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Gilgo Beach murders: Rex Heuermann admits to killing 8 women 100%

4/9/2026, 12:33:00 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Burden of Proof, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 40.5% saturation with 85 hits. Analysis detected 584 faulty-reasoning hits from 210 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 100% (135 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 99.20% of the video peer group.

More than 30 years after a killing spree 
began terrorizing Long Island, a serial 
killer stood up in court and admitted 
guilt. Rex Huerman repeatedly said 
guilty with what appeared to be a slight 
smirk on his face there in a dark suit, 
hands handcuffed behind his back, admitting that he strangled to death 
eight young women that he had solicited 
for sex. And the families of the victims 
were there packing the courtroom along with investigators who've been working 
the case all these years. Even the woman 
who was married to Huerman for 27 years there in court in the back row gripping 
the seat in front of her and later offering her condolences to victims. Why 
did he change his plea now? The district attorney here in Suffach County told me 
he thinks Huerman just got tired of 
fighting. And there he was in court 
saying the word guilty over and over. 
He's never going to leave prison. He is 
going to be serving three consecutive 
life sentences. And as part of this plea agreement, he also must sit for an 
interview with the FBI to give investigators a window into the mind of 
a monstrous serial killer. 
Confirmation Bias
11.9%
Anchoring Bias
3.8%
Availability Heuristic
12.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
12.9%
Hindsight Bias
7.1%
Overconfidence Bias
6.2%
Framing Effect
18.1%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
3.8%
Negativity Bias
36.7%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
11%
Actor-Observer Bias
10.5%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
6.2%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
6.2%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
22.4%
False Dilemma
11%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
5.2%
Appeal to Emotion
40.5%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
3.3%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
20.5%
Appeal to Nature
6.2%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
9%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
9.5%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
3.8%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

210 words analyzed.

Analysis

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