5th human foot is found on british columbia coast

The Associated Press

A fifth human foot in a year has been found on the horse opera Canadian coast.

The police force said two people out for a walk mon spotted the left foot floating off Westham Island, at the mouth of the Fraser River, about 15 miles, or 24 kilometers, south of George Vancouver.

Constable Sharlene Brooks of the Delta police force said functionary were workings with the British people Columbia medical examiner's business office to see if there were any links betwixt the foot and other partial derivative remains recovered in the state.

"A passerby noticed a shoe floating in the water, pulled it in and notified police," creek said. "We're treating it as a felon probe."

Brooks said there was no initial indication that the foot was related to the other cases. "We're surely not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it's just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now," she said.

The previous foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, about one mile away from where the foot was discovered mon.

The first in the series was found about a year ago on Jedidiah Island in the sound of Empire State of the South. Within days, another right foot was found interior a man's Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island.

The third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island, in early Feb.

The beginning of the remains is still unknown region. The Royal Canadian Mounted police force has said there is no grounds the feet were severed or removed from the victims' legs by force.

William Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer based in Seattle, said when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the parts like arms, legs, hands, feet and the head are usually what come off the body.