Carlos Ghigliotti
Key Expert Witness
in the Waco investigation

Found compelling evidence that an FBI agent fired shots during the final showdown at the Branch Davidian compound. Police say they are investigating the death as a murder. "We're investigating it as a homicide," said Laurel, Md., police spokesman Jim Collins of the death of Carlos Ghigliotti,

an expert in analysis of infrared film technology who had worked for Rep. Dan Burton’s House Government Reform Committee during its investigation of the events surrounding the government siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993 on orders from Janet Reno.

Note: two days prior to the beginning of the 51 day siege in Waco, the first World Trade Center bombing occured. perhaps the Clinton Administration felt the Davidians were a bigger threat than the people who want to convert you under threat of cutting off your head...

Ghigliotti’s badly decomposed body was discovered April 29, 2000 at his house, where he operated Infrared Technologies Inc., Police were alerted by his building manager, who hadn’t seen him for several weeks and was concerned about him.

October, 1999, Ghigliotti, a nationally recognized expert in thermal imaging and videotape, told Burton’s committee that his analysis of tapes at Waco indicated that an FBI agent fired shots at the Branch Davidian Mt. Carmel compound on April 19, the day the siege ended with the incineration of more than 80 men, women and children. His analysis was challenged by the FBI.

He remained a key figure in the ongoing probe of the incident, especially since preliminary findings by British experts retained by the court hearing the Branch Davidian $100 million wrongful death lawsuit alleged that there had been no gunfire, a finding diametrically opposite from Ghigliotti’s, and one he was certain to challenge.

His death leaves a gaping hole in the investigation, since he was the most important and skilled expert in the field familiar with the evidence in the Waco case. The lead plaintiff’s attorney in the case, Michael Caddell, told the Washington Post that he’d been in touch with Ghigliotti, who he said he planned to retain because of his expertise and the fact that his first expert in the field was no longer available due to a stroke.