July 30, 2025 • 34 mins
In this edition of the “Bad Boys” series, host Jim Chapman brings you inside the tragic story of Aaron Hernandez who’s fall from NFL star of the New England Patriots to murderer shocked the world of pro football.
Timestamps:
01:27 Aaron Hernandez Childhood
14:15 The Investigation into Odin Lloyd
15:04 Communication and Confusion in this case
21:47 Arrest and Charges for Aaron Hernandez
24:09 The Double Murder Surfaces
29:37 The Shooting of Alexander Bradley
32:49 Trial for Odin Lloyd starts
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Timestamps:
01:27 Aaron Hernandez Childhood
14:15 The Investigation into Odin Lloyd
15:04 Communication and Confusion in this case
21:47 Arrest and Charges for Aaron Hernandez
24:09 The Double Murder Surfaces
29:37 The Shooting of Alexander Bradley
32:49 Trial for Odin Lloyd starts
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm given call n oh no.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of
the Elite. I'm your host Jim Chapman, and today I
am bringing you a brand new subject in the bad
Boy series, and that is the rise and fall of
NFL tight End Aaron Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now, this is the second bad.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Boy we have covered with this series, the first being
former UFC Fighter war Machine. And ever since I dropped
that series, many of you have been asking for more.
So here is one you are.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Not gonna leave. Let's get into it now.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Aaron Hernandez was born in Bristol, Connecticut, in nineteen eighty nine.
His dad's side of the family, they were Puerto Rican
and his mother's side of the family was of Italian descent,
which made for an interesting and sometimes explosive dynamic. His
dad was kind of a local legend in the Bristol,
(02:24):
Connecticut area in the seventies. He was actually a big
time football star in the area and after high school
he went to play for Yukon the University of Connecticut.
So he was very well known and respected in the area,
so much so that his nickname was the King, and
(02:44):
he just looked intimidating. He stood only about five foot ten,
but even in his forties, this dude was muscular. He
was kind of built like a brick shitouse, if you will. Now,
Aaron's parents were married about three when Aaron was born,
following just a few years behind his older brother DJ. Now,
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as you may expect, athletics a big deal in the
Hernandez household, and Aaron's dad expected perfection. Although his dad,
Dennis had a spotless reputation publicly, privately it was a
totally different story. His dad would get physically violent, especially
(03:28):
when he drank, with both Aaron and DJ, and even
Aaron's mother. He would hit the kids for underperforming in
athletics or academics. And to put it how it was,
his mom and dad just did not get along. There
were verbal fights almost on a daily basis, and Aaron's
brother DJ wrote a book several years ago talking about that,
(03:52):
talking about how horrible the abuse was in that house.
It would get so bad that in nineteen ninety one,
when Aaron was just two years old, his parents divorced.
Then in nineteen ninety six, when Aaron was seven years old,
they got married again, and as both Aaron and his
brother DJ got older, it was obvious they were both
(04:15):
gifted on a football field. DJ would graduate high school.
He would go on to follow in his dad's footsteps
and accept a scholarship to Yukon, and Aaron, at just
fourteen years old and a freshman in high school, was
also offered a scholarship at Yukon at fourteen, which he
committed to the college that day, the day that they
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offered him. And life seemed to be great for Aaron
outside of that physical abuse until it wasn't. Now, when
Aaron was sixteen, his life would change drastically when his
dad went into the hospital for what was supposed to
be a routine surgery for a hernia, but sadly, due
(04:59):
to complication during that surgery, his dad would die that day. Now,
by all accounts, this totally devastated Aaron. In particular, despite
his dad's harsh treatment, Aaron idolized him and he would
never really get over his father's death. Now, his father
was also the authority figure in the Hernandez household, and
(05:23):
he would keep Aaron accountable. So this lack of an
authority figure, his dad passes away and there's no one
there really to keep Aaron accountable that would spell trouble
for him going forward.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now, it was not.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Long after his father's death when his immediate family was
really hit hard.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
After it came out that Aaron's.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Mother was having an affair with his older cousin, Tanya
Singleton's husband, Jeff, and that infuriated Aaron and he instantly
had hate for his mom over this affair. To complicate things,
this guy moves into the family home that Aaron lived in.
