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Severed Leg (And Feet) Mysteries

Widening the topic a bit:

Police scour lake after man's severed arm is found floating in water
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:23 AM on 2nd April 2011

A major police investigation has been launched after the discovery of a man's severed arm in a lake.
Detectives were called to the site in Buckhurst Hill, Essex by a member of the public.

Officers have confirmed that the incident is being treated as suspicious and the lake has been taped off.
Police have been carrying out detailed searches of the area around the lake while specialist marine divers have been scouring the lakebed for the remainder of the body.

The grisly find was made at 2.50pm yesterday afternoon and the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating.
An Essex Police spokeswoman said: 'This is being treated as suspicious and I can confirm that the severed arm is from a man.
'Police would like to appeal for anyone with information to contact the Harlow Major investigation Team on 0300 333 4444.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1ILxpTIyQ
 
Murder suspect held after man's severed arm is found floating in fishing lake
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:52 PM on 2nd April 2011

A 53-year old-man was today arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's severed arm was found in a lake.
Detectives were called to the site in Buckhurst Hill, Essex after fishermen made the grim find.

The victim is expected to be named later today as police carry out detailed searches of the area around the lake while specialist marine divers scour the lakebed for the remainder of the body.

The grisly find was made at 2.50pm on Thursday and the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating.

A police spokesman said today: 'A 53-year-old man was last night arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the discovery of a severed arm in Buckhurst Hill on Thursday.
'The arm was discovered by fishermen at around 2.50pm at a lake off Roding Lane.
"The 53-year-old man remains in police custody.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1IRlHs68E
 
Yet another lone severed foot has come ashore in Vancouver...

Another foot washes ashore -- this time in Vancouver

By: ctvbc.ca
Date: Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011 8:30 PM PT

A running shoe containing what appears to be a human foot and leg bones has washed up in the waters off downtown Vancouver.

A passerby found the shoe floating in False Creek near the Plaza of Nations marina late Tuesday afternoon.

"[It was] quite disturbing -- quite a discovery to make," Vancouver Police Const. Jana McGuinness told reporters.

Police cordoned off the area and the BC Coroners Service has taken charge of the investigation.

The discovery marks the 12th discovery of a human foot washed up in the coastal region from B.C. to northwestern Washington since August 2007.

The most recent discovery was made on March 6, when a woman walking along a beach near Powell River found a running shoe containing remains.

One of the washed-up feet has been linked to a suspected suicide using DNA evidence.

Two feet found separately in New Balance running shoes in Richmond belong to the same woman, but she remains unidentified.

A matching pair of men's Nikes also remains unidentified, as well as a right male foot found in summer 2007.

So far, police say foul play isn't suspected in connection with any of the feet, which are believed to have detached naturally in the water.
 
Super creepy i just left there this morning my girlfriends condo looks down on false creek right where they found the foot, you could see her place on the news story. There are weird currents there in vancouver, and stuff could wash in from anywhere. Lots of people listed on vancouver police website who were last seen walking towards the bridge in a depressed state. Thereare also 10s of thousands of drug addicts in that town who no one would miss, and the likelyhood theres another serial killer like willie pickton is pretty high. It seems suspicious its just feet washing up to me, where is the rest of the body? I seem to recall one of the owners of one of the feet was identified and police said it wasnt suspected foul play. I read a good far out theory that it belongs to one of the 100 000 tsunami victims that was washed out to sea. Maybes its osamas foot.
 
Quite often murders in the criminal underworld end up like this, with body parts found. These people can be very organised and don't want forensic evidence lying around.
 
As I recall (from somewhere), bodies will decompose in water in such a way that the legs become detached from the torso, and most training shoes these days are constructed with layers of polymer foam materials which float, so the detached leg/shoe combo will continue to drift in the current when the rest of the body has decomposed elsewhere.
 
Since 2007, eleven feet, some in foot wear, some not, have washed up on shore along a certain area in North West North America. I remember hearing that somebody had come up with a logical reason for it, but it still seems quite disturbing.

Nice run down so far of what is going on:

http://on.io9.com/oAVywI

What do you think?

DT
 
Badly written article:

"Shoes can either have buoyant rubber souls..."
 
Mythopoeika said:
Badly written article:

"Shoes can either have buoyant rubber souls..."
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OK. Just hoping to spark some speculation on what seems to be a fast-dying message board. Sorry to bother.

DT
 
Speculation, eh?
Well...I think it's possible that sharks have been busy eating people and they spit out the feet. Because of the currents, these bits of debris end up collecting in one place.
 
Sure. I'm sure that's a valid argument. I just wanted to open up the minds that read this MB to hear some other valid arguments. Sorry to get your stuff in a bunch over this. I meant no disrespect. Just trying to start intelligent conversation. Maybe I'm not intelligent enough.

No offense, really.

I'll leave now.

DT
 
No need to leave, just check out the "Severed Feet Mysteries" thread for all your severed feet theory needs.
 
DaveTiger said:
Sure. I'm sure that's a valid argument. I just wanted to open up the minds that read this MB to hear some other valid arguments. Sorry to get your stuff in a bunch over this. I meant no disrespect. Just trying to start intelligent conversation. Maybe I'm not intelligent enough.

No offense, really.

I'll leave now.

DT
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Relax, will you?
All we have to do is wait for people to get round to answering.

I'm sure I don't know what 'stuff' you're referring to. :D
 
How about a serial killer disposing of butchered bodies? He dumps bits here and bits there though always the feet at a certain coastal point. Hey presto - all the feet wash up in the same region.
 
Police seem to be matching many of the wandering feet to their rightful owners...

http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/66262/Two-washed-ashore-feet-identified

Two washed ashore feet identified
by The Canadian Press - Story: 66262
Oct 19, 2011 / 2:49 pm

Two more of the eight feet that have washed ashore in British Columbia since 2007 have been identified.

