"All I can give you was that it was in the last twenty four hours. I'll get a more accurate time when I get him back to autopsy." Ducky responded.
Motioning to his slit throat, "He would have bled a lot from that, the woods around here are pretty clean, they killed him somewhere else."
"Yes, from the amount of blood he would have had to lose, and that there is not a significant amount of blood around him, he would have had to be moved." said Ducky as he stood back up.
"Kate, get the pictures. Tony, get the sketches." Gibbs instructed his team.
Kate quickly got to work taking the pictures of the body and its surroundings. As she came up to a small pile of leaves that looked out of order she called out to her partner, "Gibbs, come look at this."
"What did you find?" he asked as he walked over to where she was standing.
"This pile of leaves looks out of place to me." she said, motioning to the pile of leaves.
"Take some pictures of it, then see if there was something our killer might have been hiding."
Kate quickly took some pictures of the pile as Gibbs walked back to where he had been before. After she had taken a dozen pictures or so, she started to clear away some of the leaves with her gloved hands.
"Gibbs," she called when she had discovered the item hidden under the leaves.
"What did you get?" he asked her as he came up beside her.
He froze at the site of a little girl no more than eight years old in a princess costume, her throat slit like the man's.
Horrible memories and sites started to fill his brain,
"Daddy, come on. I'm not going to get any candy if you don't hurry up." said a little girl as she tugged on his arm.
"We don't have to go so fast, don't you want to look at all the pretty leaves on the trees?" he asked.
"We can look at the leaves tomorrow, I want to show off my pretty princess costume, and get some candy."
"Ok, but stay with me, I don't want you to get lost."
"Ok, but...."
A large hand covered the rest of her words. Gibbs couldn't see his face, just his hand, and a gun shoved into his daughter's side.
"Give me all your money or the girl gets it," the man shouted.
"Here, here," he said as he handed over his wallet, "just don't hurt her."
He came out from the dark corner where he had been hiding, a smile spread on his face. "Sorry about the kid." he said as he pulled the trigger of the gun.
Her scream echoed in his ears as she fell from the man's arms and hit the cold sidewalk.
"Gibbs," Kate's voice pulled him out of his thoughts, "Gibbs, you ok?" she asked.
"I want this dirt bag in jail or on a table in autopsy," he said angrily as he walked over to Ducky.
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