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Courtney Weatherburne reporting
This solitary wooden shack in the center of this vast farmland, hardly looks like a home. But it was for 51 year old Steven Hyde. Hyde was the care taker of this portion of farmland where he stayed.

But he also closely maintained this property and estate belonging to his cousin Russell Hyde.

Hyde had only been working for his cousin for about a year but he had grown fond of managing the land. But these same fertile grounds that Hyde guarded and preserved became his grave.

Uncle Deeds, as he was affectionately called was last seen on Monday evening when he left his mother's house to go to his cousin's home on the hill. But he left seeming uneasy and troubled - indicating his intention to leave the farmland.

Viola Spence, Mother
"He told me that he wanted to leave this place, because too much things are happening here. And it's a big farm and he has to tend to cattle, horses and all kinds of things. He said that he only gets $100 per week. I said son, I don't know what to do. So afterwards he went. He went on Monday evening and from them we haven't seen Steven."

Until his body was found in a shallow grave yesterday in the back of his cousins yard. Hyde was shot to the back of the head and decapitated. His legs and arms were also severed. But what was really striking and horrific is the precision and meticulousness of his death

Voice of Family member
"He was like a Barbie. Like when you take a Barbie and popped the hands, the legs - it was a really brutal murder. His head was cut off. His hands were like way up - as I said like a Barbie, not just chopped off and leave a little piece. Everything is ripped off. The cuts were clean. Like when you are butchering meat and you take it to the slaughter house - it was cut clean. Not even a bit of bone pushing out....like clean. I don't know what they use, if they put him on a machine, but it was brutal."

Brutal: that is just one of the many descriptions that come to one's mind when faced with such savagery.

Shanieka Spence, Niece
"We are devastated, because personally I feel that they didn't have to do that to my uncle because he isn't a cow or a pig that you cut up and sell at the market. He is a human being and yes, my uncle made mistakes and everything, but we love my uncle and they never had to do him that. How are we supposed to sleep, knowing that uncle gone like that? How does my granny supposed to feel who gave birth to him?"

Viola Spence, Mother
"When they took him out, they say they sawed off his two feet - something with a saw...neat and his two hands and they cut off his head and then they cut in his belly. I said mister, that is hard for me. How will they cut up my son like that?"

In just a couple of weeks, residents of Roaring Creek and Camalote have witnessed more barbaric acts than they can bear:

Including the execution of Rosalie Galvez about 11 days ago near the Belmopan junction to the horrific discovery of Edilberto Madrid on Tuesday morning in the Roaring Creek River

Then to the butchered body of Steven Hyde in his cousin's yard. For these families many questions linger as to why their loved ones are being killed and if they are all somehow connected.

Although it is known that Madrid, Steven and his cousin Russell Hyde form a circle of friends - it is believed that that circle was somehow broken - igniting this murderous spree. But it is all speculation at this point - enough to leave the family and the entire community shaken and in fear.

Shanieka Spence, Niece
"Personally, how could they find your cousin on your property? My uncle left Monday evening saying that he is going by you. Tuesday passed, yesterday - you couldn't look for my uncle or nothing? Like what happened there?"