WA/Canada - Human feet washing ashore

[Veritas Aequitas]

Wondering if this is related to organized crime, as in some sort of sadistic Rites ceremony to join the gang where you kill someone and send their foot down the canal or what exactly but I would stop hiking alone in Northern WA/South Canada

 

[Springrain]

I'm in WA and I don't hike alone (or with anyone lol, I'm not a hiker) but I wouldn't worry about that if I did. It's all feet in tennis shoes because tennis shoes are very buoyant and float feet along instead of sandals or boots, easier for tennis shoes to bob along with feet inside. The feet were mostly rotten when found.

My concern with the missing persons shoe sizes being taken is shoe sizes can really vary depending on brand, etc. I would hate for a missing person to be falsely ruled out as a UID due to wearing a Size 9 shoe when their report said they wore Size 8. But it probably it wouldn't be all they relied on for ID.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea...eet-beach-pacific-northwest-seattle-vancouver This article has a professor from UW explain why it happens on the Salish Sea specifically.

 

[watcher9]

I haven't kept up with this thread but saw this article which has a chart illustrating where and when each foot was found. According to the article, they have identified nine of the fourteen found thus far.

http://www.wtoc.com/story/38195560/...-washing-up-on-the-shores-of-british-columbia

 

[kmclaren]

Wondering if this is related to organized crime, as in some sort of sadistic Rites ceremony to join the gang where you kill someone and send their foot down the canal or what exactly but I would stop hiking alone in Northern WA/South Canada

Nothing that sinister... It's been over a long period of time and most have been identified. For example, 2 of the feet belong to a woman who jumped from the Pattullo Bridge (Vancouver) in 2004 and another belong to a fisherman who went missing way back around 1985. Three others were reported as "suffering from depression", "not suspicious" and "natural causes". Most have a reasonable explanation, there are only a couple no yet ID'd.

 

[SandyQLS]

Washington man ID’d from human foot found in boot that washed ashore

Washington man ID’d from human foot found in boot that washed ashore
By Stephen Sorace | Fox News
February 6, 2019

"A human foot found inside a boot that washed up on an island off of Washington state last month belonged to a man missing since 2016, authorities said Tuesday

Antonio Neill, who was 22-years-old at the time of his disappearance, is now presumed dead, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said. The cause of death has yet to be determined ..."

More at link

 

[madamx]

Nothing that sinister... It's been over a long period of time and most have been identified. For example, 2 of the feet belong to a woman who jumped from the Pattullo Bridge (Vancouver) in 2004 and another belong to a fisherman who went missing way back around 1985. Three others were reported as "suffering from depression", "not suspicious" and "natural causes". Most have a reasonable explanation, there are only a couple no yet ID'd.

Just wondering, How can they tell by finding just a foot washed shore, that the person died of natural causes?

 

[madamx]

I haven't kept up with this thread but saw this article which has a chart illustrating where and when each foot was found. According to the article, they have identified nine of the fourteen found thus far.

http://www.wtoc.com/story/38195560/...-washing-up-on-the-shores-of-british-columbia

Oh I was excited to see the chart but the link is not working.

 

[snowleopard]

John Lordan's coverage of Antonio's case here.

 

[kmclaren]

Just wondering, How can they tell by finding just a foot washed shore, that the person died of natural causes?

I think the one reported as natural causes was a DNA match to a man that they already knew had died. The others were suspected suicides from a couple of different bridges in Vancouver.

 

[Romulus]

Obviously it has nothing to do with this case, but also in Italy there are feet in the rivers, here a human foot was found in the Adda.

Un piede nell'Adda

 

[madamx]

Obviously it has nothing to do with this case, but also in Italy there are feet in the rivers, here a human foot was found in the Adda.

Un piede nell'Adda

Omg Romulus they have random feet washing up their too!

Does anyone know if any more random feet washed up at this location after these feet? I have not thought of this thread in so long!

 

[SandyQLS]

It might be useful to add this link to the threads about missing Australian fraudster Melissa Caddick. She went missing right after investigators seized items from her home in Nov 2020. She is believed to have stolen millions from investors. Her foot was found on a beach 400km south of her home neighborhood near Sydney.

Thread#6, discussion posts approx. March 14, 2021

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...a-caddick-49-sydney-nsw-12-nov-2020-6.561562/

 

[madamx]

Well since we are talking about world wide Feet.. I thought I would include a Thread I had made a while ago.
NY - NYC - Human Foot in Black "Helios" Size 8 Sneaker. Sept 24, 2016

 

[heartanium]

Made a tread for another foot that washed up on a Bellingham beach in 2021

WA - WA - Bellingham, UncMale, UnkAge, UP86749, found at Locust Beach, right foot in work boot, size 7, Nov'21

Namus UP86749 Unidentified Male Location Found: Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington Date Found: November 21, 2021 Race: Uncertain PMI: Uncertain Estimated year of Death: Uncertain Estimated Age: Uncertain Height: Uncertain Weight: Uncertain Hair Color: Uncertain Eye Color: Uncertain...

www.websleuths.com

 

[heartanium]

Another foot washed up on Gonzales Beach in Victoria, B.C on July 23, 2023. Last one to wash up in B.C was in 2021.

Coroner investigating possible human foot found in shoe on Victoria beach

The BC Coroner Service confirms it's investigating after a person reported finding a human foot inside a shoe on Gonzales Beach.

www.cheknews.ca

 

[heartanium]

In December of 2021, a size 8 women's new balance shoe containing a foot washed up near the mouth of the Elwha River outside Port Angeles. It was later identified to be 68 year old Jerilyn L. Smith, who went missing from Sequim, Washington on Jan. 7, 2018.



"During the middle of the night, her husband moved to the couch and went to church the next morning without seeing Smith. When he returned, she was gone. Her car was found near the Elwha River Bridge, east of Port Angeles. Search and rescue dogs tracked her scene to the middle of the bridge directly over the river. Divers searched for the woman, but she was never found."

She was identified with the help of Othram.

Human foot found south of Victoria was from missing woman: U.S. police

Police in Clallam County have revealed new details about a human foot found washed ashore, saying the limb belonged to a missing woman.

www.cheknews.ca

Foot Found Washed Ashore a Year Ago Identified as Belonging to Woman Who Went Missing in 2018

A shoe and foot that washed ashore in Washington State belongs to Jerilyn L. Smith, authorities said.

people.com