Feet Washing Ashore On Northwest Coast

[Dark Star]

In Vancouver, British Columbia, three right feet have made their way to islands in the Strait of Georgia. All three feet still had their sneakers on, thank goodness.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN1559287520080215?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=451

[ells9824]

GABRIOLA ISLAND, British Columbia -- Should a fourth human foot float ashore here in the evergreen Gulf Islands off the west coast of Canada, the person who finds it would no doubt want to know the answers to three questions.

Is it a right foot?

Is it wearing a running shoe?

Is the shoe a size 12?

After all, for the first three feet that surfaced on the rocky coastlines of three separate islands in the Strait of Georgia over the last six months, the answer has been yes in nearly every case. The only uncertainty is what size shoe No. 3 was wearing when it was spotted by a boater on the beach of remote Valdez Island on Feb. 8. The coroner's office, facing a bit of a news media blitz, has yet to say.

Story (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mystery-feet-mar04,1,6204491.story)


So like...do they dna test the feet to see if any are pairs? Or is this some weird cult that cuts off your feet so you can't run away?

[Athena]

Whoa...that's crazy. If they've all been right feet, that means they came from three different people.

Who's gunning for the right feet of male joggers? How weird is that?

[AnalBreeze]

Huh, so that's where they ended up! :rolleyes:

[Dark Star]

Hmmm I think we got the same story here? I'd stuck mine in foreign crimes.
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1629

[TXChris]

Damn, now THAT'S scary. I'm a runner. I happen to like my right foot. AND I wear a size 12 in running shoes.

[Unamused Cat]

That is taking a foot fetish to the extreme. *shudders*

[ells9824]

That is taking a foot fetish to the extreme. *shudders*

Guess having two left feet isn't always bad.... *snicker*

[Morbid]

Slapped, shoved, spread, fucked, moved and merged. Yee-Haw!

[swivel]

Slapped, shoved, spread, fucked, moved and merged. Yee-Haw!

Ewwww.

Am I the first person in here since you did all this?

GROSS!


What is everyone's guess with this story? What hypothesis makes sense? Do we have a serial killer here? Could it be that someone is chopping up bodies and dumping them Dexter-Style, and the sneakers are providing enough buoyancy to have them get loose?
If so, what are the chances that we get three right feet?

Let's assume the 4th foot is a left foot. If so, the coincidence isn't that great, and we could have a total of 3 victims.

My guess is that this has something to do with all that "Free" healthcare up in Canada. When you give shit away, you are just asking for crap like this.

[ells9824]

What is everyone's guess with this story? What hypothesis makes sense? Do we have a serial killer here?

My guess is that this has something to do with all that "Free" healthcare up in Canada. When you give shit away, you are just asking for crap like this.

The article dated yesterday has a lot of new information. This paragraph is particularly troubling to me...

Even with DNA samples obtained from Nos. 1 and 2, and with constant calls from residents suggesting whom the feet might have helped propel in the past, no identifications have been made and no causes of death determined. Nor has anyone reported finding any left feet.

I doubt its disease related because of the shoes. There was another interesting little thing in the 2nd article, also, about tides, and where things would've had to come from to end up there.

"They might be aggregated somewhere else," said Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a former professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who has made a career of tracking the routes of floating objects, including (empty) sneakers spilled from cargo ships. Ebbesmeyer said the opposite shapes of left and right shoes could make them respond differently to currents.

"Running shoes are quite buoyant," said Ebbesmeyer, who is completing a book, "The Floating World," to be published by HarperCollins. "They would tend to encase a foot and keep it floating. A body comes apart naturally; it's called disarticulation. The head usually comes off first. The parts of the body that are protected will last the longest. The shoe usually floats soles up, so that might prevent the seabirds from pecking at it."

[swivel]

Thanks ells. My new working theory is: Shipwreck.

(let's see how long it lasts)

[Pagan]

By Associated Press
updated 2:30 p.m. ET, Sat., May. 24, 2008

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.

[Lizard]

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...."All four were wearing socks and were in a running shoe," Linteau said.

Good place to vacation if you're looking for free shoes!

[swivel]

There is no evidence to suggest the foot -- or any or the previous three-- was forcibly removed, Linteau said.

My guess is that the removal of the feet required some force.


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.

I call "bullshit" on this.

My guess is the plane crash. The reason they are finding feet is because the shoes float, so as the bodies rot (or other parts are eaten), the feet make their way to the surface and onto a beach. The Left/Right shit is coincidence.

Fascinating story, though. Can't wait to see what surfaces next!

[jlt080405]

.

Fascinating story, though. Can't wait to see what surfaces next!

good one swivel :lol2:

Yes it is fascinating we'll have to follow-up on the DNA

[Unamused Cat]

This is really creepy.

[Unamused Cat]

Delta police made the grizzly discovery Monday morning after being called to check out a suspicious object at the 2800 block of Savage Road, in Westham Island, Ladner.

The remains are believed to be a human left foot, which was partially submerged in water.

The Delta Police Criminal Investigation Section is working with the BC Coroners Service to establish identity and liaising with outside agencies to determine if this is linked to the other partial remains recovered in the recent past.

Delta Police said they will not release any more information until the examination is complete.

In the last year alone, four shoes containing the remains of human feet have been found on the shorelines of islands located on B.C.'s Georgia Strait.

Prior to Monday's find in Ladner, foot remains were located May 22 on Kirkland Island, in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20080616%2fBC_missing_foot_08 0616

[Jaded]

But, was it in a shoe???
Enquiring minds wanna know....

[w8ng4msrgt]

You would think the bodies would be easier to find.

[Unamused Cat]

You would think the bodies would be easier to find.

You would think that. Maybe some medical student is chopping off cadaver feet and tossing them about.

