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Sixth foot found to be a fake!

Vancouver

Published: Thursday, June 19, 2008

The “sixth foot” is a fake.

The remains found in a shoe near Campbell River on Wednesday — the “sixth foot” that garnered international attention and speculation — are in fact not human.

Someone inserted a “skeletonized animal paw … into the shoe with a sock and packed [it] with dried seaweed,” the B.C. Coroners Service (BCCS) confirmed on Thursday.

A forensic pathologist and an anthropologist made that assessment after examining the shoe and the remains, according to the BCCS.

The discovery on Wednesday marked the sixth “foot” found washed ashore in the area since last August. All were encased in a sneakers. Only the latest one has been ascertained a fake.

“It is the position of BCCS that this type of hoax is reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons.

“It fuels inappropriate speculation and creates undue anxiety for families and communities while wasting valuable investigative time and resources that could be spent on the main investigations,” the service said in a media release.

The coroner’s investigation into this incident has been called off.

But RCMP investigators are looking to begin a new investigation into the hoax.

“Time was taken to ensure that the remains were set up to closely resemble human remains,” explains Insp. Brendan FitzPatrick, operations officer for B.C.’s major crimes section.

The RCMP is recommending Campbell River detachment pursue public mischief and potentially cruelty-to-animal charges agains the person or persons involved.

“While it is a relief that there was a not a human victim involved, the fact somebody would perpetrate a hoax such as this is disturbing,” says FitzPatrick.

“Due to the nature of these incidents over the past year, many families with missing loved ones are closely watching and wondering if it is their loved one who has been found. The insensitivity shown to the families and the victims involved is unbelievable.”

Perpetrating hoaxes that require a police response is a criminal act and not harmless entertainment, the RCMP wants everyone to remember.

“While we always encourage people to err on the side of caution and call the police if they find something suspicious, we won’t tolerate people who are simply doing something for a laugh or for attention,” FitzPatrick said.

Due to the latest developments, RCMP will be releasing “certain facts regarding the overall investigation” in the coming days.

The coroner’s service will continue to investigate the other five cases in which human feet turned up in shoes along the coast. No further information was available about any of the incidents.

DNA taken from the first three feet hasn’t been matched to any samples that identify them.

The first foot was found in a size-12 sneaker last Aug. 20 on Jedediah Island, between Lasqueti and Texada islands.

The second foot, in a size-12 Reebok, was found on Gabriola Island, off Nanaimo, six days later.

The third foot was found on Valdes Island, south of Gabriola, on Feb. 8.

The fourth was found on May 22 on Kirkland Island, off Richmond.

The fifth was found off Westham Island in Ladner on Monday.

Anyone with information regarding the Campbell River shoe hoax is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or Campbell River RCMP detachment at 250-286-6221.

Anyone with information with respect to the previous legitimate discoveries of the five shoes containing human remains is also asked to contact Crime Stoppers.

-with files from Katie Mercer and Cassidy Olivier

jcouture@png.canwest.com

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6th Foot Found In B.C. Waters!

Wednesday, June 18 – 12:15:38 PM Jim Goddard

CAMPBELL RIVER (NEWS1130) – Campbell River RCMP have confirmed another severed foot has been found near that community. It’s the sixth foot to wash up in coastal B.C. in recent months.

RCMP say the right foot in a black Adidas running shoe was found at Tyee Spit just after 10 this morning.

More theories on the mystery of the five severed feet

Wednesday, June 18 – 06:30:00 AM Mike Lloyd/Province/Vancouver Sun/Globe

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Every day seems to bring a new theory on the mystery of BC’s five severed feet. The search for answers has resulted in a parade of experts on everything from flotsam and ocean currents, to running shoe recognition.

Since 2004, there have been reports of 13 feet washing ashore around the world. There have been five that have been found in the past year in local waters. And the Vancouver Province reports another eight have washed up in California, Ottawa, Spain, New Zealand and Britain. The latest was spotted off Ladner on Monday.

The Province quotes a Vancouver athletic shoe store manager who, looking at a photo, thinks it may have been in a basic Nike runner, but can’t tell if its a men’s or women’s model.

Some of the more interesting thoughts have come from oceanographer Curtis Ebermeyer, quoted in today’s Globe and Mail. Ebermeyer says certain beaches attract certain types of flotsam and the feet washing up in BC may be an example of that. He says the ocean sorts things out to an exquisite degree.

If, for example, a shipping container of shoes is lost in the ocean, he says some beaches collect just left shoes, others collect right shoes.

Still the best hope of solving the mystery is identifying the owners through DNA matches. There are now profiles on three of the five feet, but so far no matches to any missing people.

One person watching closely is Sally Feast. Her brother and four others were killed in a plane crash off Quadra Island in 2005. The bodies were never found.

She tells the Vancouver Sun there have been no answers from the coroner’s service on DNA matches yet.

 

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Third right foot discovered in Gulf Islands

Latest foot found on Valdes Island; police not sure if foul play is involved

Rob Shaw, Times Colonist

Published: Friday, February 15, 2008

Three severed right feet have washed ashore on the Gulf Islands in the past six months, in what police say is one of the most bizarre cases in recent memory.

