ABC News⁠98%

Police search home of Kristin Smart's convicted killer's mother ⁠98%

5/8/2026, 12:40:00 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Recency Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 45.2% saturation with 123 hits. Analysis detected 971 faulty-reasoning hits from 272 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (470 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.20% of the video peer group.

to a case that made national headlines. 
There's a new turn tonight in the Kristen Smart case. 
The 19-year-old who disappeared from her college campus nearly 30 years ago now. 
Her body was never found and where authorities have now turned up tonight. 
Here's Trevor Alt. 
Tonight, a new development in the murder case of Kristen Smart. 
Investigators searching for her body nearly 30 years after she disappeared, seen at the house of her killer's mother. 
Paul Flores was convicted of Smart's murder in 2022. 
The podcast Your Own Backyard is credited with helping crack the case. 
The host of the show sharing these photos of Flores's mother, Susan, answering the door Wednesday when authorities showed up with a search warrant. 
Prosecutors believe Smart may have been buried on property owned by the Flores family. 
>> My understanding is they're doing what's called soil vapor extraction, and they're testing them to see if there's traces of human decomposition. 
>> Paul Flores was last seen with Kristen Smart at a party back in 1996. 
If she's not alive anymore, what do you think happened? 
I would say like someone who she hits like with or something abducted her or something, you know. 
>> His father was charged but acquitted of being an accessory to the murder. 
His mother was never charged. 
>> David, it's not clear if investigators uncovered any new evidence that led to this search warrant, but the sheriff says they'll provide an update on the case tomorrow morning. 
David, Trevor Rob on this case from so many years ago. 
Thank you. 
Confirmation Bias
9.9%
Anchoring Bias
4.8%
Availability Heuristic
30.5%
Representativeness Heuristic
9.9%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
15.1%
Framing Effect
16.2%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
1.8%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
3.7%
Pessimism Bias
3.7%
Negativity Bias
29%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
8.8%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
1.1%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
23.5%
Primacy Effect
6.6%
Blind-Spot Bias
11%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
45.2%
False Dilemma
10.7%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
14.3%
Red Herring
12.9%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
20.6%
Begging the Question
3.7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
4.4%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
11.4%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
15.1%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
15.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
19.5%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
8.5%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

272 words analyzed.

Analysis

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