The police managed to nail the culprit behind a murder, not with DNA or other such crime-scene clues, but because of Google Street View.

Chance would have it that just as the man was bundling the body of his victim into the boot of his car, the Google camera car went by.

The murder had happened over a year ago and these images coincided with the day that he was shifting the body to dispose of it.

That fateful day, the Google car was trundling through the town of Tajueco in Soria (Castilla y León) and was busily recording its own passage along Calle El Norte… and there for Mr Naughty!

He was bent over the boot trying to fit a large sheet-covered object into his red-coloured Rover and was recorded in the act, which was the lynchpin of the Policía Nacional investigation in November 2023.

From the moment they came across the image, they zoomed in on the car owner, a 40-year-old Cuban man, tapping his mobile phone, which they listened into for three months until they had enough evidence to arrest him and his wife.

Finally, they located the victim’s body, a young Cuban male, completely dismembered, in a nearby cementery.

Editorial comment: if you use Google Maps to locate Tajueco and zoom in with Street View, you won’t find this image as the present imagery is from October 2024 and not November 2023. Darn!

(News: Tajueco, Soria, Castilla y Leon – Photo: Google Street View)

Keywords: Google Street View, Cuban, Rover, Calle el Norte, Body in Boot

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