Police mystified as 6th severed foot discovered
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Another human foot was found Wednesday on a British Columbia shoreline, the second this week and the sixth within a year in a mystery that has confounded police.
Like most of the others, it was a right foot in a running shoe, police Sgt. Mike Tresoor said. He says a citizen spotted it on a beach and no other remains were found.
The latest find and most of the others were recovered within a few miles of each other along island shorelines in the Strait of Georgia, to the south and west of Vancouver.
Authorities say they haven’t reached any conclusions about the origin of the feet but are trying to determine if there are links to any other partial remains found in the province.
"The object will ultimately be examined by a forensic pathologist in attempts to determine the source of the foot and if it is related to other feet recently found," Tresoor said in a statement.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have said there isn’t any evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims’ legs by force.
Terry Smith, the chief coroner of British Columbia, said this week that DNA profiles from the first three feet haven’t helped to determine identities because they didn’t match any existing samples.
But wait! After extensive and intensive forensic examination, uh, well, never mind….
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLOMBIA
Sixth foot called a hoax
British Columbia’s Coroner’s Service said Tuesday that a sixth human foot, found Wednesday along a Pacific Ocean beach was a hoax – an animal paw inserted into an Adidas running shoe along with some seaweed.
Authorities said they still haven’t reached any conclusions about the origin of five human feet found in the water over the last 10 months.
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