Tampa Bay Times14%
Paddleboarder, 31, found dead in water at St. Pete’s Lassing Park3%
By Chris Tisch26%
7/10/2026, 6:59:05 PM
Topics: St Petersburg
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 135 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.4% and a BS Rank of 3% (13,833 of 14,149 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.80% of the article peer group.
A 31-year-old woman who had been paddleboarding was found dead in the water at Lassing Park on Friday morning, the St. Petersburg Police Department reported. Police were called to the park, 2042 Beach Drive SE, at 10 a.m. after they received a call about “an unresponsive woman wearing a bathing suit found floating in the water close to shore,” a department news release states. St. Pete Fire Rescue arrived on scene, and the woman, who police identified as Erica Grace Wendling, was pronounced dead. Police found a paddleboard nearby and other items onshore, and they determined that Wendling had been paddleboarding. The news release states that Wendling’s death “does not appear suspicious” but the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office will determine her cause of death.
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135 words analyzed.
Speakers
1speaker49%attributed speech69writer words
Selected voice
0%flagged-word coverageSt. Petersburg Police Department
66 attributed words100% of attributed speech0% writer coverage
WriterSpeaker0–5% shared scale
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.
Analysis
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