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Summary: The September Autopsy Report states:

• The remains are limited to a skull, with articulated mandible.
• Laboratory evidence of inhalation of carbon monoxide
• No evidence of fire or traumatic injury of remains (skull only examined)
• Fingerprint examination conducted by the F.B.I.
• Cause of death:
  • Smoke inhalation due to fire
  • Suffocation due to overlay and burial in structural collapse

Comment:

• The FBI performed a fingerprint examination on a skull
• The autopsy does not include an estimate of the time of death

II. The FBI's October 8, 1993 Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas (cached)

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
• Manner of death:
  • Pending investigation

Comment:

• 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
  • The skin was removed from the skull without heat damage — possibly by advanced putrifaction, though it had been on site without refrigeration for less than two weeks.
• The autopsy does not include an estimate of the time of death.

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Bone chart and medical glossary available on line.
Anomalies in the Forensic Process may also be helpful.