Suspect in San Francisco dismembered body case dies

SAN FRANCISCO -- A suspect who was arrested in suspicion of murdering a man who was found in a suitcase was reportedly found dead -- days after being released from police custody, according to CBS San Francisco.

Mark Jeffrey Andrus was released from jail last Tuesday, after having been arrested in connection with body parts that were found in a suitcase late last month, according to the station.

Andrus, 59, went into septic shock and died after being admitted into the hospital Saturday for drug-related reasons, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

The grisly discovery was made after a suitcase was found abandoned Jan. 28 in the city's South of Market neighborhood. Additional remains were found in a trash half a block away and all the body parts had been from a single victim, according to a medical examiner.

There were still some missing body parts, according to police.

Law enforcement officials are still working with the DNA lab at the California Department of Justice to identify the dismembered victim, according to the station.

Arrested a few days afterwards, the district attorney's office spokesperson Alex Bastian told CBS San Francisco on Tuesday that although prosecutors were "very disturbed" by the facts of the case, "given the current state of the evidence, there is insufficient evidence to charge this suspect with murder."

"Mr. Andrus was extremely relieved when I told him earlier today that no charges were going to be brought. So obviously he wants to get home," public defender Jeff Adachi told reporters on Tuesday.

Anyone with information about the case is being asked to call San Francisco police at 415- 575-4444.