Google Maps car snaps vital clue in missing person case

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.

- Ashifa Kassam

A passing Google Maps camera car happened to snap the suspicious moment as it unfolded in the hamlet of Tajueco in October. 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.