>> in the smouldering wreckage in the compound, investigators recover at least 78 bodies, including david koresh. >> it appears as though his second in the command, steve schneider, shot david koresh in the head with a pistol and then schneider turned the pistol on himself. >> the children themselves were mostly executed. they were either beat to death, stabbed to death, or shot. david koresh was never going to walk out of that place on our terms. it was doomed from day one that that place, which went by the name of rancho apocalypse, was destined to end up in flames. >> in the aftermath of the