The shoes belong to the dead person.
The shoe in question belongs to Cinderella, but nothing is quite clear here.
For a moment, she thought the shoe belonged to a Special, but it was one of the other Smokies, helping her up the only way he could.
The shoes belonged to a schoolboy named Carl Powers, who had drowned.
Her shoes had belonged to pa, but big as they were they were comfortable on her feet.
Lead archaeologist Ron Pinhasi could not determine whether the shoe belonged to a man or a woman.
"The shoes belong to a young man, an Englishman," he reported to Grey, following a brief colloquy with butler and cook.
His shoes must have belonged previously to a postman.
Looking down through the glass table top it was not difficult to see to whom the shoe belonged.