Amanda Reed (formerly Navy Lieutenant Commander Hamilton Voss) was a woman.
Biography
Pre-Series
Born Hamilton Voss, not much was revealed about his life except for the fact that he was the son of an unnamed man who once owned a townhouse in downtown D.C., one that Voss's father lost in a bankruptcy in 1979.
He later attended a high school where he was a classmate of Joshua Lurie with the two later graduating the school together.
Some time after that, Voss joined the Navy and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander but soon came under investigation for alleged credit card fraud which also saw him stealing 10 million dollars from the Navy.
Realizing the heat was on him, Voss faked his death in a car accident and used the body of an unnamed man to give off the impression that he was dead.
With the authorities convinced he was dead, Voss then killed Lurie and soon had gender reassignment surgery, becoming a woman who took the name, "Amanda Reed" which now allowed her to continue for the missing money.
Following on from that, NCIS Special Agent Christopher Pacci discovered evidence that Voss was alive and began investigating Voss's case with Pacci gathering evidence and soon learning that Voss was Reed.
To help strengthen the case, Pacci presumably stayed in the apartment down the street from Reed/Voss's townhouse and began secretly taking photographs of Reed/Voss, recording her activity.
However, Reed, upon learning she was being tailed and fearing she would be exposed, soon tracked Pacci down in a stairway. She then shot him in the neck which left him badly wounded.
Knowing that he was on the right track, Pacci took the card from his camera and swallowed it, hoping it would be retrieved during his autopsy.
He then set off the fire alarm, triggering the alarms in the building before heading into an elevator where he presumably bled to death.
Reed confronted him and fearing she would be exposed attempted to get the camera card by disembowelling Pacci's body with a knife she had in her possession but she was unsuccessful in doing so and ultimately fled the scene, leaving Pacci's body in the elevator.
NCIS Season 1
With alarm bells sounding, a security guard and a janitor soon discovered the elevator along with Pacci's body.
As such, the police, presumably officers of the Metro Police Department were called and along with a Detective later arrived at the scene, sealing off the elevator which was now a crime scene.
They soon presumably ran Pacci's ID and upon learning that Pacci was an agent with NCIS, the NCIS Major Case Response Team led by NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs arrived to process and investigate the scene.
During the autopsy, Dr. Donald Mallard discovered the card from his camera with Reed's photographic series in the upper part of his alimentary canal. Pacci had also sent a trunk about the Voss case. Gibbs then ordered DiNozzo and McGee to investigate Reed to find out who she was and where she lived. Gibbs and Kate questioned Graves, the USS Enterprise's captain, who told them everything he knew about Voss. After McGee foudn Reed's address, they investigated her, suspecting her of being connected to Pacci's death. Kate found no criminal record about her. They also discovered that Reed lived in the house of her father had lost in 1979. Gibbs then asked DiNozzo and Kate with setting up a stakeout from an apartment across the street from Reed's house. Upon discovering her many former residences, the agents assumed that Reed and Voss were lovers. DiNozzo posed as "Stringfellow" as Reed. Later, DiNozzo saw Reed, in her underwear, arguing on the phone with painter because she just wanted to repaint her front door. NCIS agents eventually discovered that Voss was still alive thanks to Abby's blood tests and also discovered that Lurie had died in a car accident. While examining a package from Reed's house, DiNozzo was discovered by Reed, who was coming to receive it. The two agreeed to go on a date. Fearing that Voss had figured out she was being followed, Gibbs tried to call DiNozzo, but McGee told him that DiNozzo was on a date with Reed. Later, Abby told Gibbs that Reed and Voss were actually the same person. At Paddy's Pub, where the two were on a date, Reed had carried a pistol with her in her bag. DiNozzo was warned by Gibbs that Reed was Voss. When she realized she had been found out, she deflected DiNozzo's gun as he threatened her to surrender and fled while the bar's patrons subdued DiNozzo. McGee, who was present, tried to help him but was also subdued, and Reed left the bar's patrons to deal with them. As she tried to escape, she was confronted by Gibbs, who held a gun to her forehead. Although she knew there was no way out, she raised her weapon so Gibbs would kill her, committing suicide by cop.
Personality
Voss/Reed was willing to commit credit card fraud and was prepared to kill anyone who would prevent him from continuing to live with impunity. He killed an innocent man to fake death, killed a former comrade who aided him in his scheme to cover his tracks, and then killed and eviscerated an NCIS agent investigating him.
Physical Appearance
As Amanda Reed, she was a woman of average height with white skin, red hair, and green eyes.
Victims
- Unnamed man - (burnt to death in a "car accident", presumably set alight with the body later being misidentified as Voss's).
- Joshua Lurie - (partner in crime, died two years later in a car accident).
- Christopher Pacci - (shot in the neck, disembowelled after his death).
- Anthony DiNozzo Junior - (attempted to kill, failed).
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs - (attempted to kill, failed).
Proxy Victims
- Caitlin Todd (failed).
- Timothy McGee (attempted, failed).