On Monday, May 1st, a tennis shoe, which had been sitting on a dock at the Charleston City Marina for six days, was discovered to still contain a human foot.
Workers had been cleaning debris, brought to the surface by a storm the week before, from the marina waters when the shoe was initially found floating near docks J20 and J22. One of the workers tossed the shoe onto the decking, where it remained until a boater noticed a bone sticking up out of the shoe early Monday afternoon.
The shoe, a teal Adidas Samoa men's size 9, was sent to the Charleston County Coroner's Office, where a forensic anthropologist positively identified the foot, still encased in a black sock, as human; however, the right foot and shoe had been in the water for so long that examiners were unable to determine the sex or race of its previous owner. Coroner Rae Wooten stated that the foot could have surfaced after last week's severe weather, which churned debris from the bottom. "We can't even determine how long the foot has been severed."
Investigators are checking regional missing persons reports but, so far, have come up empty. Additionally, the state's Department of Natural Resources officials are unaware of any boating accidents within the last year in which a foot was traumatically amputated.
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