[Unamused Cat]

But, was it in a shoe???
Enquiring minds wanna know....

Yup... It was in a shoe.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwpc_LGEQvTbEkIxMOReKY8CyA9gD91BJHH00

[Unamused Cat]

Oh yah... and it is a lefty.

[Jaded]

From UC's second link.....

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer based in Seattle, Wash., said when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the main parts like arms, legs, hands, feet and the head are usually what come off the body.

I wonder why there hasn't been any reports of any other body parts??

[petrina]

30 more and we will have a yard

[CorruptedMistress]

Did anyone see this link?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080523/BC_severed_foot_080523

Kevin DeCock believes that the feet may be a result from a float plane crash that took place in Febuary 2005 where his brothers and three other passengers died. According to the link, a passenger's body washed up so the family paid to have the wreckage brought back to the surface but no other bodies were discovered.

Decock has been trying to find his brothers' bodies since the crash and had been dragging a hook along the bottom of the ocean two weeks before the first feet came to the shore. He believes he "stirred something up".

Should be interesting to see the outcome of that, his father had given DNA two months ago and police seem to be taking that lead very seriously.

I wonder what kind of condition the feet would be in being under water for 3 years and all if it is linked to this plane crash.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Are these the previous 4 feet? Bizarre left foot stories can't be that common...
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4635&highlight=left+foot

[Unamused Cat]

I wonder if that left matches any of the rights. It is just weird to me. You never hear of feet washing up on the shorelines of America. Every so often I will see one shoe in the road. It is always a single shoe. I wonder if they have feet in them. *shrugs*

[petrina]

I wonder if that left matches any of the rights. It is just weird to me. You never hear of feet washing up on the shorelines of America. Every so often I will see one shoe in the road. It is always a single shoe. I wonder if they have feet in them. *shrugs*

haha. omgosh or those shoes thrown over the electric lines!

[Unamused Cat]

So Jaded just let me know that another severed foot has been found. This makes the sixth. Now this is getting way beyond weird. Thanks Jaded.


(CNN) -- A severed foot -- the sixth in 11 months -- washed up on the shore of a Canadian island on Wednesday, police said.
Severed feet have washed up on Westham Island, south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Severed feet have washed up on Westham Island, south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The right foot was found by a local woman walking on the beach, said Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

"A local citizen walking on a beach in Tyee Spit located what appears to be human remains of a right foot in an approximate size 10 black Adidas running shoe," police said in a written statement.

The foot will be examined by a forensic pathologist and DNA testing will be requested, said the statement, posted on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Web site.

Sandra Malone, manager of the Thunderbird RV Park and Campground on the spit, said a woman came in about 10:30 a.m. and asked her to call police, saying she had found the shoe with the foot inside it.

While waiting for police, Malone told CNN she walked down to the beach with the woman and saw it for herself.

"You could see the foot that's inside the running shoe," she said. "The leg bones were coming out of the running shoe about 3 to 4 inches. There were no tissues or anything attached."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/18/canada.feet/index.html

[Jaded]

Maybe they can come up with a pair now???

[w8ng4msrgt]

I guess the fishes don't like the taste of Adidas's.

[Jaded]

This one was deemed a hoax...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/19/canada.feet/index.html

From article:

(CNN) -- What was believed to be the sixth human foot to wash up on the shores of British Columbia in recent months proved to be a fake, authorities said Thursday.

A "skeletonized animal paw" had been placed in a sock and athletic shoe that was packed with dried seaweed, the British Columbia Coroners Service announced.

[Unamused Cat]

Lol

[Countess Olenska]

no wonder it seemed to be sawed off instead of broken...

[Unamused Cat]

Two of five feet that have washed up on the shores of British Columbia are from the same person, but authorities believe they are a long way from solving the mystery of where they came from.


The British Columbia Coroners Service said Thursday that DNA tests indicate a right foot found on February 8 and a left foot found on June 16 were from the same male. The office also determined that a right foot found on May 22 belongs to a female.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/10/canada.feet/index.html

But authorities still don't know whom they belong to or how they have come to wash up on shores near Vancouver, British Columbia, in the past 12 months.

[SNOOKIE]

man, this is all bad. and really gross

[Harley_Tech]

The office also determined that a right foot found on May 22 belongs to a female.


But authorities still don't know whom they belong to or how they have come to wash up on shores near Vancouver, British Columbia, in the past 12 months.

I'd start off by looking for a chick with a pretty bad limp, but thats just me. :D

R

[Jaded]

I'd start off by looking for a chick with a pretty bad limp, but thats just me. :D

R

Hahahahahaaaa!!
Damn Harley...

[Unamused Cat]

One of five feet that have mysteriously washed up on the shores of British Columbia over the past year has been linked to a depressed man who disappeared a year ago, police said Saturday.

Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said DNA testing helped identify the man. The man's name was not made public at the family's request, he said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5897132.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

One of five feet that have mysteriously washed up on the shores of British Columbia over the past year has been linked to a depressed manMan, I hope I never get so depressed that my foot falls off.

Do you suppose they keep finding only feet because the shoes cause them to "float"??

[Unamused Cat]

Man, I hope I never get so depressed that my foot falls off.

Do you suppose they keep finding only feet because the shoes cause them to "float"??

lol... That is what I am guessing. So far they haven't found any feet in high heels.

[Unamused Cat]

Another update. Thanks Jaded


SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. - For months, Canadian investigators have been baffled by human feet washing ashore.

Now, authorities are trying to figure out if one of the feet belongs to a body that showed up in San Juan County last year.

In March, 2007, a body was discovered on the shores of Orcas Island in San Juan County. It didn't have feet.

July 10: 2 of 5 feet washed ashore in Canada from same body. Officials were never able to identify the man.

