Another mystery foot in BC

[Ziggin' and a Zaggin']

Breakthrough in B.C. missing feet mystery
Updated Fri. Jul. 18 2008 9:00 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

One of five human feet discovered on the shores of British Columbia has been matched with the DNA of a missing man, CTV News has learned.

The mysterious feet, which all appear to have naturally detached from their decomposing bodies, have puzzled investigators since the first foot washed ashore in August 2007.

Investigators have not named the missing man, but are expected to release more information next week. There are four other feet that still need to be identified, and two come from the same person.

Police "continue to investigate and generate a number of leads that have been generated as a result of us going public with the descriptors of the feet last week,'' Jeff Dolan of the BC Coroner's Service told CTV British Columbia.

On July 10, investigators released images of all the shoes found with the detached feet, and said they were looking through dozens of missing person files to check for links.

The first foot was found on Jedidiah Island, in the strait that divides Vancouver Island from the mainland. It was a right foot inside a Campus-brand men's size 12 running shoe that was mainly distributed in India.

Six days later, another right foot -- inside a man's size 12 Reebok running shoe -- washed ashore on Gabriola Island.

A third -- a right foot in a Nike sneaker -- was found in the area on Feb. 8 on the east side of Valdez Island.

The fourth and fifth feet were both found near the Fraser River. The fourth came ashore on Kirkland Island on May 22 and was the only one of the five that came from a woman's body. It was found in a New Balance running shoe.

The fifth, a size 10 left foot, was located a kilometre away on June 16. It was later determined to be a match to the foot found months earlier on Valdez Island.

An early theory about the origin of the missing feet was that they came from a 2005 B.C. plane crash. Four of the victims have never been found. But DNA testing did not appear to match two of them: Arnie Feast and Fabian Bedard.

DNA testing is ongoing for the other two crash victims, brothers Doug and Trevor DeCock.

[chillin]

Another one, this time on the shore of lake Huron in Michigan.

http://www.9and10news.com/category/story/?id=139422

[chillin]

Possible human foot found ashore in Clallam County

By CASEY MCNERTHNEY
P-I REPORTER

A shoe with what is believed to be a human foot was found on a Clallam County beach, about 14 miles from the Canadian shoreline, and U.S. authorities are working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to see if there's a connection to five feet that have washed ashore there.

Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrin said the Washington shoe is similar to three of those found in Canada: the remains appear to be from a human right foot and were inside a man's low-cut athletic shoe, possibly used for hiking.

"But this is a considerable distance to where the others were found in Canadian waters," he said. "And one that was found was a hoax, so we want to be certain."

Deputies plan to send the shoe for forensic examination Monday. Results of a DNA profile will take six to eight weeks, Peregrin said.

Since August 2007, four men's' feet and a woman's right foot were found on Canadian beaches. The RCMP announced last month none of the feet were forcibly severed. Police discovered two of the feet belonged to the same man and determined a sixth foot found earlier this year was not human.

Authorities said a woman walking along Jim Creek found the foot Friday and reported it to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office early Saturday.

"She could see sand in the shoe and when she removed the sock, she could tell there were bones and probably decomposing flesh," Peregrin said of the woman, who found the shoe in seaweed near milepost 34 on state Route 112.

Clallam County Sheriff's deputies began working with the RCMP Saturday. Local authorities were hesitant to speculate on if there is a link between the cases.

"But those similarities you can't ignore," Peregrin said. "We want to make sure our investigation is coordinated."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/373387_foot04.html

[Lurquacious]

Shoe containing human foot found on Washington beach

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — An athletic shoe containing a human foot was found on a Washington state beach, and authorities are investigating whether it may be linked to a series of human feet found in shoes along the coast of British Columbia.

Undersheriff Ron Peregrin said Monday that the King County medical examiner determined the foot was human and detached from its body naturally after floating in the water.

Peregrin said the foot will be sent for a forensic investigation, including DNA testing to see if it matches feet found washed ashore in British Columbia. Results are expected to take six to eight weeks.

Authorities said a woman told the Clallam County sheriff's office on Saturday that she found the black, high-top shoe along the beach on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, about 30 miles west of Port Angeles.

Five athletic shoes containing human feet have been found along the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland since August 2007. The Strait of Juan de Fuca separates the Canadian island and Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

A sixth foot found in June in British Columbia was determined to be an animal paw that had been shoved inside a shoe as a hoax.

"We're a little apprehensive since the last one was a hoax," said Detective Sgt. Lyman Moores.

DNA testing linked one of the Canadian feet to a depressed man who went missing a year ago. Investigators have also concluded that two of the five feet belonged to one man and that one foot was from a woman.

British Columbia coroner Jeff Dolan has said there was no evidence the feet were severed. Experts say that when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the arms, legs, hands, feet and head usually come off the body.

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Another severed foot washes up on B.C. shore

Updated: Tue Nov. 11 2008 23:48:25

ctvbc.ca

CTV News is reporting another development in a case that has baffled police and the public for over a year, drawing worldwide attention to British Columbia's southwest coast.

Another severed foot has washed up on B.C.'s shoreline, this time in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, where it was discovered by a woman on Tuesday morning while she was walking near the banks of the Fraser River with her dogs.

"It had been brought up by a high tide,'' said Diane Johnston. Since she was too scared to climb down the river bank to fetch a running shoe that was sitting up on a rock, she notifed her husband Ken, who later phoned Richmond police.

RCMP Const. Annie Linteau has confirmed that the New Balance running shoe contained the remains of a human foot. Those remains will be sent to the B.C. Coroners office for further examination Wednesday.

It is the seventh foot to have been found in a coastal region -- that includes the B.C. west coast, and the northwestern tip of Washington State -- since August of 2007.

The first foot was found on Jedidiah Island, in the strait that divides Vancouver Island from the mainland. It was a right foot inside a Campus-brand men's size 12 running shoe that was mainly distributed in India.

Six days later, another right foot -- inside a man's size 12 Reebok running shoe -- washed ashore on Gabriola Island.

A third -- a right foot in a Nike sneaker -- was found in the area on Feb. 8 on the east side of Valdez Island.

The fourth and fifth feet were both found near the Fraser River.

The fourth came ashore on Kirkland Island on May 22 and was the only one of the five that came from a woman's body. It was found in a New Balance running shoe.

The fifth, a size 10 left foot, was located a kilometre away on June 16. It was later determined to be a match to the foot found months earlier on Valdez Island.

Then, on August 3, a newspaper in Washington State reported that a running shoe, containing bones and flesh had been found at a Strait of Juan de Fuca beach, just south of the U.S-Canada border, about 40 kilometres west of Port Angeles.

Police are expected to answer media questions about the Richmond discovery later today.

"The shoe looked to be in pretty good shape,'' said Ken Johnston during an interview with CTV. He said it was found near the mouth of the Fraser River, behind an old paper plant in Finn Slough.

Source

[Jeff]

RCMP Constable Annie Linteau confirmed that human remains were inside a New Balance runner spotted Tuesday afternoon.

“My first reaction was this was a small size, maybe a woman's shoe,” said Ken Johnston, who fished the runner out of the Fraser River off Richmond after his wife spotted it while walking their dog.

“It's kind of blurry now, but my first reaction, my gut reaction was it looks like a woman's shoe, a left shoe.”

One right New Balance runner — the only one belonging to a woman — has been found since the first foot was located on Jedidiah Island in Georgia Strait on Aug. 20, 2007.

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[Penguin]

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Jedidiah

"The boy's name Jedidiah \j(e)-di-diah\ is pronounced jed-ah-DYE-ah. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "beloved of the Lord". Biblical: a "blessing" name given in infancy to King Solomon, David's second son by Bathsheba.

Jedidiah has 4 variant forms: Jed, Jedadiah, Jedd and Jedediah.

A baby name that sounds like Jedidiah is Aditya.

Jedidiah is a very rare male first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Displayed below is the baby name popularity trend for the boy's name Jedidiah. Compare Jedidiah with related baby names."

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Severed hand found on Vancouver Island shore

LADYSMITH, B.C. -- Ladysmith RCMP are investigating the skeletal remains of a right hand, which washed ashore yesterday on the beach of Kulleet Bay, on the Chemainus First Nation reserve.

The hand was discovered by a band member who was walking on the beach at about 4 p.m.

The B.C. Coroner's Service, RCMP Forensic Identification Section and Police Dog Service are involved in the investigation, said RCMP spokesman Corp. Darren Lagan in a news release.

Stephen Olson, Chemainus First Nation band manager, said no one yet knows the age of the hand.

"It was discovered on the beach adjacent to the cemetery, so it's quite possible that it is something to do with that," he said.

There is some erosion in the area where the cemetery abuts the shoreline, but there have not been any strong storms or particularly high tides recently, Mr. Olson said.

