Severed Foot Found On US Beach

[FSTargetDrone]

Here is a strange one:

Sixth foot washes up

Shoe appearing to contain human remains found on West Coast

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY

August 5, 2008

VANCOUVER -- Authorities in Washington State and British Columbia are investigating another disembodied foot - the sixth to wash up on the shores of the West Coast in the past year.

The foot was found on a beach about 64 kilometres west of Port Angeles, Wash., 1.6 kilometres east of Pillar Point on the shores of the Juan de Fuca Strait. The woman who passed by it on her way to her campsite Friday thought nothing, at first, of what she thought was simply a lost shoe, said Clallam County Undersheriff Ronald Peregrin. But camping out that night, he said, she couldn't stop thinking about the news reports of a spate of washed-up feet in B.C.

The woman returned the next day, and with the help of a man who owns a campsite nearby, poured sand out of the shoe to find a sock containing bones and decomposing flesh. Undersheriff Peregrin said authorities did a search of the area but found nothing in connection with the foot, which is now under forensic examination in Seattle.

"The foot was fairly well decomposed. ... The shoe, at outward appearance, didn't appear to have been there, like, months and months and months," he said, adding that authorities didn't look closely at the sand-covered shoe because they didn't want to disturb it before a forensic investigation.

The right foot was encased in a black, low-top running shoe, which Undersheriff Peregrin estimated was a man's size 11. He said the brand has not been determined. A cursory examination revealed no signs of tool marks that would indicate the foot was forcibly severed, he said.

Four of the five shoes that have washed up off the B.C. coast since August, 2007, have been right feet. Only one was a woman's. B.C. RCMP announced last month that two of the feet - both in size 11 Nikes - belong to the same person, and they matched one of the shoes to a man from the Lower Mainland whose identity they haven't released.

The series of feet found in the West Coast waters created heated speculation as to their origins, and at least one hoax earlier this year, when what was thought to be a sixth foot turned out to be an animal paw wrapped in seaweed. Both Canadian and U.S. authorities noted it's possible this latest could be a hoax, and coroners must confirm that the remains are, indeed, human.

B.C. RCMP Sergeant Tim Shields said authorities in Canada are sharing information with Washington State authorities to determine whether the investigations are connected.

"Any evidence they find will be compared with the list of missing people in British Columbia to see if we can obtain a match," he said.

So this started to be noticed about a year ago, 4 or 5 feet have been found and there's now another one. Odd, no? Especially the part about there being no sign that at least one foot was forcibly removed...

[[R_H]]

That's incrediblely odd, and grisly. Could decomposition be responsible for removing the foot?

Odd, hasn't this article been printed before? And possiblely posted in N&P?

[Ender]

Fuck you Canada, quite polluting our beaches with your severed body parts!

[Ender]

That's incrediblely odd, and grisly. Could decomposition be responsible for removing the foot?

Odd, hasn't this article been printed before? And possiblely posted in N&P?

There have been 5 severed feet to wash ashore in Canada that you are probably thinking of.

[CaptainChewbacca]

I guess my question is... do any of them match?

[Rye]

I guess my question is... do any of them match?

I remember seeing something about this in the news. No, none of them match.

[FSTargetDrone]

That's incrediblely odd, and grisly. Could decomposition be responsible for removing the foot?

Odd, hasn't this article been printed before? And possiblely posted in N&P?

I searched for "foot washes up" and "feet washed up" and "Feet found" and "Canadian Foot Fetish" and any number of variations before posting, and I still found nothing.

Anyway, it's been happening for about a year. This is just the most recent find.

[FSTargetDrone]

I guess my question is... do any of them match?

I remember seeing something about this in the news. No, none of them match.

Actually:

RCMP announced last month that two of the feet - both in size 11 Nikes - belong to the same person, and they matched one of the shoes to a man from the Lower Mainland whose identity they haven't released.

[KlavoHunter]

I thought it was always the right foot, never a matching left.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

They found a body missing its feet in the San Juan Islands a few weeks ago as well. Pillar point by the way is one of the areas where Amy and I stopped back on our trip at the end of May to take pictures, and I will be traveling there again soon with another board member, like, in two weeks. Less, actually.

NONE of them have been removed by foul play--I just read the article twice and couldn't spot that reference--and it's fairly normal for the feet to separate from the body first during decomposition, so they're probably all accidental drowning victims whose feet have happened to remain afloat separate from their bodies due to the buoyancy of the kind of shoes they're wearing.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

They're probably all the victims of The Greek. Now we know where he went after leaving Baltimore.

[Falkenhorst]

Could they be the victims of some serial killer who is dumping them all in the same spot somewhere, and they're all following the same general path in the current until they wash up?

[Buddha]

I wonder if int'national waters will have a higher homicide rate than New York if this continues. They might have to get some DNA identification and look at the serious fact of murder. Even if this is an accident, it would help to verify death in a possible missing persons case.

[Death from the Sea]

maybe it is a group of people starting an amputee club? you know cutting off their own foot and maybe replacing it with a peg leg or something?

^crickets chirping^

ok, so that was a bad joke. sorry.


so anyway... the article said that one pair of shoes did match and belonged to a woman.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

Could they be the victims of some serial killer who is dumping them all in the same spot somewhere, and they're all following the same general path in the current until they wash up?

No, they're just all flowing down the main channel of the Inside Passage, which means they could be drowning victims from anywhere along its course or any of the rivers which empty into it.