(06:05):
Imagine that you're in high school, shortly after your dad
passes away, who you were enamored by. This guy moves
in and he's cooking eggs every morning.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
In your kitchen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, it was not long after that that Aaron had
had enough and he moves in with his older cousin,
Tanya Singleton, who he really looked at like a second mom.
And Tanya Singleton, of course, her husband was having an
affair with his mother. So he moves in with Tanya
and at school he continued to thrive athletically. In addition
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of football, Aaron Hernandez was also an amazing basketball player.
He was a track star, and he was also extremely popular.
As you might imagine, good looking kid, six foot two
two hundred and twenty five pounds, and it was in
high school that he would start dating Sanna Jenkins, who
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he had known since elementary school. Now, even at sixteen,
Aaron had already had his vices, including smoking weed before school,
during school, after school, at practice games, he was a
weed chainsmoker. Now, Aaron was also known to drink excessively
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at this time in his life.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
He would drink at parties.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He would become very aggressive. But he was so gifted
athletically that as a senior, he becomes Connecticut's Gatorade Player
of the Year, even with all these vices already developing
in his life, and in addition to that, he was
named a first team All American.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
In high school, making him one of.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The top football players in the country. Now, remember that
I told you earlier. Aaron had committed at just fourteen
years old to play football for Ukon Wells a He
wanted to at least get a taste of the college
football recruiting experience, and this led him to visit the
(08:08):
University of Florida. So he only did this because he
thought it would be fun. He didn't really think he
was going to commit to the University of Florida. His
brother DJ was still playing. He was in fact a
starter at Yukon, but while he was visiting Florida, he
got an idea of what it was like to play
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SEC style football, and shockingly to everyone, he decommits from
Yukon and he commits to the Florida Gators. To add
to that, Urban Meyer, who was the head coach of
the Gators during this time, he actually flies to Connecticut
and he somehow convinces the principle of Aaron's high school
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to allow him to graduate a semester early. Now, physically
Aaron here named Es could handle that. He was a
big boy by this time, but maturity wise and mentally,
no way was.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He ready for that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
To be away from home like that, have no one
looking over him outside of the coaching staff at Florida,
and this would be start of a big spiral for Aaron.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
On the field in college, he was known as a
hard worker. He was very focused. But off the field,
totally different story with this guy. In his freshman year
of college, two men are actually shot in Gainesville.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Florida, and four Florida.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Gators are questioned, including Aaron Hernandez. So as the story
goes the two men in a front of theirs had
left a bar and they were in their car. They
were stopped at a red light and shots rang out. Hernandez,
at this time was seventeen. Apparently he and some of
the other Florida Gators had an altercation with these guys
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at the bar they were at. In some my witness
described her named as to a t as being involved
in that shooting, but nothing ever came of it, and
there were several other incidents in college that were troubling.
His sophomore year, he was actually suspended for failing a
drug test.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But you can't hide talent, and Aaron.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Was a beast on the football field, so good in fact,
that his junior year he became a first team College
All American and he wins what's known is the John
Mackie Award for being the best tight end in college
football period. So he foregoes his senior season and he
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enters the NFL Draft, and although he should have went
in the first round, his off the field bullshit caused
him to slip into the fourth round, where he's drafted
by Tom Brady's New England Patriots. He was signed to
a two million dollar contract, and that was in twoenty ten. Now,
(11:00):
in July of twenty twelve, two men are killed in
the drive by shooting in Boston. Why am I bringing
this up, Well, keep that in your back pocket for now,
and I'm going to circle back to it a.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Little later on today.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So, by August of twenty twelve, Hernandez was a bonafide
star for the Patriots, and he signs a contract extension
for forty one million dollars, which at that time was
the second most for a tight end. Then in February
twenty thirteen, a man by the name of Alexander Bradley,
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he's found shot in Riviera Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
And that is around the Miami Beach area. This is
just hours.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
After spending an evening with Hernandez and a Miami strip club.
And that's another one I want you to keep in
your pocket for now, and I'll get back to it.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Time moves on.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Then, on June seventeenth of twenty thirteen, a high school junior,
in a hurry to get home from the gym, he
decides to cut through a grivel pit and he makes
what I can only imagine to be a horrific discovery,
he sees a bullet riddled body lying in that pit.
He calls police and investigators arrive on the scene and
(12:21):
they identify that deceased body as that of Odin Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now, Lloyd had.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Been shot six times, so police they start investigating, and
first they needed to find out who the heck Odin
Lloyd was. They discovered that he was twenty seven years old.
