Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
17%
3 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
5
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A man was recently charged in California with the killing of his ex-wife six years after her remains were discovered in a crawlspace beneath a home – and about two decades after when she went missing, according to investigators.
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she → charge → investigators
Jeff Maiorca, 53, faces a charge of murder in the death of Jill Maiorca, who was 29 when she was killed, authorities said in discussing what could be one of the latest cases in the US to be solved with modern DNA techniques.
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what → face → techniques
Jill Maiorca’s disappearance was reported in the southern California city of Big Bear Lake in 2007, a statement from the local San Bernardino county sheriff’s department said.
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statement → report → department
The path to finding Jill Maiorca then began in late October 2020, when San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies received a call to investigate “a suspicious discovery in the crawlspace under [a] residence” in Big Bear Lake.
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deputies → find → Lake
The deputies and members of the Big Bear fire department ultimately located human remains in that crawlspace.
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deputies → locate → crawlspace
Although the remains couldn’t immediately be identified, an autopsy determined the manner of death in the case was homicide, the San Bernardino sheriff’s office statement said.
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statement → identify → case
The agency said its cold homicide case team in 2023 then submitted the unidentified remains for additional investigative DNA analysis.
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team → say → analysis
Such analysis determined the remains were those of Jill Maiorca, according to the sheriff’s office.
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remains → determine → office
The sheriff’s office also said that its investigators had come to consider Jeff Maiorca – who had been Jill’s husband and had filed to divorce her in 2004, court records showed – as a suspect.
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records → say → suspect
Citing unspecified evidence, the sheriff’s office’s statement asserted that Jill Maiorca had been murdered in November 2006.
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Maiorca → cite → November
Her remains were then concealed – “without the homeowner’s knowledge” – beneath the residence where they were later discovered, the sheriff’s office said.
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office → conceal → residence
The agency did not elaborate on the hiding of Jill Maiorca’s body.
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agency → elaborate → body
Business records reviewed by the Guardian link Jeff Maiorca to a heating, ventilation and air conditioning company.
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records → review → company
Other records showed his divorce from Jill Maiorca was classified as one involving children.
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divorce → show → children
The San Bernardino sheriff’s office said it arrested Maiorca on Monday.
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it → say → Monday
He was formally charged with murder as well as with the use of a deadly weapon, and he had an initial hearing on Wednesday in San Bernardino county superior court, as NBC News first reported.
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News → charge → court
Jeff Maiorca remained in custody on Saturday at the High Desert jail in Adelanto, California, records indicated.
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records → remain → Adelanto
Multiple media outlets reported that he was being held there without bail, and he was tentatively scheduled to appear in court again on 12 October.
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he → report → October
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