The coroner's office treated it as a cold case, until they got a call a few days ago from their counterpart in British Columbia about a puzzle that has captivated the public. Over the past year, five human feet have mysteriously shown up on the shores of British Columbia.

The detached feet are found in shoes, but no other remains are ever close by.

BC investigators have been pouring over the DNA to try to find a match.

"There certainly is a close coincidence in findings of the feet and the missing feet here," said Randy Gaylord, San Jaun County Coroner.

Gaylord says his office believes the body is that of a man over age 30, about 5-foot 9-inches and with good dental work. Aside from that, there have been few clues.

"We will obtain the DNA profile and then meet with the British Columbia's coroner's office to compare these profiles and see if there's any connection," Gaylord said. "The driving goal of our office is to identify these remains and to notify the family."

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_071908WAB_missing_feet_link_KS.6fa103df.html

[Lizard]

BC investigators have been pouring over the DNA to try to find a match.

Way to destroy DNA, BC investigators. The author is Bernard Choi. We should write him and give him a big raspberry. He gets paid to write this shit???

[Pete Bondurant]

Another severed foot found in British Columbia.

Come to think of it...I've been missing one of my feet! :shocked3:

Word of warning: when visiting Angola, be very...very...very careful where you walk. :doh:

Apparently the place is littred with land-mines.

I should have read a book about the place or something.

[Unamused Cat]

PORT ANGELES, Wash. -- Bones and flesh in an athletic shoe found along a northwestern Washington beach are from a human foot, Clallam County authorities confirmed Monday afternoon.

Undersheriff Ron Peregrin said the King County Medical Examiner examined the contents of the right, black athletic shoe and sock, and determined the foot came off naturally after floating in the water.

"We hand-delivered it to the King County Medical Examiner earlier today, and they just confirmed that the remains were determined to be human, not animal," said Peregrin.

The next step for the investigators is to develop a DNA profile to see whether the foot matches feet that washed ashore in British Columbia, which is about 14 miles to the north of where the shoe was found on Friday.

Peregrin said the shoe appears to differ from the other athletic shoes the Canadian authorities found because it is black.

A woman who had been camping along the windswept shore near Jim Creek about 30 miles west of Port Angeles found a shoe on Friday and reported the discovery on Saturday, the sheriff's office said.

Video from Chopper 7 showed footage of the rugged wilderness and rocky , expansive coastline during low tide in the area where the foot was discovered.

Five severed feet in shoes have been found in the past year in the Vancouver area, but one found in June was a hoax with an animal paw.

Peregrin said his department will meet soon with Canadian police.

"We have a meeting planned for later this week where we'll actually sit down with each other, show them everything that we have, and they'll share everything that they have and see if we have any joint investigation to proceed on," said Peregrin.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/17092499/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news

[Dakota Valkyrie]

and yet ANOTHER one:

What appears to be a separated human foot inside a shoe -- possibly the sixth discovered in Canada's British Columbia in the past 15 months -- has been found on a riverbank, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wednesday.

The shoe -- a left New Balance running shoe -- was found about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday on the south arm of the Fraser River by a Richmond, British Columbia, couple, police said.http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/12/canada.feet.mystery/index.html

I checked - I still have 2 left feet.

[Sister Iroz]

Hey, I wear New Balance! I thought I was miss something this morning, wondered why I was unable to walk to well.

[Ruby]

You know, the last one turned out to be a hoax. This story has gotten so much attention that I'm pretty skeptical at this point, until there's solid confirmation by LE that it fits the pattern of the others.

I can't believe that there've been so many feet washing up in BC, that I'm discriminating between the authentic severed feet, and the imposters. Sigh.

[Unamused Cat]

Another foot washes up. This time they say it's a match.


VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The latest foot to wash ashore along our coast belonged to a woman, and is a perfect match to another foot found earlier this year, according to the BC Coroners Service.

The left foot was found on November 11th, in Richmond, on Finn Slough. The right foot had been discovered on Kirkland Island in May. An investigation continues into who that female might have been.

The coroner's office is also still working on the identities related to another pair of feet, and a remaining right foot, which have also washed ashore since August of last year.

story and map: http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20081205_201624_19416

[Lizard]

Dammit, when will Waller County Jane Doe's hands wash up?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

So all that seems to be missing is one left foot. Have they ever figured out WHO the feet belong to? I mean, how hard can it be to track down a footless person? Someone would surely notice LOL

How can someone end up in the ocean and no one misses them?

[canadian girl]

I live in British Columbia and this is very bizarre and has a hot topic out here every time a new one is found.

At first the RCMP speculated that the feet belonged to plane crash victims since parts of the coast are quite rugged, murder is another guess, but some of the feet have severed at the 'natural breaking' point according to experts, so for now this remains a mystery.

[Morticia]

Maybe it has something to do with the pig/alien/armadillo that washed up in montauk Long Island???

[crickett]

Fucking weird

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh42/LenSnart/Weird%20Stuff/normal_feet_3.jpg

[Valasca]

I've been following the severed foot cases of Canada, California and now Washington. Odd, because I have the world's biggest anti-foot fetish. I hate feet, they're gross.



Crime scene investigators began sifting through yards of dirt at a Port Orchard-area construction site where a severed human foot was found after cadaver-sniffing dog picked up on a scent Monday.

Workers who were building homes and roads near Bethel Road and First Avenue discovered the recently severed foot inside a hiking boot over the weekend.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/19696168/detail.html

[Tazzzz]

I was just thinking about that last week, the Canada one, I was following the story just because it was so bizarre to have a foot inside a Teena shoe found floating in the water. Then to top it all off they never found pairs of them just different shoes with feet in them. Now that freakin creepy stuff.

Some people thought it might be from a cemetery being flooded and washed down stream , but that was debunked from the foot remains. I was never sure if the feet were chopped off or how the got to be like that. I still think its some crazy Canadian lobbing off peoples feet.

