Human remains found in two separate locations of Monterey County ⁠3%

By Arianna Nalbach⁠1%

8/3/2026, 6:28:19 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 15.7% saturation with 18 hits. Analysis detected 36 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠3% (26,624 of 27,229 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.80% of the article peer group.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating two separate incidents Saturday morning of human remains being found. 
Remains of an infant were reported found and confirmed by officials just after 8:30 a.m. near the 100 block of Struve Road, just off Highway 1 in Moss Landing. 
Just over an hour later, Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 400 block of Old Stage Road in Salinas after a county employee located what appeared to be human remains. 
Both incidents are being actively investigated. 
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone who may have information related to either incident to contact them at (831) 755-3700. 
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115 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker19%attributed speech93writer words
0%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words100% of attributed speech19% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Biased Writer Voice-19.4 ptsWriter: 19.4%Monterey County Sheriff’s Office: 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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