texts: So what? </s> <s> Pendergast told me the killer extracts and eats the hypothalamus and thalamus of the victim's brains! </s> <s> Eats them?
labels: Yes.  Whatever killed Beauregard may have lived on this plant.  When the crates were put in secure storage, they were out of reach.  The killer couldn't get them, so it got the next best thing.