The New York National Police announced that they had arrested two people the previous month in connection with the disappearance
A photo inside Google Street View suggesting that a man carrying a body in the trunk of a vehicle allowed Spanish authorities to carry out a year-long search for missing persons, as reported by The New York Times.
The country’s national police announced on Wednesday that they had arrested two people the previous month in connection with the disappearance and death of an unidentified man in Soria province, in the north of the country, more than a year ago. One of the arrested people, a woman, would be the victim’s ex-partner. The other, a man, is her current partner. Both are under investigation for “aggravated illegal detention” and will be responsible for the death of the individual.
After being captured in two different locations in Soria, the authorities managed to discover human remains suspected of belonging to the missing individual. Ultimately, the case appears to have been solved, largely thanks to the astonishing coincidence that the crime was recorded by a Google Street View car full of cameras.
In the statement, translated by the NYT, the police explain that: “Among the clues that investigators had to solve the crime, even if they were not necessarily decisive, there were some images that they detected during the investigation.”
The Street View photograph, taken in October on the nearly deserted streets of Tajueco, shows a man in jeans leaning on the trunk of a red sedan, placing a white package the size of a human inside. Those responsible did not reveal how they located the image. As of Thursday, the image is still available on Google Maps and has not been edited to obscure the alleged macabre act.
El PaĆs, a Spanish newspaper, reports that the missing man, originally from Cuba, was in Spain to visit a partner. According to police, the individual was reported missing in November 2023 by a family member who began receiving suspicious messages from the missing man’s cell phone number, claiming he had run away with a woman he had met.
It is unclear what prompted the authorities to arrest the two individuals, but the image may have played a role, although it was not the “key” to solving the case, a spokesperson for the National Police said on Wednesday, according to the NYT.
After the arrests, police searched the two’s homes and cars. On December 11, human remains in an “advanced state of decomposition” were found buried in a cemetery in Soria. There is speculation that they belong to the missing man, even without definitive identification.
Source: Terra

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