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To: one_less who wrote (126726)	6/17/2008 3:23:31 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

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To: one_less who wrote (126726)	6/18/2008 3:05:17 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Theories abound as fifth foot washes up B. C. Coast; Police dismiss serial killer speculation Brian Hutchinson, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 VANCOUVER -Another disarticulated human foot has been found in B. C. coastal waters. That makes five feet discovered near Vancouver since last summer. Two right feet were found within six days of each other in August, on different small islands only a few dozen kilometres apart. A third right foot washed up in February, a little further to the south. Last month, a fourth right foot, reportedly a woman's, was spotted by a passerby in the sweeping Fraser River delta, closer to Vancouver. And on Monday, yet another foot was found, also in the delta. A left foot, this one. Like all the others, it was encased in a running shoe, sock on. Despite the similarities there is nothing to reveal their origin, or so police investigators let on. "Hold back" evidence -- information that only someone with knowledge of an event or crime would know, such as type of shoe, distinguishing characteristics of a foot -- is something that police hold dear. But investigators have at least indicated that none of the feet were detached from their limbs by mechanical means; they were not severed. A simple and expeditious process of decomposition is responsible instead. The footwear in which all five feet were found saved them from further disintegration. It also allowed them to float. The feet might have drifted down the Fraser, from any number of communities and tributaries in the B. C. interior. Alternatively, they might have first touched water in the Strait of Georgia, which separates the B. C. mainland from Vancouver Island. Of course, the feet might have originated in several different places. Where? When? It's almost impossible to determine with any precision, say forensic experts. Most vexing, of course, is that no one has determined to whom the feet belonged. Police are throwing cold water on speculation that the feet might be evidence of another serial killer at work. Butchers such as Robert (Willie) Pickton are exceedingly rare, and investigators say it's not unusual for human remains to wash up on local beaches and in riverbeds. A detached foot does not necessarily connote murder. Except this appears to be without precedent. One foot was anomalous enough; it was deemed newsworthy. Numbers two and three and four were more disturbing and seemed more phenomena than coincidence. Five seems like a serious problem. News media around the world are paying attention. Doug Decock wonders if some of the feet are all that remain of his two sons. A little more than three years ago, brothers Trevor and Doug Decock Jr. were passengers in a float plane that went down near Quadra Island, about 200 kilometres north of Vancouver. Only one body was recovered after the crash, but in time all five occupants were assumed dead. Reached at his home in the Queen Charlotte Islands yesterday, Mr. Decock confirmed that the Coroners Service of British Columbia office is comparing a sample of his own DNA with genetic information recovered from several of the disarticulated feet. The process is agonizingly slow, said Mr. Decock. He delivered his first DNA sample two months ago. "I was contacted again last Friday and was asked to provide another [DNA] sample," he added. "They are still working on it, but so far I don't think there's been any [connection]." A successful comparison could solve some of the mystery. But not all of it. There are too many unexplained feet. Other parents in the province must also be thinking about the five feet, and their missing sons and daughters, and a possible link. According to the RCMP, there were 2,371 missing people in B. C. as of the end of May. At least two more from B. C.'s Lower Mainland were declared missing earlier this month. A survey of the latest missing person reports reveals some startling similarities. Many of the missing individuals are white, single young men, notes Constable Annie Linteau, an RCMP media liaison officer. Some of the men were known to be depressed, or even suicidal. Others were, by all accounts, hard-working and happy, and not at all the type to simply vanish without explanation or apparent cause. According to police reports, a number of the missing were last seen wearing running shoes. Their disappearances, once considered random, are now being treated as suspicious. bhutchinson@nationalpost.com - Updates on missing people in the province can be found on the B. C. RCMP Web site: bc.rcmp.ca nationalpost.com

To: one_less who wrote (126726)	6/19/2008 7:31:26 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Sixth severed foot a hoax - Latest discovery appears to be animal bones stuffed in sneaker Sandra McCulloch, Times Colonist Published: Thursday, June 19, 2008 VICTORIA -- A foot found Wednesday on a beach in Campbell River was not human and appears to be a hoax, said the chief coroner's office today. A forensic pathologist and an anthropologist have examined the shoe and the remains inside it, and identified it as the bones of an animal's foot inserted into a shoe, along with a sock and packed with dried seaweed. The coroner's office chastised whoever is responsible for the hoax, calling it "reprehensible and very disrespectful for the families of missing persons." The foot was found Wednesday on a Campbell River beach on Tyee Spit, adjacent to the Thunderbird RV Park and Campground. It was the sixth such discovery on the southern B.C. coast since August 2007. So far, the five previous finds were human. The first four were right feet, while the fifth, which was found on Monday, was a left. All have been inside running shoes. Only the fourth appears to be female; the rest were likely male. According to Sandra Malone, Thunderbird campground manager, a woman found the latest foot at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Malone saw the black running shoe, "it looked like a size 10 or 11. You could see two leg bones sticking up from the foot about three or four inches. There was no tissue or muscle or anything." The bones seemed to be cut clean across, said Malone, suggesting an instrument had been used to cut the bone. "You could see it was a cut," Malone said. Investigations into the other five missing feet are continuing. While police are giving few clues as to where their case is going, a retired coroner and military diver believes there's no foul play involved in the five severed human feet. "I just think the more people you have missing the more chances you have of finding naturally occurring denegration of the body," said Ian Buckingham of Victoria, a retired physician and coroner. He has also served as military diver with the Canadian, U.S. and British navies. While more people are missing, there are also more people walking beaches than before, said Buckingham. "Some [feet] have been discovered by pets who have good noses," said Buckingham. "I just think there are lots more people out there than there used to be." The ankle joint can "easily" come apart from the leg during a body's disintegration at sea, said Buckingham. A left male foot in a sneaker was discovered Monday floating in the water off Westham Island, at the mouth of the Fraser River. A woman's foot was found in May on Kirkland Island, also in the Fraser and a kilometre from Westham. In February, a severed foot was found on Valdes Island east of Yellow Point and last August, two feet washed up on Gabriola and Jedediah Islands in the Strait of Georgia. canada.com