The Texas Auto Racing Association tended to be a conservative organization. The Association promoted itself as an organization that practiced traditional family values. The Association was a quasi-Christian organization as most of its members were religious and tended to be conservative for the most part. When they got older that is. In reality, this was not true as several drivers especially in their younger days had hardly lived up to that standard. Usually they weren't caught as the organization protected them. Sometimes they were, but usually they were given a free pass.
When Mark Boltz had a serious cocaine habit, his ex-wife was blamed for driving him to do drugs. He never did drugs while racing but often did off season. This had almost cost him his life and his family. It was the drug use, partying, adultery, and bad behavior that caused his ex-wife Mia Boltz to leave him.
The night before he nearly died,his ex-wife came to pick up their two children Tiffany and Daniel. She couldn't reach him and one of the kids had called her sobbing saying that Daddy was dead, he was on the floor. She had found him on the floor passed out. She took the kids and then called for an ambulance. Once the ambulance was there, she left. She then called his twin brother Michael.
He had refused the ambulance and so they left. When his brother tried to get a hold of him later after finding out he didn't go to the hospital, he went into a panic and called police. The next morning Mark was found 200 miles away at the South Texas Seashore Park lying on the ground face down by a park ranger who had been patrolling the area. It had been quite cold. Mark appeared to be dead. They were about ready to pronounce him dead when he started coughing. He opened his eye and saw the paramedics. After ten days in the hospital, he returned home. The Association put him on probation the next season. He was lucky that they didn't punished him more severely. Another driver had been banned for 2 seasons for using drugs but he used them while racing.
The experience changed him. He became born again in the true sense of the word. He quit smoking and drinking. He re-married and had 3 more children. He raced for many more years. After he retired from racing, he became a Baptist Minister. At age 55, He was the Association's Minister. The drivers could relate to him because he had been a driver himself. He understood them. They respected him because he never came across as a goody-two-shoes who never did anything wrong.
Mark Boltz was surprised to see Lila Archer-Mars and her husband Tommy at the Sunday sermon. Usually she came but he was surprised she had even shown up. Especially after what was posted on the internet and what happened one week ago. He had gone down to the hospital to minister to the grandmother of one of the driver who had had a operation. He had seen a TV screen that showed driver Tommy Mars being taken to the hospital after being beaten up in a brawl at a nightclub. Someone had made a nasty comment about Lila and when the person said that she was a baby killer, Tommy had responded by punching the guy in the face. Tommy was hit in the head with something and nearly passed out. Soon several people were punching and kicking him and then he passed out.
He had been cleared to drive but Mark could see emotionally he wasn't really ready to do so. Lila sat in the front, Tommy sat in the back. He still was quite sore and had bruises all over his face. The shiner on his right eye was beginning to fade but still noticeable. He had been released from the hospital a couple of hours earlier.
Several FBI agents were also in attendance. None of them were BAU members. They were there to protect Lila and Tommy who had received death threats. An abortion doctor in Texas had been murdered and files on his patients had been posted on the Internet. Lila's complete medical and known sexual history was also posted. A pregnancy at 15 years old that resulted in an abortion. A miscarriage at age 17. Another abortion at age 19. Two more miscarriages in one year at age 21. A stillborn baby at age 24, and then two babies at age 29 and 30 (both out of wedlock). She had married the father who was 7 years younger than she.
Lila had become the center of the culture wars on sexual morality and abortion. She was seen as the poster child of what had gone amok in the United States. She was attacked viciously by members of Congress, by religious and conservative groups. Even more liberal or progressive groups attacked her saying that she engaged in irresponsible behavior.
Spencer Reid knew it wouldn't be long before his name came up. Already people tried to figure out who the father of the still born child was. Until last week, Reid had no knowledge of this. Lila never told him. More fuel would be attended to the fire as Reid who was supposed to be her protector had also become her lover. The two had seen each other 4 times after the case was closed. It was the last encounter that they had which resulted in Lila becoming pregnant. By this time she was in between shows, so no one knew. Her great aunt was the only one who knew and she had died last year.
He knew he needed to take to Lila about this, but at this point he didn't dare. He decided to say nothing to anyone but he figured Hotch probably knew.
At the sermon Lila was surprised that her situation wasn't the topic of the sermon. Issues of abortion, the culture wars and sexual morality were never brought up. Mark Boltz had brought these issues up at other sermons.
Mark Boltz knew that the couple was having marital problems. He had heard this from Lila's in-laws who didn't like her very much. Their daring son Tommy however, was hardly a saint. When he was 20 years old, he fathered a child with a 23 year old woman who turned out to be a royal princess. She had come to the United States incognito and had met him at a race. Unlike Lila, the princess was basically given a free pass and Tommy was attacked as seducing or taking advantage of the princess. Her parents refused to believe that their daughter had been sexual active for several years even though she openly admitted to doing so on the Oprah Show.
This is the end of Round One.
