A San Francisco property where a man’s torso was found in a fish tank is now drawing auction bids near $1 million.
The 3,600-square-foot home at Clara and Fifth streets in the SoMa neighborhood has languished largely empty since homeowner Brian Egg’s 2018 death, becoming a magnet for squatters and homeless people. Neighbors have filed more than 100 complaints with the city about the property, according to ABC7.
Egg’s neighbor Wilma Parker DePavloff told the outlet that he was a generous man who regularly helped people he met at a nearby dining hall.
“We know that he went to St. Anthony’s dining hall for lunch every day and he would bring home people with him because he had three bedrooms,” DePavloff said.
“He would say to me, this person I met at St. Anthony’s, he is a college grad, I don’t know why he is on the street.”
“‘And he would let them stay to straighten up their lives,” DePavloff added.
But when Egg vanished, DePavloff noticed people she didn’t recognize coming and going from the home.
“They were nice-looking, decent, clean young men bringing out buckets of water, and they were watering my plants and Brian’s and I said, Brian will be really thrilled when he gets back from his vacation because you’re watering the plants more than he would ever,” DePavloff shared.
“And they said ‘and we are watering yours too’ and I said, oh, thank you.” They’re watering them with his blood, not with his blood, but they had what was left of him in a big fish tank, and they were trying to dissolve the body.”
“They built a false wall over it [fish tank], which the police finally discovered,” DePavloff added.
Two people inside the home were initially arrested in connection with Egg’s killing, but prosecutors later withdrew the charges and called for further investigation. No one has been charged in the case.
Photos posted by the auction site show a boarded-up structure that has been allowed to deteriorate over the years. The listing states that the property has been permitted for demolition.
The current bid on the property stands at $925,000, with an estimated final sale price projected between $1 million and $1.5 million.
