Human foot in the Strait of Georgia (Canada, 2007-2009.).
*****Quite an unusual story related to the repeated detection of human feet in the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River Usti
(near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). The first foot to put on socks and shod in sneakers was found in the north-eastern part of the Gulf of August 20, 2007**Next similar discovery was made just after 6 days of approximately 50 km. south. Sneakers ashore waves WALKING pair of shoes found in the human foot.
*****Finally, the third foot was found on Feb. 8, 2008 about 10 km. from the place of discovery "foot №2". After a few days executed just 6 years of this event. This discovery of a third foot, shod in sneakers, made history "flying feet"a sensation.
*****In all three cases, the shoes were laced and shoelaces - tied up, put socks on your feet, all feet were all right They belonged to men. Two of them had a size of 44 on a scale of European and one - 42.
Human foot beached waters of the Strait of Georgia, carrying a little significant from the point of view of criminalistics
information. However, forensic doctors tried to squeeze out of the remains of the maximum possible.
Studying foot forensic allowed to make unexpected discoveries. It was found that the feet had no traces of injuries and Removal by cutting or sawing, forcing them to think about the mechanism of separation from the body. In addition, forensic doctors confidently pointed out that the death of each of the owners found the feet followed for a long time (although a specific range no time could not identify). Difficulty dating time of death was the fact that the foot is part of the body, having a relatively small blood circulation and processes of decomposition of the flesh there developed later than in other parts of the body. Besides of putrefaction largely hindered the specific conditions of conservation of the feet in running shoes (no sunlight, oxygen supply, lack of access to the flesh of corpses destroyers - fish, crabs and so on.).
*****The main version of the investigation, which was conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, were limited to the following alleged reasons the emergence of human feet in the water:
********- Suicide and the subsequent penetration of a corpse in the water (as an example, a jump from a bridge in the city of Vancouver, where there are several High Bridge, favored by suicide);
- The death of the disaster in the air or at sea (in 2005 in the north of the Strait of Georgia disappeared the small seaplane 5 men on board. The body of one of them was swept ashore two days, and the rest were not found. Sam managed aircraft found only 5 months at a depth of 240 m. Its survey found that the bodies in the cabin there, and all the seat belts unfastened.)
***- The concealment of bodies in the bandit "showdown" between the various criminal gangs in Vancouver;
********- Acts of a serial killer.
*****Following the discovery of a third foot noticeably intensified the investigation. Program was launched a large-scale comparison of DNA found body parts with the DNA of people on the accounting law enforcement agencies, as well as in the provincial health British Columbia (database of medical institutions in Canada encompass far greater percentage of the population than law enforcement).
Later findings feet continued. May 22, 2008 found the right woman's shoe size 36 with female same feet in on coast of the island at the mouth of the Fraser River near Vancouver International Airport.
*****June 16, 2008 in the same area found swims near the shore sneaker with another feet, this time left. Distance between detection points №4 and №5 foot is less than 1 km away. "Foot №5" was paired "foot №3", ie they belonged to the same man.
*****June 18, 2008, law enforcement officers have faced a rough mystification: someone tucked into the bottom part of the sock pig feet, placed it in shoe and threw it into the Fraser River.
*****July 10, 2008 the press service of the RCMP held a press conference at which he gave a detailed analysis of the ongoing investigation. There were includes photographs found shoe reported results ended by the time the comparison of DNA detected foot DNA residents of British Columbia (the whole job of clarity is not brought, as a single match is found not It was). During the press conference, it was reported that the shoes, which were shod "foot №2", promoted and sold in India.
*****After the press conference in the Mounted Police contacted the person found on one of the photographs submitted by shoes, which left the home missing man. The subsequent comparison of the DNA found feet and relatives showed the desired DNA line, which allowed the identification of the first state of the unknown owners of "floating feet." During the life of this man mental illness, was last seen at the station "light metro", located near one of the bridges
over the Fraser River.
*****November 11, 2008 all the same in the area of the international airport in the water of the Fraser River found another shoe (on left foot) from sfeet inside. Forensic investigation showed that the observed part of the body comes from the same woman as the "foot №4 ", found on May 22 of that year.
*****Finally, on 27 October 2009 in the same area made a new discovery. "Foot №7" Right again, men and unpaired any detected previously.
anadian authorities are now inclined to believe that these findings are non-criminal origin. It is believed that all people whose feet were found in the Strait of Georgia, finished with him and the separation of fragments of bodies was due to natural decay tissues. Feet were on the shore, simply because light sneakers had buoyant enough to lift them to the surface.
However, a number of considerations make put this scenario into question. Namely:
********- It is unclear why the "foot №1-3" turned out to be grouped in the central part of the Strait of Georgia, and the place of discovery "feet №4-7 "precisely localized at the mouth of the Fraser River. Is not this the segmentation result of the fact that after the discovery of the first foot It changes the point of discharge into the water the rest?
********- If human foot began to swim in the waters of the Strait of Georgia due to the emergence of a particularly sensitive light sneaker, it is unclear, why such findings did not happen previously, for example in 2002-03-04 years. or, say, in 2006? Then, too, let lungs and sneaker suicidal vengeance whitefish from bridges Vancouver (still in the databases of the RCMP is listed more than 3 thousand. Missing from the middle 1960. residents of British Columbia and a large part of them are likely to put an end to him);
********- In addition, nothing is known about the discovery of new feet in sneakers since October 2009, though, based on the official version of such findings must take place more or less regularly (for statistics).
********- Finally, it seems perfectly logical question of why the "pop-up effect of the feet" is not observed in water waters in areas of major cities in other parts of the world, say, on the Hudson River (near New York), or in the Neva Bay (near St. Petersburg)? It seems that the suicides in New York and St. Petersburg is much greater than in a quiet Vancouver, and many of them wear shoes feet ... that's just for some reason, do not swim.
*****In any case, this story is far from over, and possibly the next few years will give us another extraordinary denouement criminal plot.