Dr. Jack Hodgins discovers that Nestor had ingested a large dose of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, shortly before his death.
Initially appearing to be a suicide, the case quickly shifts toward murder after Brennan and her team at the Jeffersonian Institute find inconsistencies in the forensic evidence: [S1E3] A Boy in the Tree
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The team identifies Nestor's classmates, and Camden Destry , as the killers. Nestor had refused to be blackmailed and intended to report their activities to the headmaster. To silence him, they drugged him and staged his death to look like a suicide. 🎭 Cast & Crew
Brennan determines that the victim's hyoid bone was weakened by regurgitated stomach acids—caused by the ketamine and choking—allowing it to break under the weight of his body during the hanging.