 These experts did determine via an examination of the sisters' stomach contents (which contained the approximate proportions of the last known meals and subsequent snacks the sisters had eaten on the evening of December 28) that both girls had most likely died within approximately five hours of the time they had last been seen alive at the Brighton Theater, thus affixing the most likely time of death in each instance to have been either the late evening of December 28 or the early morning of December 29.The cause of death in each case was ruled as being a combination of shock and exposure, although each pathologist reached this conclusion via a process of eliminating other causes.In addition, these experts concluded that many of the wounds discovered upon the girls' bodies had most likely been inflicted by rodents, with the actual puncture wounds having most likely been inflicted after death.