I thought this might be by the ferry landing but its a couple miles away from it. That is very close to were my friends daughter lives at, I will have to tease her about it. There is a jail and kind a sort a prison close to there.

[nurseronda]

Hey Tazzzz......as of today, I still have both my feet....so now you have a bout two more billion people to ask if they still have both feet. Lets get this narrowed down...giggles.

On a serious note, do they think that it may be a serial killer that cuts body parts off to watch the victim suffer?

[Valasca]

Well, they aren't SAYING it's an SK, probably because they don't have enough evidence, just feet.
I do know that one foot had been identified with DNA, a man missing out of Canada, but his name escapes me. I don't think they found the rest of the body yet.
Every time i read up on another foot being found, I can't help but think of something similar to Kiss the Girls, only with men.

[Tazzzz]

This tells more about how they found the foot. Animals probly dragged it there from the wood some were close. LoL, its sat there forever till some one went and took a close look at it.



PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - A severed foot was found inside a hiking boot Saturday at a construction site in Kitsap County, but officials have no idea how it got there.

Deputy Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office said the foot had a sock on it, and it was inside an athletic style hiking boot.

Workers had seen the boot lying at the construction site, near Bethel Road Southeast and Lund Avenue in Port Orchard, a few days before but didn't take much notice of it.

Then on Saturday at about 6:30 p.m., some of the construction workers decided to take a closer look at the boot. That's when they saw the severed foot inside and called deputies to report it, Wilson said.

He said the shoe had not "been there forever," but he couldn't say how long it had been there.

Wilson said he believes the boot was dragged to the construction site, by either an animal or piece of equipment, and that the foot was not severed where it was found.

Officials didn't say whether it was a right or left foot, or whether it had belonged to a male or female.

A number of severed feet have been found inside athletic shoes up and down the shorelines of lower British Columbia in recent months, but there was no indication whether this foot was linked to them in any way.

None of the severed feet in Canada were found at inland locations like the Port Orchard foot.

The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office and coroner are investigating.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/406949_foot07.html?source=rss

[Angelinfl]

The bone would show how it was cut off by the type of device or saw used. At least that is how it is in the Patricia Cornwell books. There is always evidence left in some way and its up to technology to find the connection.

Remember the Medical Examiner is the last voice of the deceased.. any and all parts of a person. I hope they do their jobs well and get to the bottom of this.

I wonder how long the foot has been there etc.

[Tazzzz]

Hey Tazzzz......as of today, I still have both my feet....so now you have a bout two more billion people to ask if they still have both feet. Lets get this narrowed down...giggles.

On a serious note, do they think that it may be a serial killer that cuts body parts off to watch the victim suffer?

Who ever keeps losing their feet would they please step forward???

[Tazzzz]

The bone would show how it was cut off by the type of device or saw used. At least that is how it is in the Patricia Cornwell books. There is always evidence left in some way and its up to technology to find the connection.

Remember the Medical Examiner is the last voice of the deceased.. any and all parts of a person. I hope they do their jobs well and get to the bottom of this.

I wonder how long the foot has been there etc.



In this bizarre, foot found in shoes, in the water case, they said that its common for feet in buoyant shoes to break off of decomposing body's submerged in the water. They were never really chopped off they just broke loose from the buoyancy of the shoes, then just floated off. Its makes it hard to trace them because they some times travel the world on the currents till they are found washed up some were.

[Tazzzz]

My friend told me, thats the address for a big ole Wal-Mart store in Port Orchard. I did a sex offender search of the area and found a bunch close to there but they were all kiddy offenders. Maybe if we are lucky it was one of there feet.

[malq]

It's my understanding that the Kiroshima current is the one that flows north to south on our west coast. so it would make sense that the feet could be thrown in, up in Canada, and end up here in Washington.
Just so many feet only, has to be an explanation.

[Tazzzz]

They called in the corpse sniffin doggy's and found a bunch of bones buried near were the foot was found. They are now calling it a homicide scene. They have yet to mention the age or sex of the bones and not much details about the remains, They did however say that something they found in the pile of bones convinced then it was a homicide. (Probly a big ole rusty knife ???)



Kitsap County Sheriff's Office detectives have stopped digging at the construction site in Port Orchard where human remains were found earlier this week.

Sheriff's Office spokesman Scott Wilson said that after digging into the evening Wednesday, crews felt they were unlikely to find anything buried deeper. Now, investigators will wait for the King County Medical Examiner's Office to determine if the bones they uncovered earlier this week are all from the same skeleton.

"They have reason to believe they have covered everything they need to have covered for now," Wilson said. "If the medical examiner determines there are multiple bones from separate bodies, then we could go back and dig for more."

Wilson did not have an estimate for when the medical examiner's office would have a report on the bones. Detectives announced Wednesday that the investigation into the bones had been classified a homicide. They made that determination after finding something while excavating the site off Harold Drive that led them to believe a homicide had been committed.

Exactly what was found that led them to that conclusion isn't being released, Wilson said.

The investigation started when nearby construction crews found a boot and severed foot Saturday. The excavation, done by Sound Excavation, Inc., was going on in an area just off the sidewalk along SE Lund Avenue where cadaver dogs first smelled human remains Monday morning.

By Monday night, detectives had found multiple bones and by Wednesday evening even more bones were found not far from the original dig site.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/jun/11/crews-stop-digging-for-bones-in-port-orchard/

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Posted by sparrow on June 11, 2009 at 2:22 p.m.

lisawillis---- You'd be surprised how quickly people forget that kind of stuff. I mean unless they are looking through news archives for "Harold drive". Just a few weeks ago I was at a BBQ of a friend of a friend's house near where I used to live. When we got in the backyard I looked at my wife and whispered "Isn't their back fence line where they found the dead body of woman a few years back?" She nodded. My wife told me not to tell them, and we are pretty certain they are not aware of it. Anyway, in talking with them about there house, it's price didn't seem to be affected at all by being a homicide dumping ground.

