Another mystery foot in BC

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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby Project Willow » Wed Aug 07, 2013 4:44 pm

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Fisherman finds shoe — with remains of a foot inside — on Jersey Shore

A man fishing on the beach at Corson's Inlet State Park discovered a sneaker with skeletal remains inside on Tuesday.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

A fisherman on the New Jersey Shore made an unsettling discovery — a black, high-top sneaker with the remains of a foot inside.

State police asked Wednesday for any information from the public. The fisherman found the shoe Tuesday afternoon. It was an Adidas size 5½, for the right foot, and some of the toes had nail polish on them, police said.

Police said they had not determined the age of the person. They said the remains would be sent to a state anthropologist for DNA testing. The shoe was found at Corson’s Inlet State Park, about 15 miles down the shore from Atlantic City.

At least a dozen detached feet have washed up along the coast of British Columbia and Washington state since 2007, most inside shoes or boots, and including at least one matching pair.

Forensics experts have noted that the relative weakness of the ankle can cause a decomposing body to separate there.
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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby MinM » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:40 am

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Severed Foot Inside Running Shoe Washes Up On San Francisco Beach
September 16, 2013 5:33 AM

A severed human foot inside a running shoe washed up on Ocean Beach near Taraval Street Sunday morning.

A Golden Gate National Recreation Area beach patrol found it after receiving a call from a beach visitor, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

“What we have is a human foot, with some associated tissue, inside of a shoe,” Mark Powning, an investigator with San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office told the Chronicle.

It wasn’t clear how or when the foot and shoe got to Ocean Beach, but Powning said it didn’t seem to be the result of anything recent and “probably was rolling around the seabed for awhile.”

The shoe was a Puma brand, size 7 and 1/2, in green and black.

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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby Luther Blissett » Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:15 am

Here's another. What's the total?

Shoe with foot inside found at Botanical Beach

Investigators trying to ID remains, looking at missing persons from 2013


B.C. family visiting the west coast of Vancouver Island over the weekend found a shoe with a dismembered foot inside — the latest in a series of similar discoveries throughout the region since 2007.

Charlotte Stephens says her family was walking along Botanical Beach when her husband made the grisly discovery.

"He picked it up and brought it out on to the beach, and we had a look at it for about five minutes and we thought, it almost looks like there is an actual foot bone in it," she said.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the remains are human, and investigators are now trying to identify them.

Investigators say it's difficult to determine how long the shoe was in the water, but they can get a sense of when the person would have gone missing based on its style and manufacturer.

That particular shoe appears to have gone on the market sometime after March 2013, said regional coroner Matt Brown.

"So I think it's fair to say we are looking for someone gone missing from March 2013 and December 2015," he said.

Brown added it's difficult to pinpoint when the shoe entered the water because of ocean currents.

"That's why we're working with our police counterparts and through our own information to determine who may be missing in the area to perhaps use that as a starting point."

The discovery is the latest in a series of disarticulated feet being found along the West Coast.

Fifteen feet have washed up on the shores of B.C. and Washington State since 2007 — the latest incident was in Seattle in 2014.

"I believe most of these were determined to be suicides," said Brown. None of the B.C. cases involved foul play.

"In this case, we don't believe there is anything to indicate any level of suspicion at this time."

It appears the foot disarticulated naturally from the rest of the body, a result of prolonged immersion in water, the Coroners Service said in a release.

It hopes to identify the remains using DNA testing and bring closure to the family.
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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby RocketMan » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:25 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/f ... ?CMP=fb_gu

After four years, why are more feet washing ashore in British Columbia?

British Columbia, Canada is known for many things: beautiful landscapes, great skiing, the 2010 Winter Olympics – and the human feet that have been washing up on its shores for the last nine years.

Since 2007, 12 human feet clad in running shoes have been found on the shores of British Columbia, from Jedediah Island to Botanical Beach. So far, the provincial coroner’s office has identified eight of the 12. Of those eight, two were pairs. The remaining lone feet, the coroner determined, belonged to men.

It had been nearly four years since a foot sighting, and then on 7 February a new one washed ashore, discovered by a hiker along Vancouver Island’s Botanical Beach. Five days later, another one appeared. The coroner’s office confirmed they were a pair.

After so many years, the arrival of human feet on the province’s shores is old news. But when they started to be discovered in 2007, speculation about where they came from ran rampant and pranksters even planted fake feet on the shores, just to add fuel to the fire.

“We’ve had people put dog foot skeletons in runners and leave them on the beach,” said Barb McLintock, who works at the coroner’s office. “And somebody even used old chicken bones.”

