A Google Maps image helped solve a confusing murder case – photo

Investigators received unexpected help from a technology giant.

Spanish police are crediting a recent update to Google Maps for providing evidence crucial to solving a murder case they've been investigating for more than a year.

This is reported by Oddity Central.

The tragic case of a 33-year-old Cuban man, identified only by the initials JLPO, whose remains were found on the outskirts of Tahueco, a city in the Spanish province of Castile and Leon, may soon reach its conclusion thanks to an update to Google Maps.

JLPO came from Cuba to Spain to visit his wife, who was working in a European country, but shortly after arriving in Spain, his relatives started receiving strange messages from him. He told his family that he had met a woman in Spain and planned to throw away his phone, so after they stopped receiving…