monroe played hotch's wife in criminal minds.
who plays hotch's wife in criminal minds?
monroe
played by meredith monroe, haley hotchner was the wife of aaron hotchner. she and hotchner have a son, jack. they divorced due to her inability to cope with hotch's job and duties. in season three, aaron hotchner picks up his home phone when someone calls, but when he answers it, the caller hangs up. haley's cellphone starts ringing immediately afterward. hotch looks at haley, but she does not say anything. it is implied that haley might be cheating on aaron, and that is why the person who called the home phone did not speak when a man answered. she is shot and killed by hotch's nemesis, george foyet (a.k.a. "the boston reaper"). she returned in season nine, episode five, in a vision while hotch was recovering from complications from his stabbing 100 episodes earlier.
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the team goes to the safe house, and they find sam kassmeyer seriously injured, shot by foyet. sam apologizes to hotch, and it is revealed that foyet had stolen sam's cell phone and repeatedly called random numbers on the speed dial until he reached haley. on the phone, he pretended to be a marshal and detailed to a terrified haley that both kassmeyer and hotch were dead, so haley and the new marshal needed to meet at her home. the mortally wounded sam kassmeyer dies in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. meanwhile, hotch calls foyet on his cell phone and threatens him repeatedly. foyet responds that haley looks good with dark hair. haley, believing foyet is the new marshal assigned to protect her and jack, lets him into the house. during a frantic drive to his own house, hotch calls haley and speaks with foyet. foyet tells haley how her ex-husband broke their deal by still trying to track him down. therefore, he has to kill hotch's family in retaliation. hotch informs jack that he needs to help his dad work the case, and so jack goes upstairs. haley tells hotch he needs to tell his son how they met so jack would still believe in love. foyet shoots her three times as hotch and the rest of the team listen on the phone.
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