Aaron Hotchner arrived at the Mt. Airy Medical Examiner's Office several hours later. He looked at the body on the table and identified the person as Millie Adams. Aunt Millie that is. Sitting outside in the lobby of the Medical Examiner's office was Sheriff's Opie Taylor who was waiting to speak with Hotchner. They shook hands and then Hotchner sat down.
"I'm very sorry for you're loss, Mr. Hotchner. Do you have any questions?"
"Not right now but I probably will later. I don't understand why she would drive her car
into the lake. Doesn't make sense. I know that she's been forgetful at times but this."
Aaron Hotchner then drove over to his aunt home which was about a block from the funeral home. He wasn't surprised when he saw Betty Miller outside on her front porch.
He waved to her and then went into the house.
He looked around carefully to see if anything had been disturbed. Everything looked fine. It didn't appear that any crime had occurred in the house. Hotchner had a sense that his aunt's death was no accident but he couldn't put his finger on it.
His thoughts were interrupted by the door bell. Hotchner looked thru the peep hole and was surprised to see Lila and Spencer Reid at the door. Lila had brought some finger sandwiches.
"So sorry to hear of you're loss." Said Lila who hugged him. .
There was a brief silence. Lila frowned at Spencer.
"Oh yes, so am I Hotch."
"There is something I we need to tell you Hotch."
Before Hotchner could ask them what it was the door bell rang. It was Lola's great-grandmother, grandmother and mother with their three grandchildren. They had brought some food over.
"This is my great-grandmother Agnes Keys, my grandmother Sallie Salton and my mother LuAnn Archer."
Hotchner shook hands with the three women. The four women then went into the kitchen to put some of the food away and to make lunch for Hotchner.
""Hotchner, these are our three children, Hannah, Joshua and Nathan. Say hello to Mr. Hotchner. "said Spencer.
"Hello, Hello, Hello."
The last time Hotchner had seen the children they were infants and a toddler.
"I'm Hannah. I'm the oldest and I'm 5 years old. Joshua and Nathan are 3 years."
"Well, nice to meet you Hannah, Joshua, Nathan." Said Hotchner shaking their hands.
The doorbell rang again. The funeral director at the funeral home arrived and Hotchner went into another room to discuss funeral arrangements with the director.
While discussing the funeral arrangements Hotchner noticed from the upstairs room Betty Miller working in her garden in back. He thought it strange that she hadn't come over as everyone else in town seemed to have come over.
His aunt was a well-liked person. This was evident by all those who came over and those who called expressing their sympathy. It wasn't until well after 8:00 p.m. when they all finally left.
Hotchner was very disturbed at what Lila and Spencer had told him. He wondered if anyone else knew about this. As he was lying in bed thinking about things, it suddenly dawned on him that Betty Miller hadn't come over to the house or offered any type of condolences to him. This seemed very odd to him. He had overheard one of the ladies saying that Betty Miller wasn't a well liked person and everyone was suspicious of her and one lady said she thought she had something to do with Millie's death.
His aunt had provided a much different description of Betty Miller, a nice kind person who was concerned about her, someone that was misunderstood by others.
After the funeral, he was going to talk with the Sheriff's about these things.