Amanda Reed/Hamilton Voss was a woman who was once a man by the name of Hamilton Voss, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy who was suspected of being involved in a credit card scam as well as stealing money from the Navy. In order to avoid being arrested, he contacted his old school classmate, Joshua Lurie and had him help stage his own death. To this end, Voss burned a man to death to make him unidentifiable other than DNA which Joshua used to purposely misidentify the victim as Voss by switching their DNA to fool the local authorities.