A Google Street View image played in role in solving a missing person investigation in Spain, according to reports from the BBC<\/a> and The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. The image, which can still be seen on Street View, shows what appears to be a person loading a large object into the trunk of a car, as Gizmodo<\/em><\/a> points out. Another image showed someone \u201ctransporting a large white bundle in a wheelbarrow,\u201d the BBC reports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Part of the human remains of the missing person have been found buried in a cemetery in a town in the province of Soria and advanced technical means had to be used to locate them.<\/p>\n One of the clues that investigators had to solve the crime, although it was not decisive, was some images that they detected during the investigations in a location search application.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Though the press release doesn\u2019t explicitly name the location application it used, a spokesperson for the Spanish National Police confirmed to The New York Times<\/em> that it was Google Maps while also saying, \u201cThe image was not the key to solving the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Authorities were investigating the case of a 33-year-old man who disappeared last year while visiting a partner in Tajueco, Soria, according to the Spanish outlet El Pa\u00eds<\/em><\/a>. Police arrested a woman and her ex-partner in connection with the crime in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n