A 50-year-old gay man whose family traveled to San Francisco from Illinois to look for him — but whose body was eventually found in his own apartment — died accidentally of drug intoxication, a report from the medical examiner's office states.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Christopher J. Woitel was discovered "in the attic in his home" in mid-February, according to the San Francisco Police Department, after having been missing for over a month.
In the days before the discovery, the San Francisco Police Department sent out a news release about Woitel's disappearance and two of Woitel's sisters and a brother traveled from his native Illinois to search for him.