He was a linebacker for a semi pro football team
in the Boston area, and he was thought of very
highly in his community. He had a lot of friends
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and family who loved him deeply. He had a steady girlfriend.
So they worked the crime scene. They really get a
mountain of evidence that they end up sending off to
the Boston crime Lab. They're going to get that tested.
That will come into play later on because there's a
lot of evidence there. And they also find keys inside
the pocket of Odin Lloyd, but no car was at
(13:11):
the scene and these keys were from a rental company.
So they have that lead and they're going to chase
down that lead. But in the meantime, they start interviewing
the family of Odin Lloyd, and they discover that Lloyd's
girlfriend and the girlfriend of Aaron Hernandez or sisters. They
also discovered those keys they found in Odin's pocket were
(13:34):
to a car that was rented by Aaron Hernandez. There
was also what I consider a big early key to
this case, a giant piece of evidence surface when police
theorized Odin. Lloyd knew something bad was going to happen
that night, and he text his sister.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Did you see who I'm with?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And when she responded who, he replied in l Just
so you know, police know they need to talk to
Aaron Hernandez. So they drive to that home and they're
sitting out in front of that home. They're trying to
secure a search warrant, and they want to talk to him.
They've got a lot of evidence already on this guy,
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but more than anything else, they want to make sure
he didn't just disappear.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you
what happened in New York.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It cannot be as crazy as the case I told
you about yesterday in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You know what, we should do a podcast about it.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the
crime news headlines that have dominated the week.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
We cover trending crimes from all over the country and
even sprinkle in a few globally.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to
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Speaker 2 (14:52):
Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link
in the description of this podcast. In the meantime, other
detectives they search the cell phone of Oden Lloyd and
they discover the night he died, Aaron and Odin had
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communicated late that night. So Aaron he notices on his
security cameras cops outside his house and they were in
an unmarked car, but Aaron knew they were cops, so
he calls his agent, who is also his attorney, and
he says, Heymrph, there's cops outside my house.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What should I do? And Murph is like, well, if
you've done anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And Aaron's like no, and Mrph said, well, go out
there and ask them why they're sitting out in your
front yard. So he does and two detectives they see
Aaron her Nanez coming out and they get out and
they kind of meet him halfway. They identify themselves to Aaron,
and one detective asked him, did you rent a blok
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Lack suburban, to which Hernandez says, yes, I rented it
from my friend.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The detective said, who's oh, and Aaron says Odin. The
detective then says, how do you know Odin? And this
kind of goes back.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And forth between the.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Detective and Aaron, and Aaron's starting to get frustrated with
all these questions. He answered that when he said Odin's
girlfriend is my girlfriend's sister, that's how we know each other.
He then cuts off the conversation completely and he says, look,
I'm gonna check with my attorney. Y'all are asking too
many questions, and he walks away. Aaron goes back in
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his house and the detectives are following close behind. He
goes inside, shuts the door and locks it. They's standing
there for a minute or so. He opens the door
back up and he hands the detectives a business card
for his lawyer, and the detectives they kind of hurriedly say,
we're investigating a out and at that point Aaron just
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shuts the door, doesn't say a word, and likes it again.
Now to me, that's the biggest red flag of all.
What innocent person do y'all know that would not at
the very least upon hearing that say who died? And
I believe it was a test by the detectives, and
I believe that Aaron Hernandez failed that test with flying colors.
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So the officers head back to their car and they
make a call to an assistant DA in the area
and they inform him of Aaron's representation. If you will,
they read him off the business card, and at that
point he tells the officers just sit tight because he
knew Aaron's lawyer. They actually knew each other very well,
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had known each other for years. And the assistant DA
calls Aaron's lawyer and he lets him know, hey, the
police they need to talk to Aaron, and the lawyer
in turn calls Aaron, and I don't know what was
said during that conversation, but if a few minutes later,
Aaron emerges from the house. He has his girlfriend and
(18:05):
his child in two and he tells the officers he'll
follow them to the station to talk. So his girlfriend
is driving. She pulls up to the front of the station.
