Madrid: A Spanish couple has been arrested on suspicion of murder after Google Street View cameras appear to have caught the man loading a body into the boot of his car.
Police renewed their investigation into the disappearance of a Cuban man in the tiny hamlet of Tajueco after Google published the image two months ago.
Last week, they found a male torso in a nearby cemetery and confirmed it belonged to the missing man, named only by his initials, JPLO.
In what was described as a love triangle in local media, it appears that the victim, 33, visited the area to find his former partner and discovered that she was in a relationship with another man.
The suspect, Manuel Isla Gallardo, a 48-year-old known by the 56 residents of Tajueco as “The Wolf”, has been arrested alongside his former partner.
In one of the images released by Google, a man is seen loading a large bundle wrapped in a white sheet into the back of his maroon Rover car.
In an earlier image captured by the camera on the Google Street View car, the same man can be seen pushing a white bundle towards his vehicle in a wheelbarrow.
The Street View images were published almost one year after the Cuban was reported missing from his home in the Spanish city of Soria.
A cousin of the victim reported him missing in November 2023 after he received strange text messages in which the victim said he had met a woman and would not be using the same mobile number anymore as he was leaving the country.