Posted by thisisstupid on June 11, 2009 at 5:33 p.m.

hmmm I found this in the archives
PORT ORCHARD - Aman convicted in 1990 of second-degree rape in King County and who is a Level 3 sex offender has moved to the Port Orchard area.
Clayton Crofton, 41, is living in the 2600 block of Harold Drive, according to a notice from the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's office issues advisories for Level 3 offenders moving into the area. Level 3 offenders are considered the most likely to re-offend.

Crofton ""brutally raped and sodomized his adult victim"" and during his 10-year prison sentence he refused to be part of the sex offender treatment program, the notice said. He incurred 199 serious behavior infractions of prison rules during that time, it said.

He is 6-feet tall, weighs 220 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes.


Clayton Crofton's pict was missing from the sex offenders page, but I found this one from back in 2005, were he was arrested for not registering. He appealed his sentence for that, said the state was picking on him and it was such a hardship for him to go to the cop station, they told him to blow it out his ass and a big fuck you, to damn bad, case dismissed, Next.

I checked the notice the commenter mentioned, it was published on (Tuesday, September 25, 2001) right now he is living in "44th & WALLINGFORD SEATTLE, WA " (its a short Ferry ride from were the foot was found) He does look like a real sicko though.

http://tribalmask.net/dreamin-demon2/Clayton-Crofton-2002675421.jpg

[Valasca]

Oh, my. If it ISN'T him... oy!

[Tazzzz]

Damn news, they just keeps hinting at stuff , with out really telling you anything. It sounds like they found a whole set of bones, that was wraped in plastic. However, they are not saying if the foot belongs to the set or the other bones they dug up near Harold Drive, belong to the foot or the plastic wraped set of bones. ??????? All they say is they are human bones.



PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - A Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman says the King County medical examiner's office has confirmed that bones found near a south Kitsap County construction site are human.

The bones were wrapped in plastic.



Investigators said there is nothing to suggest more bodies were buried at the site, but, "If there's one (body) there very well could be two," said Wilson

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_061009WAB-foot-bones-SW.68eb0322.html

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Here is a page with a map that shows were all the feet were found in BC.
http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/found-feet/

[petrina]

They did however say that something they found in the pile of bones convinced then it was a homicide.

maybe it was a note that said "this is a homicide"

[akika666]

This tells more about how they found the foot. Animals probly dragged it there from the wood some were close. LoL, its sat there forever till some one went and took a close look at it.
....

something similar just happened in my house! my cat is a messy mouser, and leaves portions of her kills scattered about.

the other day i was cleaning up and was horrified to find a teeny lil mouse head that i had been overlooking for god knows how long, never looking closely at it, cuz i thought it was a Barbie shoe.

[malq]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Canadian forensics officials are examining yet another human foot in a running shoe found washed ashore in British Columbia, police said.

The foot was found Tuesday night by two men walking on the Pacific Ocean beach in Richmond, south of Vancouver, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

It was in a white size 8.5 Nike running shoe, the Vancouver Sun reported.

Since August 2007, six feet in various brands of running shoes have been found on southwestern British Columbia shores and a seventh just south of the U.S. border in Port Angeles, Wash.

In the most recent case, RCMP Cpl. Annie Linteau said there is no evidence of foul play, the Globe and Mail reported.

The provincial coroner's service is running DNA tests on the foot to determine gender and possible identifying elements, the reports said.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/10/29/British-Columbia-probes-8th-washed-up-foot/UPI-49631256819423/

These have been showing on beaches for the last few years. Who the hell is missing a foot? no explanations yet.

[jus shaking my head]

In the most recent case, RCMP Cpl. Annie Linteau said there is no evidence of foul play, the Globe and Mail reported.



?????

[malq]

I know huh! a foot shows up and no foul play. I suspect they are trying to say they have no clue.

[DamagedGoods]

damn JSMH beat me to it...

But Srsly, htf could a severed foot not be considered foul play? What could possibly cause severed feet and not be foul? We're not fucking starfish

[malq]

damn JSMH beat me to it...

But Srsly, htf could a severed foot not be considered foul play? What could possibly cause severed feet and not be foul? We're not fucking starfish
But we all HAVE a starfish

[DamagedGoods]

But we all HAVE a starfish

Have I mentioned lately that you're a sick man?

[malq]

Have I mentioned lately that you're a sick man?
Not lately, But you used to say it almost every day.. I thought you were getting used to it.:proud2:

[Whisper]

WHIDBEY ISLAND -- Someone taking a nice walk along the beach near Greenbank got a strange surprise this morning.
Around 11:30, a beach walker found a human right foot washed up on the shore, said Ed Wallace, a detective with the Island County Sheriff's Office.
The foot is small, and appears to belong to a female or a child, officials said. They believe the foot was in the water less than two months. It wasn't wearing a shoe.
Greenbank is on the east side of the island, facing Saratoga Passage.
Island County investigators are asking police at nearby agencies to check missing persons lists. There are no known suicides off Deception Pass Bridge that would match the foot, especially in the last two months. DNA testing is planned.

In recent years numerous feet have washed up near Vancouver, B.C. Officials don't believe this case is related.
"We've never had a foot wash up (here) before," Wallace said.
For now, the foot is at the Island County Coroner's Office. A forensic pathologist will come take samples and send them to the state crime lab.
[...]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100827/NEWS01/708279728/0/BIZ04#Human.foot.washes.ashore.on.Whidbey.Island

First time this yr that I can remember

[nopatience]

appears to belong to a female or a child

God, I really hope it's not a child :(

[Hellsbells]

Timeline of found feet. All but two of the feet were found in British Columbia:



• The first foot was found on Aug. 20, 2007, on Jedediah Island, northeast of Nanaimo. The right, male foot was in a Campus shoe, size 12, that is available for sale primarily in India. It was linked to a depressed man who went missing in early 2007.