Since the first foot was discovered, theories about the feet have been numerous and creative. In 2008, a Toronto Star article said that “speculation ranges from natural disasters, such as the tsunami of 2004, to the work of drug dealers, serial killers and human traffickers”.

In 2008, the man who found the fifth foot told the Guardian he suspected foul play: “There’s someone doing this all right. Think about it, if they tied a chain around someone’s ankle and threw them overboard, the foot would just pop off. That could explain it. Maybe they got a lot of bodies stored up in a container and they got washed out. We don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff goes on over there,” he said.

But McLintock said this is not the work of a serial killer or the result of alien abductions. The coroner’s office has ruled that all of the identified individuals committed suicide or died accidentally, most likely due to storms near the coast.

After several years and a dozen cases, McLintock said their work suggests the feet are separating from the bodies during decomposition. This occurs more quickly underwater than it would on land.

“The forensic anthropologists can be really sure of that because they can tell looking at the ends of the bones whether they disarticulated naturally or whether there’s any sign that any mechanical force has been applied to them, whether there’s any trauma, whether there’s any tool marks on them,” she said. “And none of them have had anything like that. All the evidence is pointed to just this natural articulation process.”

But some people still have questions – like why did the feet only start turning up after 2007? The answer may be advancing shoe technology. More and more sports shoes are using air pockets or light foam in their designs, which “eventually allows them to be light enough to float and to wash up on shore”.

The coast of British Columbia sees many of these cases because of tide and current patterns, according to McLintock. And while the odd foot pops up elsewhere in the world – for example, several have come ashore in Washington State – British Columbia remains in the spotlight. But McLintock has no doubt that this occurs worldwide, and not just on her coast.

“Presumably there probably are a bunch of running shoes bouncing around out there,” she said. “But no one’s ever going to find them.”
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The Mystery Continues

Postby Burnt Hill » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:43 pm

13th dismembered foot found on British Columbia shore
By Nicole Javorsky, CNN

A man walking his dog on a British Columbia beach this week made a grisly discovery: A foot in a shoe, along with part of a lower leg. Adding to the mystery is that it is the 13th foot to wash up on the Canadian province's coastline over the past decade.

"Our early analysis suggests these are human remains and we will do further investigation and testing ... in the coming weeks," said Andy Watson, a spokesman for the BC Coroners Service, about the Thursday discovery. The remains included a tibia and fibula.

The Coroners Service said all previous 12 feet were human. The service identified eight of them and determined they belonged to six individuals.
No foul play was involved in those cases, according to the Coroners Service, though it did not say how it arrived at that conclusion.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Coroners Service are trying to identify the owner of the foot found this week, as well as the cause of death. They said they will look into any possible matches to missing persons cases.

It's not clear why so many feet have washed up on British Columbia shores. When asked, the coroner's spokesman said, "I'm not able to speak to" the reason.
Watson said, however, "There's no reason to believe that they (the cases) were connected in any way."

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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Mar 09, 2018 6:09 pm

Is there a separate thread for severed hands?

A Siberian fisherman discovered 54 severed human hands. He was told it’s no big deal

Written by Olivia Goldhill
There’s only one thing worse than discovering a severed hand while strolling along a Siberian riverbank: Finding 54 severed hands.

A fisherman made such an unfortunate discovery yesterday (March 8th, 2018), while walking along the Amur River in Khabarovsk, Russia.

He saw one hand at first, reported The Siberian Times, before uncovering a bag filled with 54 human hands.


Though a collection of severed body parts suggests criminal activity, an official Russian government investigation has quickly dismissed that possibility, reports Live Science. The Investigative Committee of The Russian Federation declared in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that the hands came from a forensics lab in the Russian city of Khabarovsk. Though the means of disposing of the hands was not legitimate, the committee claimed there was no foul play in originally removing the hands from their bodies.

“The biological objects (hands) found are not of a criminal origin but were disposed of in a manner not provided for by law,” the committee wrote.

It’s not clear why a forensic lab would legitimately need to cut off hands. The Siberian Times reports that there is a little-used practice of severing hands off unidentified corpses as a way of retaining the person’s fingerprints once their body has been buried. Typically, though, it’s possible to have a record of a fingerprint stored in either an online or paper database without keeping the entire hand.

Medical bandages and plastic shoe covers worn in hospital were found near the severed hands, suggesting they were indeed connected to a medical facility. But with little detail about the medical process behind the severed hands, the discovery is still causing suspicion.

