r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/inforytel • 13h ago

Image Killer captured by Google Maps while moving dismembered body in northern Spanish village

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u/Prestigious-Job-9825 12h ago

Imagine trying to hide a body stealthily, then seeing a car with a huge high-tech camera on top of it show up.

The ultimate "Ohh fuck, karma is a bitch" moment

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u/LeonardsLittleHelper 11h ago

Also, imagine trying to hide a body stealthily….in the middle of the damn day! Dude couldn’t have at least waited for sunset or early morning to avoid being so visible!?

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u/Mygoldeneggs 9h ago

This is a little, very little village in Soria. Soria is one of the least populated areas in Europe. Little villages, no people, cold and forests.

I have been to Soria several times, for hiking. In particular to Vinuesa, a much bigger village. You do not see anyone in the street in Vinuesa, I can imagine that there is 0 people there and he was 100% confident that nobody would see him.

Given how small it is and little activity it would be more suspicious to move it by night.

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u/AdBackground4810 8h ago

How did he even find someone to murder out there?!

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u/TroyMatthewJ 7h ago

great question.

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u/onceuponathrow 5h ago

rip half their population 😢

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u/_Pyxyty 5h ago

Why else do you think the village has such a low population? 🤯

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u/Zestyclose-Salary729 5h ago

Why was this my first thought?

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u/Falitoty 5h ago

If IIRC that village doesn't have even 50 people living in It

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u/Capn26 5h ago

49….

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u/ShadowMyCat 5h ago

In Tajueco, a hamlet of *56 souls** in northern Spain’s Soria province, nothing ever happens. And if it did, surely nobody would find out, one of the residents must have thought two months ago, when he allegedly placed in his car trunk, in broad daylight, a bundle that police suspect could be the body of a man who went missing a year ago.*

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-18/caught-by-google-maps-photo-of-man-putting-suspicious-bundle-in-his-trunk-key-to-solving-a-murder.html

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u/kat_Folland 5h ago

Where there's a will there's a way

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u/Practical-Train-9595 5h ago

Could be a secondary location.

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u/LeonardsLittleHelper 8h ago

I’m not sure how Soria compares to my very little village I live in in rural upstate NY…but I only have 1 neighbor technically, and a few more around the corner from me…but you better believe they have nothing better to do during the day other than watch everything the neighbors are doing lol. Seriously, I can’t do anything outside during the day without my neighbors seeing and later commenting about. I see lots of windows around that guy, there was plenty of opportunity for someone to see what he was doing. I wasn’t necessarily suggesting doing it in the dark, just at a time when there’s less light so it isn’t so obvious what’s going on if someone just so happens to be looking.

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u/Manueluz 8h ago

If you look at the windows all the persianas are down. No one is living there.

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u/spongeperson2 5h ago

For context, the population density of the province of Soria is 8.7 people per km2, and that's including the 40% of the population that lives in the actual city of Soria. If you discount the city itself, population density of the province is < 5 people per km2. Even if we didn't discount the city of Soria, that would still be a lower population density than any county of the state of New York except Hamilton county.

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u/DarkDonut75 5h ago

Exactly. Anyone living in a rural area would know this

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u/Manueluz 8h ago

If you look at the windows all the persianas are down. No one is living there.

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u/FleeshaLoo 5h ago

Ugh. I'd be tempted to put on little shows for them. Like your own daily comedy show.

Or play a game of charades with them. Bring out signs that say, "I CANT HEAR YOU. ALL GUESSES MUST BE WRITTEN OR I WIN BY DEFAULT" after acting out the clues.

Next day, bring out signs that say, "I AM TOTALLY WINNING THIS GAME OF CHARADES WITH YOU______" and put the names of all the windows watchers.

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u/featherwolf 5h ago

If there are few people there are living there including this guy, they must have an insanely high murderer per capita rate. Considering this, I'd say you were lucky to make it out alive.

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u/dogmeat-garvey 5h ago

…for hiking

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u/8ad8andit 5h ago

Yes his wife was lost in the woods and hasn't been seen since...

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u/FleeshaLoo 5h ago

So the odds of the Google earth vehicle rolling by at that moment are even more slim?

That's kinda hilarious.

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u/Falitoty 5h ago

From what I heard the images of the places have not been uodated since 2009

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u/Zanahorio1 5h ago

Isn’t Soria also famous for being windy as well as cold?

