6 Haunting Cases Uncovered by Google Maps

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00:00On July 30th, 2010, three men were drinking together in a backyard in Richland County, South Carolina.

00:07The names of the men were Leslie Todd Parvin, Edgar Lopez, and Pablo Gutierrez Guzman.

00:12At some point in the afternoon, an argument broke out between the three men,

00:16and Leslie ended up pulling a handgun from his waistband and taking the lives of the two other men.

00:21It's unclear exactly what sparked the argument between the three men,

00:25but immediately after the shooting, Parvin fled to Louisiana in his green Kia minivan.

00:30Once there, he shaved his head and destroyed both the gun he had used to take the lives of his two victims,

00:34as well as the minivan.

00:36For a few days, Parvin managed to elude the authorities,

00:39but pretty soon the cops started scanning through license plate records of all green Kia vans registered in Louisiana.

00:45According to investigation documents, after the double murder,

00:48a witness had reported a partial tag of Parvin's minivan to the police.

00:52And a couple days later, on a whim, the cops plugged the suspect's address into Google Maps Street View,

00:57and sure enough found a green minivan parked in front of his house with the license plates

01:01and description matching what the witness had told them.

01:04With that kind of evidence stacked against him, it was pretty much all over for Parvin.

01:09And on August 19th, a relative brought him back to his home in the Windsor Lake area,

01:13where he was promptly arrested on two charges of murder and later sentenced to 35 years in prison.

01:18During the investigation, it was publicly revealed that Parvin was a 20-year Army veteran

01:23with five overseas deployments and a pretty bad case of PTSD, which he had been diagnosed with in 2007.

01:29According to his father's testimony, his 20 years of military service

01:33and the stress from his tours near Iraq and Afghanistan could have influenced his behavior on the day of the incident.

01:38You would think that after two decades of selflessly serving his country,

01:42Parvin would have been provided the appropriate mental health treatment to help him live his life peacefully.

01:46Instead, two innocent men are now dead,

01:49and the perpetrator himself will be spending most of the rest of his life behind bars.

01:5335 years after his crime, at the age of 75,

01:56Parvin will be released from prison into a world he'll probably no longer even recognize.

02:04In July 2018, Channel 4 released an incredibly disturbing video

02:09which showed a group of uniformed men leading multiple women and children

02:12through a dirt road and onto a deserted patch of land

02:15where the armed men then shamelessly took the lives of the victims at gunpoint.

02:19In the video, the men can be heard accusing the women and children

02:22of belonging to the notorious terrorist group Boko Haram.

02:26The video caught the attention of the entire world,

02:29with hundreds of people immediately alleging

02:31that the terrifying footage had been captured in Cameroon.

02:34However, the government of Cameroon immediately denied the claims,

02:38alleging that the video wasn't even shot in their country

02:40and that their army was being wrongly blamed for killing civilians.

02:43Still, the BBC wasn't convinced,

02:46and their team of researchers decided to find out

02:48who had been responsible for the atrocities in the video,

02:50where they took place, and when.

02:52After receiving an anonymous tip,

02:54they used Google Maps to study the layout of a particular region in Cameroon

02:58and discovered that the mountain range visible in the background of the video

03:01was near a village named Krawa Mafa,

03:03very close to the Nigerian border.

03:05By analyzing several years of Google satellite imagery of the region,

03:08the researchers from the BBC were able to determine

03:11that the incident had taken place

03:12at some point between March 20th and April 5th, 2015.

03:17Upon further investigation,

03:18it was revealed that the Cameroonian government

03:20hadn't been honest when they denied the claims.

03:23For example, the government had claimed

03:25that the Cameroonian army didn't use weapons

03:26like the ones shown in the video,

03:28but the BBC's analysis revealed that the guns

03:30were Serbian-made Zestava M21s,

03:32which are in fact used in the Cameroonian army.

03:35On top of this,

03:36several other details that the government had claimed were inaccurate

03:39turned out to be a perfect match,

03:40including the armed men's uniforms.

03:43A month after the Cameroonian government's initial denial of the claims,

03:46they then updated their statement

03:48to clarify that seven members of the army

03:50were now under investigation.

03:52And when the BBC shared their full report

03:54with the Cameroonian government,

03:55the country's Minister of Communication

03:57was reported saying,

03:58In their next statement,

04:07the Cameroonian government released the names of the seven detainees,

04:10and the BBC confirmed that some of them

04:12were the same people who were seen in the video

04:14executing the innocent women and children.

04:17In 2020,

04:18four of the soldiers in the video

04:19received 10-year prison sentences for the murders,

04:22while a fifth soldier was sentenced

04:23to two years for filming and sharing the footage.

04:25The other two soldiers were acquitted.

04:29It's crazy to think that you can get away

04:30with such an atrocious crime

04:32and only face 10 years in prison.

