Murder Mystery Solved By Google Street View

Spanish police have uncovered a major clue in the year-long investigation of a missing Cuban man, JLPO, after Google Street View images showed a man loading a body-shaped package into a car and pushing a wheelbarrow with a large white package. These images led to the discovery of the victim's dismembered remains in a cemetery and the arrest of two suspects, including the victim's wife and a bar worker. The Independent reports: Spanish police have said the pictures are a "decisive" clue in case, with detectives reportedly launching a murder investigation and arresting two people in connection with the man's death. According to El Pais, police are still investigating the case -- and it appears neither have yet appeared charged before a court.

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Re: The anal violation of a Proud Boy.

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The strange thing

[phantomfive]

It's kind of strange that it was found on Google maps but not on other surveillance cameras.

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[Entrope]

Why? Think of it like "many eyes make all bugs shallow": Any rando would be able to see the Street View images, and if they know about the missing person report -- or are just suspicious -- they could flag the pictures for police to investigate. In contrast, surveillance cameras would need somebody to pull and review the specific video. Those aren't usually available to the general public.

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[belmolis]

Google Maps only takes pictures infrequently, so the probability that a short event will be captured is low, but it take pictures practically everywhere that is along a street. There are still lots places that are not covered by surveillance cameras. In those, the chance of an event being captured is zero. This was probably a place with no surveillance cameras.

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[pjt33]

How many surveillance cameras do you expect there to be in a village with an official population of 100, bearing in mind that privately owned security cameras aren't allowed to film the street in Spain for privacy reasons?

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[marcobat]

Interesting, I knew nothing about regulations in Spain, but a question obviously arise: if you are not allowed to place a private camera facing the street, how is google allowed to face the camera from the street to people's houses?

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[pjt33]

I've only read the regulations on security cameras, so I don't have a definitive answer, but my guess would be that it's allowed because a small number of photos captured at a single time is less invasive than a time sequence taken over months.

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[Carewolf]

Easy, Google didnt ask for permission.

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[Pf0tzenpfritz]

Google shot still images on public ground. That's legal. Permanent video surveillance is a different thing.

Re: The strange thing

[linear a]

Even stranger if murderers picked a place without cameras to drag a corpse around. Probably a big "oh sh*t" moment when you see the Google camera bot drive by.

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[mjwx]

It's kind of strange that it was found on Google maps but not on other surveillance cameras.

Probably because it looks like a residential neighbourhood and not a commercial district, meaning there'd be few security cameras (most of which would be privately owned). The idea that you can be tracked automagically by cameras from your doorstep to hell and back is a fantasy developed by bad American cop show... Zoom and enhance that.

And I would've gotten away with it too

[93 Escort Wagon]

If it weren't for those meddling Googlers!

probability

[groobly]

If Google Street View randomly found a murderer, there must be a huge number of murders going on in Spain.