• The second foot was found on Aug. 26, 2007, on Gabriola Island. The right, male foot was in a Reebok, size 12. The brand was first produced in 2004 and is no longer for sale.

• The third foot was found on Feb. 8, 2008 on Valdes Island. The right, male foot was in a blue and white Nike, size 11. The model was made between February and June 2003.

• The fourth foot was found on May 22, 2008, on Kirkland Island at the mouth of the Fraser River. The right, female foot was in a size 7 New Balance shoe. The model was made beginning in June 1999.

• The fifth foot was found on June 16, 2008, on Westham Island at the mouth of the Fraser River. The left, male foot had DNA matched with the third foot found on Valdes, but the man’s identity is unknown.

• The sixth foot was found Aug. 1, 2008, near Pysht west of Port Angeles, Wash. The right, male foot was in a men's low-rise, dark hiking-type athletic shoe, made by the Everest Shoe Co., size 11 or 12.

• The seventh foot was found Nov. 11, 2008, on a Fraser River beach in Richmond. The left, female foot had DNA matched with the fourth foot, found on Kirkland Island, and the woman was identified.

• The eighth foot was found in Richmond on Oct. 27, 2009. It was a man's right foot.

• The ninth foot was found Aug. 27, 2010, on Whitby Island in Washington State. The right, bare foot likely belongs to a woman or child, officials said.http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ninth+human+foot+washes+ashore+Pacific+Northwest/3452456/story.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Timeline of found feet (probably more but I didn't feel like refining the search LOL)

http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5487
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6861
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1629
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20909

[Valasca]

MMMkay, what the hell is going on. I have wondered that since foot 3, but this is just getting spookier than Hades. It's fucked up.
Serial killer with an odd foot fetish? serial killer with an ANTI-foot fetish? Or just a really amazing coincidence?

[Aslan]

A serial killer who apparently hates his right foot.

Sheesh that's creepy as hell. Especially since he is going between women and men.

[McDanel]

There was a serial killer who got his jollies by sawing off the feet of living women, but damned if I can remember who it was...

[Valasca]

There was a serial killer who got his jollies by sawing off the feet of living women, but damned if I can remember who it was...

Dayton Leroy Rogers.

[McDanel]

Rogers, that's right. Of all the dispicable crimes I've read, that was somehow the most ghastly. I can't imagine the horror and despair of the victims.

And to think I once opposed the death penalty! In my innocence, I felt that every murder was a reflection of insanity, even if only temporary. Now, I don't give a flying flip how crazy they are.

The death penalty is socially useless as a crime deterrent, but does a fine job of deterring the offender to which it's applied.

[Obsolete]

Dayton Leroy Rogers.


Ack... I remember him from when I was little. The whole state had the heebie jeebies. WTF is up with Oregon men and foot fetishes? We had another serial killer here named Jerome Brudos, AKA The Lust Killer. He had a fetish that included womens feet/shoes. Gross fucker use to make paper weights out of his victims breasts too. I knew his daughter up until she died a month or so ago.

[AmyB80]

I don't know why I thought of Kyron when I read this. At first it seemed way too far-fetched that it could be, but the more I thought about it that it seems yet possible until DNA testing says no, I hope it isn't.

[Valasca]

Hmm. You want to broach this with LE or would you like me to?

[Obsolete]

I know I posted something here but it went *poof*

I wrote something to the effect of....

Whidbey Island isn't that far from Oregon, we use to vacation there because my uncle was stationed there but the chances of this having anything to do with Kyron is pretty slim.

Unless you charter a boat and head far out to sea to dump the body, it's most likely going to wash back up on the shore it was dumped from.

[AmyB80]

Hmm. You want to broach this with LE or would you like me to?

I'd hope it would be one of their first thoughts (locations aren't that far from each other) and now waiting on results to say no it isnt. I don't know a thing about the currents and where something would be taken, I was thinking more along the lines if she passed him to someone else (I don't think they have pings of hers to say she drove a few hours away and I thought the cell phones in others names came after Kyron disappearing, I could be mistaken though) who could have went that direction and did something to him and disposed of him.

[Mom2three]

Just a shot in the dark, but I wonder if some of them were homeless people? The reason I say that is some of the "models" of shoes where kind of old (1999 for one). I don't have my sneakers for that long, but maybe others do?

[Valasca]

I know I posted something here but it went *poof*

I wrote something to the effect of....

Whidbey Island isn't that far from Oregon, we use to vacation there because my uncle was stationed there but the chances of this having anything to do with Kyron is pretty slim.

Unless you charter a boat and head far out to sea to dump the body, it's most likely going to wash back up on the shore it was dumped from.

This is true. However, if they DID go far far out, currents COULD have done it. But I think your post here makes more sense.

[AmyB80]

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/sep/02/two-kitsap-cases-among-those-that-could-be-to/



Island County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating whether a human foot that was found Aug. 27 (http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/101690778.html) on Whidbey Island may have come from the body of one of two dead Kitsap County women.
The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office has forwarded information on Shantina Smiley, the 29-year-old Silvedale woman who disappeared in March (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/mar/23/investigators-following-leads-case-missing-silverd/), and Kara Radabah, the 19-year-old Bremerton woman whose decomposed body was found Aug. 1 (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/aug/01/for-bremerton-womans-family-dashed-hopes-for-a/) in Illahee State Park, to the Island County Sheriff’s office, Island County Detective Ed Wallace said.

