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Summary and Comment: The September Autopsy Report states:
- Only the skull was available for examination.
- "FINGERPRINT EXAMINATION: Conducted by F.B.I. Latent Fingerprint Section" (pg. 3)
- Cause of death: Smoke inhalation due to fire, suffocation due to overlay and burial in structural collapse.
- No evidence of traumatic injury of remains.
- No evidence of heat injury.
The coroners did not consider the separation of head from trunk might be a "tramatic injury."
The autopsy does not include an estimate of the time of death.
Summary and Comment: The DOJ Report states:
- Unidentified Branch Davidians From April 19 Fire … Doe 51A, a two year old girl, died of smoke inhalation. She was found in the bunker, adjacent to Judy Schneider's body.
The FBI did not consider that separating the head from the body might have been a factor in the death.
Summary and Comment: The Inquest Certificate states:
- Cause of death: Smoke inhalation due to fire, suffocation due to overlay and burial in structural collapse.
The Justice of the Peace did not consider that separating the head from the body might have been a factor in the death.
None of the official bodies remarked on the strange condition of the remains: that is:
- The head was found without the body, and
- the skin had been removed from the body without heat damage — presumably by advanced putrifaction, though it had been on site without refrigeration for less than two weeks.
Bone chart and
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Anomalies in the Forensic Process may also be
helpful.