The body of a Diego Mar­tin man re­port­ed miss­ing last Fri­day is be­lieved to have been found in a shal­low grave close to his home.

Chris­t­ian “Cake Soap” Hare­wood, of Cameron Road, Pe­tit Val­ley, was last seen around mid­day on Jan­u­ary 17.

Cindy Rat­tan, Hare­wood's wife, asked if she had been able to con­firm it was him, said no. Rat­tan said, "I have a feel­ing it is him."

She said the head was miss­ing from the body found in the shal­low grave Sat­ur­day. Rat­tan said she was ques­tioned about the cloth­ing Hare­wood was wear­ing when he dis­ap­peared.

Rat­tan said the for­mer Air Guard Of­fi­cer, who would have cel­e­brat­ed his 29th birth­day on Ju­ly 20, was earn­ing a liv­ing do­ing “odd jobs.” She de­nied know­ing any­one who would want her hus­band dead.

Rat­tan de­scribed the fa­ther of two girls, ages 13 months and nine, as "a good fa­ther and lov­ing hus­band."

Rat­tan re­called giv­ing him a $100 to buy pam­pers for the ba­by. He then told her he was "go­ing to han­dle a scene and would be back some­time lat­er."

Al­though Rat­tan said she heard gun­shots in the area a while lat­er, she did not be­come wor­ried un­til he failed to re­turn home in the evening.

Hare­wood was last seen lim­ing by a shop a short dis­tance away from his house.

Re­veal­ing that of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force had re­turned to the area Sat­ur­day morn­ing to search for him, Rat­tan said it was a stray dog that Hare­wood of­ten fed, that led of­fi­cers to the buried body.

She said as of­fi­cers be­gan search­ing an emp­ty lot of land, the dog which had been fol­low­ing them sud­den­ly be­gan bark­ing and paw­ing at the ground where flies and worms could be seen.

Min­utes lat­er, the de­com­pos­ing corpse was found.

In a post on her Face­Book page, Rat­tan ac­knowl­edged Hare­wood’s ad­vice to her to re­main strong if any­thing ever hap­pened to him.

She is set to ac­com­pa­ny Hare­wood’s rel­a­tives to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, Mon­day.