ABC News99%

Police release new details in the disappearance of American woman in Grenada 97%

7/28/2026, 5:07:35 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 35.8% saturation with 86 hits. Analysis detected 737 faulty-reasoning hits from 240 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.6% and a BS Rank of 97% (828 of 26,447 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.90% of the video peer group.

New developments tonight in the search for a missing American woman in Grenada 
on vacation with a friend when she disappeared. 
Police now say she was last seen going for a swim and what the 
family says new surveillance video now reveals. 
Here's ABC's Victor Okendo. 
Tonight, nearly a week after American mother Liz Wadell mysteriously vanished from a vacation on the Caribbean island of Grenada, her family is pleading for help, releasing surveillance video they say shows her walking near the beach and 
jumping off a jetty. 
It comes just hours after police released new details saying the 44year-old from North Carolina was last seen swimming under the jetty on 
July 22nd. Investigators have also received several eyewitness accounts indicating that she was seen swimming in the open water. 
>> Her husband Kalin is now in Grenada. 
>> My wife is a loving, free-spirited person. She could make friends with anyone. 
>> Police are using drones, divers, and dogs to scour the resort and coastline, saying they're determined to find answers for Wadell's family. 
>> They seek answers, and we are here to provide those answers. 
It is our hope that Elizabeth will be found and found alive and well. 
>> Wadell's husband has been retracing his wife's footsteps in Grenada, searching for answers. 
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward. with 
>> Victor Okendo. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 2.9%ABC News: 9.2%Confirmation Bias2.9%This article: 7.5%ABC News: 4.0%Anchoring Bias7.5%This article: 30.0%ABC News: 16.1%Availability Heuristic30.0%This article: 3.3%ABC News: 2.2%Representativeness Heuristic3.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 12.9%ABC News: 5.5%Overconfidence Bias12.9%This article: 29.2%ABC News: 23.0%Framing Effect29.2%This article: 4.2%ABC News: 1.4%Loss Aversion4.2%This article: 9.6%ABC News: 1.4%Status Quo Bias9.6%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 15.4%ABC News: 6.6%Optimism Bias15.4%This article: 5.8%ABC News: 2.9%Pessimism Bias5.8%This article: 21.3%ABC News: 22.3%Negativity Bias21.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 5.8%ABC News: 1.0%Actor-Observer Bias5.8%This article: 3.3%ABC News: 2.7%In-Group Bias3.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 5.8%ABC News: 5.4%Halo Effect5.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 15.0%ABC News: 5.1%Recency Bias15.0%This article: 1.7%ABC News: 1.7%Primacy Effect1.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 35.8%ABC News: 11.4%Appeal to Authority35.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 9.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 9.6%ABC News: 1.6%Bandwagon9.6%This article: 32.9%ABC News: 21.6%Appeal to Emotion32.9%This article: 5.0%ABC News: 2.4%Begging the Question5.0%This article: 11.3%ABC News: 5.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)11.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 9.2%ABC News: 3.2%Burden of Proof9.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 13.8%ABC News: 6.8%Anecdotal13.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 15.8%ABC News: 4.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)15.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.9%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

240 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers32%attributed speech164writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageVictor Okendo • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 38 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageKalin • 8 words • 0.0% coverageKalin • 14 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageKalin • 14 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageVictor Okendo • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Police

100%flagged-word coverage
33 attributed words43% of attributed speech100% writer coverage

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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Analysis

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