Another mystery foot in BC

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I have no idea where to put this other than here. I don't think it warrants its own topic. Anyhow.

Man's body found along beach

Seattle police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on the beach about one mile north of Carkeek Park on Monday.

Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said a woman walking on the beach discovered the body just before 9 a.m.

The dead man appears to be in his 40s, Witt said, but he has not been identified and it is not clear how he died.

The man was wearing a hospital gown, but "at this point we don't know how the body got there," Witt said.

Detectives are collecting evidence in the area.

http://ballard.komonews.com/content/man ... long-beach

[MinM]

CBC News - British Columbia - Small human foot washes ashore on West Coast

Authorities are seeking more information about another small human foot that has washed ashore in Washington state.

The right foot was still inside a boy's size 6 "OzArk Trail" hiking boot, and likely belonged to a juvenile or small adult, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said Tuesday in Tacoma, about 40 kilometres south of Seattle and 225 kilometres south of Vancouver.

Fulghum said the boots were sold in Wal-mart stores from 2004 to 2005.

The foot, found early last week, is believed to have floated in from either the Puyallup River or Puget Sound. It's the second human foot to wash ashore in Washington state in four months.

In late August, a right foot believed to be that of a woman or child washed up on a beach in Whidbey Island, about 100 kilometres south of Vancouver.

It's not yet known if the cases are linked or if they have any connection to cases in B.C., where seven feet have washed ashore in the past four years, Fulghum said.
© The Canadian Press, 2010


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... z189ZDM900

[Pele'sDaughter]

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Coroner ... story.html

Coroner links two severed feet found in 2008 to missing Surrey man

The mystery of two severed feet that washed ashore on British Columbia islands in 2008 has been solved.

The B.C. Coroners Service on Tuesday said the feet -each found in a Size 11 Nike running shoe -belonged to a 21-year-old Surrey resident who was reported missing in January 2004.

The identity has not been released, though Province files show a Surrey man was reported missing on Jan. 4, 2004, after telling his family he was going to the Sikh temple at Scott Road and 70A Avenue.

His car was found on the Alex Fraser Bridge. He was reportedly wearing Nike running shoes at the time. Foul play was not suspected.

The man has not been seen since. However, Surrey RCMP said Tuesday that the missing person's file remains open.

The two feet identified Tuesday were found on Feb. 8 and June 16, 2008, on Valdez Island and Westham Island, respectively.

The coroner said the feet became separated from the body through natural processes.

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Another human foot washes ashore in B.C.

The Associated Press

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, say a human foot inside a running shoe has washed ashore, the latest in roughly a dozen such cases since 2007.

Police say the foot and leg bone were seen late Tuesday afternoon floating along the shore of Vancouver's False Creek.

Police so far have no theories about how the foot ended up in the water.

In the past four years, about a dozen feet encased in shoes have washed up on beaches near Vancouver, along the southern Georgia Strait and off Washington state.

Most of the remains are unidentified, although investigators said at least two of the feet belong to men who were reported missing.

In previous cases, police said it appeared the feet separated from bodies naturally in the water and foul play wasn't suspected.

[Searcher08]

I read that there is a massive aquatic garbage dump consisting of several tsunami pulverised Japanese towns, slowly heading its way across the Pacific and expected to start making landfall on the west coast in about 18 months. There will probably be hundreds of feet in sneakers... ewwwww.

[MinM]

Steve Fonseca, manager of the Identification and Disaster Response Unit for the B.C. Coroners Service,
with a boot that was found in Sasamat Lake with a foot inside.

Foot found in hiking boot on shore of Port Moody's Sasamat Lake

By Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun November 7, 2011 4:06 PM

The B.C. Coroners service is investigating the discovery of a foot found encased in a hiking boot this weekend on the shore of Sasamat Lake in Port Moody.

The bones of the foot were in a sock inside a men's size 12 black Cougar brand hiking boot.

The boot was first spotted by a youth attending a camp at the Sasamat outdoor centre Friday morning.

The boot was floating some metres offshore.

The boat washed up on shore the following day where it was found by the youth and others, who then notified the police.

The BC coroners service say the human remains belong to a male adult.

The preliminary autopsy found no impressions or markings that would indicate foul play.

