Human remains found in dumpster, Commerce City police investigating 15%

By Jessica Alvarado Gamez9%

7/23/2026, 2:06:36 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Representativeness Heuristic, Status Quo Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 27.5% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 115 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.9% and a BS Rank of 15% (18,755 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 85.70% of the article peer group.

Commerce City police detectives are investigating after what appeared to be human remains were found in a dumpster in the 7000 block of 88th Avenue. 
Joanna Small, the police department’s public information officer, told the Post Thursday morning that there are no new updates as the investigation remains ongoing. 
Small said a flea market employee discovered the remains on Tuesday, prompting officers to immediately search all of the dumpsters at the site. 
The remains were “pretty significantly decomposed” when they were found. 
The police department said in a social media post Tuesday afternoon that an update will be posted as more information about the investigation becomes available. 
This is a developing story and may be updated. 
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138 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers36%attributed speech89writer words
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Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageJoanna Small • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageCommerce City police • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
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Commerce City police

100%flagged-word coverage
25 attributed words51% of attributed speech74% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +85.4 ptsWriter: 14.6%Commerce City police: 100.0%100.0%

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

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Analysis

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