Mounties have leads in severed feet

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 12 (UPI) -- New leads on five human feet that washed ashore in British Columbia have been received by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, law enforcement officials said.

RCMP Sgt. Tim Shields told the Globe and Mail newspaper three legitimate-sounding missing person leads have come into the Vancouver office investigating the case.

The first feet were found on beaches last August. Four were male and the fifth female, and this week, investigators said DNA matched two of them as being from the same man.

However, no names have been matched to them.

Shields said the RCMP has been in contact with the various shoe manufacturers to determine a time frame of the various shoes' production.

"If for the first time it was manufactured in 2004, we don't need to look at missing persons files from 2003," he said.

Meanwhile, investigators in Sweden were running tests on a man's foot in a sock and shoe found washed ashore Tuesday, the Swedish News Agency TT reported.