AARON HERNANDEZ'S SEX LIFE PROBED AS MURDER MOTIVE,

POLICE SOURCE SAYS

BY MICHELE MCPHEE ON 4/21/17 AT 3:55 PM EDT
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The former New England Patriots running back was arrested in 2013 and charged
with the murder of Odin Lloyd, an acquaintance of Hernandez's. Lloyd, who was
dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, had been found shot to death on June 17,
2013, near Hernandez's home in suburban Boston. Hours after being arrested and
charged with Lloyd's murder, Hernandez was also linked to a 2012 double murder in
Boston. Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder in Lloyd's death in 2015
but was acquitted two years later in the double-murder case.  On April 19, 2017, five
days after the acquittal, Hernandez committed suicide in prison.
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On April 19, sometime before 3 a.m., Aaron Hernandez, the former star New England
Patriots tight end, scrawled three notes—one to his fiancée, the mother of his little
girl, one to that daughter and a third to his close prison friend—and placed them next
to a Bible in his solitary prison cell in the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in
Shirley, Massachusetts.
The Bible was opened to a section of the New Testament, John 3:16, "For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him
would not perish but have eternal life." He had scrawled that verse on his forehead
with red ink, and also made marks on his hands and feet with that red pen, as though
mimicking the stigmata associated with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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Then the 27-year-old former NFL star serving a life sentence without the possibility
of parole for murder, jammed the track of his cell door with cardboard to prevent
guards from coming in, slicked the floor with liquid soap and shampoo (which
investigators believe he did to make it harder for him to back out in case he lost his
nerve), wrapped his bed sheet around his neck multiple times and then tied one end of
it to a bar on the window of his cell.
A correction officer saw his limp body through the cell door at 3:03 a.m., and tried to
resuscitate him. Hernandez was then rushed to UMass Leominster hospital, where he
was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m.
It was an ugly end to the former NFL star's often ugly life and it came on the same
day players on his former team traveled to the White House to celebrate the New
England Patriot's Super Bowl win. Questions immediately began to swirl about why
Hernandez, who had been acquitted five days earlier in connection with a separate
double murder charge stemming from a drive-by shooting in 2012, picked this time to
die.
Aaron Hernandez listens during his trial as defense attorney Charles Rankin, left,
looks on while an image of Odin Lloyd is displayed on a monitor in Fall River,
Massachusetts, January 29, 2015.REUTERS
That's just one of many mysteries Hernandez, known for never shedding the gang
connections he made growing up, left behind. He was convicted in April 2015 for
shooting and killing his friend, Odin Lloyd, seemingly without motive. But interviews
with multiple law enforcement officials directly involved in the case say Lloyd—a
semipro football player who was dating Hernandez's fiance's sister at the time—had
information the football star did not want out: that he was bisexual.
Motivation to Murder?
One of the notes left by Hernandez was to his prison boyfriend, who is now on 24/7
suicide watch, multiple law enforcement sources confirm. Hernandez's sexuality
would, of course, not be relevant save for the fact that an intimate relationship he
allegedly had with a male former high school classmate was at the center of the
investigation into Lloyd's murder.
Read more: Aaron Hernandez's body tested positive for K2, a synthetic form of
marijuana
Ernest Wallace, a co-defendant in the Lloyd murder case, told detectives the victim
had called Hernandez a "schmoocher," which was taken by Hernandez and his
companions as a gay slur. Wallace was also recorded saying during a jailhouse visit
with Tanya Singleton, Hernandez's cousin, that he would not have helped Hernandez
get rid of the murder weapon—a crime for which he is now serving a 4½-to-7 year
sentence on accessory to murder charges—if he had known Hernandez was a "limp
wrist," multiple sources say. Singleton was accused of helping Wallace discard of
Lloyd's murder weapon and was later sentenced to two years probation with one year
under house confinement after pleading guilty to criminal contempt for refusing to
cooperate with investigators in Boston investigating the double murder. Prosecutors in
both Bristol and Suffolk counties said Hernandez had promised to set up a trust fund
for Singleton's children for her silence but never did.
Hernandez's alleged longtime male lover, the high school friend, was interviewed
extensively by authorities after Lloyd's murder, and was forced to testify in front of a
grand jury. Law enforcement officials also say Hernandez moved a large amount of
money into three accounts shortly before his arrest for the Lloyd killing: one account
was for his fiancée; a second was for his daughter; the third, where the most money
was moved, was for that friend.
Hernandez's secrets went well beyond his sex life, according to court testimony and
police records. His brushes with the law for extreme acts of violence began when he
was playing football at the University of Florida. In 2007, Hernandez, then 17, was
identified as a person of interest in a double shooting.

The words "blood" and "sweat" are seen tattooed on the hands of former NFL New
England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, as he appears in court for a motion
hearing in Attleborough, Massachusetts, August 30, 2013.REUTERS
Then came a shooting in July 2012, when a Boston man spilled a drink on Hernandez
but didn't apologize. Prosecutors said that when an enraged Hernandez saw the same
men later that night in a BMW, he leaned across a friend, Alexander Bradley, who was
driving a Toyota SUV, from the passenger seat, and yelled to the occupants, "What's
up now, n****s?" Hernandez squeezed off five shots into the vehicle, according to
Bradley. Two men died, a third was wounded. Hernandez was acquitted in that case
last week after six days of deliberation. Jurors refused to comment on their verdict,
but legal analysts speculate that the prosecution's case was weakened by the fact that
its main witness, Bradley, is a career criminal who had testified he wanted to hurt
Hernandez.
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Seven months after the Boston double murder, after a night at a Florida strip club in
February 2012, Bradley says Hernandez shot him in the head, pushed him out of a
vehicle and left him for dead. Bradley refused to cooperate with police but marked
Hernandez for revenge. He testified on the stand in March 2017, "I didn't want to
cooperate with police. I wanted Mr. Hernandez's life."
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That threat apparently prompted Hernandez to surround himself with hard men from
his gang past, men like Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, who became Hernandez's co-
defendants after the murder of Lloyd in June 2013. Both men told investigators that
Hernandez was the gunman in that killing. But it was the other information that
Wallace offered about the motive that never made headlines, the fact that Lloyd knew
Hernandez had a complicated sex life and could pass that information to his girlfriend,
the sister of the Patriot's player's fiancée.
It was also well known that Hernandez was high on hydroponic marijuana the night
Lloyd was shot and killed, and prosecutors said a joint with his DNA was found near
Lloyd's body. Bradley told the court that Hernandez was a daily marijuana smoker and
said he knew that because he was the NFL player's dealer. Investigators are now
looking into claims by inmates at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center that

Hernandez was smoking K2, synthetic marijuana, the night of his suicide.
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A brief fight over Hernandez's brain ended Thursday when the Worcester County
District Attorney said his family's wishes would be met and his brain would be
studied by the vaunted CTE Center at Boston University, where scientists are
researching the effects of concussions on the brains of athletes. Initially, the state
medical examiner said that its pathologists wanted to study Hernandez's brain, leading
his attorney, Jose Baez, to claim this week that the ME was "illegally" holding onto
the former NFL star's brain, against the family's wishes. After Baez's press
conference, held outside the ME's office, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph
Early released the brain