Christina Grey-Booth's Criminal Minds

Chapter 4: Extreme Aggressor Part III

Author Note:

Sorry this took so long. I got sick and when I was better I went to boot up my computer to find it had crashed. I need to get it fixed and when it was I found my next 4 complete chapters in this story and my Odyssey story were corrupted. So I am writing them all over again. Expect slow updates because I am not looking forward to rewriting the missing chapters.

Now onto the story.

 Enjoy!

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The team separated after the debrief. Morgan joined Gideon at the crime scene, Reid joined Hotch questioning the victim's brother and Christine stayed behind to finish studying the map and then check in with the M.E. Once her team had left, Christine turned her attention to the case file that had the coroner's reports of the injuries on the latest victim. Glancing at the wound patterns, she noticed a barely discernable pattern on the knife wound. If she hadn't had the same knife, she wouldn't have noticed it, but she did. Furrowing her brow, she compared the picture with the knife wound with the knife she kept in her boot at all times. It was hard to tell, so she decided to perform a little experiment. Grabbing the photo, she left the office and scouted around for the Agent assigned to assist her if she needed anything. Sure, enough she found him, after being sure that he wasn't too busy she gently cleared her throat to get his attention.

"Excuse me Agent Richards, sorry to bother you but do you have a plaster castor or some kind of mold I can use?" Giving her a confused look, the agent asked with a voice showing just how confused the request she made of him baffled him.

"A Plaster Castor or Mold? For what exactly?" Even though they do have a mold and castor, he can't just give it to anyone they have to have a reason to even see it let alone use it. They have a small quantity because they rarely need to use it and the materials to make and maintain them is pricey, so they have a limited amount due to the departments budget. So, for a profiler to request one out of nowhere, especially when he doesn't see the relevance to use it, confused him and made him hesitant to even accept her request to use it.

Giving the man a hard stare, she decided it wasn't worth the headache of the fallout if she let her sass and snarky response of "because I am FBI and have a higher rank than you and because I said so?" Somehow, she didn't think that would earn her anything other than a headache and a small bit of satisfaction. Instead, she told him of her need to compare the knife in her hand, the picture, and the body downstairs in the morgue.

If her hunch was correct than the knife in her hand is the same as the murder weapon. Seeing as there is only one brand of knives made with this design there are only so many stores that sell them. If they are custom made like hers, than the unsub could have had the handle customized if she were lucky, which would narrow the search. If she could find the unsub by the knife, she could also adjust her profile a bit because the customization is pricey, so the unsub has money to burn and likes to flaunt it. If it is not customized though than that means the unsub is more practical than flashy and doesn't have as much money or has a moderate amount but is practical about how he spends it.

Since this is her personal knife, the cast is for the blade design, to compare to the body. Christine needs a clean non-contaminated knife to compare to the body and having her knife with who knows what germs on it near the body could compromise any evidence still on the body and could be used in court to file for a mistrial due to contaminated evidence. Christine would rather be over cautious and have the clean cast instead of that disaster. Luckily, he agreed with her and signed off for her to have a small cast big enough for just the blade, which was fine, they didn't need the handle, they just needed a sample of stabs and slashes and an impression of the knife type. Once she had that and a final comparison with the photo in her hand, she headed downstairs to visit the ME to compare her findings and talk to the ME of anything new he found and if there was a possible connection to the Boston Strangler. Luckily though, it looks like from what she can see this has nothing to do him.