Google Maps is best known for finding places, but the service is also proving adept at locating criminals. Gioacchino Gammino learned this the hard way. The mafioso had been on the run for 20 years when he got a surprise visit from the police. “How did you manage to find me? I haven’t even called my family for 10 years,” Gammino reportedly told the cops. According to an anti-mafia investigator, they found him on Google Maps. Mapping a murderer Gammino was one of Italy’s 100 most-wanted criminals. The 61-year-old had been convicted of murder, but escaped prison in 2002. His…
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