In their statement, the committee said they would continue to investigate the circumstances behind “the incident,” and would assess the forensic medical lab’s decision to both remove and dispose of the bags.
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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby Burnt Hill » Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:06 pm

It will be russian jellyfish next....
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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby Pele'sDaughter » Mon May 14, 2018 10:03 am

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MONTREAL — The mystery has haunted Canadians for more than a decade: One by one, human feet clad in running shoes have floated ashore on British Columbia’s southern coast with gruesome regularity.

Last weekend, foot No. 14 was discovered by a man strolling on a beach on Gabriola Island, a sleepy and picturesque enclave, population 4,000, that is known for its captivating sandstone and close-knit artistic community.

This time, the foot, squeezed between a pile of logs, wore what appeared to be a hiking boot, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The 13 feet found previously along the coast since 2007 were in running shoes — Adidas, Reebok and other brands. Each time, the questions arose: Why are the feet ending up in Canada? Where did they come from? And where are the other parts?

The discoveries have fanned speculation, rational or not, that the unattached feet could be the work of a tsunami, a human trafficker, a Mafia hit man, a deranged foot fetishist or a serial killer who had spread body parts out to sea. Others have theorized that the floating appendages could belong to people falling off a ship or killed in a plane crash.

British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, known for its imposing mountains, exhilarating ski runs and delectable seafood, has grown used to also being known as the destination for what some newspapers have called “the floating feet.”

But coroners have taken pains to dampen conspiracy theories and tame overactive imaginations. Barb McLintock, a former coroner at British Columbia’s Coroners Service, once called it “the myth of the famous feet.”

In 2016, after a hiker found a foot in a sock and running shoe at Botanical Beach, on Vancouver Island, Ms. McLintock told the Canadian news media that the feet were the work of neither “strange serial killers” amputating victims nor “funny little aliens” scattering the feet along the coastline.

Andy Watson, a spokesman for the Coroners Service, said this week that foul play had been ruled out in all the previous cases. Coroners have attributed the disembodied feet to suicide or accident — someone slipping and falling into the sea, for example, or a swimmer being swept into the ocean by a huge wave.

Nine of the feet have been identified, two of them from the same person, according to the Coroners Service. Most of the feet were men’s. In at least three cases, the shoes were size 12. Not all the remains belonged to Canadians.

In the latest case, Mr. Watson said, investigators would use DNA to try to identify its owner.

Despite the official conclusions, the washed-up feet still grip imaginations because of the murkiness of the discoveries and the likelihood that many of the deaths were not witnessed.

The phenomenon has spurred several hoaxes in which pranksters have stuffed animals’ feet into shoes to fool officials. One person used chicken bones.

Mr. Watson noted that the disarticulated feet had most likely separated naturally in the sea, where the footwear had helped preserve them. Because shoes are buoyant and currents are strong, he said, the remains could have washed in from as far north as Alaska.

In 2012, a foot found in a lake in Port Moody, northeast of Vancouver, was linked to a man whose boat had overturned while he was fishing in the area 25 years earlier.

In December last year, a Rottweiler discovered a lower left leg and foot with a white ankle sock in a black running shoe on Vancouver’s coast. A few months later, using DNA technology, investigators matched the remains to a 79-year-old Washington State man. Still, even then, questions remained. The man’s family told the police he had vanished months before after leaving home without his medication.
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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby peartreed » Mon May 14, 2018 2:30 pm

Living here along the B.C. coast I can assure you that no-one gets a kick out of finding the floating feet. Their discovery creates a sense of another impending step - waiting for the other shoe to drop. At least the ocean first washes them thoroughly with a salt water massage. And if you're going to wear foam sneakers on a dangerous sea voyage, be assured that Mother Nature will float your boat.
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Re: Another mystery foot in BC

Postby Pele'sDaughter » Wed Feb 13, 2019 3:33 pm

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The service said analysis of the foot, which was discovered inside a running shoe along the shoreline at the 30th Street beach access, suggests it belonged to a man under the age of 50.

The DNA evidence did not match any missing persons cases.

The deceased man was wearing a light grey Nike Free RN shoe with a black Nike swoosh logo and white base, white laces and a blue sock. The shoe was a men’s U.S. size 9.5 with an OrthoLite insert.
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This is the 15th human foot found on B.C. shorelines since August 2007. Ten of those feet have been matched to missing persons, while five remain unidentified.

Anyone with information that may assist is asked to contact West Vancouver Police at 604 925-7300 or call the BC Coroners Service at 1-877-660-5077 and BCCS.SIU@gov.bc.ca.
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