Haunting Google Maps pic reveals fate of woman who vanished without a trace two years ago from her own front garden
A HAUNTING Google Maps image has revealed the fate of a woman who vanished two years ago from her own garden.
The chilling disappearance of Paulette Landrieux, 83, who had Alzheimer's disease, was finally solved thanks to the bombshell picture.
Marcel Taret, Paulette's husband, was the elderly woman's sole caregiver as she suffered with Alzheimer's disease.
Podcaster Mr Ballen said when explaining the case that it was Marcel's full-time job looking after his wife.
He explained: "Paulette needed help remembering to eat or to take her medications on time.
"Sometimes she would just wander off without telling Marcel and he would have to go and corral her and bring her back home."
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The doting husband had turned his back on Paulette for a mere few minutes as he hung up laundry in the garden of their home in Andenne, Belgium, on 2 November, 2020.
But she was never seen alive again.
Before going into the garden, Marcel said he had set his wife up in front of the TV with some lunch.
He therefore thought that she would still be watching her favourite programme by the time he had finished hanging the washing.
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But, to his shock, when he went to check on her, she wasn't there.
Marcel went from room to room looking for Paulette.
He also desperately searched outside the house, even knocking on some neighbours' doors to ask if they had seen her - with no luck.
Panicked, Marcel called the police who launched a search and rescue mission using a helicopter over the area to find her - but to no avail.
Despite search efforts being continuous, Paulette was not found for two years.
And during this time, Marcel had resigned himself to the fact he likely would never have known what happened to his wife.
But, at the same time as Paulette went missing, a Google Streetview car miraculously drove past the couple's home.
In 2022, one of Marcel's neighbours noticed the Streetview images on the road - consequently finding the final image of Paulette.
She is captured walking across the street away from her home while Marcel stands in the background, hanging up the laundry.
Using the incredible new lead, cops were able to trace the path that Paulette appeared to be taking in the picture.
Across the street was a steep hill that led down to a thick bramble bush.
This is where they tragically found Paulette's body.
When the search was going on, it is believed she was trapped there and died.
This isn't the first time Google Maps has helped in pointing cops into the right direction.
In another tale, one Google Street View image led to murder arrests after cops discovered butchered human remains.
A shocking picture shows a man stuffing a large plastic bag thought to contain the victim's body into the boot of a car.
A couple were arrested on suspicion of murder after cops probing a mystery disappearance came across the picture - and also found human remains.
The detainees are the wife of the Cuban man whose remains were discovered last week in a Spanish cemetery more than a year after he vanished and her former lover.
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The Google image and court-ordered phone taps have been described as "decisive" by local press covering the gruesome find in the tiny village of Andaluz in the northern Spanish province of Soria.
Cops admitted yesterday the sinister image was one of the clues they worked with to “resolve the crime.”