The foot is the ninth found in southwestern B.C. in the past four years, but the first to be found in fresh rather than saltwater and the first to be found in a hiking boot, rather than in a running shoe.

Eight feet belonging to six different people were discovered along the B.C. coast between August 2007 and August 2011. Six of the feet have since been identified as belonging to four people. The remaining two appear to belong to two males whose identities are yet to be determined.
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

http://www.vancouversun.com/Foot+found+ ... story.html

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[Project Willow]

Aha!

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[streeb]

http://www.straight.com/article-593596/vancouver/possible-human-foot-washes-english-bay-vancouver

Another human foot may have just washed up on the B.C. coast.

Vancouver police say a person reported finding just after 2 p.m. what appears to be human bones inside a boot.

The boot was found in the sand along the shoreline at the dog park by the Vancouver Maritime Museum at the foot of Arbutus Street.

The B.C. Coroners Service has been notified, and the area has been cordoned off by police.

[Freitag]

http://www.straight.com/article-593596/vancouver/possible-human-foot-washes-english-bay-vancouver

Another human foot may have just washed up on the B.C. coast.

Vancouver police say a person reported finding just after 2 p.m. what appears to be human bones inside a boot.

The boot was found in the sand along the shoreline at the dog park by the Vancouver Maritime Museum at the foot of Arbutus Street.

The B.C. Coroners Service has been notified, and the area has been cordoned off by police.

Update: The bones are not human.

[Project Willow]

http://www.vancouversun.com/Disembodied+foot+solves+year+mystery/6172394/story.html

Disembodied foot ID solves 25-year-old mystery

Postmedia News February 17, 2012

VANCOUVER — A disembodied foot found on a B.C. shore last year belongs to a fisherman who died in January 1987, the BC Coroners Service said Friday.

Stefan Zahorujko's boat was found overturned in Sasamat Lake in Port Moody, B.C., on Jan. 5, 1987.

Despite repeated searches, the 65-year-old's body was never found and it was presumed he had fallen from the boat and drowned.

Then, on Nov. 4, 2011, a hiking boot was noticed floating offshore by a youth attending a camp at the Sasamat Outdoor Centre.

The next morning, the boot was found washed up on the northwest shore of the lake. Once it was retrieved, a sock with foot bones was found within it.

The BC Coroners service said in a news release Friday that an autopsy indicated the foot had not been mechanically removed, but rather "separated through the natural processes that occur in water."

Between August 2007 and November 2011, nine feet belonging to seven people were discovered in British Columbia.

Seven of the feet have been identified as belonging to five individuals.

"Work continues to identify the remaining two, which originate from two males. To date, no evidence indicates that any of the deaths are suspicious," the release said.

© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Disembodied ... z1mltb8blg

[Jeff]

Children's shoes containing bones found on Victoria beach

Aug 30, 2012

Children's shoes containing what police describe as unidentified "bone and a 'meat-like' material" were found on a Victoria beach on Thursday afternoon.

A passerby found the first children's shoe, partially buried in the sand on a beach near Clover Point. The shoe was placed on a nearby rock before the person who found it called police, who then cordoned off the area.

"A thorough search began at that time, resulting in two subsequent discoveries of shoes with possible bone inside, one of which is also children’s sized," said a statement issued by police.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... toria.html


So many body parts have been turning up this summer, The Toronto Star considered this headline a necessity today: "Dismemberment still a rarity in Canada."

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Children's shoes containing bones found on Victoria beach

Aug 30, 2012

Children's shoes containing what police describe as unidentified "bone and a 'meat-like' material" were found on a Victoria beach on Thursday afternoon.

A passerby found the first children's shoe, partially buried in the sand on a beach near Clover Point. The shoe was placed on a nearby rock before the person who found it called police, who then cordoned off the area.

"A thorough search began at that time, resulting in two subsequent discoveries of shoes with possible bone inside, one of which is also children’s sized," said a statement issued by police.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... toria.html


So many body parts have been turning up this summer, The Toronto Star considered this headline a necessity today: "Dismemberment still a rarity in Canada."

Thanks for posting this Jeff. It still is mysterious about what dialectic or counterpoint, in my view, the media and law enforcement intend to present about this gruesome "trend" as it were.

