Sixth Foot Washes Ashore on Vancouver Island

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CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.–A bizarre case that has baffled British Columbians grew even more bizarre today.

A sixth foot – and the second one this week – washed up on shore and RCMP say it appears to be a human right foot.

RCMP Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Campbell River detachment on the east coast of Vancouver Island said police received a call from a resident this morning who reported finding a body part on a beach on Tyee Spit.

No other remains were found.

The foot is the latest in the increasingly strange case.

The first foot was found nearly a year ago on Jedidiah Island in the Strait of Georgia.

Within days, another right foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island and the third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island in early February.

The fourth foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, only a kilometre away from the site in Ladner, along the same river, where the fifth foot was found on Monday.

RCMP say the remains of the latest foot were found inside a size 10 black Adidas running shoe.

Tresoor said major crime investigators from the Campbell River detachment, along with staff from the coroner's office, went to the scene to investigate.

"The object will ultimately be examined by a forensic pathologist in attempts to determine the source of the foot and if it is related to other feet recently found," Tresoor said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the chief coroner of British Columbia said they have DNA profiles from the first three of the feet that have now been found washed ashore in the Gulf Islands and Fraser River.

But Terry Smith said that so far the DNA samples taken from the feet have not been able to be matched with any known samples to determine identities.

Smith and others have already put forth the hypothesis that the feet have washed ashore because they were encased in buoyant running shoes.