Police were back Thursday morning, combing through garbage bins in the neighborhood where the body parts were found. Officers were also showing stills from video to homeless people like Michael Grady.
"What it was, was like a behind shot of him with a hoodie on carrying a black backpack with the emblem, a logo, right in the middle of it," he said. "We all looked and all of us have not seen the guy."
Shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a call about a suspicious package in front of Goodwill Industries. There, they discovered the suitcase with a headless torso inside. Then a homeless man pointed them to a set of garbage cans at nearby Firestone Tires. Inside one of the cans was a bag containing a leg.
The San Francisco medical examiner has determined that the human remains found inside a suitcase abandoned on a downtown street belong to an unidentified light-skinned man. Authorities will now turn to a DNA laboratory to determine the identification of the person...
Homicide investigators went door-to-door Thursday in a San Francisco neighborhood looking for surveillance camera video - or anything - that could be a clue to the case.
Police say they also have surveillance video from Wednesday of a person with the suitcase.
The remains included a leg and a torso but not a head or lower arms or hands, according to a source familiar with the investigation...
On Friday, police released surveillance pictures of a man they want to question in the investigation. They described the man as a “person of interest.” He appeared to be a white man with a goatee who was wearing a baseball cap and a gray, white and orange jacket.
Unfortunately, the whole "cut-you-up-and-stuff-you-into-luggage" MO is fairly common. I still remember a case here in Sacramento county where (quite shockingly) a woman sexually molested a little girl and put her into a suitcase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sandra_Cantu
The Los Angeles Times reported that remains were also found at three locations within a three-block radius. Asked about the reporting, a police spokeswoman told CNN there are no updates.
He's wearing an inBloom t-shirt (not that it could mean anything; tech swag is everywhere in SF).
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) --
San Francisco police have a person of interest in custody that may be related to the human remains case.
It's unclear if the man detained is the man in the photos and surveillance video.
Person in custody in connection with body parts found in suitcase
http://abc7news.com/news/only-on-7-video-shows-suspect-in-sf-human-remains-case-/498071/
more at link.