5 Disturbing Crimes Caught on Google Street View

In October 2024, a Google Street View car captured what looked like the aftermath of a horrific crime in the small Spanish town of Taweo. It captured a man loading a large white bag into the trunk of his car. Now, this easily could have had an innocent explanation.

However, many noted that the bag's shape looked a lot like a human body, and unfortunately, that is exactly what it turned out to be. The bag contained the remains of a 32-year-old Cuban man named Jorge Luis Perez. He had gone missing in November 2023 after sending a message to his family saying he was leaving Sora, the place he had lived, with a girl he had met, and that he would no longer be using that phone.

One of his cousins found this highly suspicious and reported his disappearance to the police. However, despite the investigator's best efforts, they were unable to find any clues that could help them find Horge. There were no witnesses or any surveillance footage that could point them in the right direction.

So, the case went cold for months, or at least until one of the investigators came across the Google Street View images in November 2024. Coincidentally, the Street View car had also captured the same man carrying the white plastic bag in a wheelbarrow on the way to his car. These images proved to be the final piece in solving the mystery of Jorge's disappearance.

They were able to narrow down the list of potential suspects by tracing the vehicle back to its owner, a 48-year-old Taweo resident named Manuel Isla Gallardo, who worked at the town hall in the neighboring town. However, Manuel had no prior history of violence or any other illegal activity, making it difficult for the authorities to arrest him without any solid evidence. But after tapping his phone and trailing him for a couple of weeks, the investigators uncovered the connection they were looking for.

He was in a relationship with Jorge's partner. And as later investigation would reveal, Manuel and this partner kidnapped and later killed Jorge because of this love triangle. They likely would have gotten away with it as well if not for the Street View images.

A discovery that was nothing short of a miracle. You see, the town of Taweo has fewer than 50 residents, so there were no eyewitnesses to Manuel putting Jorge in his car. Additionally, the Google Street View car just so happened to be driving through Taweo for the first time in 15 years.

Both Manuel and his partner were arrested on November 11th after investigators found more evidence linking them to Jorge's disappearance in their home. Their arrest also led to the discovery of Jorge's remains in a cemetery about 15 minutes from where the Google Street View images were captured, finally bringing closure to his tragic case. In December 2018, the Brisbane Police Department in Australia received a missing person report regarding 46-year-old Priscilla Brutin.

She was an American beauty queen who moved to Australia with her daughter back in 2013 to start a new life. Things were going well for Priscilla. However, during the latter half of 2018, she stopped posting on social media and completely cut off communication with her friends and family back in the US.

After months of silence, one of her friends contacted the police, sparking an investigation into her disappearance, but she was nowhere to be found. She was last seen at the house of her boyfriend, Mark Wadeen, who she met during a Zumba class in 2017. However, when questioned, Mark claimed that they had actually broken up back in June 2018.

He also suggested that she went missing on purpose to avoid immigration since she was apparently overstaying her visa by that point. But this wasn't enough to convince the investigators of his innocence, as they also found Priscilla's car just 11 miles from his home. With no other leads, police began to consider the possibility of a potential homicide, and that's where they made a grim discovery.

Priscilla was without a doubt dead. Even more shockingly, she was buried in Mark's front yard. Cadaavver Dogs helped pinpoint her exact burial location near the home's entrance, prompting an excavation to recover her remains on June 8th, 2019.

However, while the investigators did find some evidence from the dig site, most of the body was completely missing, which didn't seem to make any sense. As it turned out, Mark caught wind of the upcoming excavation in May, hired a construction crew to dig up the area with Priscilla's remains, and transported it to an unknown location with a trailer. What he didn't know, however, was that his crime had been captured on camera long before the investigation ever began.

In August 2018, a Google Street View car mapped the Bracken Ridge area around Mark's home. And as it passed in front of his property, it captured what appears to be the very grave he dug for Priscilla, right where she was eventually buried. It even showed the trailer he would later use to hide the evidence.

This, combined with testimonies from neighbors who saw him digging in the yard at unusual hours, made it impossible for him to play dumb and get away with his crime. He was finally arrested on the 13th of June and is currently awaiting sentencing while under house arrest. Sometime in 2018, Google updated the street view in the Akatape de Morales municipality in Mexico.

Among the many new snapshots were the pictures of this rather unassuming empty lot with bags of trash scattered around the overgrown plants. However, those trash bags concealed a horror beyond what anyone in that neighborhood could have imagined. The truth came to light when the local police investigated a string of disappearances in the area and noticed a few similarities.

All of the missing individuals were women. They were all young, and most importantly, they had all received calls and messages from the same woman before their disappearance, 28-year-old Patricia Martinez. She lived in a house just 100 meters away from that empty lot with her 33-year-old husband, Juan Carlos Hernandez, and their four children.

The two made a living by selling clothes, food, jewelry, anything they could right outside their home. On the surface, they appeared to be a perfectly normal couple. But despite their seemingly ordinary lives, authorities kept an eye on them for weeks, suspecting that there was much more going on behind closed doors.

Then on the 4th of October, investigators saw the two walking outside with a stroller. They suspected the stroller was carrying the two-month-old daughter of a missing woman who had vanished together with her mother a month prior. Hoping to prevent any harm to the baby, the investigators moved in and apprehended both Patricia and Tuan.

