A Severed Foot Inside a Tennis Shoe = Mystery

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.

Another 'What Were They Thinking?' The 'Due Diligence' Edition

Teachers, just like us cops, nurses, doctors and a bevy of other occupations, are held to a higher standard due to being in a position of trust.

Apparently no one told Megan Sloan.

According to several area news outlets, the 27-year-old Sapulpa, Oklahoma elementary teacher was arrested and booked into the Creek County jail on Monday on charges of possessing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, embezzlement and possession of drug paraphernalia. Here's how events unfolded:

Sloan, who taught at Holmes Park elementary school, had been using a school computer and was messaging another person on her Facebook account. For reasons unknown, she then walked away from the session, leaving her social media account open; another educator, needing to use the computer later on, found Sloan's open social media account, discovering that she had been having an online conversation with another person about buying/selling heroin and pawning two of the school's iPads to support her drug habit. The second teacher reported what she'd found to school district administrators and law enforcement responded to the scene.

During an interview, Sloan admitted to being an addict. A cursory search of her purse turned up Xanax and several uncapped syringes, two of which were loaded with heroin and cocaine, as well as nearly a half gram of methamphetamine. Sloan was then arrested and charged.

Looking at her book-in photo, how could the school's administrators NOT know one of their teachers was drug-dependent? Someone, it would seem, hadn't conducted any due diligence.

Megan Sloan