Another severed foot found in B.C. waters

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KOMO-TV STAFF and NEWS SERVICES
Published 11:01 p.m., Tuesday, August 30, 2011

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Yet another running shoe with what appears to be a severed foot inside has washed ashore on a British Columbia shoreline.

CTV-TV reports a person spotted this latest shoe floating in False Creek near Downtown Vancouver Tuesday afternoon.

" quite disturbing -- quite a discovery to make," Vancouver Police Const. Jana McGuinness told CTV.

Police cordoned off the area and the BC Coroners Service has taken charge of the investigation, CTV said.


Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Another-severed-foot-found-in-B-C-waters-2148616.php

[MrScorpio]

1. Can anyone say "Serial Killer"?

Looks like the NW might have another one

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Or perhaps...

a funeral-industry worker with a bizarre sense of humor?

In the HBO series Six Feet Under, the cynical daughter got revenge against her boyfriend - who blabbed & it got around after she gave in to his request for a 'toe job' - by obtaining a severed foot from her funeral-home residence & put it in his school locker.

Not saying this is the case - just throwing out possibilities.

[MrScorpio]

8. I did give some thought to the mishandling of corpses...

But the fact that the severed foot still was inside of a tennis shoe… Perhaps, a victim who was killed while jogging alone, makes the mishandling possibility a little less than likely.

[uppityperson]

11. sneakers can float a long ways, across oceans

[Xithras]

14. Almost no chance of that.

In the past, the feet have sometimes been found in pairs that were matched via DNA, The odds of two feet floating across the ocean together and washing up on the same section of shoreline is virtually nil. Besides, one of the feet was actually traced back to a Washington man several years ago.

My money is on serial killer, or corpse abuse in a mortuary.

[uppityperson]

17. people drowning in AK or BC coast? I see now that they'v ID's 1 foot, have matches of

2 people for 4 more. Could be killer, corpse abuse, drownings in AK or along BC coast. When the first few showed up, there was some research done on where they could have floated from. Which was the WA man, is that the one this article talks about IDing? Thanks.

Living in the area here

[kentuck]

2. Dexter moved from Florida?

?

[xchrom]

3. oy. scary. nt

[Aerows]

5. Ewww

Imagine if you are the poor soul that discovers the foot :(. Obviously, it's horrible for the people who have the feet removed, but it would probably be pretty scarring to be the one who finds the foot!

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. The question is, are these people still alive?

Were their feet removed to keep them from escaping? Are they being used as slaves somewhere?

[Aerows]

19. I don't know

It's horrible to contemplate either way.

[mmonk]

6. Another one? What is taking officials there so long to figure this out?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Are they getting DNA from these severed feet and comparing to

missing persons? Is there a DNA database for missing persons? I should think that if someone goes missing, one of the first things you would do is get DNA samples, whether from the missing person through collected hair, or immediate family members so a match up can be made if, say, the missing person's foot shows up on a Vancouver beach. It seems obvious that DNA match ups would reveal any number of connections between the victims - sex, age, last known whereabouts - that could be used to narrow the profile of who is doing this.

[Historic NY]

9. In the States there is a database for recovered remains & missing persons..

its called....CODIS, the Combined Data Index System. Very successful and is continually updated.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/codis

[uppityperson]

12. A couple of them were matched up to each other and someone, but sneakers can float across

oceans. The foot in the sneaker can stay "fresh" for quite some time, separating from the ankle. Could be from someone dying a year or more ago. I used to wonder about plane crashes when one side of ft were showing up, but now both right and left are, or victims of tsunami or other disasters.

One of the "ft" found was fake, someone put a dog foot into a shoe.

If they come from across the Pacific, could be anyone. It is really weird.

[TwilightGardener]

13. I wonder if the feet have been relatively intact and not badly decomposed?

They should be able to at least tell if the feet were severed recently. Can they tell the race of the victims? Have they been finding empty shoes? Have they mapped the currents? Seems like there should be a rash of missing people, all wearing running shoes...I don't know why it's taking them YEARS to solve this. So weird.

[uppityperson]

15. More on them...

The first severed foot, discovered in August 2007 on Jedediah Island, northeast of Nanaimo, was associated with a deceased man whose name police withheld at the request of his family.
A man's right foot found on Gabriola Island in August 2007 remains unidentified.
Two feet found on Valdez and Westham islands in July 2008 belonged to the same man.
And two female feet found in Richmond, B.C., in December 2008 belonged to the same woman.

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Sneakers can float across the ocean. Looks like they've ID'd 1 foot, 2 each belong to 2 people, 1 solo foot. Weird indeed

[TwilightGardener]

16. They identified the first victim--I would think they would have something to go on, then.

His habits, his whereabouts, his associations, etc. Did he die in a hospital or nursing home, did he disappear, was he a vagrant, etc. Have to say this doesn't look good for Canadian law enforcement.

[uppityperson]

18. They've shown up here in WA coasts too

[applegrove]

20. Scarry. Unfortunately BC is known for its transient population and thus

murderers. Let us hope this is the one that breaks open the case.