And while no one was injured, and no money stolen during that attempted burglary, over the weekend, a family made the gruesome discovery of the body of their loved one.
On Friday, you heard Ricardo Palma asking the public to assist his family to find his brother, 55-year-old Phillip Palma. After that plea, they took matters into their own hands and, with the help of a private investigator, found the shallow grave not far from Palma's home on an island off the coast.
And while one puzzle has been solved, the question now is who killed him, and was it because of drugs like the family suspects?
Courtney Menzies spoke to the victim's brother again and has this story.
55-year-old Phillip Palma was murdered, buried in a shallow grave, and left to rot only 300 yards away from his home.
And after Palma's brother pleaded for help from the public, the family, led by investigator, Jose Espat, visited the remote island less than a mile away from Old Belize to search for him.
And it was around midday on Saturday when they finally found him, and Ricardo Palma recalled having to dig up his little brother's body.
Ricardo Palma, Brother of Deceased
"Man, it wasn't nice to dig up a decomposed body. It wasn't nice. But first time in my whole life I've ever done that and with the help of Mr Espat, because he have more idea, he said don't shove the spade so, because remember it is a body we're dealing with so you can't shove the spade any kind of way, you have to shove it to a certain part and try take your time and clear the dirt, you don't go and dig like you're digging out a piece or iron or thing out of the ground like that, because whatever you dig, you can hurt the body and you can damage the body. So we just took our time and by 12 o' clock we found the body."
"I have a little training from out the Belize Defense Force and Mr Espat, he have a lot of training and he have a lot of skills."
"I think he born with a gift from God, that same guy, cause whenever he is somewhere that he know something, it gives him a feeling that yes, this person is right here amongst us. So we work and we believe in the man. I don't care what anyone else has to say but I know he did a good job with us."
And while Palma was grateful to Espat, he said it was them that found the body, and the police department wasn't much help.
Ricardo Palma, Brother of Deceased
"When Mr Espat came I asked him if only we going or police going along with us to accompany us because it's a body we're going to look for, so he said yes, that's what Mr Espat told me but when he called them, he said they replied to him that they already went there and they find anything there so they didn't want to go with us. But we say we are not worrying about the police department because they all the time let down people, they're here to support us but in certain cases they are not supporting us. Things like this we needed the police force to back us up, but I told Mr Espat, sir, we're not worrying about them, we're already on our move, let's just go accomplish our journey."
"Then when the police came in a coast guard boat, it's a good thing we had a boat because then they didn't come prepared to go to land and receive a body. It's a good thing we had a boat there so we help them, we put it in a plastic, wrap it, then help back it and put it to a little small boat that we're in and then escort it to their boat, that's how they got the body."
And the family says they showed up about two hours after the body was found. But the police are saying it's not them - it's the National Forensic Science Service that slowed the process.
ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer
"When I was contacted on Saturday there was a level of difficulty to get Scenes of Crime ready to go on that little remote island. We're not blaming anyone. We had to make sure that we had all parties involved. This is not an area that is easily accessible, and at the same time, we needed to gather evidence that may have been left behind by his assailants, so we did take a little time to prepare but I was in direct communication with a member of the family during all this time."
But regardless, it's the police's job to find out who would have wanted Palma dead, and why - though the family seems to have an idea of the motive.
Ricardo Palma, Brother of Deceased
"To be truthful, what caused the whole incident is a wet drop. My brother, he's the one that found the wet drop, but he didn't let us as family know, if this thing didn't happen, we wouldn't have known anything."
"Right now, it's really rough for a guy like me. Anybody who would be in my shoes would know how I feel because I haven't gotten any justice for my son, now I don't know about my brother, previously as my son died, I went to deal with my uncle, my two cousins, now my brother. So it's really rough, only God knows how I feel. Sometimes I can't even explain it to the public because it's so tangled up, it's hard to feel at ease. Every minute I'm glimpsing my whole family that I've gone through in like 3 months time, in 3 months time I've faced so much disasters."
"All that I need to find is that we get justice for my brother, since we found him, we need justice, that's the main part, we need justice, we want to know how the police system is working out, this is the part of the puzzle that we have right now."
We asked the director of the National Forensic Science Services, Gian Cho, about ASP Yearwood's claim that they struggled to mobilize, and he told us, quote, "Our two Crime Scene Technicians responded to the call right away, they proceeded to BCG base as requested by Police from where they joined other law enforcement personnel to deploy on BCG vessel to the area where the body was buried." End quote.
According to the police, they had also been looking in the vicinity of the John Smith Road for Palma's body.