04:34But at least they're being held accountable

04:36for what they did,

04:37all thanks to a very detailed examination

04:39of the video's content

04:40against Google's satellite imagery.

04:42Between 2010 and 2011,

04:5011 bodies were found near Gilgo Beach

04:52on the south shore of Long Island

04:53between Nassau and Suffolk counties.

04:56Most of the bodies belonged to female escorts

04:58whose lives had been taken as early as 1993.

05:01But it wasn't until 2023

05:03that they finally managed to arrest Rex Heuerman,

05:06a 60-year-old architect and father of two,

05:08and connect him to the crimes

05:09through DNA evidence,

05:10cell phone records,

05:11and the links between his Chevy avalanche

05:13and the crimes.

05:14After his arrest,

05:15Rex was charged with the deaths of four women.

05:18And later,

05:19he was charged with the deaths of two other women

05:21after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes.

05:24Disturbingly,

05:25the cops found that the suspect

05:26had used several burner phones

05:27to conduct thousands of searches

05:29related to the things

05:30he later ended up doing to his victims.

05:32And to seal Heuerman's fade,

05:34they also found a huge word document

05:36on his hard drive in his basement,

05:37in which Rex had planned out

05:39the murders of his victims

05:40in very explicit detail.

05:42Shockingly,

05:43the document included checklists

05:44that outlined the steps

05:45he needed to complete

05:46before,

05:47during,

05:48and after his killings.

05:50Based on court evidence,

05:51Heuerman started committing these crimes

05:52as early as 1993,

05:54and if found guilty,

05:55he'll be facing multiple

05:56consecutive life sentences in prison.

05:59As of 2024,

06:00the case is still ongoing,

06:02but during the investigation,

06:03some more disturbing details have surfaced.

06:06In 2023,

06:07some online users discovered

06:08a Google Street View image

06:10of Heuerman talking to

06:11an unidentified woman

06:12near his office

06:12on East 36th Street

06:14more than a year before his arrest.

06:16Now,

06:16we have no idea

06:17who this woman is,

06:18and it's very possible

06:19that she was a potential victim,

06:21but we also can't say that for sure.

06:23Chillingly,

06:24in the image,

06:25Rex also appears to be wearing

06:26the same shirt that he wore

06:27for a YouTube interview

06:28earlier in 2022,

06:29where he spoke about

06:30his role as an architect

06:31at his firm on Fifth Avenue.

06:33His defense lawyer,

06:34Michael Brown,

06:35told the New York Post

06:36that the cops have the wrong man.

06:42In September 2008,

06:44a 14-year-old Dutch boy

06:46was riding his bike

06:46in the town of Groningen,

06:48about 110 miles northeast

06:49of Amsterdam,

06:50when suddenly two young men

06:52walked behind him,

06:53dragged him off his bike,

06:54and robbed him of

06:55165 euro and his phone.

06:58For several months,

06:59the cops failed to find the suspects,

07:00as no witnesses came forward,

07:02and they only had the boy's description

07:03of the muggers to go on.

07:05In March of the following year,

07:07the victim went on his computer

07:08and started surfing

07:09Google Maps Street View,

07:10looking at the location

07:11where he'd been mugged

07:12around six months earlier.

07:13To his surprise,

07:15the Street View car

07:15had captured the two men

07:17walking up behind him

07:18in the moments before the crime.

07:20As is usually the case

07:21with these images,

07:22the faces of the two muggers

07:23and the victim were blurred,

07:24but the boy immediately

07:25called the cops

07:26and informed them

07:26of the new development

07:27in the case.

07:28With the Street View pictures in hand,

07:30the authorities asked Google

07:31to hand over the unblurred version

07:32of the images

07:33to help identify the suspects.

07:35Interestingly,

07:36as soon as they got

07:37the unblurred images,

07:38the investigators recognized

07:39one of the muggers

07:40from a previous crime,

07:41and the other suspect

07:42was identified

07:42as the first muggers' twin brother.

07:45After confirming their identity,

07:46the Dutch police

07:47were able to track down

07:47and arrest the twins,

07:49but I was able to find

07:50official confirmation

07:51that they were charged

07:51and sentenced.

07:53It's unclear if the boy

07:54ever got his phone

07:55and money back.

08:0030-year-old Kim Wall

08:02was an award-winning

08:02Swedish journalist

08:03who traveled all over the world

08:05to cover stories

08:05on social justice.

08:07Throughout her career,

08:08her reporting took her

08:09to countries like Uganda,

08:11Cuba,

08:11the Marshall Islands,

08:12and Kenya,

08:13with her work often being featured

08:14in prestigious journals

08:15like the New York Times,

08:17the South China Morning Post,

08:18and the Atlantic.

08:20In 2017,

08:21while she was in Copenhagen

08:22with her boyfriend,

08:23she met Peter Madsen,

08:25a brilliant Danish inventor

08:26and self-taught engineer

08:27who had built his own submarine,

08:29designed his own rockets,

08:30and had plans to launch himself

08:31into space in the near future.

