From Seattle station KOMO:
Hiker finds another mystery foot on Vancouver Island beach
British Columbia's coroners' service has confirmed that a foot discovered recently on a Vancouver Island shoreline is in fact human.
A hiker exploring Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew on Sunday afternoon came across a running shoe containing a human foot in a sock.
B.C. Coroners Service spokeswoman Barb McLintock says an investigation is under way to determine whose foot it is and the cause of death.
She says so far there is no suspicion of foul play.
This is the 13th foot found washed up on the British Columbia coast since 2007. McLintock says of the 12 previous instances, coroners have been able to identify 10 of the feet, belonging to seven people. Most of the feet were from men, but at least one of them was a woman's foot.
Several other human feet have also been found on beaches along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound in Western Washington.
For some unexplained reason, almost all of the feet discovered so far have been right feet.
A very sick person out there - this has been going on for the last eight years. With such a fixed M.O. I am surprised that nobody has been caught yet.
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