Bones frowned when he said that the girl wouldn't be regaining consciousness. She had hoped there would be some explanation for this. But there wasn't to be one, unfortunately. Nodding her head, she reached for the backpack and looked inside. Other than being ridiculously grungy and dirty, there was nothing special about it.
She set the backpack aside and looked at the burn marks. "The scorching is definitely post mortem." Because there was no remaining flesh or tissue on the bones, she had to believe that the body had been decomposed long before the burning. "The burn marks are only on a few of the bones which leads me to believe that perhaps the pile of bones was meant to be set on fire, but they didn't catch. As to why, I cannot say."
She stepped up to the bones of the ribs and looked at them. "As for cause of death, I believe it was a stab wound. There are corresponding marks on these two bones. Do you see it?" She pointed it out and looked up at the doctor. She moved down the table to the pile of remaining bones that weren't a part of the complete skeleton.
"These were in the bag as well?" She picked one of them up and scrutinized it, then turned her eyes on Dr. Lecter.