The Spanish police announced on Wednesday the arrest of two people for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of a man, after an investigation in which a Google Street View image appeared as evidence where the suspect appears putting a voluminous package in his car.
The events date back to November 2023, when a relative of the victim – who lived in the province of Soria, in the northwest of Spain – filed a disappearance report after a period of time without news of him.
“One of the clues that investigators had to solve the crime were some images that they detected during investigations in a location search application,” the Spanish police said in a statement.
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Although the agents also obtained other key elements during the investigation, the image was incorporated into the evidence, although the agents did not specify how they found it.
Through Google Street View image, investigation advances
In the image taken from the virtual navigation application Google Street View, a person wearing jeans and a blue jacket was seen trying to put a voluminous white package, whose shape could be that of a body, into the trunk of his car.
“The person seen next to the car could presumably be the author of the disappearance (…) It may or may not be, it is a question that is within the framework of the investigation,” indicated on Wednesday the deputy government delegate in Soria, Miguel Latorre. , on public television RTVE, highlighting that the investigation remains “open.”
On November 12 in Soria, the police arrested the missing man’s partner and one of the woman’s former romantic partners, who was the one who appeared in the Google Street View images. The people were sent to provisional prison.
After the arrests, investigators located in early December “a human torso in an advanced state of decomposition, buried under the floor of the cemetery in a town in Soria,” the police said in the statement.
Although the identification process is still ongoing, the agents stated that “it could correspond to the missing person,” who according to the newspaper El País was a 33-year-old man of Cuban nationality.