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The headless, handless torso found in an aquarium in a California home is owned by a bartender who lived there and had been missing for about two months, officials said this week.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office confirmed Wednesday that the ghoulish effusion was part of the 65-year-old Brian Egg's body, CBS San Francisco reported.
Many neighbors have begun to raise concerns about Egg at the end of July, according to the report.
The cops did two "welfare checks" where they knocked on the door and no one answered, so they did not go, reported the station.
In early August, Egg's worried sister released a report on missing persons, urging the cops to return home.
"We are not just breaking doors because someone is reporting a missing person," said the policeman. Greg McEachern said at a press conference in August, according to the station.
Neighbors who spotted "suspicious people" and a crime scene cleaning truck called the police about a week later. Later in the night, arresting officers arrested Robert McCaffrey, 52, and Lance Silva, 39, at a hotel on 6th Street.
The police found no eggs, but found some cleaning products and suspicious odors in the house, the resort reported.
A day later, the homicide section local police executed a search warrant and discovered the disturbing discovery in a "hidden area" of the house, according to the report.
The remains of eggs were in a "state of advanced decomposition," investigators discovered.
Egg bought the house in the 1970s and worked as a bartender for Stud, a famous San Francisco gay bar, in the 1980s, friends told the San Francisco Chronicle last month. It has not been used regularly in recent years, they said.
"He was a bit on the sidelines," said Scott Free, Egg's neighbor. "He had no work and lived on the sidelines. He was eccentric. A vacation seemed very implausible.
"It's horrible," adds Free of the crime. "A corpse was in the house all this time."
Court documents obtained by the CBS affiliate revealed that the stolen Egg credit card had been used to purchase a BMW in the East Bay.
Although Silva and McCaffrey were identified in the Egg case, they were released until new information was available on the whereabouts of the man.
McCaffrey was released, but Silva was detained for a possible probation violation, the station reported.
At the end of August, prosecutors asked an Alameda county judge to revoke Silva's probation – revealing that a car company had named Silva as someone who had used the Egg card to buy the BMW, June 1st.
The business owner remembers that Silva had claimed to be Brian Egg – and was in a good mood, talking about a house purchase in San Francisco and how he wanted to buy a car, according to the report .
Silva had admitted to driving the BMW, but "did not admit the fraudulent purchase," the station reported. However, cops would have found him in possession of the card.
The two men remain of interest – and the investigators will meet the San Francisco attorney to determine how to proceed, the report said.
The cops admit that if the neighbors had not raised the alarm, they might not have found the remains so far.
"We may not be right," said McEachern at the station. "And that's where you usually rely on family or someone to let you in."
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