Day 21 of the Waco Standoff

March 20, 1993
In interviews with FBI negotiators during the early morning hours, Brad Branch and Kevin Whitecliff stated that Koresh had a case of scotch whisky in the compound. The negotiators suspected that Branch and Whitecliff were expelled from the compound for drinking Koresh's scotch.
In conversations occurring all morning and lasting into the early afternoon, Schneider confirmed that everyone, or at least a large group, would be coming out soon.
Branch and Whitecliff were held in jail as material witnesses. The FBI permitted them to speak by telephone to Koresh from 6:33 p.m. to 7:27 p.m.
Schneider indicated in conversations between 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., that two women, Victorine Hollingsworth, age 59, and Annetta Richards, age 63, might come out shortly.

(The Myth: Koresh always kept his word. It was those lying FBI agents who didn’t!)

[The Truth: Oh please. Vernon lied like a chenille rug. It was contagious too. Here we have an example of his Number One, Steven Schneider, lying through his teeth. The first one was about everyone coming out. The second was about Hollinsworth and Richards coming out shortly, when the fact of the matter is, they came out the next day, not ‘shortly.’ This was the first the world knew of Whitecliff and Branch leaving, not because Vernon was so magnanimous, but because he had caught them drinking his stash of scotch.]