CSI: NY

This is New York Crime Catchers.

Tonight, the New York City Police Department

is asking for your help.

Approximately six weeks ago, at 11:30 p.m.,

Cheryl Miller was leaving a New York dance club and on her way home.

It was at this time that she was approached

by a female suspect who pulled a gun

and fired upon the victim, killing her instantly.

The suspect is also believed to be responsible

for the murders of Judge Daniel McHenry,

a resident of New Jersey,

and New York representative, Congressman Philip Devane.

The suspect is a white female, five foot eight,

110 pounds, with medium-length blond hair.

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Crime Catchers. How can I help you?

I saw her!

The blond woman the police are looking for,

I know where she is.

This building's been vacant for over two years.

New York Power Corp detected

an abnormal usage spike from an adjacent building.

Someone's piggybacking off their neighbor's electric service.

This tip looks like the real deal.

Perimeter is locked down-- we're good to go.

All right, listen up.

We'll be entering the building from a side location,

here.

This will be our primary

access and egress point-- and I want radio silence.

Our suspect is technologically sophisticated.

Make no mistake, this woman will be

armed and very dangerous.

She's a shooter-- killing is nothing more than an instinct.

During our last pursuit, I saw her

cut down an unarmed civilian without blinking an eye.

So she will not think twice about putting a bullet in you.

Play it smart.

Perimeter's clear.

Man, that's brutal.

Is this Suspect X?

Mac, you were the only one to come face-to-face with her.

She just knocked on my door. I...

I don't know who she is.

Please...

let me go.

Yeah.

It's her.

Hey, guys, it's gonna be another minute.

Any luck?

Negative. Hard drive's been wiped clean.

See if you can find any foreign prints.

Maybe whatever was on these laptops is something to die for.

You okay?

What are you thinking?

This woman was a skilled and trained assassin.

Whoever did this... had to be better.

Who kills a professional killer?

Your murder weapon.

Six-and-a-half-inch, black powder coated blade,

sawtooth back.

This is a Navy SEAL combat knife.

Now, if only there was a game show

that called for that kind of knowledge,

you'd be able to retire early.

I'd miss your wit.

And your keen sense of observation--

speaking of which...

Uh, that knife you're holding was used to inflict

these stab wounds.

They're shallow.

Deliberate but nonlethal.

She endured a tremendous amount of pain.

She was also suffering from acute dehydration.

Her muscles showed signs of atrophy.

And take a look at these.

On the surface, they appear to be

minor abrasions, but in fact...

They're bedsores.

Exactly.

Aged linear bruising.

Looks like she was bound

for an extended period of time.

I was getting to that, Mac-- you're stealing my thunder.

See?

Her legs as well.

She struggled hard.

Now, this looks to be an injection site.

I'm waiting for tox to come back

to determine if she was drugged,

but I'm guessing she was held captive for a long time,

tortured, and possibly drugged.

Any theories? This woman murdered people for a living;

she was highly skilled;

she probably trained to endure torture.

Whatever her killer was after,

she didn't give it up easily.

Or give it up at all. Anything else?

I thought you'd never ask.

This may be the most perplexing thing about this case.

These metal screws were inserted

during a cosmetic forehead lift.

And take a look at these, uh, healed fractures,

uh, inflicted during a surgical procedure to alter the nose.

My autopsy also revealed remnants of scarring from an eye lift,

genioplasty, and skin layer erosion therapy.

And all of this work was performed within the last couple of months.

Our vic was a master of disguise -- maybe cosmetic surgery

was another elaborate way to conceal her identity.

How are you at... reverse engineering?

I don't like the sound of this. Sid, if you can rebuild

her face to what it may have looked like before the surgery,

it might help ID her.

Knowing who this woman is will help us find her enemies...

and who might have wanted her dead.

You get any prints off the laptops? Nothing usable.

Knife give us anything?

Here. Take a peek.

I found it in the handle.

A ball bearing?

With minute traces of dried blood on the surface.

Looks like shrapnel...

from an improvised explosive device.

Soldiers wounded in action

sometimes...

keep the shrapnel that's pulled from their bodies.

It's like a little reminder of how close they came to dying.

Get any prints off the knife?

Wiped clean-- but I did find

some dried blood in the crevice

between the hilt and the handle.

I sent both samples to DNA.

So if the owner of the knife was wounded in action,

he or she would be the recipient of a Purple Heart.

Are you saying our killer could be a war hero?

Hey, Linds.

Oh, Danny!

They're beautiful.

Nothing says "You're special"

like centrifuge tubes filled with DNA samples.

I'm not gonna live this down, am I? Forgetting my birthday?

Probably not.

Where did you get these?

Adam found more blood samples on the knife.

There was a piece of shrapnel hidden inside the handle.

Did you run the blood he found on the hilt?

Yep. Came back nonhuman.

I sent it to Serology for a protein analysis.

Lindsay, come on.

Uh, guys, we're not wired for remembering dates, okay?

We remember sports stats and steak sides--

that's our thing, all right?

Steak sides?

You are so busted.

Detective Monroe? Thanks.

DNA from the knife came back to a white-tailed deer,

common to the forests of the northeastern United States.

Wasn't one of Suspect X's victims

on a hunting trip in Jersey when he was killed?

Yeah. Judge Daniel McHenry.

And we also found evidence of a white-tailed deer

infected with Lyme disease at that crime scene.

So... if our new blood sample

has Lyme disease, then it's possible

that our murder weapon was at that same location.

Boom. What about the blood on the shrapnel--

did that come back deer or human?

Human. I'll run it through CODIS.

All right. While you do that,

I will run the blood from the knife

and see if Bambi is infected with Lyme disease.

Hey, what's the rush?

An old friend of mine from the Marine Corps,

General Finn, provided me with a list of Navy SEALs

who were recipients of the Purple Heart

who were wounded in combat from IED or a car bomb.

I bet that's a pretty exclusive list.

Exclusive enough that we may have identified the owner of the knife

that killed Suspect X:

Russ McHenry.

Judge McHenry's son?

The blood we found on the murder weapon

was from a white-tailed deer that tested positive for Lyme disease.

Then we can place Russ McHenry's knife

at the scene of his father's murder.

The same knife that killed Suspect X.

And the answer to the question:

"Who is capable of murdering a professional killer?"

A Navy SEAL with a killer motive.

Look, Detectives, I'm really busy.

I got a garage full of cars.

Why don't we skip this Interrogation 101 crap

and get right to the point?

You still have the Navy SEAL combat knife

that was issued to you when you joined your unit?

I gave it to my father to gut his deer

the day he was killed.

That's the last time I saw it.