Suspect in Suitcase Murder Was a Missoula Resident, Claims San Francisco Chronicle

A brutal killing and the disturbing disposal of dismembered remains in a suitcase in San Francisco appears to have a link back to Missoula.

According to a piece titled "S.F. police ID suspect in suitcase body-parts killing" by Hamed Aleaziz and Demian Bulwa in The San Francisco Daily Chronicle, suspect Mark Jeffery Andrus spent a fair amount of time in Missoula back in the 80s and has a criminal legacy in Montana. The following is a transcript from the San Francisco Daily Chronicle article:

Online court records show Andrus had arrests in Missoula, Mont., in the 1980s and ’90s for suspected drug possession, theft, burglary and bail jumping. He had a peace sign tattooed on his right knee, according to the records. Andrus grew up in Missoula and has spent much of his adult life there.

 

In 1988, he and a second inmate at the Missoula County Jail petitioned the Montana Supreme Court, claiming they were “denied adequate food, shelter, clothing, medical care, exercise, individual security, and a law library,” according to court records. The suit was dismissed.

 

There appears to be a conflict between the ages reported for Andrus in the Missoula Jail records and with the age cited by police in the suitcase murder investigation, one indicates Andrus' age as 54, the other 59, but the Chronicle seemed confident enough that the suspect and the former Missoula inmate were the same individual.