Po­lice be­lieve Statom Oc­tave was beat­en, shot and dumped short­ly af­ter he went miss­ing last Mon­day, No­vem­ber 9.

On Sat­ur­day, East­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice found his body al­most buried in mud off Union Road, Rio Claro.

Of­fi­cers found his wal­let and mo­bile phone near­by.

Rel­a­tives con­firmed that it was his body.

Oc­tave, 30, lived at Mal­oney Road, West Grand La­goon Vil­lage, Ma­yaro.

Po­lice said rel­a­tives last saw him around 9 am on No­vem­ber 9 at his home.

On Tues­day, a rel­a­tive re­port­ed him miss­ing to the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion at 11.30 am.

Po­lice launched a search and in­ter­viewed sev­er­al per­sons, which led them to Sat­ur­day’s dis­cov­ery.