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Posted: 18-12-2010 01:02 Post subject:

Living, as I do, in the general area of said plague of severed feet, I have decided to keep a close eye on mine. It'd be terribly inconvenient if they decided to wander off and jump in the ocean one day.

Posted: 02-04-2011 09:41 Post subject:

Widening the topic a bit:

Police scour lake after man's severed arm is found floating in water
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:23 AM on 2nd April 2011

A major police investigation has been launched after the discovery of a man's severed arm in a lake.
Detectives were called to the site in Buckhurst Hill, Essex by a member of the public.

Officers have confirmed that the incident is being treated as suspicious and the lake has been taped off.
Police have been carrying out detailed searches of the area around the lake while specialist marine divers have been scouring the lakebed for the remainder of the body.

The grisly find was made at 2.50pm yesterday afternoon and the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating.
An Essex Police spokeswoman said: 'This is being treated as suspicious and I can confirm that the severed arm is from a man.
'Police would like to appeal for anyone with information to contact the Harlow Major investigation Team on 0300 333 4444.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372502/Specialist-divers-scour-lake-walker-finds-severed-arm.html#ixzz1ILxpTIyQ

Posted: 03-04-2011 09:30 Post subject:

Murder suspect held after man's severed arm is found floating in fishing lake
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:52 PM on 2nd April 2011

A 53-year old-man was today arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's severed arm was found in a lake.
Detectives were called to the site in Buckhurst Hill, Essex after fishermen made the grim find.

The victim is expected to be named later today as police carry out detailed searches of the area around the lake while specialist marine divers scour the lakebed for the remainder of the body.

The grisly find was made at 2.50pm on Thursday and the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating.

A police spokesman said today: 'A 53-year-old man was last night arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the discovery of a severed arm in Buckhurst Hill on Thursday.
'The arm was discovered by fishermen at around 2.50pm at a lake off Roding Lane.
"The 53-year-old man remains in police custody.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372502/Specialist-divers-scour-lake-walker-finds-severed-arm.html#ixzz1IRlHs68E

Posted: 31-08-2011 06:02 Post subject:

Yet another lone severed foot has come ashore in Vancouver...

Another foot washes ashore -- this time in Vancouver

By: ctvbc.ca
Date: Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011 8:30 PM PT

A running shoe containing what appears to be a human foot and leg bones has washed up in the waters off downtown Vancouver.

A passerby found the shoe floating in False Creek near the Plaza of Nations marina late Tuesday afternoon.

"[It was] quite disturbing -- quite a discovery to make," Vancouver Police Const. Jana McGuinness told reporters.

Police cordoned off the area and the BC Coroners Service has taken charge of the investigation.

The discovery marks the 12th discovery of a human foot washed up in the coastal region from B.C. to northwestern Washington since August 2007.

The most recent discovery was made on March 6, when a woman walking along a beach near Powell River found a running shoe containing remains.

One of the washed-up feet has been linked to a suspected suicide using DNA evidence.

Two feet found separately in New Balance running shoes in Richmond belong to the same woman, but she remains unidentified.

A matching pair of men's Nikes also remains unidentified, as well as a right male foot found in summer 2007.

So far, police say foul play isn't suspected in connection with any of the feet, which are believed to have detached naturally in the water.

Posted: 31-08-2011 09:17 Post subject:

Super creepy i just left there this morning my girlfriends condo looks down on false creek right where they found the foot, you could see her place on the news story. There are weird currents there in vancouver, and stuff could wash in from anywhere. Lots of people listed on vancouver police website who were last seen walking towards the bridge in a depressed state. Thereare also 10s of thousands of drug addicts in that town who no one would miss, and the likelyhood theres another serial killer like willie pickton is pretty high. It seems suspicious its just feet washing up to me, where is the rest of the body? I seem to recall one of the owners of one of the feet was identified and police said it wasnt suspected foul play. I read a good far out theory that it belongs to one of the 100 000 tsunami victims that was washed out to sea. Maybes its osamas foot.

Posted: 31-08-2011 10:11 Post subject:

Quite often murders in the criminal underworld end up like this, with body parts found. These people can be very organised and don't want forensic evidence lying around.

Posted: 31-08-2011 13:26 Post subject:

As I recall (from somewhere), bodies will decompose in water in such a way that the legs become detached from the torso, and most training shoes these days are constructed with layers of polymer foam materials which float, so the detached leg/shoe combo will continue to drift in the current when the rest of the body has decomposed elsewhere.

Posted: 19-10-2011 23:14 Post subject:

Police seem to be matching many of the wandering feet to their rightful owners...

http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/66262/Two-washed-ashore-feet-identified

Posted: 16-09-2013 23:06 Post subject: