Two feet encased in sneakers that washed ashore separately in Richmond in 2008 belonged to a New Westminster woman who committed suicide by jumping from the Pattulo Bridge into the Fraser River in April 2004, a B.C. coroner said Wednesday.
Coroner Stephen Fonseca said that autopsies showed her feet became separated through natural decomposition that occurs in water. Experts say the process generally explains why severed feet, which are preserved and float in sneakers, are found washed up on the coast.
Between August 2007 and August 2011 eight feet belonging to six individuals were discovered on B.C.'s coast. No evidence indicates that any of the deaths are suspicious.
The B.C. Coroners Service has identified six of the feet as belonging to four individuals.
