A Google Road View picture performed in position in fixing a lacking particular person investigation in Spain, in line with studies from the BBC and The New York Occasions. The picture, which might 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 studies.

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 resolve the crime, though it was not decisive, was some photos that they detected in the course of the investigations in a location search utility.

Although the press launch doesn’t explicitly title the situation utility 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 line with the Spanish outlet El País. Police arrested a girl and her ex-partner in reference to the crime in November.