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Fifth Severed Foot Found On The B.c. Shoreline
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Tue Jun 17, 2008 @ 12:59am |
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IAN BAILEY From Tuesday's Globe and Mail June 16, 2008 at 9:51 PM EDT VANCOUVER — Yet another human foot has washed ashore in British Columbia waters – the fifth such gruesome discovery in the past year. Delta police said yesterday a couple out for a morning walk found a left foot partially submerged in the water on Westham Island in Ladner, south of Vancouver. “[They] observed a shoe floating in the water, thought is suspicious and called police and we've determined it to be human remains,” said Constable Sharlene Brooks of the Delta Police Department. Police were on the scene by about 10:30 a.m. Constable Brooks said the foot was in a shoe, but that police will not be releasing details of the type of footwear at this point in the investigation. Asked about the other cases, Constable Brooks said “as far as confirming a link, we're not there. It is very speculative.” The most recent similar discovery was on May 22: A right foot wearing a sock and running shoe washed ashore on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River. The foot was found by a man walking his dog. The other feet – all of which have also been wearing sneakers – have been found in the Gulf Islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Police and coroners' officials have been stumped by the mystery of where the feet came from or whether they are linked. There has been no evidence the feet have been purposely severed, leading to speculation that the feet broke off human remains that were in the water for a long time. Delta Police are now looking for answers. Investigators with the force's criminal investigation section are working with the B.C. Coroners Service and other police agencies to establish the identity of the foot and see if it is linked to the other cases. “We're treating this as a criminal investigation,” said Constable Brooks. She said the police will not be releasing further information about the case until forensic examination work is completed. [ www.theglobeandmail.com ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Jun 17, 2008 @ 1:02am |
 Coolness: 686335 | Police and coroners' officials have been stumped by the mystery
LOL |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Tue Jun 17, 2008 @ 1:12am |
 Coolness: 151205 | lmao |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Tue Jun 17, 2008 @ 3:46pm |
 Coolness: 158980 | Straight out of a Dexter episode. (Not really, but it bears resemblance :D) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Tue Jun 17, 2008 @ 9:20pm |
 Coolness: 123055 | damn, they're onto me |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 9:57pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 10:05pm |
| Coolness: 686335 | Wow, this is fucking crazy! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Thu Jun 19, 2008 @ 12:51am |
| Coolness: 151205 | I love how in one paragraph the police state that there is no reason to believe that there is foul play involved, and then a few paragraphs later the woman who found the foot says that the foot looked to have been severed clean. Hasn't there been a string of violent gang related murders in the Vancouver area in the past year? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Thu Jun 19, 2008 @ 8:47am |
 Coolness: 295720 | I think Vancouver might be attack by hordes of zombies soon.
They just walk real slow in the water, some might have lost parts... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kernel replied on Fri Jun 20, 2008 @ 7:54pm |
 Coolness: 34855 | Well they know for a fact the 6th foot is a fake... but for the others that really fucked |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Sat Jul 19, 2008 @ 2:48am |
| Coolness: 193420 | NEWS UPDATE
Investigators match severed foot to missing man ROD MICKLEBURGH Globe and Mail Update July 18, 2008 at 9:09 PM EDT VANCOUVER — Police are one step closer to solving the puzzle of the washed-up, severed feet. Forensic investigators have now connected one of the five feet found at scattered locations along the B.C. coast to a specific individual, RCMP spokesman Corp. Pierre LeMaitre confirmed yesterday. The officer told CTV News that the foot belonged to a depressed man who has been missing. Police have ruled out foul play, he added. The identification came just a week after police publicized photos of the sneakers that contained the five severed feet, all found within a 10-month period, in a mystery that has attracted world-wide interest and media coverage. Corp. LeMaitre said the identification was made through matching “familial DNA”, and family members of the victim are being contacted. The identity of the dead man is being withheld. Meanwhile, in yet another bizarre development in the intriguing case, a coroner on the picturesque San Juan Islands in the Strait of Georgia disclosed that a footless body was discovered 16 months ago on the eastern shores Orcas Island, the most northern of the American island chain. But despite the torrent of publicity over the five severed feet in recent weeks, coroner Randall Gaylord said that he did not advise British Columbia investigators about the discovery until Thursday. “I certainly could have made an inquiry sooner. No question about that,” said Mr. Gaylord, “but I never knew enough about the missing feet, what size or type of shoe they were in, or whether they were men or women. “And who do you contact, and what are you going to find out?” A possible connection between the detached feet found in B.C. and the Orcas Island footless body came to him just recently when he was reading a newspaper about the case in his kitchen. “There was a report of shoes with no bodies. And I thought, gee, I have a body with no shoes. I wonder if they could be related,” Mr. Gaylord recounted. The first foot was discovered Aug. 20 last year on Jedediah Island. Six days later, a second foot was found washed ashore on Gabriola Island. Subsequent foot discoveries were made on Feb. 2, May 22 and June 16. All were found inside sneakers, sparking speculation that the feet remained buoyant until they drifted onto various beaches because of the footwear's low density. Police have said that none of the feet – four right and one left – appear to have been intentionally severed, but likely detached during natural degeneration. Two of the feet are from the same person, and one is a woman's, according to forensic investigators. Mr. Gaylord said the body discovered by a hiker on a remote beach of Orcas Island was mostly skeletal remains. It was missing the right arm, right hand, left hand and both feet. No foot bones were found near the remains, the coroner said. However, sheriffs did discover an argyle sock and a slip-on shoe close by, he added. Subsequent forensic work assessed the dead person as a male, about five foot, 10 inches tall, of white, Hispanic or mixed Asian race, who died between two and 12 months before being found, Mr. Gaylord told the Globe and Mail. “There was no indication of violence.” He said there are excellent dental remains, including several gold inlays. “He had the means to have some nice dental work done...but slowly, this became a cold case.” Jeff Dolan of the B.C. Coroners' Service said the service and police are taking the Orcas Island discovery seriously. “Obviously, this is going to generate an intense amount of interest to our investigators.... A number of waterways in B.C. do run into Washington State,” Mr. Dolan said. [ www.theglobeandmail.com ] |
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