Let me tell you a little about what these two "bone guys" did at Waco.
Many of the Davidian moms and kids were killed prior to the FBI fake rescue on April 19, 1993. They were (1) killed on February 28 raid, or (2) died later from wounds suffered that day, or (3) were slaughtered shortly before the "rescue" of April 19.
A local incompetent, Nizam Peerwani, medical examiner of Tarrant County, was ostensibly put in charge of the autopsy work. Owsley and Ubelaker were sent down to Waco to lend credibility to the local effort.
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_hf.html As forensic anthropologists, Ubelaker and Owsley should have personally recovered the Davidian remains from the Mt. Carmel Center themselves, as they lay in situ (at the site). Who says they should have done it that way? Dr. Ubelaker says, that's who. Ubelaker is a renowned expert who has written a popular book about forensic science, "Bones, A Forensic Detective's Casebook" (Edward Burlingame Books, 1992). Read it, and you will learn that, at Waco, Owsley and Ubelaker freely violated the professional standards described in Ubelaker's book.
So instead of Ubelaker and Owsley studying the remains in situ, the state cops just shoveled the discombobulated skulls, torsos, fetuses, detached kids' feet in sneakers, etc., into bags and hauled the whole mess into the mortuary, where Owsley and Ubelaker sat waiting. Owsley and Ubelaker sorted the bones as they tumbled out of the bags, and tried to figure things out.
;-)
Murderers often try to destroy evidence of their crime, of course. Destruction of the body can obscure the circumstances surrounding the victim's death, and even the victim's identity. The bodies found at the Mt. Carmel Center after the fire were variously hacked up, decapitated, and/or selectively incinerated. The condition of the bodies should have sent Ubelaker and Owsley down the morgue hallways screaming "MURDER! MURDER!" But shhhh, no, they never uttered a word.
Ubelaker and Owsley preserved deniability by keeping well away from the crime scene.
"Geez-all-we-wuz-asked-to-do-was-sort-the-bones-out-in-the-morgue," type-thing.
Fraudulent autopsy reports were written. Owsley and Ubelaker put their names on them, stating they had done the forensic anthropology examinations. Voila! Or maybe not . . .
One of the reasons dreamed up to explain the deaths of the moms and kids was this: They died as a result of crushing injuries suffered when a concrete room collapsed. The problem? Widely published photos in newsmagazines and newspapers, taken from the ground and the air, show that the concrete room did not collapse.
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_l.html And both Owsley and Ubelaker had their names right there, right on the fraudulent reports citing "structural collapse" as the cause of death. For discussion of some Ubelaker-Owsley autopsy reports, see:
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_bg.html For an summary of how the death scene was altered:
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_analys.html The forensic evidence described in the autopsy reports and other data suggests that some of the remains at the Mt. Carmel Center of were NOT those of Branch Davidians, and that the bodies/body parts were trucked in from other bone yards (government mortuaries) and placed at the site. This is indicated by the fact that some of the ages and sexes of the bodies did not match the ages and sexes of those on the casualty list.
Other anomalies: There were not enough bodies/body parts to account for the 80-odd Davidian victims. In fact, some of the identities on the Branch Davidian casualty list were not assigned any body parts at all. Later, the bodies of those alleged victims were said to have "vaporized." There were also body parts that were never identified -- no one knows who those people may have been.
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_id2.html http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/page/d_u.html With the prestige of the Smithsonian Institution and their professional reputations, Owsley and Ubelaker supported other lies, too, beside the "structural collapse" lie. If you want the details, go to:
http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum and put "Owsley" and "Ubelaker" into the search engine.
In particular, Owsley covered up the murders of these children:
