But by the time that Kelda received the first report with the analyses of the weapon that she’d sent to the FBI laboratory in D.C., the daytime temperature was still hovering in the sixties, the glory of the annual metamorphosis of the aspen trees from emerald to gold in the Colorado Rockies was complete, Halloween had passed, and the stores were screaming, ‘Thanksgiving’s almost here!’ She’d collected case records and laboratory samples from the original case files and evidence records from the original prosecution and shipped them along with the knife to the attention of the DNA Analysis Unit in Washington, but her FD-620 had specifically requested that the laboratory provide ‘all appropriate analyses.’ The agent-examiner in the DNA Unit had reviewed the circumstances involved in recovering the knife and determined that it should also make the rounds of many of the other forensic laboratories on the third floor of the FBI Headquarters building at Ninth and Pennsylvania in Washington, D.C.