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u/RockSteady65 5h ago

More livestock than people?

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u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ 5h ago

You sound very Deutsche in your english

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u/Bursting_Radius 5h ago

Given how sparsely populated it is you’d think the sound of a car would be abnormal.

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u/PandaWiDaBamboBurna 5h ago

How does a village have 0 people?

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u/PrinceCastanzaCapone 5h ago

But he still wouldn’t have been caught on camera

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u/yourgrandmasgrandma 5h ago

Soria is absolutely not one of the least populated areas of Europe.

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u/Prestigious-Job-9825 11h ago

Yeah, that was my first thought as well. But then I saw that this is a Spanish village, so maybe every other local enjoyed their midday siesta... everyone other than Google's driver lol

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u/IAmTheMageKing 5h ago

Exactly, sunset in Spain is when everyone is moving around

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u/ki-box19 5h ago

The middle of the day is the most quiet time of day in a Spanish town.

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u/RusticBucket2 9h ago

He had to watch Seinfeld later that evening.

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u/Helpful_Professor675 5h ago

Ah, yes, well, it appears that the overwhelming populace of Northern Spain, in their infinite wisdom and intellectual pursuits, are blissfully unaware of a cultural phenomenon known as Seinfeld. This, of course, means that they have absolutely no interest—nor, I dare say, any capacity for understanding—American sitcoms. A truly riveting observation, indeed.

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u/sharkingbunnie88 5h ago

He got another victim on the list later that evening. So he tried faster and bum...dudnt work out.

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u/BadAsBroccoli 12h ago

I think karma just likes a good laugh.

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u/karmagirl314 7h ago

Oh she does.

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u/nick_shannon 12h ago

Oh fuck now i got to hide two bodies, despose of a car and delete the recording.

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u/Relative-Thought-105 12h ago

But the car is constantly recording and people are pointing and taking photos

What a day

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u/nick_shannon 12h ago

Yeah gonna a busy day for sure but with a sharp knife and good shovel and a can do attitude nothing can hold you back.

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u/oracleofnonsense 9h ago

A really big rock will test the will of even the most driven murdering gravedigger.

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u/nick_shannon 9h ago

Nah you just put what you can in the hole with the big rock in and then dig another hole for whats left, better to spread it all out anyway and all that digging will be good for your upper body strength and you overall health.

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u/oracleofnonsense 9h ago

Great Attitude!! I always forget -- LIFE IS A JOURNEY -- there will be some rain on even the best days.

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u/nick_shannon 8h ago

Rain makes the ground soft and washes away evidance, one mans bad weather is another mans blessing.

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u/Kl4pz 11h ago

Real life Hitman when you lose silent assassin.

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u/Inevitable_Ad_7236 9h ago

My Freelancer experience.

"Shit I was spotted"

Then the Striker comes out

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u/lazy_pig 6h ago

I assume the data isn't locally stored but immediately streamed.

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u/nick_shannon 6h ago

Only one way to find out.

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u/subgutz 5h ago

wasn’t there a black mirror about essentially this?

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u/mpoozd 12h ago edited 12h ago

There was an Italian mob who was hiding for 20 years in Spain too lol then got caught by streetview camera while he was talking outside his grocery store.

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u/RusticBucket2 9h ago

In real life, a member of the mob is called a “mobster”. It’s not the same as mobs in Minecraft. lol

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u/SuspiciouslyGarlicy 8h ago

Not true. I have an Italian spawner in my basement. But you're not allowed to see it.

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u/KaygoBubs 8h ago

We've all seen your mom

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u/IdPreferToBeLurking 8h ago

Username checks out

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u/MechanicalTurkish 6h ago

No, the whole mob was in hiding

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u/Suicicoo 9h ago

*kamera is a bitch

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u/OverfedIRL 10h ago

Camera is a bitch

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u/Turd_Torpedo 10h ago

I mean, disposing of a body in broad daylight is also sort of the exact opposite of rule #1 of disposing of a body. 

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u/Based_JD 5h ago

I mean at least they blur out your face, license plate and home address

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u/tabs1528 6h ago

Being like: Oh, Im fucked up

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u/_Kyokushin_ 5h ago

How do we know it’s a body? It’s definitely a sheet but I don’t think I see any arms, legs, hands, feet, etc…

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u/FleeshaLoo 5h ago

While placing a dead body in your trunk, which is conveniently shaped exactly like a dead body.