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Google Earth Used as a Spy Satellite?

The police are investigating footage provided by it to solve a murder

By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor

13th of December 2007, 19:51 GMT

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The way Melbourne looks with Google Earth

The homicide detectives from the Melbourne department have recently started investigating a murder case, which seems to be taken out of a thriller that cannot be broadcasted before midnight. The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in the front yard of an empty Melbourne house that had an overgrown lawn, which covered the body all too well.

Imagine the surprise and owe of the owner of the

Springvale house, in View Road, while working with a friend in the yard to discover the body of the Asian woman, that the police estimated was between 20 and 30 years old at the time of death, wrapped in blue plastic bags. While this happened yesterday, police media spokesman Dave Spencer held a press conference today and announced that he gave the AAP homicide detectives access to all the resources they would need and authorized every means necessary, in order to find those responsible, while evidence and people's memories were still fresh.

Ultimately, they have to turn to Google Earth tracking, which might provide vital clues to the death of the young woman, as a Google Earth van had been tracking the respective suburb for the past week. "It is new technology and we might get something out of it", Detective Senior Sergeant Jeff Maher said. What the police are hoping for is basically to have the moment of the dump recorded by Google Earth, and from that they would get at least a license plate to the car that was used to bring the body there.

Google Earth is not the only lead they have, but Maher hopes that it will indeed prove useful. But provided that happens, this will have been the first ever case of the service from the Mountain View based company when it is used as a spy satellite. Not very mind soothing, is it?

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