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Who picked it up when
NewsNation mentioned it first (Oct 27, 2026, 3:04 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 1 hour later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
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Results
3 articles mention Melissa Ann Smith in the last 7 days (Oct 23 to Oct 29).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox News | Ted Bundy could have more undiscovered victims after DNA links him to murder of chief's daughter: detectiveFox News DNA evidence linked Ted Bundy to Melissa Ann Smith's 1974 murder, but a cold-case detective says the serial killer may have unknown victims. | 0.50 | |
| PBS NewsHour | Authorities say serial killer Ted Bundy is responsible for the 1974 murder of another Utah teenage girlPBS NewsHour DNA connections between Melissa Ann Smith and another Bundy victim helped close the case. | 0.40 | |
| NewsNation | Ted Bundy linked to 1974 death of Melissa Ann SmithNewsNation Police used DNA to link serial killer Ted Bundy to the cold case of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, killed 52 years ago. | 0.60● |
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Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for Melissa Ann Smith and that keyword, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
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| PBS NewsHour | 0.7% | 1 | 146 |
| NewsNation | 0.7% | 1 | 146 |
| Fox News | 0.1% | 1 | 719 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Lean index +0.7: covered about evenly across the spectrum
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.