Lula Archer had a horrible childhood. When she was 3 years old her mother had been killed by an ex-boyfriend. Her father was nowhere to be found. She was sent to foster care when the next 12 years she was physically abused by both foster parents and then sexually abused by her foster father. Two brothers of her foster father also sexually abused her. When she turned 16, she poured gasoline all over them (she had put sleeping bills in their drinks) Then she set the house on fire. She made it look like someone else did it. This had been easy as the brother of the foster father was involved with drug dealers who had threatened to do this to him and his family. She took advantage of the situation. Police believed drug dealers did this for revenge. Lula took off shortly thereafter. Ended up in Las Vegas where she lied about her age. She worked in a strip club which was near Spencer Reid's home. She was the one who found Reid lying on the ground unconscious. He's been badly beaten. She called 911 and he went to the hospital.
Lula was surprised that Reid made no moves towards her. He was 16 years old at the time and was at home from college. He was certainly different than the perverts and sexual deviants that she had encountered early on. She needed a place to stay and Reid let her stay there. She could tell that he had no experience dating. She lived in the house two years with Reid's mother and made sure she was okay. She really felt sorry for the lady. When Reid was 18 he sold the house to Lula. From time to time Lula visited her mother but most of the time she had no idea who she was at no time did Reid ever make advances towards her. For the first time in her life she felt safe.
By the time Reid got into the FBI, Lula was a very high priced call girl. Reid often gave her his winnings at the gambling table. Unlike others in her profession, she had never been arrested (she had never worked the streets for one thing). Reid and Lula basically lost touch. For Lula it was just as well. High class prostitute and FBI profiler didn't exactly mix.
The scandal in Congress broke five years after Reid joined the bureau. Reid had not heard or seen Lula in several years. He thought about her, wondered how she was, but didn't try to contact her or find out where she was. He assumed she was still in Vegas.
"The headline read, "High Class Call Girl Lula Entertains Family-Values Politicians at a Family-Values forum." A You tube video showed Lula doing a pole dance and stripping for the 15 men who had gathered for a private party. Cheers could be heard in the background.
Aaron Hotchner was hardly surprised by this. His father had been friends with some of these men back in the day. A memory came back to him when his father had attended a similar party at their home minus the pole dancing. He came home from college early and saw what was going on through a window. He left and told no one. His mother was at Betty Ford Center trying to recover from alcohol addiction. These men made him sick to his stomach. He didn't talk a lot about family values but Aaron Hotchner try to live them the best he could. He wasn't perfect (no one was but he had never cheated on his deceased wife and always had been respectful towards her, something he's father lacked).
Since his mother drinking problem was well known, it was easy for his father to depict her as an alcoholic who had mental health issues. He was seen as the patient devoted husband dealing with a sick woman who verbally abused the family. Hotchner knew this was a good front his father put up. They didn't see the man who was verbally abusive and had nothing good to say about her or anyone else in the family or anyone else for that matter. She was blamed for his cheating (many people thought she drove him to cheat). His mother was rarely verbally abusive to him or anyone else. She just wasn't available.
If they all could have heard what he said about them (it wasn't very nice). His verbal attacks on them were just as mean and vile as they were towards Hotchner and his brother except of course he would never ever say those things to them. He needed them and they needed him. They all showed up at his funeral. Hotchner had no feelings towards his father when he died. No feelings at all for him. He wasn't sad and he didn't grieve for him.
It was going to be very interesting when the Congressional Hearings on Capital Hill Started. Very interesting.