That old building certainly would have had plenty of bone dust in it.
Could bone dust exposed to that sort of traffic look traumatized?
"But why the hell would there be cremated bone dust in Sick Girl's case?"
"I don't have a clue why bone dust has turned up in her case to begin with," Scarpetta replies.
This same passage is where the majority of the skeletons and bone dust were found.
Something called "spores" sometimes came off bone dust of the long dead and made a man cough his lungs out.
Along with it came the sudden smell of bone dust, sewage, rotten marrow, and death.
Some dissolved into white powder that puffed, and he was crawling through a cloud of bone dust.
"If this is bone dust, it may answer a few questions."
The bone dust wafted up into the stale air.