested: the victim's wife and a man believed to be her lover, both residents in Tajueco.

Investigations already had strong clues against the suspects via wiretapping but this image from Google Maps was decisive. The photo, which has since gone viral on social networks with several million views, shows one of them placing a large bag in the trunk of a red car. Or the possible corpse of the murdered man.

Faced with the virality of this photo, Google Maps blurred it in the afternoon of December 18. Obviously, this extraordinary affair aroused the amazement of Internet users. One of them is surprised that an image made it possible to arrest a murderer. The proof was there, on the servers of the Mountain View firm.

All the details of the affair have not been communicated but the story is obviously amusing. Google Maps was designed to allow users to virtually navigate the streets of the world. But during the course of an investigation, Street View transformed into a criminal investigation tool.