The BC Coroners Service says the feet belong to a woman who committed suicide by jumping from the Pattullo Bridge in New Westminster in 2004.

Her feet washed ashore along the Fraser River in Richmond four years later and autopsies showed the limbs had not be cut off, but separated from the legs naturally.

The coroner's office says DNA was used to identify the woman and her family has been notified, but doesn't want her name released.

Six of the eight feet that have washed ashore in B.C. since 2007 have now been identified as belonging to four people.

The service says it's still working to identify the other two, adding there's no evidence any of the deaths is suspicious.
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Foot In Shoe Washes Up On San Francisco Beach
http://news.sky.com/story/1142601/foot- ... isco-beach

The foot is discovered inside a Puma running shoe but officials say there is no sign of a body.9:56pm UK, Monday 16 September 2013 Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Pic: Flickr/wallyg

The foot was discovered on Ocean Beach. Pic: Flickr/wallyg

By Sky News US Team

Authorities say a human foot in a running shoe has washed ashore on San Francisco's Ocean Beach.

The National Park Service said a member of its beach patrol confirmed the report from a beachgoer.

Officials said there was no sign of the rest of the body.

Mark Powning, chief investigator of the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office, told The San Francisco Chronicle the foot still had tissue attached.

"It probably was rolling around the seabed for awhile," Mr Powning told the newspaper.

The foot was inside a size 11 1/2 green-and-black-mesh Puma running shoe
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Dog walker finds human leg near Rochdale

A dog walker has found a human leg, sparking a police hunt for other body parts. Lancashire police said the adult leg was discovered on land behind Healey Conservative Club in Whitworth, near Rochdale, Greater Manchester, this afternoon.

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The Conservative Club declined to comment.
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Wonder what the story behind this is? An aircraft stowaway? Very gruesome.
 
escargot1 said:
Dog walker finds human leg near Rochdale

A dog walker has found a human leg, sparking a police hunt for other body parts. Lancashire police said the adult leg was discovered on land behind Healey Conservative Club in Whitworth, near Rochdale, Greater Manchester, this afternoon.

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The Conservative Club declined to comment.
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Wonder what the story behind this is? An aircraft stowaway? Very gruesome.
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Conservative cannibals no doubt. They were leaving the leg to age, probably hanging in a tree, fell.
 
Conservative cannibals no doubt. They were leaving the leg to age, probably hanging in a tree, fell.
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Air-dried hock is far superior to salted, i've been told, so we're looking for a gourmet connoisseur rather than some-one who frequents the drive-thru :lol:
 
Stu73 said:
Conservative cannibals no doubt. They were leaving the leg to age, probably hanging in a tree, fell.
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Air-dried hock is far superior to salted, i've been told, so we're looking for a gourmet connoisseur rather than some-one who frequents the drive-thru :lol:
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You may view the local tories here: http://www.rochdaleconservatives.co.uk/team.html

They look like rural cannibals from an old Hammer film.
 
OneWingedBird said:
Ah yes, Leeds Castle, home to the world famous dog collar museum... :lol:
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I wasn't that impressed with the dog collar museum, sadly; I'd been really very keen to see it as well :(

The grotto under the maze is fantastic though.
 
Some of these finds of body parts may be anatomical specimens, disposed of carelessly.

It used to be that such parts were simply tossed in the dumpster(there was a dumpster at University of Maryland that was used for this. A fellow I knew, who made knives, salvaged a few legs(thoughtfully defleshed by the local rats) and made handles for a couple of daggers, which he sold for big bucks.

As soon as this was discovered, the parts-and a hospital generates a few, not to mention those specimens, no longer needed-plans were made to cremate such.

But I wonder, given the cases recounted in our corpse mishandling thread, if some don't find their way into handicrafts for necrophiles?


UGH!
 
Fluttermoth said:
OneWingedBird said:
Ah yes, Leeds Castle, home to the world famous dog collar museum... :lol:
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I wasn't that impressed with the dog collar museum, sadly; I'd been really very keen to see it as well :(

The grotto under the maze is fantastic though.
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You,re easily lead.
 
A fellow I knew, who made knives, salvaged a few legs (thoughtfully defleshed by the local rats) and made handles for a couple of daggers, which he sold for big bucks.
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Just a few legs, that's OK then.

That may be the single most macabre true sentence I've ever read. 8)
 
Y'no what? We had some bone handle cutlery as a kid, never occured to me to ask what kind of bones tho :shock:
 
Cultjunky said:
Y'no what? We had some bone handle cutlery as a kid, never occured to me to ask what kind of bones tho :shock:
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Oh gawd!

Yeah, what type of bone goes into that.

Got ours from grandfather. He might have used Black n Tan bone.
 
Bone knife handles are mostly cattle shins.

Sometimes they are grooved with a rotary tool to look like staghorn. That's been going on for a long time, such handles are called 'jigged bone'.

There are a lot of knives(mostly switchblades, in my experience) that use camel shin. It polishes up well, and is sometimes used with blued titanium mounts. Looks nice.

Bone is a very nice material to work with, though when you use a Dremel tool on it, there's a smell that reminds one of the dentist.

Human skulls were once used to make combs. And human thigh bones were sometimes made into knife handles-sailors sold them to US Marines in the south Pacific-there were a lot of unburied Japanese on some of those islands.

Worn out files and cold chisels were preferred for the blades-in the tropical forest a good knife was very useful, not to mention the close ranges of many engagements.


Yes, it's gross, but the former owners of said bones didn't miss 'em a bit, and those knives were very useful to soldiers, sailors and Marines, in difficult circumstances.
 
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