Missing Feet in Canada: One Foot's Owner Identified

State of Washington Tries to Help
By Supplying Footless Body List






The Case Of The Missing Feet

DBKP has reported on several occasions on feet that tend to wash up on the shores of British Columbia.


About 5 right feet have washed on British Columbia shores. So many, that beachcombers who do not find a dead person's foot while strolling are pissed. Pranksters are jumping in now to fuel the frenzy.

ALSO at DBKP.com: * Vancouver Foot Mystery: Sixth Foot Found; Latest Foot a Hoax * Canadian Police Baffled: The Case of the Grisly Right Feet

The Canadian Police initially reported that the feet belonged to some fellows who crashed in a plane. Then it was a sunken boat. Since they had DNA from all the immediate family members of those lost on the fight, which was real, unlike the boating mishap, the authorities could not explain why there was no match.

But we at DBKP managed to figure it out. We set our panel of experts on it, forensic scientists all, and they came back 7 minutes later and said there was no match because the DNA doesn't match. The findings did not put the DBKP staff at ease.




But now a discovery: one of the feet has been matched with a missing person.

Police identify one 'mystery foot' owner

Global TV reported Friday that RCMP had identified one of the five severed feet as belonging to a depressed man who was missing. RCMP Cpl. Pierre LeMaitre said police had ruled out foul play. Police planned to talk to the man's family Friday. More information may be released next week.

So one of the feet belongs to a missing person. Our condolences to the family.

But can anyone explain why all the feet have not already been compared with all missing persons? This is not even hard.

How many size 12 foot missing persons are there?

Who runs the RMCP?

Homer Simpson?"




Well, Americans seem ever-willing to help out the Mounties. Washington State, in the same article has decided to assist by providing footless bodies--something it apparently has a surplus of.

From the same article:

A Washington state coroner said Friday that he wants to work with the B.C. Coroners Service to see if there's a connection between footless skeletal remains discovered in the San Juan Islands and the mysterious feet that have washed ashore in southwest B.C.

San Juan County coroner Randall Gaylord said a body was discovered by a hiker on Orcas Island in the San Juan archipelago in March 2007. The body did not have a right arm, right hand, left hand or any feet.

There you have it. A Canadian-American law enforcement partnership.

by pat

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* http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=dadda60d-b010-4258-b4d0-b10b76c181e5
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Canadian Police Still Baffled as More Severed Feet Keep Turning Up

The very creepy story of the feet that keep floating up on the shores of Western Canada continues.

DBKP has reported on this story before.
Canadian Police Baffled: The Case of the Grisly Right Feet

At the time of that DBKP story, only feet had been discovered. DBKP reported on the grisly discovery of the third right foot on British Columbia beaches. The mystery of human feet washing up on Canadian shores has only deepened with the discovery of foot numbers four and five. On May 22 of this year someone's day was ruined by the discovery of the fourth such foot. As reported by C News of Canada:

"The latest head-scratcher that's leaving everyone from police to oceanographers baffled are a series of sneaker-clad right feet that have washed up on shorelines along islands in British Columbia."

There have been four in less than a year. All feet were wearing socks and shoes. Two of them were size 12.

"It's certainly a mystery we intend on solving," Constable Annie Linteau with the RCMP E Division told the media recently. "It's certainly very unusual."

The first in the series was found nearly a year ago on Jedidiah Island. Within days, another right foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on Gabriola Island. The third was found on the east side of Valdez Island in early February.

The origin on any of the remains is still unknown.

Linteau said that there's no evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims' legs by force.

Actually the fact that the feet were not severed was of little comfort to anyone who followed the story. And we certainly agree with Annie L that it is unusual.

Since the feet were wearing shoes, our guess is that decomposition--and animals--allowed for the skeletal separation. The shoes--no doubt casual walking shoes with aerated soles--floated the feet to near the surface.

But, the comfort of the shoes is of little comfort to us here at DBKP.

You see, we want to know why Canadian beaches seem to be littered with more body parts than a Chicago park or an Iraqi market. No one goes to Chicago or Iraq unless they must. Canada is one of our favorite vacation spots, particularly British Columbia.

So this headline sort of caught my attention:

"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."

Given the aimless vapidity of the law enforcement spokeswomen, (I'm guessing here the men took a powder and decided that women are better at feet stories when shoe #5 thumped down on the coroner's desk), we are guessing the authorities are clueless.

"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.

So Terry, may we assist you in small way?

First, let us share with you Terry, that if someone was missing a foot and needed you to match it, they would have checked in already.



Secondly, Terry, I think the notoriously incurious Canadian press ( Slogan: All The News That Is Politically Correct And Approved. Seal: Canadian Human Rights Commission) owes a few questions to the readers on what passes for news in Canada.

Like: does the DNA conform to a single racial group, age, sex, ethnic orgin, or other identifying feature?

* Do the times of death match, or are they separated?

* Are the shoe brands similar and where is the factory of their manufacture?

* Are the socks manufactured in the same country and what country was that?

* Do the hair samples contain drug traces?

* What is the scope of the missing persons dragnet?

* Any missing craft in the indicated death period?

You see Terry, these people were likely murdered. And this has gone from the bizarre to the not-so-funny. These feet once had brothers and sisters, parents and spouses.

Pick it up.

by pat
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* http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/06/16/bc-fifth-foot-found.html
* http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/05/26/5669321-cp.html
* Canadian Police Baffled: The Case of the Grisly Right Feet

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Canada's Pole Dancer Shortage: A Job Canadians Won't Do?

In one of the starkest examples of why immigration is necessary to fill the job slots Canadians won't do, a group representing the owners of 53 stripper clubs in the Ontario area has announced the need to modify visa requirements for foreigners--so as to allow exotic, exotic dancers an easier trip to the Canadian stage.

"Up to 98 per cent of foreign exotic dancers who apply for visas get turned down, said the group's executive director, Tim Lambrinos.
This has led to a reduction in the number of work permits and extensions granted to foreign strippers from 423 in 2004 to just 17 in 2006."

Darn.

It is not like Ontario is a fun place in midwinter as it is.

Now that is a failure rate that makes it obvious: the Canadians have a fine eye for womanhood. Clearly stripping in Canada is no easy gig to get.

But the Canadians are now desperate.

So, "One way might be to use foreign student visas since foreign students can now work for 20 hours a week in any job, said Labrinos."



But until then, locals will have to settle for less.

by pat

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