Syntax

Especially used as opening "paragraphs."

If something is posted online, it seems like there's never an editor involved before that takes place.

Thing is, I still cannot figure out what the article is actually saying. Weird.

I'm not a reporter nor have I ever taken any journalism classes. I thought for sure in the past any reporter posting such badly composed copy would have gotten a severe tongue-lashing and likely (or possibly temporarily) demoted.

I also get the impression it's beyond laziness and to the point of someone trying to get out of their job. Now, if I'm wrong, and this is simply how this reporter writes all the time, then the owners of the paper/journal are the ones who need to be given a good tongue-lashing. And then fired.

easy to make the identification. Apparently he was a very well known tech innovator and his wife was a very troubled woman who had been diagnosed with bi-polar.

but it took me awhile to realize that he jumped off the bridge and not the torso of his dead wife.

I guess my brain inserted a comma so that I read it like this:

Most of us only get one police recovery after we die.

Granted the whole thing is weird.

a man jumped off the Bay Bridge after they recovered the mutilated torso of the body of his wife near a San Francisco Bay pier. This is my edit but the way the words sere scrambled...who knows?