Google Street View helped police solve a missing persons case

A Google Street View image has played a role in solving the investigation of a missing person in Spain, according to BBC reports The New York Times. The image, still visible on Street View, shows what appears to be a person loading a large object onto a bus, as Gizmodo he points. Another image showed someone “moving a white pile with a wheelbarrow,” the BBC reported.

Half of the bodies of the missing person were found buried in a cemetery in the city of Soria province and advanced technical methods had to be used to find them.

Another clue that investigators had to solve the crime, although not conclusive, were some of the images they found during the investigation on the location search app.

Although the press release did not specifically mention the location request it used, a spokesperson for the Spanish national police confirmed that The New York Times that it was Google Maps while also saying, “The photo was not the key to solving the case.”

Authorities were investigating the case of a 33-year-old man who disappeared last year while visiting a colleague in Tajueco, Soria, according to a Spanish newspaper. El País. Police arrested the woman and her ex-boyfriend in connection with the case in November.