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Family’s Grieving Disrupted By Broken Grave
posted (January 13, 2020)
27 year old Orange Walk resident, Emil Escalante's family buried him yesterday, but woke up this morning to the most distressing news: someone had broken into his grave and taken his body out.

Cemetery workers found the cement graves broken open and his casket removed from inside the vault and left half opened.

It's really an unspeakable act of cruelty, and many questions remain as to why anyone would distress the family by disturbing this young man's burial site. And today ACP Joseph Myvette told us that officers are attempting to determine a motive.

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch
"This morning sometime around 6:45 a.m., Orange Walk police were called to the cemetery on San Antonio Road in Orange Walk Town where they observed a tomb that was opened along with a casket which was beside the tomb and the human remains of Emil Escalante. The family was informed and I believe the issue was taken up and he was buried back."

Reporter
"The reports we received is that he had been in a coma for sometime and then he died, but it seems that there are some reports which say that he was beaten and thats why he ended up in a coma and other reports say that it was just some medical problem he had."

ACP Joseph Myvett
"We did our own inquiries and we found out that he was admitted to the Northern hospital and was discharged on the 8th January and it was on the 16th that he passes away and he was buried yesterday. A death certificate was issued by the attending physician so we also heard of some information that he was beaten up, but as far as we know no report has been made to the police neither by himself nor by any of his family members."

Reporter
"Is there any indication of what could be the motive for such a vile act?"

ACP Joseph Myvett
"No, at this point in time, we do not know, but our officers are on the ground investigating to try and determine a motive why he would have been removed from where he was already buried."

Escalante died on Thursday under circumstances that some are questioning. He had been hospitalized from late last year, and there are questions about what got him into the hospital in the first place. As you heard police say, no report was made about any act of violence against him.

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