Original sentence: According to South Vietnamese reports after the fact, the suspect was captured near the site of a ditch holding as many as thirty-four bound and shot bodies of police and their relatives, some of whom were the families of General Loan's deputy and close friend
Edited sentence: According to predictably exculpatory and grandiose South Vietnamese reports after the fact, the suspect was captured near the site of a ditch holding as many as thirty-four bound and shot bodies of police and their relatives, some of whom were the families of General Loan's deputy and close friend