True Crime Cases Solved Thanks to Google Maps

With Google Maps’ Street View You can travel around the world with the devices in your hand. The 360-degree photos that make up the Google Street View service are taken by Street View Trekkers as well as cars equipped with cameras.

People wander around the streets for 8 hours a day with a bag weighing 18 kg containing 15 cameras. All these images are not just for finding the way, not for seeing. in clarifying criminal files It even plays a big role. We included 5 of them in our content.

He had lived undetected for 20 years until he was captured on Google Maps.

Considered one of Italy’s most wanted criminals Convicted murderer Gioacchio Gammino was working as a chef under a different name in the town of Galapagar, near Madrid, Spain.

In images on Google Maps chatting in front of a greengrocer He was spotted and captured by the police, who confirmed that he was a criminal wanted for years.

The body of a missing man was found 22 years later with Google Maps.

The man named William Moldt suddenly disappeared on November 7, 1997, when he was 40 years old. He was last seen in Florida. It wasn’t found for 20 years. Until 2019, that is.

The man’s body and his car had been on satellite images on Google Maps since 2007, but no one had noticed. Theories, Moldt’s flew into the lake with his car However, we will never know the exact truth.

A giant bicycle theft was uncovered.

When satellite images of a man in Oxford were examined, they came across a huge pile of bicycles. Man, He stole at least 500 bicycles and was captured thanks to Google Maps images.

Marijuana farm was found.

In 2009, they discovered a huge area in Switzerland using Google Earth satellite images. This is in the middle of a corn field, It was a 7500 square meter marijuana field…

The thieves were caught from Street View on Google Maps.

In 2008, a year-old boy was riding his bike in Groningen, the Netherlands, when two men ambushed him. your bike, phone and money had stolen. The police couldn’t find any trace at first, but after 6 months, something happened.

The boy, who looked at the place where he was robbed on Street View, saw that a few seconds before the incident was reflected on the cameras. He immediately contacted Google and they revealed the blurred faces. Those who committed the robbery They were two 24-year-old brothers.

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