Google Street View captures 'the moment a murderer loads a body into a car', leading to the arrest of the culprit
A Google Street View video in Spain showed the suspect in a dismemberment murder case, which turned into a love affair, loading a human-shaped bag into a car, providing the key to solving the case after the victim had been missing for almost a year.
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The moment in question was captured on Google Street View below. The location is Calle del Norte, a village of 56 residents in Tajueco, Soria province, Castilla y Leon, Spain, and the image shows a man stuffing a large white bag into the trunk of a red car.
Although it's a little harder to see, Google Street View cameras also captured what appears to be the same person carrying a white bag in a pushcart.
Below is a photo of the transportation process, taken on a slope a short distance from the site mentioned above.
The relative positions of the locations where the two images were taken are shown in the figure below.
At a press conference on December 18, 2024, the Spanish National Police announced that this Street View image, released by Google in October 2024, provided clues to solving the murder of a man who had been missing since November 2023.
According to the Spanish daily newspaper EL PAÍS, the victim is a 33-year-old Cuban man known only by his initials 'JLPO,' who had come to Tajueco to meet a woman. However, JLPO disappeared after visiting the village.
Spanish police then identified two suspects involved in the confinement and murder of JLPO using evidence such as Google Street View images and the victim's final message to his relatives, and arrested them on November 12, 2024.
Those arrested were Manuel Isla Gallardo, 48, who worked at a bar in Bayubas de Arriba, not far from Tajueco, and his ex-wife.
Gallardo, known by locals as the 'Wolf of Tahueco,' is accused of false imprisonment and murder for conspiring with his ex-wife to kill the victim.
The motive behind Gallardo and his ex-wife's murder and the relationship between them and the victim remain unclear, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to EL PAÍS, the woman and the victim were in a relationship, while another media outlet, Latin Times, said the woman and the victim were married and that the incident began when the victim found out that Gallardo was having an affair with his wife. Either way, it seems that a love triangle is behind the incident.
On December 11, almost a month after the arrest of the perpetrators, police discovered the dismembered torso of a body in a cemetery near Tahueco. The body was badly damaged and in an advanced state of decomposition, making it difficult to identify, but analysis by forensic experts confirmed it was that of JLPO. Authorities say they are still searching for the remains.
The cemetery where the body was found.
When asked by the media about Gallardo, a local resident said, 'He's a lone wolf and I've never heard him talk about his life. He helps out at the bar and seems to have recently started to fit in a bit.'
It has been reported that this was the first time Google had updated Street View in 15 years, since 2009, that the incident was resolved.
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