She lets Aaron out because his intention is he's going
to wait for his lawyers to get there and she's
gonna go ahead and drive back home, but as she's leaving,
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the two detectives that met him at his house pull
her over and they start asking her questions in the
parking lot. They proceeded to ask her if she knew
who Odin Lloyd was, and she said, well, I don't
know him that well, he dates my sister. They asked
her the last time she saw Odin and she answered
it was this past Saturday morning. She gave the officers
(18:49):
at that point aaron cell number because they asked for it.
And then the officers asked, well, when was Aaron home
and when was he not home this past weekend? She
said he was home all day Sunday, but was gone
when she went to bed that night, and that was
the night that Odin Lloyd died. And it was about
this time that Aaron must have seen her from inside
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the police station, because he called her on her cell
and he said, hey, look, Murphy, which is his lawyer, said,
did not talk to detectives about anything. She relays that
message and they let her go. So inside the station,
Hernandez's lawyers arrive and he confers with them back and forth,
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but he goes outside to do that. As a matter
of fact, he walks to their car, gets in the
car with the attorneys and they're conferring, and police are
watching this. They're located on an upper level floor in
this police station, and they can actually see Aaron inside
of the car, and they see him pull out his
cell phone and remove his battery, which Aaron was known
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at this time for being paranoid that people listen to
his conversations through his iPhone. He would tell a lot
of his friends that. So Aaron and his attorneys, they
get done conferring, they get out of the car, they
go back into the police station, and his attorneys, while
Aaron is standing there, says he's decided that he doesn't
want to interview at this time. So police say, okay, well,
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can we see his cell phone and make a copy
of it and then we'll give it back to him,
And the attorney's basically said not without a warrant.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
They turn around and they leave and they bring Aaron
back to his house. Now word of gotten around.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Quickly in Boston. By this time, everybody.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Knew Aaron Hernandez in Boston, very popular New England patriot,
and in that time flight. The Patriots even heard, and
I'm talking to the upper level. I'm talking the owner
of the Patriots had heard, and they promptly bar him
from the stadium until he is cleared of any wrongdoing
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in this case. Now, the same day that police attempted
to question her Nandez, they were also able to secure
a search warrant for his house and they searched it
for nearly four hours. They also asked for a cell
phone again, which this time it was given to them
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in pieces form one of his attorneys. He smashed it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
They get a.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Hold to a security video from his residence and they
discover Aaron had tried to destroy the entire video, but
he screwed up and he didn't delete a big part
of it. We're going to get to that a little
later because it had some really damning footage on it,
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including Aaron walking around the house with a gun.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So they gather all this.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Evidence and on June twenty sixth of twenty thirteen, Aaron
is arrested at his home and he's charged with the
murder of Odin Lloyd. In that very same day, the
New England Patriots release him from his contract. Aaron was
charged with first degree murder, and he was also charged
with some weapons offenses, a total of five in all,
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and he was placed in suicide watch when he got
to the jail. Now that's standard for high profile inmates
for several reasons. First, you don't want other inmates trying
to make a name for themselves by attacking a high
profile inmate before a trial. And second, guys like Aaron
Hernandez lateral millionaires. They're not used to confinement and being
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told when to eat, shower and all these sort of things.
And these inmates, if they're going to kill themselves, it's
going to be early on. So while Aaron was being
booked and introduced to his new home, something else hit
the news that was even more shocking. Aaron Hernandez was
a suspect in a double murder in boss a year
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prior to his arrest. On July sixteenth of twenty twelve,
three friends went out for a night on the town.
At the end of the night, two of those friends
were dead. A guy by the name of George Abro
and a guy by the name of Supirio Fortado were
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found shot and killed at a red light in Boston
after leaving a bar they were twenty eight years old.
A third man was also shot.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
But he survived that drive by sheitting.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Now, not only did police suspect Aaron Hernandez was the
one who killed him, they had a witness that was
willing to testify to it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So We're going to fast.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Forward a little bit and I'm going to give you
a bit of a timeline up to the trial. On
June twenty eighth of twenty thirteen, police recover a silver
Chrysler they believe Aaron and two other men were.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
In the night of the shitty. Who were those two
other men?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
A guy by the name of Carlos or Tees and
another guy by the name of Ernest Wallace. Now these
two guys were bad news and not the type of
people that Hernandez would typically hang out with. Basically a
couple of want to be thugs. So I mentioned the car,
and it was interesting not only how they found it,
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but where.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
They found it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So the house side of that is they had plenty
of video with these two guys and Aaron together with
Odin Lloyd, and I'm talking surveillance video from street cameras, etc.
