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New details on contents of Nancy Guthrie ransom note 89%

6/23/2026, 12:45:39 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Recency Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 41.5% saturation with 112 hits. Analysis detected 602 faulty-reasoning hits from 270 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.1% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,452 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 88.80% of the video peer group.

This morning, nearly 5 months after a man in a mask showed up at Nancy Guthrie's front door and abducted her in the dark of night, ABC News can disclose the contents of a second note sent to a Tucson television station days later. 
The first note demanded a ransom, millions in cryptocurrency. 
Sources told ABC News the second note claimed Guthrie died shortly after she was taken and was buried in nature, something her daughter Savannah appeared to reference days later in this Instagram post. 
>> We received your message and we understand. 
We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. 
This is the only way we will have peace. 
>> The FBI believes the two notes came from the same sender, but investigators have so far been unable to determine who that is. 
Savannah said she believed the notes were legitimate but never gave up on her mother. 
Investigators are still working to identify the armed man seen lurking at Nancy Guthrie's front door. 
They're also testing a hair found at the home along with a mixed DNA sample, hoping those clues will lead to the kidnapper. 
>> There is still a million-dollar reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie's recovery. 
And guys, as Savannah has pleaded with her captor, it's never too late to do the right thing. 
Guys. 
>> That is so true. 
Never too late to do the right thing. >> just hope at some point the family can get some closure. 
>> Yes. 
That's what's important. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 18.1%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias18.1%This article: 8.5%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias8.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 23.7%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect23.7%This article: 6.3%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion6.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 21.5%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias21.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 31.9%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias31.9%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: 22.2%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias22.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%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: 8.9%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority8.9%This article: 3.3%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma3.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 5.6%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon5.6%This article: 41.5%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion41.5%This article: 1.1%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question1.1%This article: 8.5%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%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: 12.2%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)12.2%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: 3.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote3.0%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: 6.7%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination6.7%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%

270 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker13%attributed speech236writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 44 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 8 words • 100.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 17 words • 0.0% coverageSavannah Guthrie • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Savannah Guthrie

100%flagged-word coverage
34 attributed words100% of attributed speech99% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Unattributed Quote+23.5 ptsWriter: 0.0%Savannah Guthrie: 23.5%23.5%Indoctrination-7.6 ptsWriter: 7.6%Savannah Guthrie: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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