Peninsula Daily News
and The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Police say a human foot inside a running shoe has washed ashore, the latest in roughly a dozen such cases since 2007.
Police say the foot and leg bone were seen late Tuesday afternoon floating along the shore of Vancouver’s False Creek, an estuary near downtown and surrounded by highrise buildings.
Police so far have no theories about how the foot ended up in the water.
In the past four years, about a dozen feet encased in shoes have washed up on Canadian beaches along the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca — and one near Pysht on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Most of the remains are unidentified, although investigators said at least two of the feet found in the Strait of Georgia belong to men who were reported missing.
In previous cases, police said it appeared the feet separated from bodies naturally in the water and foul play wasn’t suspected. The feet float because of the buoyancy of the running shoes.
