Man’s skeletal remains recovered from Jamaica Bay in Queens by NYPD ⁠18%

By Nicholas Williams⁠56%

5/31/2026, 12:05:28 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 33.9% saturation with 74 hits. Analysis detected 370 faulty-reasoning hits from 218 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠18% (16,490 of 20,102 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.00% of the article peer group.

Police recovered the remains of a man at Jamaica Bay in Queens on Friday morning, cops said. 
The unidentified partially decomposed remains were recovered along the shoreline by the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit around 7:35 a.m. near Beach Channel Dr. and Beach 100th St. in Arverne. 
Skeletal bones were visible as police removed the remains, suggesting the body may have been in the water a long time. 
The location the body was found was right behind Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability. 
The individual is currently identified. 
The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner. 
A teen swimmer recently vanished off the Rockaways and his body has not yet been found. 
Brandon Figueroa, 18, who lived in the Bronx, went to Rockaway Beach with some friends Tuesday to beat the sweltering heat, his devastated mother said in an online fundraiser. 
"While enjoying the water, a big wave and a strong riptide pulled Brandon under, and despite the efforts of NYPD, FDNY, and other agencies, his body has not been found," Jeanette Munoz wrote. 
"This unimaginable tragedy has left our family heartbroken and lost for words." 
Figueroa, who lived in Soundview, was reported missing near Beach 73rd St. around 3:31 p.m. 
Tuesday, police said. 
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218 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers47%attributed speech115writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageNYPD's Emergency Service Unit • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageBrandon Figueroa • 29 words • 100.0% coverageJeanette Munoz • 33 words • 100.0% coverageJeanette Munoz • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jeanette Munoz

100%flagged-word coverage
45 attributed words44% of attributed speech52% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Unattributed Quote+73.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jeanette Munoz: 73.3%73.3%Quote-first Misdirection+73.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jeanette Munoz: 73.3%73.3%Biased Writer Voice+69.0 ptsWriter: 4.3%Jeanette Munoz: 73.3%73.3%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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