Boston.com28%
Waltham police searching for girl, 17, missing since July 37%
By Audrey Cooney6%
7/14/2026, 3:14:30 AM
Topics: Crime, Missing Persons
BS Summary: This article contains 0 faulty reasoning types, including no named faulty reasoning patterns yet, with no single egregious example has been isolated yet. Analysis detected 0 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 23.3% and a BS Rank of 7% (14,494 of 15,517 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.40% of the article peer group.
Waltham police are asking for the public’s help in finding a teen girl who was last seen more than a week ago.
Victoria “Tori” Amore, 17, was last seen leaving her home on Lexington Street at 11:19 p.m. Friday, July 3, the Waltham Police Department said in a Facebook post.
She was last seen getting into a “dark sedan of an unknown make or model,” the department wrote.
Amore has a severe food allergy and asthma and did not bring an EpiPen or inhaler with her when she left her home, police said. She also suffers from seizures, according to the department.
The teen frequently puts her hair in “box braids or smaller braids slicked back” and likes to wear heavy makeup, police wrote.
Anyone with information about Amore’s whereabouts should call Waltham police at 781-314-3600, the department said.
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149 words analyzed.
Speakers
1speaker93%attributed speech10writer words
Selected voice
0%flagged-word coverageWaltham Police Department
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No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.
Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.
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