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Aha! Nudged to show someone Tania, I believe.

.....glad I don't own a pair of trainers........

Still find it weird, though it make sense that runners would be buoyant and could rise to the surface after disarticulation from the leg. Sad way to go, sad for the families, the mighty sea holds many secrets.
Mary in Ontario

Hi Deb


did you hear the interviews today with the forensic scientist from Simon Fraser University?


She said that an NZ colleague had told her that they find around 15 shoes and feet a YEAR washing up on NZ shores.


The forensic experts are considering it "not surprising" as so many people are lost "at sea" ........ falling off boats, boat wrecks, plane wrecks, and "jumpers".




sylvia

So spooky, Deb, wonder if they will ever find out what really happened. Seems some of the feet have been matched with people presumably found dead elsewhere, it wasn't very clear in the report about how those people died or where.

Lizx

http://www.vancouversun.com/Running+shoe+with+human+foot+found+Vancouver+False+Creek/5330654/story.html

Another foot found.
Liz I'm sure you would be intersted. Funny That is exactly a year after I posted last, Something to do with the tides?

Footloose and fancy free Mick, hence the losses.

Wonder if any further info found ?

Lizx

probably "legless" as well!!

Somebody must be footless and fancy free.


xxxxxx mick

Yet another one found!

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Updated+Ninth+human+foot+found+washed+West+Coast/3452455/story.html

It's time to call in Inspector Foote of the Yard!


xxxxxx mick

Really weird that you should start this thread again Deb....It was only last week that I was pondering on it. I did wonder if any more had been found and if the authorities had found out who the feet belonged to......They must belong to someone....surely.

I feel embarrassed by my flippant remarks of last year Deb, I am sorry.

This is really spooky tho isn't it? Surely one of the feet must have been identified as belonging to someone by now?

Hope you are ok

Lizx

The mystery continues:

http://www.theprovince.com/news/videos/index.html#dyAHkMJ8YQEKlevvvaKtwhkruJvz8vgD

Deb

Like the pun Deb, a good STEP in our investigation lol

The latest:

DNA tests have confirmed a match between a left foot that washed up in the Fraser River last month and a right foot found in May on Kirkland Island, B.C.

The feet belonged to the same woman, whose identity has not yet been determined, the B.C. Coroners Service said Friday.

The left foot was discovered on Nov. 11 in Finn Slough in the south arm of the Fraser in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. The right foot was located May 22 on Kirkland Island, also in the Fraser River.

Both feet were found in size 7 New Balance running shoes.

"Investigations by the RCMP, Delta Police Department and the coroners service to determine the identities for this pair, the pair of male feet matched on July 10 and a remaining right foot are ongoing," Terry Foster, a senior public affairs officer, said in a news release.

'There is no forensic evidence at this time to support anything other than disarticulation.'
— Terry Foster, B.C. Coroners Service"An ID was confirmed on the right foot found on Aug. 20, 2007, at Jedediah Island near Parksville but was withheld at the request of the family," he said.

Six feet have washed up on B.C.'s coastline since August 2007.

"In all cases, these remains appear to have naturally separated from the body. There is no forensic evidence at this time to support anything other than disarticulation as there are no tool or trauma marks on the remains," Foster said.

A sneaker encasing a human foot was discovered south of B.C. in Washington State in August this year.

The RCMP have said that size 11 shoe does not fit with any of those found on the feet in B.C. But authorities in Washington said the shoe could have come from Canada due to the nature of the currents that move through the Juan de Fuca Strait, which separates Vancouver Island and Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

RCMP spokeswoman Const. Annie Linteau said Friday that matching the feet is only one part of the investigation.

"It's certainly a good step in our investigation," she said. "We still have to look at all relevant missing persons' files [and] the DNA profiles that we have on file in an attempt to ID those remains," she said.

It is very strange, where on earth are the rest of the bodies!

Any news as to whether they've been able to use the DNA profiles to figure out the geographical ancestry of the remains? They must know whether they come from Asia or the North American continents.

Rose

Hi Deb,
I had bookmarked the old thread as well but it has gone into the great beyond.

I saw on the news tonight that the authorities think there is a possibility that this new foot is a match found to one of the earlier ones. What has been going on is sure very strange!

Teresa