The latest foot, still in its sneaker, was found last Friday on Valdes Island, a small community near Nanaimo that does not have regular ferry service and is accessible only by private boat or float plane.

RCMP say they’re not sure whether foul play is involved and are trying to match any missing-person cases to the severed foot.

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Two other right feet, both in size 12 men’s sneakers, washed ashore on Gabriola and Jedediah islands last August. RCMP collected DNA from the grisly remains but could not match them to anyone in police databases. The three islands are within 60 kilometres of each other.

“It is unusual,” said RCMP spokeswoman Const. Annie Linteau. “We are in the preliminary stages of this particular investigation, and of course we will not enter into speculation.”

The Vancouver Island Major Crime Unit has sent detectives to investigate the cases, she said.

Meanwhile, the latest foot has been turned over to the B.C. Coroners Service for forensic testing.

“We’ll be using pathology examinations and anthropology examinations to garner as much information as we possibly can about the remains,” said Jeff Dolen, B.C.’s assistant deputy chief coroner.

Although it is somewhat common to find individual body parts, Dolen said this would be “the first instance of three such similar remains being discovered” in such proximity.

A body in the ocean will first sink and then, depending on the depth, float back to the surface as it becomes bloated with gas.

It is common for hands, feet and the head to detach as a body decomposes, said Gail Anderson, a forensic entomologist from Simon Fraser University who has submerged pigs in Saanich Inlet to study ocean decomposition. But generally, those limbs do not float, she said.

“Obviously there’s some sort of current picking up light items and washing them to those particular areas,” Anderson said.

Her research on pig carcasses has shown crabs, seals, sharks and fish are frequent scavengers of body parts.

Feet in particular can go through a process called adipocere, as the ocean turns the fat into a soap-like substance during weeks and months in the water, Anderson said. Once that happens, nothing will eat the flesh, she said. But she said it also makes it extremely difficult for forensic analysts to gather clues from the body part, such as its age.

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Fourth right foot washes up near Vancouver, RCMP confirm

Another right foot wearing a sock and sneaker was discovered washed ashore near Vancouver, the RCMP confirmed Friday.

The foot is the fourth right foot wearing a sock and a running shoe to wash up in the area in less than a year.

The latest foot was discovered on uninhabited Kirkland Island in the Fraser River on Thursday.

The previous three washed up in the Gulf Islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. In August, two size 12 right feet were discovered on Gabriola and Jedediah islands, and a third foot was found in February on Valdez Island.

DNA tests were underway and experts in forensics, major crime and missing persons were all involved in the investigation, the RCMP said on Friday.

RCMP Cpl. Nycki Basra of Richmond said on Thursday that the case is one of the strangest she has heard of.

“Well, for us, it’s our first time. In my 12 years of service, this is the first time I’ve seen it,” she said about the most recently found foot.

Police are working to trace where the foot came from, Basra said. It could be the result of a suicide, an accident, or foul play.

Meanwhile, one man believes the feet may be remains of his two brothers and two other passengers who were in a plane that crashed in the waters off Quadra Island three years ago.

The bodies of the four men were never recovered, and Kevin Decock has been looking for the remains of his brothers since the crash in 2005.

Decock said he may have stirred up the ocean floor during a search last summer.

“I was out on the water conducting some surveys trying to bring up the engine from the plane crash, and I was dragging a hook. And two weeks after that the first foot showed up,” Decock said.

His father provided authorities with a DNA sample two months ago, but Terry Smith, B.C.’s chief coroner, would only say that a full DNA profile exists for the first three of the four feet found, and officials have been unable to match the feet to any missing persons.

Smith cautioned against jumping to any conclusions, including that there might be foul play involved.

“This may very well be nothing more than the results of natural process of decomposition in water and the combined affects of predation by aquatic scavengers,” Smith said.

It appears the first three feet were not severed, Smith said, but separated from the body through decomposition.

5th foot found on B.C.’s south coast

A human foot was discovered partially submerged in the water near Westham Island in Ladner, B.C., Delta police said Monday.

It’s the fifth human foot police have found in the province in less than a year.

“As far as it being linked to other partial remains found, we haven’t dismissed that. We’re considering all possibilities,” Const. Sharlene Brooks told CBC News.

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A couple out for a walk in the 2800 block of Savage Road spotted a shoe floating in the water around 10:30 a.m. and called police, she said.

Investigators said it’s a left foot.

“Right now we’re working very closely with the B.C. coroners service to identity the person whose remains we have recovered,” Brooks said.

Four right feet, each wearing a sock and sneaker, have been discovered in the province since August.

A woman’s right foot was found on the uninhabited Kirkland Island in the Fraser River in May, just a few kilometres from Westham Island where Delta police found the fifth foot Monday.

Three other men’s right feet washed up in the Gulf Islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. In August, feet were discovered on Gabriola and Jedediah islands and, in February, another foot was found on Valdez Island.

B.C.’s chief coroner told CBC News Monday night that investigators have been unable to determine who the four right feet belonged to.

Terry Smith said DNA profiles have been completed on the feet but no matches have been made.

“We’ll continue to try and identify known profiles that we can compare them to until we have a match,” he said.

 

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