As you pointed out in the main Magnotta thread, were Canadians to go looking for them, surely it appears that body parts would turn up everywhere.

Yet something makes me think that if this were happening in America, a POTUS/candidate would vow eternal hostility against dismembering domestic terrorists, even with metaphoric blood and gore sputtering down their imperialist lips

I can not gather what an agenda might be other than to generate disturbing watercooler talk, internet postings and "keep calm, carry on" hypnotism in the populace. Ruined a great summer for me since I don't believe in this ridiculous a level of coincidence.

[Pele'sDaughter]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... tario.html

Human torso found in suitcase pulled from Lake Ontario
Police probe possible connection to Liu killing

A suitcase containing a human torso was found in Lake Ontario by boaters, Toronto police say.

Two boaters found the suitcase floating about 2½ kilometres from shore. They towed it to shore at Bluffer's Park, in the city's east end. Police examined the contents and confirmed they were human remains.

A post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. Police said it's too early to determine whether the torso is a male or female.

Police said it's too early to say whether Wednesday's discovery is related to the killing of Guang Hua Liu, whose body parts were discovered in east-end Toronto and Mississauga, Ont., in August. Liu's torso was not recovered by police.

Her former boyfriend Chun Qi Jiang has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Peel Regional Police are heading the investigation into Liu's killing and confirmed they are working with Toronto police to see if there is any connection between the Liu case and Wednesday's discovery of body parts.

Two other cases involving dismembered victims have made headlines in Canada this year.

In May, parts of a victim's body turned up in Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal. Police would soon identify the victim as Jun Lin, an international student who had been studying at Montreal’s Concordia University.

His alleged killer, Luka Rocco Magnotta, was arrested in a Berlin café and subsequently extradited to Canada to face charges of first-degree murder, indignity to a human body and other criminal counts.

Last week, a woman's torso was spotted floating in the Niagara River. Police are still trying to identify the victim in that case.



Edited to add: I intended to post this in other thread(s) about Magnotta, but one of the networks we support went down and the rest is history.

[Jeff]

But no cause for alarm or anything.

Human leg found floating in Vancouver waterway

Police say no reason yet to suspect foul play in connection with grisly discovery

Oct 5, 2012 8:19 PM PT

The lower part of a human leg has been found floating in False Creek under the Cambie Street Bridge, Vancouver police say.

Two fishermen returning from the Strait of Georgia called 911 after they found the section of leg and foot connected to a running shoe at about 3:30 p.m. PT, Sgt. Randy Fincham said.

Fincham said police and the B.C. Coroners Service were called in to investigate and after examination, the coroner determined that they were human remains.

There is no indication of an identity at this stage in the investigation, Fincham said.

Despite the unusual and grisly discovery, Fincham said police had no reason yet to suspect foul play.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... ridge.html

[RocketMan]

I don't even pretend to have a clue as to what this may mean... but there ya go.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/world ... =asia&_r=0

The footless corpse of an Afghan man missing since November was found on Tuesday near the former American Special Forces base to which he was last seen being taken, according to Afghan officials and victims’ representatives.

Afghan investigators said that after his disappearance, the man, Sayid Mohammad, was seen in a video being tortured by an Afghan-American named Zakaria Kandahari, whom the officials identified as the chief interpreter for an American Army Special Forces A Team stationed at the base. The American military denies that Mr. Kandahari is an American citizen and said he was no longer working for the A Team when the video was made.

Mr. Mohammad’s body was found about 200 yards outside the perimeter of the base, in Nerkh District in Wardak Province. Mohammad Hanif Hanafi, the district governor, said it was found by laborers digging a water ditch when they unearthed what appeared to be a military-style black body bag.

Relatives of Mr. Mohammad said his corpse was largely complete, except both feet had been cut off. Afghan officials say the partial remains and clothing of another missing person had been found earlier near the base, which is now occupied by Afghan Special Forces after the American unit left in March.

Afghan officials are seeking Mr. Kandahari’s arrest on murder, torture and abuse of prisoner charges, and accuse the American military of shielding him from capture.

American military officials have insisted they do not have Mr. Kandahari and do not know where he is; they also say that repeated military investigations into the disappearances and murders of at least 15 people from Wardak Province have shown no wrongdoing by American soldiers. The results of those investigations, however, have not been made public.