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that appears to show a man stuffing a body into the trunk of a car provided Spanish authorities with a breakthrough in a year-long missing person investigation,that it had arrested two people last month in connection with the disappearance and death of an unnamed man who went missing in the country's northern province of Soria over a year ago.
One of the detained individuals, a woman, is said to be the former partner of the victim. The other, a man, is her current partner. Both are being held on suspicion of an "aggravated illegal detention," and will be charged for the victim's demise. After authorities picked them up in two different locations in Soria, they were able to locate human remains believed to belong to the missing individual. It now appears that the case has been cracked — and in no small part thanks to the astonishing coincidence of the crime seemingly having been caught by a camera-laden Google Street View car.
"Among the clues that the investigators had to solve the crime, though they were not necessarily the decisive ones, were some images that they detected during the investigations" on Google Maps, the police said in the statement, as translated by theThe Street View image, captured this October in the mostly empty streets of Tajueco, shows a man in jeans hunched over the open trunk of a red sedan, stuffing a white bundle that's roughly the size of a human body inside it.
It's not clear yet what led authorities to arrest the two individuals, but the image is said to have played a part — though it wasn't the "key" to solving the case, a National Police spokesperson said Wednesday, per theFollowing the arrests, the police searched the pair's homes and vehicles, and on December 11, human remains in an "advanced state of decomposition" were discovered buried in a Soria cemetery.
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