Reporter: The Medical Examiner's Office confirms
some cult followers didn't die from the fire
that engulfed the Mount Carmel Compound.
Instead they were shot to death.
-: We had two victims on top of the bunker
that were shot in the head.
One time each, one is a white male, adult white male.
And the other was an adult white female.
Reporter: Teran County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani,
would not say whether he suspected suicide or homicide.
44 bodies have been recovered from the ruins
of what used to be the home of the Branch Dividians.
The Medical Examiner's Office has completed six autopsies,
three of the victims died of smoke inhalation,
and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Officials are waiting for the results
of a toxicology report before determining
the cause of death of a fourth victim.
Doctor's say identifying the victims is a tremendous task.
-: People that've worked a lot
of these plane crashes and everything,
this is the most sustained high heat destruction
to human tissue that any of them have a memory of.
Reporter: Doctor Crowe has yet to identify
any of the victims, but he's hopeful that dental records
will determine who died in the Compound.
Crowe has received a model of David Koresh's jaw
prepared 18 years ago by an orthodontist.
-: We have to imagine what is happened in the somewhat
18 years since those models,
but it's not inconceivable that these restorations
will still be there.
It's enough that, it's unique enough we can make an ID.
-: The Medical Examiner's Office is hoping to have
an identification on at least one
of the victim's by tomorrow.
But it could take weeks before they identify
all of the victims who perished
in the Mount Carmel disaster.
Kathleen MacDonald, Texas News Five.