The Whidbey foot has been sent to a DNA testing lab at North Texas State University (http://www.hsc.unt.edu/departments/pathology_anatomy/dna/Forensics/MissingPersons/MissingPersons.cfm) for analysis, but it may take several months to get the results, Wallace said.
[...]



Smiley and her 8-year-old son, Azriel Carver, were headed from Silverdale to her stepfather’s house in Castle Rock March 13 when they vanished. The van she was driving, found the next day, was abandoned and partially submerged in water on a remote Puget Sound beach north of Olympia.
Carver’s body was found March 18 (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/mar/19/missing-boys-death-ruled-accidental/) on a beach on the south end of Fox Island, near Gig Harbor. The boy’s death was found to be an accidental drowning.
Remains of Kara Radabah, who was last seen by her family on May 13, were found Aug. 1 in Illahee State Park by search and rescue crews. The young woman, who suffered from schizophrenia, told her parents she had not been taking her medications before she disappeared.
Radabah’s body was missing a foot, so her case has been included in those that may be related to the Whidbey foot. There was no reason to suspect she met with foul play, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported shortly after the discovery of Radabah’s body.

[VXIII]

Radabah’s body was missing a foot, so her case has been included in those that may be related to the Whidbey foot. There was no reason to suspect she met with foul play,

She was missing a foot but no suspicion of foul play? What did her foot just get up and walk away?:confused2:

[AmyB80]

Kara was missing since May 13 and was found August 1 so I'm guessing they think time (maybe animals, too?) decomposing is the reason it was missing. Kara was diagnosed with schizophrenia and they feel that played a large factor in her taking off the way she did. More on her story here (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/aug/01/for-bremerton-womans-family-dashed-hopes-for-a/).

[AmyB80]

http://www.q13fox.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-mystery-foot,0,5980310.story

Authorities are seeking more information about a small human foot that washed ashore in Washington (http://www.q13fox.com/topic/us/washington-%28u.s.-state%29-PLGEO100104900000000.topic) state.
Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum (FULL-jum) said Tuesday the right foot was still inside a boy's size 6 "OzArk Trail" hiking boot, and likely belonged to a juvenile or small adult. He says the boots were sold in Walmart stores from 2004 to 2005.
The foot found early last week is believed to have floated in from either the Puyallup River or Puget Sound. It's the second to wash ashore in Washington state in four months.
[...]


http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-unidentified-foot-found-inside-121410,0,2011067.story
http://i56.tinypic.com/2921r11.jpg


Tacoma Police detectives are trying to unravel a mystery after a boot was found on the shores of the tideflats in Tacoma. Officials say the boot contained the remains of a human foot.
Detectives are releasing a picture of the boot in hopes they can identify the person it came from.
The boot is a boys size 6 “OzArk Trail” brand hiking boot, sold in Walmart stores from 2004 to 2005. Due to the size of the boot, the foot likely belonged to a juvenile or small adult.
Investigators believe the boot could have floated in to the area from either the Puyallup River or the Puget Sound. Tacoma Police detectives are looking for any information on any missing persons that may be associated with this foot and boot.
In late August, a foot belonging to a woman or a child washed up on a beach in Whidbey
Island, about 70 miles north of Tacoma.
[...]


What is going on with right feet?
I did not know if this would be the right thread but since it already had many of the washed ashore feet stories I put it here. If I erred could a mod fix it please and thank you.

[Whisper]

I have no clue whats going on but there must be alot of freaks out there with a foot fetish

[Bohring]

There are also feet washing up in the Vancouver area. I'd say people involved in human trafficking are dismembering bodies when they're done with them, but why only feet washing up? Unless the shoes make them float - which is probably totally lame but I'm "thinking" out loud. Everything else can be eaten but fish don't want to nibble on shoes?

[misssmartypants]

I'm telling you, that alot people here are not alarmed about this. I most certainly am. Mom2three stated what I've been thinking...that homeless/displaced people may be targeted by some sick fuck. And I bet he gets his jollies when news of his "calling card" are broadcasted and/or printed.

[FknKraze]

A human foot has washed up on a beach near Vancouver, the 11th such find in four years in the region, a Canadian coroner said Thursday, adding to a macabre mystery.

An autopsy on the foot established that it had become separated from its leg due to prolonged water exposure, a statement issued by the British Columbia Coroners Service said, noting no evidence of trauma.
DNA analysis was being carried out on the foot, which was found on Tuesday afternoon and was the eighth recovered in the Vancouver area since 2007. Another three feet have washed up on US beaches off neighboring Washington state in the same time period.
Canadian authorities have opened an investigation each time a foot has been discovered and forensic tests have determined the sex of each victim, four of which were missing persons, according to DNA tests.
Although none of the medical analyses indicated foul play, local officials have said that the high number of bridges over waterways in the area points towards possible suicides of those whose feet were found.
"We cannot completely exclude a murder, we don't know why they died, but we have no evidence they were murdered," Coroner Stephen Fonseca, chief of the identification unit, told AFP.
"Every year we find incomplete bodies in the woodlands, on land and in water. Feet will separate naturally, by decomposition and by action of scavengers -- coyotes, bears and small rodents."




http://ca.news.yahoo.com/human-foot-discovery-adds-canada-mystery-195234101.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

We should just put all these fucking feet in one thread... I dunno how many there are.

I wonder why it's always the feet.

[Pete Bondurant]

I am not into feet.

[Valasca]

I agree, Dakota. One thread.
I just want to know WHO the feet belong to. Why is it usually the left foot?

[Hellsbells]

Foot identified as belonging to woman who jumped to her death from bridge



Detectives investigating the grisly find of 12 severed feet which have washed ashore in Canada could be a step closer to solving the mystery.

