FORENSIC PODIATRY: Previously Unknown But Now in the Forefront

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd

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BREAKING NEWS

Law enforcement officials in Utah released a video of the suspected shooter in the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk, saying that the person wore Converse tennis shoes and left a hand print and a shoe print at the scene.

The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination has been identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident. Law enforcement sources told the Daily Mail that Robinson was taken into custody as the alleged assassin who killed Kirk at a rally at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

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Forensic Podiatry on TV

Before today, forensic podiatry has even made it into the public zeitgeist with the hit TV show “Bones” which premiered on September 13, 2005, and concluded on March 28, 2017, airing for 246 episodes over 12 seasons. The show was based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on the mystery behind human body remains brought in for examination and identification.

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In one show, eight pairs of dismembered feet washed ashore after a flood on the U.S.-Canada border, but things didn’t add up when only seven pairs of feet were identified as research corpses from a nearby university body farm.

When the fictional Canadian forensic podiatrist Dr. Douglas Filmore took the remains back to Canada, he had to form a jurisdictional alliance with the United States to match the pairs of feet and identify the victims. A rare and expensive pair of sneakers led the team to the victim’s murderer.

In 2016, an actual forensic podiatry club was started at the Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine. And, a formal class covering aspects of forensic podiatry is held at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. Students exit the class with an in depth knowledge of forensic podiatry and other legal knowledge applicable to current cases.

More expertly, real-life colleague Michael Steven Nirenberg DPM actually testified in the murder trial of defendants Kailie Brackett and Donnell Dana with the state calling three witnesses to testify, including the podiatrist who claimed Brackett’s footprints match the ones found in blood at the apartment of the victim, Kimberly Neptune. The forensic podiatrist focused on the footprints discovered at Neptune’s apartment, using prints and images of the defendant’s feet taken by law enforcement. After study, he claimed the prints at the scene bore a resemblance to Kailie Brackett’s in the width of the foot. The defense questioned the field of forensic podiatry and pressed Dr. Nirenberg on whether the measurements would be altered depending on how thick the sock covering the foot was woven.

Dr. Nirenberg was also interviewed on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition on April 14th 2023 about the gait of the bombing suspect associated with the capital riot on Wednesday January 6th, 2021. Dr. Nirenberg is president of the American Society of Forensic Podiatry and co-editor of the textbook: “Forensic Gait Analysis: Principles and Practice”. The bombing suspect had placed bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters in Washington, DC on the night before. NPR asked Dr. Nirenberg to comment on the features of the person’s gait.

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Additionally, Nirenberg was interviewed by Nancy Grace on her TV show Crime Stories. Grace interviewed Nirenberg about his forensic podiatry work in helping to solve the murder of a mother of 3 who was killed in a church. The case remains unsolved. The episode, “Fitness-Mom Missy Bevers Bludgeoned Dead in Creekside Church” aired June 6th, 2024 and is available online at Merit+ TV.

And, Netflix’s 2023 docu-series, “Till Murder Do Us Part”, recounts the killings of Derek and Nancy Haysom by including a series of interviews with a cast of real people. The four-part docu-series revolves around the unpacking of how a wealthy couple was murdered in Virginia in 1985. It also focuses on how the suspects, Elizabeth Haysom, and her boyfriend, Jens Soehring, betrayed each other during the trial.  Dr. Sarah Reel DPM was the forensic podiatrist who was involved with Jens’ and Elizabeth’s footprint examination. Dr. Reel pointed out that, statistically, there was no difference “between a bare footprint and a socked footprint.” The doctor suggested that Jens’ reference footprint matched closely with the crime scene footprint. 

Cite: Aeron Mer Eclarinal, The Direct [11/9/23]

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