Update (July 10, 11:01am PST): News conference underway: 2-feet came from same person
Update (July 10: 9:48am PST): As we wait for today’s news conference, I thought I’d feature two new videos about the “Mystery Feet” story.
Seattle’s KOMO-TV aired a nicely-produced story last night. KOMO’s story does a good job of capturing the intrigue of this case. The KOMO story also includes interviews with two researchers featured in a June 28 Beyond90Seconds.com report (Pig video lends insight into B.C.’s human feet mystery): forensic scientist Gail Anderson and University of Victoria researcher Richard Dewey. Dewey is the chief scientist behind the Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS) project.
The second video comes from Canada’s CTV television network and does a terrific job of delivering exclusive information. Specifically, we learn that the shoes the feet were found in will be displayed at today’s news conference. The CTV story also states that DNA testing has been completed on all five feet. This is especially significant for relatives of a 2005 plane crash. Five people died in that watery crash. But four of the victims have never been located. Investigators do have DNA profiles for those missing plane crash victims. Based on the CTV report, a headline coming out that new conference later today might be, Mystery feet not connected to plane crash, police seeking public’s help.
But let’s wait and see…
You can watch the CTV story here.
(July 9) Despite a determined effort to stay tight-lipped about the mystery of five human feet that have emerged from the watery depths off of British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police now appear ready to give-in to increased pressure from world media outlets.
Today, investigators said that they will hold a “media briefing” Thursday.
According to a Vancouver Sun (Canwest News Service) report :
Authorities in British Columbia have been so inundated with calls from around the world concerning the mysterious human feet that have been washing up on the province’s shores that investigators have promised to hold a media briefing to update the public on the case.
The RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service have scheduled a joint news conference for Thursday morning in Vancouver. Officials from each agency will answer questions that are relevant to the public interest, the RCMP said Wednesday.
One question left unanswered: Will investigators show any of the five mystery sneakers at the news conference? It would appear to be a logical move aimed at generating tips.
According to today’s Vancouver Sun, organizers of Thursday’s news conference are not planning to address yesterday’s discovery of a human foot on a beach in Sweden.
For more insights into this investigation, check out this blog’s earlier story, Pig Video lends insight into B.C.’s human feet mystery.
You can also read my initial post on this investigation, Truth yet to surface in human feet mystery. At the time of that initial story, police had announced plans to hold a news conference.
It never happened.