[Criminal Minds] years before love

Rossi didn't know how he got back into his car, he was still in shock, Alex had disappeared without a trace before he could run after him.

It's not like Hotch never mentioned his mother, Rossi remembers him saying his mother had died in a car accident, and that had completely devastated his father.But other than that, Rossi really doesn't know anything about his mother. Hotch and women have never formed closer relationships, and while Rossi admits he may be largely responsible for that, he doesn't know if there were other influences in his early years.

Investigating a judge with a good track record without solid evidence can be troublesome, but targeting his wife who died in a car accident is much simpler.At least after revealing his identity, Rossi didn't have much trouble convincing the local police to access the information for him.

Still, Rossi was taken aback when the thick stack of files was laid out in front of him, which seemed almost as detailed as a more complex murder investigation.

"Does an ordinary car accident require so much investigation?"

"This was no ordinary car accident."

"That's murder?" Rossi's eyes widened, Hotch clearly wasn't going to try to trick him on something that was documented.

"What? Of course not!" The policeman was also stunned for a moment, and quickly shook his head, "Part of this investigation belongs to another car accident that happened to Mrs. Hotchner."

He went on to explain: "Two accidents involving the same person, the insurance company will put pressure on us, and Mr. Hotchner exerts some influence on this. Of course, I also understand Mr. Hotchner's feelings, but in any case, we don't get more. evidence of."

Rossi nodded, flipped through the files, and jumped to the fatal car accident. Mrs Hotchner was driving normally when a container truck parked on a hillside was hit by debris blown up by high winds when its brakes failed and it slid down and hit her.

Couldn't save him.

While the truck driver and company may be responsible, murder is clearly out of the question.

"What's the problem?" Rossi asked in bewilderment, "It just looks like an unfortunate accident."

"No, it was an accident. Mr. Hotchner finally expressed his understanding and did not even strongly demand that the other party be prosecuted for manslaughter, at least it is definitely not first-degree murder." The police came over to confirm, "But Mrs. Hotchner said before she died One sentence... don't blame him."

"No record." Rossi quickly scanned the file in his hand and gave him a suspicious look.

"Of course." The policeman shrugged, "This is not the part that should be recorded, but I was the one who called the police that time, and I remember it very clearly."

"You remember it very clearly?" Rossi was a little surprised. The car accident is not a big case, and most policemen just do it and forget it.

"That's the judge's wife." The policeman gave him a meaningful look, "We were under a lot of pressure. She didn't die on the spot, but she couldn't survive after all the rescue efforts, and Mr. Hotchner obviously lost his mind. He The son had nothing to do with the crash, but he insisted that they would have survived if Hotchner Jr. was there, and was furious - which didn't make sense, he wasn't in town at all and had no contact with the truck driver. Even if they had Surviving another nasty car accident together - what does that have to do with Little Hotchner? He's not a god."

"Another car accident?" Rossi quickly flipped the file forward in his hand.

Mrs Hotchner flew off the cliff in her car with her husband and three-year-old child, luckily none of them were fatally injured.

"One cannot always be so lucky," the policeman added.

Rossi just stared at the 3-year-old in the photo, covered in bruises.That's Aaron. A car accident when he was 3 years old, Hotch certainly has no reason to mention it to him, and it is even likely that only a vague memory remains.It's not surprising that he was injured after such a car accident, but he frowned and quickly turned to the injury appraisal report.

Neither Hotchner nor Mrs.'s injuries were anything out of the ordinary, impact injuries, bruises, burns from the airbags, etc.

The injuries on Little Hotch's body were very light, and there were almost no traces of the car accident. However, the appraisal report clearly stated that there were suspicious old strangle marks on the neck.

"what is this?"

"Oh, this is a car accident. It's not surprising that it fell from a height of tens of meters and knocked anywhere."

But Rossi knew it wasn't.

"Wait, honeymoon?" Rossi looked at the testimony in surprise.honeymoon. Hotch, 3 years old.It is not difficult to guess the hidden information.

But Hotch never mentioned it, and of course, he probably never knew.

No, Rossi knew he knew.