NBC News99%
Utah mom who murdered her husband sentenced to life without parole 93%
5/13/2026, 11:59:30 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Appeal to Authority, and Burden of Proof, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 48.9% saturation with 69 hits. Analysis detected 475 faulty-reasoning hits from 141 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.2% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,314 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 92.20% of the video peer group.
or the Utah mom who published a book on grief after her husband's death has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for his murder.
She just spoke to the court sending a message to her three sons.
Watch.
I know how much you need him, how much you love him, how much you aspire to be just like him, and I would have never taken that from you.
We're going to show you the moment here.
Corey Richens received her sentence today.
It happened to be the day of her late husband's Eric's birthday.
She was convicted of aggravated murder earlier this year for lacing his cocktail with five times the deadly dose of fentinyl in 2022.
Her lawyers do say they're going to appeal the ruling.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
19.1%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
48.9%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
21.3%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
25.5%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
44%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
5.7%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
8.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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141 words analyzed.
Analysis
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