Canada still defeeted
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:10 pm
They appear on the sand like any old piece of sea detritus. Sometimes they're found, amid the sweet wrappers and cracked shells, by volunteers cleaning up the area. Other times a holidaymaker might glimpse the grisly discard from the corner of their eye, a serene walk along the beach interrupted just like that.
As more people learned about these discoveries, they attracted morbid scavengers to the Pacific Northwest shorelines, where the Salish Sea connects waterways along the west coasts of the US and Canada.
What these scavengers sought remains a prickling curiosity: severed feet attached to running shoes, washed up from origins unknown.
Sixteen detached human feet have been found since 2007 in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state. Most of these have been right feet. All of them have worn running shoes or hiking boots. Among them: three New Balances, two Nikes and an Ozark Trail.
The most recent one turned up this week.
Charlotte Stevens, of British Columbia, was taking a walk with her family on Vancouver Island, the CBC reported, when her husband spotted something in the sand.
It was a shoe, that they could see right away. But a closer inspection revealed something more.
"He picked it up and brought it out on to the beach," she told CBC, "and we had a look at it for about five minutes and we thought, 'it almost looks like there is an actual foot bone in it'."
Sure enough, the BC Coroners Service confirmed that the shoe came with a dismembered foot. As with the others, there's no telling for exactly how long the foot was in the water, but the regional coroner Matt Brown said the exact model of shoe had gone on the market after March 2013, indicating that it once belonged to someone who went missing between then and last December.
Mr Brown is working with the police to connect the foot to individuals who disappeared from the area around that time
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