David Koresh is believed to have died of a gunshot wound to the head before a fire destroyed his cult's compound, authorities said after identifying the Branch Davidian leader's badly burned body Sunday.
Writer Jeff Guinn draws on new interviews with federal agents and surviving Branch Davidians in his account of the confrontation, which left scores of people dead, including more than 20 children.
A quarter century after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers died outside Waco, retired FBI agent Byron Sage still can't stop thinking and arguing about what happened.
the morning of february 28th, 1993, i will never forget. crisis negotiator byron sage is the first fbi agent on the scene, arriving some 75 minutes after the shooting started. had i got there a little after 11:00, gun battle was still raging, which was significant. the average gun battle and law enforcement lasts about two seconds. this was a gun battle that had raged now for well over an hour. certainly there was some that shot back. we re not denying that. that weren t trusting of us. we were not too trusting of them because they were continuing to