Madrid:
\nA must-have download for disoriented travellers, Google Maps has guided Spanish investigators to resolve a year-long murder mystery by capturing the moment a person stowed a suspected corpse into a car.<\/p>\n
Police in the northern region of Castile and Leon began their probe in November 2023 when someone reported the disappearance of a male relative.<\/p>\n
Officers arrested a woman who was the missing male’s partner and another man who was her ex-partner in Soria province on November 12, police said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Investigators then raided the suspects’ homes and inspected their vehicles but also stumbled on an unexpected lead in the search for further clues.<\/p>\n
These were “images in a location application” where they “detected a vehicle that may have been used during the course of the crime”, the statement said.<\/p>\n
Spanish media circulated pictures of a screenshot of Google Maps’ Street View from October 2024 showing a person dumping an object covered in a white shroud into a car boot in the village of Tajueco.<\/p>\n
The images contributed to resolving the case, though they were not “decisive”, police said.<\/p>\n
The central government’s representative in Soria, Miguel Latorre, told public broadcaster RTVE the person “can presumably be” considered the culprit.<\/p>\n
Police said a severely decomposed human torso believed to belong to the victim had been found this month in a cemetery in Soria province. El Pais daily reported that he was a 33-year-old Cuban.<\/p>\n
A judge has ordered the suspects into custody and the investigation remains open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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