Google Maps car snaps vital clue in Spanish missing person case Image of man leaning into boot of a car on a street in northern Spain helps lead police to make two arrests.
A relative of the Cuban man told police he became suspicious after receiving a series of texts from the man’s phone, telling the relative he had met another woman, was leaving Spain and would be getting rid of the phone, police said in a statement.
Two months later, police have cited the image – which continues to appear on Google Maps – and others snapped by the camera car as clues that helped lead to the arrests of two people after the disappearance of a man last year.
On a nearly deserted street in northern Spain, the images appeared to show a man hunched over the back of a red Rover car, gingerly loading a bulky white sack into the boot.
The investigation soon homed in on the Cuban man’s former partner and another man to whom she was believed to be romantically linked.
