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VANCOUVER, B.C. - For the fourth time in less than a year, a right human foot has been found off one of four different islands in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia. Police said Friday that they do not know if there are any links among the feet. Speculation in the region is rife, including that the feet were from slaying victims or they were the remains from a plane crash. Police have not reached any conclusions. Police said a passer-by found a human foot in a shoe on Kirkland Island in the South Arm of the Fraser River on Thursday. "It's certainly a mystery we intend on solving," Police Constable Annie Linteau said. "It's certainly very unusual." Last August, a foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island, just a few days after another foot was discovered by beachcombers on Jedidiah Island. The remains of a fourth right foot were found on the east side of Valdez Island on Feb 8. There is no evidence to suggest the foot -- or any or the previous three-- was forcibly removed, Linteau said. "All four were wearing socks and were in a running shoe," Linteau said. Two of the feet are size 12. Police have not released the size of the others. There has been speculation the feet may have come from a plane which hit the water three years ago, killing five men off Quadra Island. Only one body was recovered. The victims' families paid for the plane wreckage to be pulled from the depths but there were no bodies inside the wreckage. Linteau could not comment on whether or not the feet were from the crash victims. "That's something we are exploring as well," she said. British Columbia chief coroner Terry Smith said DNA profiles have been taken from the first three feet. He could not comment on the investigation or the new finding. The fourth foot is now at his office, Linteau said. Linteau said missing persons files are also being examined. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a former professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who studies floating objects, said when the third foot was found that the feet could have drifted from as far as 1,000 miles. Ebbesmeyer said it may not be a coincidence they were found in the same area. He said left shoes and right shoes often tend to wash up at different times at different places because they float differently. He added that there are beaches that collect mostly rights and others that collect mostly lefts because the winds or currents sort out left and right foot wear. Ebbesmeyer speculated the feet belong to people who have disappeared while out on the water. http://www.msnbc.msn...99880&GT1=43001

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If you were to kidnap and torture people, cutting off their right foot would help ensure they wouldn't run away, at least not to fast.

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Or maybe it's from the 'cult of the right foot'. :tinfoil:

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VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP)  Five human feet that washed ashore on Canada's southwestern coast have become an international science puzzle, and sparked intense speculation about whether murder or a tragedy is the cause. The fifth foot to wash up in less than 10 months was found Monday by a passerby on the Fraser River in a suburb of this major port city, local police officer Sharlene Brooks told AFP. "He saw a shoe floating in the water, pulled it to the shore and called police," Brooks said. The feet are all in the care of the British Columbia Coroner's Service, which is being deluged with media calls from around the world, according to chief coroner Terry Smith. "This one stretches everyone's imagination," Smith told AFP, "but we really need to remember that these remains are someone's loved one. I'm reluctant to treat this as some sort of crime thriller." Police were close-lipped about the type of shoe encasing the fifth foot, its size and its gender -- but did reveal that it is the first left foot to be found. The other four were all right feet encased in running shoes, and beginning last August they washed up on area islands, said Annie Linteau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada's national police force. Linteau said the force's major crime unit is coordinating the investigation with local police. "We're looking at all possibilities ... and that includes that they could have been connected," she told AFP. But it was not yet clear if a crime had been committed, she said, noting: "Our examination has found no evidence that the feet were severed, meaning there were tool markings, etc. We have no evidence to support that." Several experts said the feet could have been carried to western Canada on ocean currents from almost anywhere in the world. It's also possible they originated inland in the province of British Columbia and washed down the Fraser River, said retired American oceanography professor Curtis Ebbesmeyer of Seattle. But finding five feet in a row, with no other body parts, suggests that "something is going on that is not natural," said Ebbesmeyer, who researches how ocean currents carry floating objects around the globe. That body parts can remain intact in water indefinitely expands the possible cause and location of origin. "In a survival suit they can go for years," said Ebbesmeyer. "Normal street clothes come apart at joints that are exposed, like an ankle. But if they're wearing jeans then the legs might stay together. In a tight-fit T-shirt the torso might stay together." Criminologist Gail Anderson of Simon Fraser University here, an international specialist in forensic decomposition from microbes and scavengers, said the appearance of five feet is not necessarily sinister. "I'm beginning to think it might be a boat or plane that went down, and then something shifted, through seismic activity or a boat, that is making it release all these body parts now," she said. "The reason only feet have been found is because they are in running shoes and protected," Anderson told AFP, saying a shoe might also make a foot more likely to float, which means it could have come from "miles and miles away." Feet normally come apart from legs in water, said Anderson, adding that flesh immersed in water turns into adipocere tissue, a soap-like substance, that no microbes or scavengers like crabs will eat. Smith said the coroner's service is testing the feet for DNA while a forensic anthropologist will draw up "a broader profile of the individuals... for height, age, sex, those kinds of things." He said the first three feet belonged to males, but tests of their DNA have not yet been matched to anyone.

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And another... http://www.theglobea...PStory/National

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Looks like it's time to bump this thread. Looks like they just found another.



Running shoe with human foot in it found in Vancouver's False Creek



Another foot has washed ashore in Vancouver, police said Tuesday

Read more: http://www.canada.co...l#ixzz1WdwA3sOe

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Another one washed up.

http://www.msnbc.msn...s/#.TrsO41Zau70