Google Maps Street View data provides key information to solve a murder case

Google Maps Street View data provides key information to solve a murder case

I use Street View features in Google Maps all the time to navigate new locations. It’s an easy way to see your destination before you get there and helps you familiarize yourself with the neighborhood you’re about to visit. It’s an incredible tool to have, especially considering that Google’s cars keep roaming the streets of the world to update the Street View data with new information.

Maybe the streets have changed, or new buildings have gone up in a region since the last time Google’s cars were photographing it for navigation purposes. Or perhaps an alleged murderer was finishing up loading up the body of a person in the trunk of a car just as a Google Maps Street View car drove by.

Ok, the last one is a rather wild claim and something you don’t see too often. But police in Spain think the scene caught by the Google car cameras above shows one of the persons involved in a conspiracy to murder someone. The suspect is arranging what appears to be a rather large package in the trunk of their car.

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