Spanish Criminal, 'The Wolf of Tajueco' Was Caught By Google Maps Car Wheelbarrowing a Dead Body Down The Street and Stuffing it Into His Trunk
Unilad - A suspected murderer has been caught by police after a Google Maps image appeared to show him stuffing a body in the trunk of a car.
The dismembered remains of a man's body were found last week in a Romanesque cemetery of the Soria municipality of Andaluz, Spain, a small rural town with few inhabitants.
CiberCuba also reported the alleged killer, a man in his 40s, was known locally as 'El Lobo de Tajueco', which translates to 'the wolf of Tajueco', and ran a bar while engaging in a romantic relationship with the victim's wife.
The National Police opened the case in November 2023 after the victim's family reported him as missing.
The breakthrough in the case came after police investigated the couple and intercepted their calls.
However, it was a harrowing Google street view image published on Calle Norte in the town of Tajueco that proved to be the turning point.
The Google Maps image, published in October this year, appears to show a man dealing with a body-sized plastic bag in the boot of a car.
The image is still on Google Maps. If anybody recently had to attend funeral in Tajueco, Spain and needed directions from the cemetery to Casa Rural El Alfar. If you used Google Maps, and for some weird reason needed to pull up the street view at a random corner halfway through your drive. Then you very possibly stumbled upon this not-blurred out image of The Wolf of Tajueco stuffing a sack full of dead person into the back of his vehicle.
I can't believe it was Google Maps who finally brought The Wolf of Tajueco to justice. With a name like The Wolf of Tajueco, I'm sure it was long time coming. I'm sure he had a hell of a run terrorizing the city of Tajueco. But in the end he got sloppy. He could have waited until night time. But he probably thought that nobody would dare question what The Wolf of Tajueco had in the white sack he was cramming into the back of his car in broad daylight.
To be fair to Wolf, based on the Google Maps images, there wasn't another soul in the entire city. Tajueco almost looks abandoned. But had never considered that the Google Maps car might be mapping out his neighborhood for the first time in 15 years as he wheelbarrowed the remains of the husband of the wife he was having sex with down C. los Campos Boulevard.
You have to think he saw the Google Maps car, right? The Google Maps car is the least conspicuous vehicle in the history of vehicles. As Wolf was wheelbarrowing a dead body down the road at high noon, and stuffing his kill into his trunk, at some point he must have noticed this monstrosity of a camera car leisurely rolling around his community.
Google tells me Tajueco has a population of 56. The Google Maps car paying them a visit was probably headline news. He must have known he was fucked. The most surprising thing about this story is that the driver of the Google Maps car made it out of Tajueco alive. I can't believe The Wolf of Tajueco didn't notice a car with the world's most obnoxious camera attached to the roof circling his neighborhood and immediately think to chase it down, rip out the drivers throat, and dump both him and his snitch-ass car in the Arroyo Grande.
In general, the idea of sending a Google Maps Street View car to a bad neighborhood is very funny. "Ok Timothy, today you're covering the South Side of Chicago. The area from 59th-71st underneath the expressway. Make sure you drive nice and slow so we get good high definition shots of each and every doorstep. Don't forget to smile."
But we gotta have those street views. It's of the utmost importance that I can click on any location in the world and know exactly what it would look like if I were standing there in real life. And if every once in a while the Google Maps car helps bring down a criminal with a cool nickname, then even better. Great work, Google. The remaining 53 people who live in Tajueco can finally rest easy knowing that their city's wolf is locked up for good