The night he was murdered, they were riding around in
the exact car. They even had video of Hernandez stopping
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and getting gas.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
With all three of them.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Hernandez actually went inside of a store and he bought
some blue bubbleishes gum that would play big role in
this case later on. But the wear as it relates
to this car that they found is even more intriguing.
Remember Aaron's older cousin, Tanya Singleton, who he.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Looked at like a mother.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
They found out Tanya was the person he trusted most
in the world. They secured a search warrant to search
her home, knowing some sort of evidence may be there,
and sure enough, in the garage covered with a tarp
was a Nissan Ultima. And not just that, five forty
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five caliber shell casings fired from the same gun that
killed Odin Lloyd were found. Fingerprints of both Hernandez and
Odin Lloyd were found on that car as well, and
it's important to note that Tanya at this point she
had stage four cancer. So on July ninth of twenty thirteen,
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police released text messages between Lloyd and Hernandez on the
night of the murder, in which Hernandez texted Lloyd quote,
do you want to meet up? I want to step
out for a little Odin texted quote we still on
which that text was sent at twelve thirty in the
morning on the night Odin died. On July thirtieth of
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twenty thirteen, police divers they search a lake in Bristol,
Connecticut after they got an anonymous tip, and they're looking
for that murder weapon. But nothing turned up in that lake. However,
the next month, police in Springfield, Massachusetts, they find a
weapon which just so happens to be the gun used
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in the twenty twelve double murder in Boston. Then in
September of twenty thirteen, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz they
are indicted in the murder of Odin Lloyd. They have
gathered enough evidence to tie three up them to this.
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But it shortly after that that Hernandez is fighting a
lawsuit against another shooting victim. Now, this victim alleged he
was shot in the face, and that guy's name is
Alexander Bradley. So let's talk about this guy, Alexander Bradley,
because he tells a wild story about his relationship with
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Aaron Hernandez. So they were friends and Alexander Bradley not
the type of guy to be played with, kind of
a gangster.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Bradley contends that he and Aaron go out one night,
this is in February of twenty thirteen, to a strip
club in Miami called Tootsis Cabaret.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
They leave the.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Club early that morning, and they were having conversation about
an incident that I touched on earlier. And I'll give
you the details later, but let's just say for now
that it involved that double shooting I've already mentioned. So
it's during the conversation and Hernandez gets more in more
pissed off at Bradley. Hernandez pulls out a gun, shoots
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Bradley in the face, and leaves him for dead in
the wee hours of the morning in an industrial park.
What Aaron didn't know is that another car was in
that industrial park at the time, and the occupant of
that car drives to where he hears a gunshot and
he sees a body laying in the road. He calls
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an ambulance and he literally saves the life of Bradley,
who was severely injured gunshot to the face. Right police
show up at the scene. Detectives go to the hospital
to interview Bradley, but he ain't talking. I mean, he's
a street guy, right, and he wants to handle this himself.
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So he ends up from the.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Shooting being blind in one eye.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Now what's crazy is Aaron after he shot Bradley. Later on,
come to find out he actually called Bradley's girlfriend and
he asked her she had heard from Bradley. He acted
like he and Bradley never showed up at that club.
The problem was plenty of surveillance footage of this from
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street cameras, etc. At that point, he did not realize
that Bradley had survived, and it would not be long
before he would realize that Alexander Bradley did indeed survive.
When Bradley himself as soon as he was able to
calls Aaron her Nan does, Aaron picks up the phone
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and Bradley says, what up? And Aaron's response to that
was who is this? Which he knew exactly who it was.
But long story short, on that, Alexander Bradley files a
civil suit regarding Hernandez shooting him. So all this becomes public.
So what was that shooting all about? Well, they get
(29:58):
into an argument because as Alexander Bradley told him, quote,
you need to settle down before you pull some stupid
shit like those two guys you killed in Boston.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
That's right, folks.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Not only did Alexander Bradley know about Hernandez being responsible
for that double murder in Boston in twenty twelve, he
witnessed it. So let's get into the details. On July
sixteenth of twenty twelve, Daniel Brew and Superior for Tito.
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They go to a club and according to.