Two of the 12 feet - all found in British Columbia (B.C.) since 2007 - belong to a missing Canadian woman who jumped to her death, it has emerged.

The discovery appears to bolster the theory the human remains could be the result of suicides instead of foul play, as it was suspected earlier this year

The British Columbia Coroners Service has revealed the woman - who has not been identified - jumped from the Pattullo Bridge in New Westminister, British Columbia, in April 2004, it has been reported.

Both of her feet, who police said were in New Balance running shoes, washed ashore six months apart in different parts of the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., with the left found in May 2008 and the right in November of that year.

According to ABC News, the Coroner's Service identified the woman through DNA analysis and a postmortem investigation.

The severed feet began washing ashore along the northwestern coast in 2007 in a case which baffled police and sparked a flurry of speculation over how they got there.

What seemed initially like a bizarre coincidence has become the subject of a major investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Columbia's coroner's office.

Some theories being considered included that the feet belonged to the victims of a boat or plane crash, a killer or were even the remains of those who died in the Asian tsunami.
However the theory that they belonged to victims of suicide who jumped to their deaths into the water seems the most likely explanation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052119/Severed-feet-British-Columbia-Foot-identified-belonging-woman-jumped-death-bridge.html#ixzz1bWEsIxFT

[Valasca]

The B.C. Coroners Service announced on Monday that a ninth dismembered foot in a shoe has been discovered.

The phenomenom has received worldwide attention as mystery feet continue to wash up on B.C. shores.

Coroner Steve Fonseca said the latest discovery at Port Moody’s Sasamat Lake over the weekend is unlike the others in that this foot was found in a hiking boot.

The eight other feet that have washed up have all been in running shoes.

The eyelets on the boot were rusty, which indicates the foot had been there for some time.

“It could be up to 10 years,” said Fonseca.

Police have contacted the manufacturer of the Cougar brand boot, a men’s size 12, to narrow the search of missing persons cases.

Once the manufacturing date has been established, investigators can focus their search on persons who have gone missing since that date. The foot was first noticed by a youth attending a camp at the Sasamat Outdoors Centre on the morning of Nov. 4.

“The next morning the youth and others from the camp noticed the boot had washed up on the northwest shore of the lake,” said Fonseca.

“Once it had been retrieved they found a sock with the human remains of a foot inside it.”

Fonseca said foul play has been ruled out in each case of the six feet that have been positively identified to date.

With the latest discovery, there are now three feet that have yet to be positively identified.


Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Foot+hiking+boot+washes+Port+Moody+lake/5671087/story.html#ixzz1dEfYMD7h

[Sammy]

This is one of those head scratchers.

I mean, WTF, hasn't anyone missed their feet?

Maybe it's a freak mortician?? Only thing that makes sense, as if one could makes sense of something this bizarre

[Obsolete]

This is one of those head scratchers.

I mean, WTF, hasn't anyone missed their feet?

Maybe it's a freak mortician?? Only thing that makes sense, as if one could makes sense of something this bizarre

The logical explaination is that the feet are what's left of the men that have died at sea on crabbing or fishing boats. Most of the time their bodies are never found.

[Bohring]

The logical explaination is that the feet are what's left of the men that have died at sea on crabbing or fishing boats. Most of the time their bodies are never found.

Man, you're ruining my horror-story musings with all your damn logic!

[Valasca]

Oh, great! One neat little thread. OK, a LARGE thread, but still smaller than the Crazy Anthony threads.

[Tits McGee]

The logical explaination is that the feet are what's left of the men that have died at sea on crabbing or fishing boats. Most of the time their bodies are never found.
But why only feet? Wouldn't it stand to reason that some other body part would wash ashore at some point? Weird!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

But why only feet? Wouldn't it stand to reason that some other body part would wash ashore at some point? Weird!
Somewhere in one of the "feet threads" (maybe this one as most are merged here) there was an article that speculated that it's the feet because of the shoes.

As other parts decompose and disappear, the shoes with "foot part" in them float off on their own. The shoes protect the feet somewhat and as "floaters" they wash to shore rather than sink or end up as fish food.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A disembodied foot found on a B.C. shore last year belongs to a fisherman who died in January 1987, the BC Coroners Service said Friday.

Stefan Zahorujko's boat was found overturned in Sasamat Lake in Port Moody, B.C., on Jan. 5, 1987.

Despite repeated searches, the 65-year-old's body was never found and it was presumed he had fallen from the boat and drowned.

Then, on Nov. 4, 2011, a hiking boot was noticed floating offshore by a youth attending a camp at the Sasamat Outdoor Centre.

The next morning, the boot was found washed up on the northwest shore of the lake. Once it was retrieved, a sock with foot bones was found within it.

The BC Coroners service said in a news release Friday that an autopsy indicated the foot had not been mechanically removed, but rather "separated through the natural processes that occur in water."

Between August 2007 and November 2011, nine feet belonging to seven people were discovered in British Columbia.

Seven of the feet have been identified as belonging to five individuals.

"Work continues to identify the remaining two, which originate from two males. To date, no evidence indicates that any of the deaths are suspicious," the release said.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Disembodied+foot+solves+year+mystery/6172394/story.html

[malq]

Somewhere in one of the "feet threads" (maybe this one as most are merged here) there was an article that speculated that it's the feet because of the shoes.

As other parts decompose and disappear, the shoes with "foot part" in them float off on their own. The shoes protect the feet somewhat and as "floaters" they wash to shore rather than sink or end up as fish food.

That's what most people think around here. There are a lot of people lost at sea every year. The foot eventually separates from the body as the soft tissue deteriorates. As you say, the shoe acts like a lifejacket. Anyone remember the containership that got in trouble in a storm? They lost a container full of Nike shoes over the side near Japan. They made it all the way to the West Coast,littering beaches for months..