However, when they inspected the stroller, its contents left them in disbelief. Instead of a live child, it contained the dismembered remains of a woman. The couple was headed to the empty lot near their home to dispose of the evidence of their horrific crime.

But this was only the tip of the iceberg. As the cops searched their home, they discovered dozens of dismembered human remains stored in their fridge, wrapped in plastic bags, and some encased in cement. The cement bags in their home also matched the ones that were scattered throughout the empty lot seen on Google Street View.

Soon after their arrest, Juan admitted to everything and revealed the true extent of their gruesome crimes. According to his statements, the two had killed almost 28 women since 2012, including their neighbors 13-year-old daughter. They would lure poor, vulnerable women with the promise of cheap or free clothes and high-paying employment before ending their lives in the most unspeakable ways and discarding their remains in plastic bags or cement.

And if that wasn't bad enough, Patricia also admitted to cooking and cannibalizing parts of their victims, as well as feeding them to their dogs. However, the most shocking part of it all was Juan's complete lack of remorse with him boldly declaring his hatred of women and vowing to do the same again if he was ever given the chance. The only silver lining in this entire case is that the baby was unharmed.

They had actually sold it to another couple for 15,000 pesos or about $770. These buyers were later arrested and the baby was rescued safely. As for Juan and Patricia, they were sentenced to nearly 350 years behind bars where they remain to this day.

If you go to this location in Baron, Wisconsin on Google Street View, you will see cop cars and police tapes surrounding this residence. On October 16th, 2018, this Street View car captured the aftermath of one of the most monstrous crimes in Wisconsin's recent history. It happened a day earlier when the 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson knocked on the Clauss residence at around 12:50 a.

m. and claimed to be a cop. James Claus came to the door and demanded to see Jake's badge before opening the door.

In a fit of rage, Jake raised the shotgun he brought with him and shot James through the door. He then fired another shot to break the lock and enter the house. Meanwhile, Denise Clauss locked herself and her 13-year-old daughter Jaime in the bathroom and made this disturbing 911 call.

Officers rushed to the scene, but unfortunately it was already too late. Not long after the 911 call, Jake shot down the bathroom door as well and opened fire on Denise. By the time the officers arrived, both James and Denise were already dead.

However, the more urgent concern was Jaime, who was nowhere to be found. It didn't take long for officers to realize that Jaime had been taken by Jake. In fact, one of the responding officers had unknowingly passed Jake's fleeing car while rushing to the class residence.

As later investigation would reveal, Jake had developed a sick infatuation with Jaime after seeing her get off her school bus and kidnapping her was his primary motive that night. He took her to his cabin about 80 mi away from her home and locked her in one of the rooms. And while the investigators started searching for Jaime almost immediately, they had nothing that could lead them in her direction.

The FBI even put out a nationwide missing person report and offered a $25,000 reward for any information that could lead to Jaime's rescue. Unfortunately, none of this led to anything substantial, and the hope of finding her alive kept declining with each passing day. But then on January 10th, 2019, the Wisconsin Police Department received a call they never expected.

Douglas County 911. Hi, I have um a young lady at my house right now and she says her name is Jamie Cloth. As it turns out, Jaime escaped Jake's cabin 88 days after a disappearance and asked for help from one of his elderly neighbors.

So, how did she come up upon your cabin? I was walking my dog and we were almost home and she was walking towards me crying saying, "You got to help me. You got to help me.

" She pulled off this remarkable escape by carefully studying Jake's routine for weeks, tracking when he left and how long he was gone, waiting patiently until the perfect opportunity revealed itself. After getting in contact with the police, she told them everything she knew about her kidnapper, resulting in Jake getting identified and arrested following a traffic stop. Jake stood trial on May 24th, 2019.

He pleaded guilty to all charges and was given two life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus 40 additional years in prison. In February 2011, a Google Street View car captured what looked like an abduction in progress in Sa Paulo, Brazil. It shows a burly man saying something to a woman while she's trying to get away while a car with an open trunk is parked nearby.

The next slide shows the man restraining the woman, while we can also see another man strangely sitting in the car's trunk. And the next slide provides a clear view of the scene, showing the man in the white shirt seemingly trying to force the woman while she bites his hand in what looks like an attempt to break free. However, the final slide is even more unsettling as it shows the parked car driving away with neither the woman nor the man in the white shirt visible anywhere.

Unfortunately, despite the alarming circumstances shown in these snapshots, I couldn't find any additional information about the alleged kidnapping. No news articles, missing person reports, or criminal investigation records. It's almost as if the crime never happened, which given the situation isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility.

There's a good chance that this disturbing scene has a perfectly innocent explanation. Maybe the white shirt man and the woman know each other and instead of an attempted abduction, he's simply trying to tickle her. This would explain why he has a cheerful, almost smug grin in one of the snapshots and why she's holding on to her cigarette while trying to free herself from a presumably dangerous situation.

But even with all that in mind, the possibility that this was a real crime that just flew under the authorities radar is also just as possible. The lack of reports and news articles doesn't necessarily mean nothing happened. It could just as easily point to a bigger systemic issue with bribery, corruption, and cover-ups that allow serious crimes to stay hidden in plain sight.

Curiously, Google has since removed the most ominous snapshot from Street View for some unknown reason. Unfortunately, it's been over 14 years since these images were captured, and without any new evidence or leads, this case likely will forever remain a mystery.