Google Road View helped police clear up a lacking individuals case

A Google Road View picture performed in position in fixing a lacking particular person investigation in Spain, in accordance with experiences from the BBC and The New York Occasions. The picture, which may nonetheless be seen on Road View, exhibits what seems to be an individual loading a big object into the trunk of a automobile, as Gizmodo factors out. One other picture confirmed somebody “transporting a big white bundle in a wheelbarrow,” the BBC experiences.

A part of the human stays of the lacking particular person have been discovered buried in a cemetery in a city within the province of Soria and superior technical means had for use to find them.

One of many clues that investigators needed to clear up the crime, though it was not decisive, was some photos that they detected through the investigations in a location search software.

Although the press launch doesn’t explicitly title the placement software it used, a spokesperson for the Spanish Nationwide Police confirmed to The New York Occasions that it was Google Maps whereas additionally saying, “The picture was not the important thing to fixing the case.”

Authorities have been investigating the case of a 33-year-old man who disappeared final yr whereas visiting a companion in Tajueco, Soria, in accordance with the Spanish outlet El País. Police arrested a girl and her ex-partner in reference to the crime in November.