Canadian police managed to compile the second pair of torn-off feet in sneakers found in Canada
It turned out that the foot found in May 2008 and the foot found in November of the same year belong to the same woman. Both feet were shod with New Balance sneakers. The identity of the woman to whom the finds belonged has not been established.
Recall that since August 2007, six feet separated from the body have been found in Canada. In July 2008, the police managed to put together a pair of male feet, the remaining two belong to different people, the identity of one of whom was identified - they turned out to be a local resident who went missing in the summer of 2007.
The police found that all feet found naturally separated from the body; This is indicated both by the absence of signs of violent actions over the feet, and by the fact that the limbs of a person spontaneously separate from the body from a long stay of the body in water.
The police have not yet been able to explain the findings, but there is an assumption that the feet belonged to people who died in a plane crash or shipwreck. All the feet we found were wearing sports shoes.
Vancouver Island is attached to the Pacific coast of Canada near the border with the United States. From the city of the same name, the capital of the province of British Columbia, it is separated by the Strait of Georgia, along which many small islands are scattered. Some of them have melodic names: Lascheti, Gabriola, Valdes, Galliano. This is the memory of the Spaniards, led by Captain Jose Maria Narvaez, who first explored the Georgia Strait at the end of the 18th century. Others are called in English: Hornby, Cooper, Saltspring, Westham. This was given the names by the British captain Augustus Cooper in the middle of the 19th century. And in some names, such as Tuvasen, echoes of those ancient times are heard when there was no Vancouver or British Columbia yet, and these islands were inhabited by wild northern peoples who worshiped the mythical cannibal giant Baksbakualanuksivaya.
These places are pretty deserted. On Gabriola, for example, only about 4 thousand people live, and on the largest island in the Georgia Strait, Lasketi, 359. Some are completely uninhabited. They can only be reached by ferries. Between Lasketi and Gabriola is a naval training ground where the Canadian military regularly tests weapons. During firing, the strait becomes a rather dangerous place.
On the islands in the Strait of Georgia, on Indian reservations, the remains of ancient tribes still live, which keep their incredibly complex language, their customs and their traditions of the Eater of People on the northern edge of the world.
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There is quite intensive shipping in these parts. There is a busy port of Vancouver, ferries, and several yacht clubs. Of course, shipwrecks occur from time to time, sometimes with human casualties.
And further to the north, completely untouched, reserved places begin. Indians live there on mountain reservations, and rare villages are scattered along the ocean coast to Alaska, the population of which is mainly engaged in fishing. The main news there are weather forecasts and stories of capsized boats and drowned fishermen.
In February 2005, a small plane carrying Arnie Feast (pilot), Fabian Bedard, Dave Stevens and brothers Trevor and Doug Decok crashed into the sea off the coast of Quadra Island in the northern part of the Georgia Strait. Stevens' body was later washed ashore, and the rest have still not been found.
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On August 20, 2007, a little girl, playing on the beach on the small island of Jedidia, between Lasketi and Tejada, found a human leg. More precisely, a man's right foot, shod in a sneaker.
No remains were found nearby. No one has been missing in the area lately. Apparently, the surf brought the leg.
Just six days later, another leg was found on Gabriola Island. Also men's, also right and also in a sneaker.
Fate (or God? Or Life itself?) Sometimes makes fun of people. Sometimes her humor is black.
Six months have passed. On Valdes Island, a little further southeast along the Georgia Strait, a third leg was found. Men's. In a sneaker. Right.
The police took DNA samples. They were unlike any of the available samples donated by the relatives of the missing in the region. We checked the morgues, re-read the reports. No legless corpses were found.
Another three months passed. On the uninhabited island of Kirkland, a fourth leg was found between Ladner and Richmond. Right. In a sneaker. Men's.
Maybe it was the mafia that cut off the legs of their enemies? Or were they torn off in 2004 during the terrible tsunami in Southeast Asia, when hundreds of thousands of people died and went missing?
Less than a month has passed. The fifth leg was found on June 16 on a beach on Westham Island, where several farms are located. In a sneaker. Men's. Left.
And on June 18, a woman searched for stones for crafts on a beach in Campbell River on Vancouver Island, in the northern part of the Georgia Strait, in the part of it farthest from Vancouver and from where the other five legs were found. And I found the sixth leg. In a sneaker. Men's.
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Darla Macdonald, a Campbell River resident, was engaged to Fabian Bedard. He died in the aforementioned plane crash in February 2005. Darla is sure that one of the legs found on the islands belonged to Fabian.
Then, in 2005, the bodies of the four victims were never found. All four were men.
From August 2007 to June 2008, six male legs were found on the islands. At least four of them were right, at least one was left. Much will become clear when it becomes known what the sixth was.
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Annie Linto, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, when asked about the legs she found, said: "As far as I know, we have never encountered anything like this." She doesn't know what happened to those who owned those legs. Are they alive? Killed? Died in an accident? Committed suicide? Unknown.
How exactly were the legs separated from the bodies? Pathologists doubt they are cut off. What then? Torn off? Cut off by the ship's propeller? Unknown.
General attention is drawn to Darla MacDonald and other relatives and friends of the victims of the February 2005 plane crash. The families of the shipwrecked fishermen remain silent. Relatives of suicides, too.
So maybe it's the local gangs of thugs after all? The authorities are in no hurry to confirm this version, no matter how the locals gossip. However, the authorities generally try not to discuss any versions. They only say that "it has not been proven that there was any violent crime," and "it has not been proven that there is a connection between six male legs in similar shoes, brought by the surf to the islands in the vicinity of one big city for less than a year. ".