08:34On August 10th of that year,

08:35Peter Madsen took Kim Wall

08:37on a trip off the Copenhagen coast

08:39in his homemade submarine,

08:40the NC3 Nautilus,

08:41for a brief interview.

08:43Sadly,

08:43after that trip,

08:44Kim Wall was never seen again.

08:47When she didn't come back

08:48later that day,

08:48her partner reported her missing

08:50and an official investigation

08:51was officially launched.

08:53Just a few days later,

08:54on the 21st of August,

08:55a passing cyclist

08:56found parts of her body

08:57washed up on the beach

08:58close to where

08:59she had gone missing.

09:00And about a month and a half later,

09:02the rest of her body

09:03was found

09:03in multiple different

09:04weighted down bags

09:05by police divers.

09:07During the investigation,

09:09Madsen was brought in

09:09for questioning,

09:10but he denied having

09:11anything to do

09:12with the state of her body.

09:13He instead claimed

09:14that Kim Wall had died

09:15after being accidentally

09:16hit on the head

09:17by the hatch of the submarine.

09:19Strangely,

09:20he later ended up

09:20changing his account

09:21of the events

09:21and claimed that Wall had died

09:23after inhaling toxic fumes.

09:25Although no trace

09:25of toxic fumes

09:26was found in her system,

09:27the authorities did find

09:2915 stab wounds

09:30on Kim's body.

09:31After being held

09:32in police custody

09:33for a while,

09:34Madsen eventually confessed

09:35that he had murdered Wall

09:36and then thrown her

09:37separate body parts

09:38into the Baltic Sea.

09:39In April 2018,

09:41Peter Madsen was convicted

09:42on three separate charges

09:43and was sentenced

09:44to life in prison

09:45where he's been spending

09:46his days for the past

09:47six years.

09:48In 2021,

09:49Madsen ended up

09:50receiving an additional

09:5121 months in prison

09:52for staging a bomb threat

09:54in an extremely elaborate

09:55escape attempt.

09:57Fortunately,

09:57he was recaptured

09:58soon after

09:59and was brought back

09:59to his cell.

10:01One of the things

10:02that's interesting

10:02about this case

10:03is that Peter Madsen

10:04had been captured

10:05by the Google Maps

10:06Street View camera

10:07climbing into his submarine.

10:09Chillingly,

10:09when he confessed

10:10to the murder,

10:11he mentioned that

10:11his intention

10:12was never to take

10:13Kim Wall's life,

10:14but rather to sink

10:14the Nautilus forever,

10:16even if it meant

10:16that both he

10:17and the innocent journalist

10:18would die inside.

10:20To this day,

10:21it's still unclear

10:22how exactly

10:23he took Kim's life,

10:24but thankfully,

10:25Madsen will be spending

10:26the rest of his life

10:27behind bars

10:27with no possibility

10:29of ever coming back

10:30to society again.

10:36Porto Rotondo

10:37is a district in Sardinia

10:38known for its

10:39imposing mansions,

10:40sandy beaches,

10:41and elegant shops

10:42and restaurants.

10:44In 2002,

10:45an Italian businessman

10:46sold his villa

10:47in Porto Rotondo

10:48for 280,000 euros.

10:50Due to the comparatively

10:51low value of the transaction,

10:53the sale immediately

10:54raised a red flag

10:55for the authorities,

10:56and the finance police

10:57in Italy ended up

10:57using Google Earth

10:58as part of their

10:59investigation into the property.

11:01One important detail

11:02about the villa in question

11:03is that it allegedly

11:04had a swimming pool

11:05with a very particular shape,

11:07which the cops used

11:08to guide their search

11:09for the villa

11:09using satellite imagery.

11:11As soon as they found

11:12the property,

11:13they confirmed

11:13that they had a major case

11:14of tax evasion

11:15on their hands,

11:16as the actual value

11:17of the villa

11:17should have been

11:18much, much higher

11:19considering that

11:20the value of all

11:20the properties nearby

11:21was in the high

11:22seven figures.

11:24With enough evidence

11:25from Google's

11:25satellite imagery

11:26to confirm

11:27that the unidentified

11:28businessman

11:28had indeed committed

11:29tax fraud,

11:30the finance police

11:31then checked

11:31the suspect's

11:32bank accounts

11:33and discovered

11:337 million euros

11:34in unreported deposits

11:36spanning several years.

11:38This was a case

11:38that I just couldn't

11:39find a lot of information

11:40on,

11:41as the original article

11:42in Italian

11:42had very few details,

11:44and it wasn't even

11:44officially confirmed

11:45what the legal consequences

11:46were for the businessman.

11:47Still,

11:49it's probably safe

11:49to assume that

11:50his assets were seized,

11:51and due to the crazy

11:52amount of unreported cash,

11:54it's likely that he spent

11:55at least a few years

11:56in jail.

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