Jolie Rouge

5th human foot washes up on Canada coast
By JEREMY HAINSWORTH, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A fifth human foot in a year has washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia, and this time it's a left one.

Police said two people out for a walk spotted the left foot floating in water off Westham Island on Monday morning.

Delta Police Const. Sharlene Brooks said officials are working with the B.C. Coroner's office to see if this foot is linked to any other partial remains recovered in the province.

Westham Island is at the mouth of the Fraser River, about 15 miles south of Vancouver.

"A passerby noticed a shoe floating in the water, pulled it in and notified police," Brooks said. "We're treating it as a criminal investigation."

While the similarities to the other found feet is strong, she said there's no indication this foot is related to the other cases. "We're certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it's just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now," she said.

The last foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, about one mile away from Monday's discovery.

The first in the series was found nearly a year ago on Jedidiah Island in the Strait of Georgia. Within days, another right foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island. The third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island in early February.

The origin on any of the remains is still unknown.

"This might take a long time," Brooks said. "This is not CSI." She said in order to identify the foot, other remains from the body or identifying material such as a DNA would be needed. "It's going to be pretty difficult."

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has said there's no evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims' legs by force.

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer based in Seattle, Wash., said when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the main parts like arms, legs, hands, feet and the head are usually what come off the body.

He said his theory is that the feet came along as a result of an accident that might have happened up along the Fraser River, that washed down and spread out along the Straight of Georgia.

Ebbesmeyer said when the third foot was found the feet could have drifted from as far as 1,000 miles away. Ebbesmeyer said the feet could have been severed or detached from their bodies on their own.

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freeby4me

Well thats a good thing. My first thought was from the TV show The Shield. (if you watch it you'll know what im talking about)

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Jolie Rouge

The whole thing puts me more in the mind of Criminal Minds ... ewww

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MsLynn

makes me think of DEXTER!!

dcut4

Very first thing that popped into my head too!!!

dangerousfem

thats what I thought when I first read it..lol.. garbage bags of body parts

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Jolie Rouge

A 6th human foot found on Canada's Pacific coast
By JEREMY HAINSWORTH, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 19 minutes ago

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Another human foot was found Wednesday on a British Columbia shoreline, the second this week and the sixth within a year in a bizarre mystery that has confounded police.

Like most of the others, it was a right foot encased in a running shoe, said Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He said a citizen spotted it on a beach and no other remains were found.

The latest find and most of the others were recovered within a few miles of each other along island shorelines in the Strait of Georgia, which lies to the south and west of the provincial capital of Vancouver.

Authorities say they haven't reached any conclusions about the origin of the feet but are working to determine if there are any links to any other partial remains recovered in the province. "Too my knowledge, we have not encountered anything like this," RCMP spokeswoman Annie Linteau told The Associated Press Wednesday evening. She declined to speculate if foul play was involved.

She did suggest that the latest find could be from the body of a missing fishermen or a plane crash victim, but she didn't provide any specifics. "In the first four cases, we did not find any evidence the feet were severed," she said. "It's too early to say if this foot was severed."

She said the fifth case was being handled by local police and was not under RCMP jurisdiction.

Terry Smith, the chief coroner of British Columbia, said this week that DNA profiles from the first three feet have not helped to determine identities because they have not matched any existing samples.

Smith and others have suggested that the feet didn't sink but floated to shore because they were encased in buoyant running shoes.

The first three feet washed ashore about 40 miles southwest of Vancouver on islands in the Strait of Georgia. The first foot was discovered last summer by beachcombers. Days later, a foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker. The remains of a third right foot were found Feb 8.

The fourth foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, about 15 miles south of Vancouver. About a mile away, the fifth foot — and only left foot, was discovered Monday morning floating in water off Westham Island.

Local speculation has been rife with some reports claiming they belonged to victims of violent crimes or a plane crash.

Tresoor said major crime investigators from the Campbell River detachment, along with staff from the coroner's office, were investigating at the scene. "The object will ultimately be examined by a forensic pathologist in attempts to determine the source of the foot and if it is related to other feet recently found," Tresoor said in a statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/...RmzrL28DKs0NUE


Naw .. it is all just a coincidence .....

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gmyers

It sounds like they may have a serial killer. Its too much of a coincidence.

Jolie Rouge

How many undeclared plane crashes and peg-leggged fishermen do they have up there ??

I don't know how fishermen dress up in the Frozen Nawth; here they do not wear running shoes ( slip & slide on a slick deck ) but Pierre' Part Reboks ( hip or knee length white rubber boots ) are the standard.

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