re waco burning in article c v du d acsu buffalo edu v qheg ubvmsd cc buffalo edu p vasilion writes not necessarily if the body had been denatured cooked or dehydrated due to the heat a projectile needs only a minimal kinetic force to penetrate in fire aftermaths bodies tend to fall apart or loose large chunks of meat with little effort medical examiners tend not to like cleaning up such scenes as such if the body had been suitably cooked a bullet comming from a magazine explosion would more than likely have enough force to enter and thus it would be difficult to determine whether a bullet entered at the time of death or much later unless you were trained to look for the evidence texas rangers are not pathologists p vasilion this is quite corect but a bullet hitting a burned body with little energy will show virtually no deformation ie a hollow point probably would not expand an fmj would be pristene also the bullets will not be marked with the lands ang grooves of a barrel because they didn t come out of one a good pathologist should be able to notice this right away let us hope that the me s that handle these bodies are more competent then the ones who did jfk s body jag
