Foot that washed ashore identified
Last Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009 | 3:19 PM PT
The Canadian Press
The human remains found in this shoe near Vancouver on Oct. 27 have been identified. (RCMP)The B.C. coroner has used DNA to identify a foot that washed up on shore on the Fraser River last month as belonging to a dead man from the Vancouver area.
RCMP say the foot belonged to a man reported missing in January 2008.
They say foul play is not suspected due to the circumstances of his death, and the man's identity is being withheld at the family's request.
The foot washed up on the river shore in Richmond on Oct. 27, the seventh mystery foot to come ashore in B.C. over the past two years.
One other foot has been identified as belonging to a man thought to have committed suicide. The other feet include a female pair, a male pair, and a man's right foot.
Police say all of the feet separated from the bodies naturally in the water, and foul play is not suspected in any of the cases, although there has been no explanation how the unidentified bodies ended up in the ocean.
