I take advantage of Road View options in Google Maps on a regular basis to navigate new areas. It’s a simple strategy to see your vacation spot earlier than you get there and helps you become familiar with the neighborhood you’re about to go to. It’s an unbelievable instrument to have, particularly contemplating that Google’s vehicles maintain roaming the streets of the world to replace the Road View knowledge with new info.
Perhaps the streets have modified, or new buildings have gone up in a area because the final time Google’s vehicles have been photographing it for navigation functions. Or maybe an alleged assassin was ending up loading up the physique of an individual within the trunk of a automobile simply as a Google Maps Road View automobile drove by.
Okay, the final one is a relatively wild declare and one thing you don’t see too typically. However police in Spain assume the scene caught by the Google automobile cameras above exhibits one of many individuals concerned in a conspiracy to homicide somebody. The suspect is arranging what seems to be a relatively giant bundle within the trunk of their automobile.
In accordance with El Pais, the scene above occurred in Tajueco, a village of solely 56 folks within the Soria province of Spain.
Google Maps vehicles didn’t go to the area for 15 years till at some point final October. That’s when the cameras caught what seems to be a person arranging what appears to be “an extended white bundle with a suspiciously human form.”
As soon as I loaded the village of Tajueco in Google Maps, the scene wasn’t tough to search out. Wanting on the pictures, evidently the Google Maps automobile turned left on the road the place the purple automobile was parked, handed the person hunched over the trunk, and went on its approach.
One has to wonder if the alleged killer realized what was taking place. The Google Maps vehicles are something however inconspicuous.
When you’re conscious of how Google Maps and Road View work, you’d know you’ve been caught on digital camera. That’s assuming you may take note of anything round you whereas coping with an alleged physique that may be decomposing in these baggage. Yeah, the story will get approach creepier.
Police have used different info to determine and arrest the 2 suspects. Along with the picture above, additionally they had cellphone messages and different proof. Additionally, there’s a special Road View picture of an individual carrying “a big white bundle in a wheelbarrow.” I couldn’t discover that picture whereas just about visiting the city of Tajueco.
The 2 suspects have been previously married. They’re believed to have killed a Cuban nationwide in some unspecified time in the future in November 2023, a few 12 months earlier than their arrest. The police charged them after the Google Maps pictures went up.
The investigation began when a relative of the sufferer reported him lacking. Police advised them that the person had despatched the relative a WhatsApp message claiming they’d met a lady and would depart Soria. The person additionally mentioned he would depart his telephone behind.
The person is believed to have had a relationship with the now-arrested girl earlier than he was murdered. It’s unclear why the previous couple may need killed the Cuban.
The police are additionally investigating what occurred between November 2023, when the sufferer disappeared, and October 2024, when Google vehicles visited the village.
Earlier this month, the police discovered a dismembered “torso in a sophisticated state of decay” in a cemetery in a special a part of Soria. The placement of different physique components has not been discovered. Apparently, the Cuban was very corpulent, prompting folks to surprise what the alleged killers did together with his physique.
As I mentioned, this homicide case is terrifying. The one motive we’re listening to it proper now’s the involvement of Google Maps imagery, which stays on-line on the time of this writing. Try the total El Pais report at this hyperlink.
