ABC News99%

Savannah Guthrie makes new plea for information on missing mother, Nancy 92%

6/23/2026, 5:30:08 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 51.9% saturation with 180 hits. Analysis detected 970 faulty-reasoning hits from 347 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,745 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 92.00% of the video peer group.

Tonight we're learning more about that 
second note received by Savannah 
Guthrie's family after the disappearance 
of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. That 
second note saying she died shortly 
after being abducted. And tonight 
Savannah's new and tearful plea saying 
we cannot be at peace, convinced someone 
knows something that could help. Here's 
Aaron Katersky. 
>> Tonight a renewed plea from the family 
of Nancy Guthrie after sources told ABC 
News a second ransom note claimed she 
died shortly after she was abducted from 
her home and was buried in nature. 
Daughter Savannah begging for someone to come forward. 
>> This is a new story today that is on your radar, but this is the life that my sister lives, that I live, that my brother lives, that our extended families live, that our children live every day. And we are in agony. 
And we cannot be at peace. So no matter how much I try to come out here every day and smile and find that joy, and I will, I promise I will. 
This is the moment to tell you that we need your help. We're begging for your help. 
>> Savannah and her siblings received two notes the FBI believed were from the same sender, but so far have not led to the kidnapper. 
The first note demanded millions in Bitcoin. 
Sources said the second claimed Nancy Guthrie was no longer alive. 
>> Do the right thing for us, for our family, for our children. And we love our mom and we'll never stop looking for her, never. 
>> Investigators have not stopped either. 
They're still working to identify the masked man at her front door and trace the items he carried including a backpack sold at Walmart, gloves, holster, and gun. 
>> And David, investigators have not given up on DNA. 
They're testing a mixed sample and a hair found at Nancy Guthrie's home. That kind of analysis could take months, David. 
>> Let's hope that DNA breaks this open, 
Aaron. Thank you. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 5.2%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias5.2%This article: 7.8%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias7.8%This article: 28.0%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic28.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 19.0%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias19.0%This article: 19.9%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect19.9%This article: 4.9%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion4.9%This article: 8.1%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias8.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 6.9%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias6.9%This article: 12.7%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias12.7%This article: 30.0%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias30.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 3.2%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias3.2%This article: 1.7%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect1.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 27.1%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority27.1%This article: 7.5%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma7.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.2%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization7.2%This article: 8.1%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring8.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 51.9%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion51.9%This article: 4.9%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question4.9%This article: 2.0%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)2.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 4.9%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof4.9%This article: 12.7%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature12.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.1%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

347 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers14%attributed speech299writer words
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Selected voice

FBI

100%flagged-word coverage
25 attributed words52% 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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