"I have seen a picture of it and you can't tell, by looking at it, if it's old or how it became disconnected from the rest of the skeleton," he said.

"But the discovery of any human remains has to be investigated and taken seriously."

Over the last two years, six detached feet have washed up on beaches around islands in the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser delta area. A seventh foot washed up near Port Angeles.

All the feet have been enclosed in running shoes, which protects the foot from predators and, to some extent, from the water.

Only one foot has been positively identified, but foul play is not suspected and police have said they believe the feet became detached by "natural processes."

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Only one foot has been positively identified, but foul play is not suspected and police have said they believe the feet became detached by "natural processes."

oh, because that is so very likely.

mysterious unidentified body parts washing up on shores being such a routine occurrence.

[Penguin]

I can think of several natural processes that can detach a leg.
Like, leprosy.

Or, to quote Buckminster - "The opposite of natural is impossible."
That would say, all kinds of cleaving, cutting, maiming tools, axes, swords, knives would qualify for the natural...

[annie aronburg]

Bear paw, not human hand, found on Vancouver Island beach: RCMP

Police forensic tests of what appeared to be a severed hand found on a Vancouver Island beach have determined it is a bear paw.

The Mounties initially issued a brief statement saying officers from Ladysmith detachment were investigating "suspected human remains

" found by a man walking on the shore at Kulleet Bay at about 4 p.m. on Wednesday.

The reported find came amid the continuing mystery of seven human feet, some in running shoes, that have washed up on the West Coast since mid-2007.

The feet found between August 2007 and November 2008 on the B.C. and northwest Washington state shores remain unexplained.

RCMP Cpl. Darren Lagan said the bone structure in a bear paw is almost identical to a human hand.

[pepsified thinker]

sounds like a grizzly find.

[MinM]

At least this one was not in BC...

Mystery surrounds boot found in Que. farmer's field

By Phil Couvrette, Canwest News ServiceMay 27, 2009 3:10 PM

Every year farmer Michel Robitaille spends hours clearing his field north of Montreal of debris that washes onto his land when a nearby river thaws and floods.

All sorts of junk piles onto his field when the Riviere du Nord rises in the spring, but a boot caught his eye on May 3 while he was riding his tractor on a two-hectare field next to the river.

"What struck me is that it was out of the ground, clean, and there was a blue sock sticking out," he said.

Lifting the boot, Robitaille said he felt it was heavy. "I unrolled the sock and saw it was white inside, it wasn't dirt."...
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Mystery+ ... story.html

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Copycat severer?


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homep ... river.html

Posted on Thu, May. 28, 2009

Police seek clues to ID leg found in river

By JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News

narkj@phillynews.com 856-779-3231

A freshly severed leg found in the Delaware River may have been stripped of clues before being tossed in, the New Jersey State Police said yesterday.

The left leg with a 9-inch foot was found by a worker Sunday morning near a pier at the Sunoco Eagle Point Refinery, in West Deptford, Gloucester County, said Sgt. Julian Castellanos.

"It was a clean-cut just below the knee, in very good condition," he said. "There were no socks, no shoes, marks or tattoos."

Castellanos said that it appeared that the leg had not been in the water long, and that a strip of flesh near the calf may have been removed to eliminate an identifying feature.

Investigators have determined that the leg belongs to a body 5 feet 1 to 5 feet 4 tall, but it was unclear whether it belonged to a woman or a man. DNA samples were taken yesterday, Castellanos said.

Castellanos said that the case was being handled by the state police's missing-persons unit, which he said has been in touch with law enforcement in Philadelphia and Delaware, and local hospitals, to check on missing persons.

New Jersey State Police ask those with information on the case to call the missing-persons unit at 609-882-2000, ext. 2554.

[Occult Means Hidden]

I'm sure these type of posts can go on forever but ,what-the-hell...

Human Foot Found at Ontario County Recycling Center

Casella Waste Systems is located on Route 5 and 20. The Ontario County Sheriff's Department is investigating the discovery of a human foot in the county recycling center.

Sheriff Phil Povero said the decomposed foot was found by a Casella Waste Systems recycling center worker working on the conveyor line Monday evening around 8 p.m.

The line was immediately stopped, and the remains collected by Ontario County identification officers. It has since been taken to the Monroe County Medical Examiner's office, where Povero said it is possible to identify it - but it will take some time.

Povero said the foot, which appears to be the right foot and was moderately decomposed, was severed above the ankle.
http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/478959/human-foot-found-at-ontario-county-recycling-center/?RegionCookie=2134