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Bradley, it was the same club in Boston that he
and Aaron went out to. Now, everyone's having a good
time that night until completely on accident in this jam
pack club, one of the men accidentally spills his drink
in just a little bit of it splashes onto Aaron Hernandez.
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But this dude's got a short temper. He gets pissed
off pretty quick. So Bradley said that that point forward,
Hernandez whole demeanor chain. It was like he went from
happy to piste off in two seconds flat, like most
psychopaths would do. Right well, just as they are pulling
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out of the club, because he decides, hey man, we
need to get out of here. Her Nandez spots the
guy in a vehicle that drives right past him in Alexander,
and he tells Alexander, hey follow that vehicle. They follow
these people. They pull up side by side of the
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red light, and according to Bradley, before he knew anything
was happening, Hernandez pulls out a gun and just starts
firing into that other vehicle, and he killed the two
occupants in the car, injured a third, and I believe
there was a fourth in the car that was not injured.
And he and Alexander sped away right before the trial
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is starting for the Oden Lloyd case. He gets indicted
for that double murder, but that trial for that double
murder would have to wait, so Aaron at this point
he's in jail. He's a waiting trial for the Odin
Lloyd murder, and work gets out that he is not
playing well with other inmates. On February twenty fifth of
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twenty fourteen, as he was out of his cell, another
inmate who was also out totally by mistake, he sees
Aaron and in an attempt to make a name for himself,
they throw down, but by most accounts, Aaron gets the
best of him in this altercation. Also around that time,
it comes out that Aaron also threatened to beat the
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shit out of a jail worker, So jail by.
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This time is getting to him.
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Then, finally, on June twenty ninth of twenty fifteen, the
trial in the murder of Odin Lloyd. And I'm going
to pick up in the next episode with the details
of that trial. But I bet you thought when I
started this when I wasn't going to tell you this
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guy was a just about a legit serial killer, Aaron
her nand is just a really sad story. Is we
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Much love,
I'm given call n oh no.
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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of
the Elite. I'm your host Jim Chapman, and today I
am bringing you a brand new subject in the bad
Boy series, and that is the rise and fall of
NFL tight End Aaron Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now, this is the second bad.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Boy we have covered with this series, the first being
former UFC Fighter war Machine. And ever since I dropped
that series, many of you have been asking for more.
So here is one you are.
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Not gonna leave. Let's get into it now.
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Aaron Hernandez was born in Bristol, Connecticut, in nineteen eighty nine.
His dad's side of the family, they were Puerto Rican
and his mother's side of the family was of Italian descent,
which made for an interesting and sometimes explosive dynamic. His
dad was kind of a local legend in the Bristol,
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Connecticut area in the seventies. He was actually a big
time football star in the area and after high school
he went to play for Yukon the University of Connecticut.
So he was very well known and respected in the area,
so much so that his nickname was the King, and
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he just looked intimidating. He stood only about five foot ten,
but even in his forties, this dude was muscular. He
was kind of built like a brick shitouse, if you will. Now,
Aaron's parents were married about three when Aaron was born,
following just a few years behind his older brother DJ. Now,
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as you may expect, athletics a big deal in the
Hernandez household, and Aaron's dad expected perfection. Although his dad,
Dennis had a spotless reputation publicly, privately it was a
totally different story. His dad would get physically violent, especially
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when he drank, with both Aaron and DJ, and even
Aaron's mother. He would hit the kids for underperforming in
athletics or academics. And to put it how it was,
his mom and dad just did not get along. There
were verbal fights almost on a daily basis, and Aaron's
brother DJ wrote a book several years ago talking about that,
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talking about how horrible the abuse was in that house.
It would get so bad that in nineteen ninety one,
when Aaron was just two years old, his parents divorced.
Then in nineteen ninety six, when Aaron was seven years old,
they got married again, and as both Aaron and his
brother DJ got older, it was obvious they were both
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gifted on a football field. DJ would graduate high school.
He would go on to follow in his dad's footsteps
and accept a scholarship to Yukon, and Aaron, at just
fourteen years old and a freshman in high school, was
also offered a scholarship at Yukon at fourteen, which he
committed to the college that day, the day that they
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offered him. And life seemed to be great for Aaron
outside of that physical abuse until it wasn't. Now, when
Aaron was sixteen, his life would change drastically when his
dad went into the hospital for what was supposed to
be a routine surgery for a hernia, but sadly, due
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to complication during that surgery, his dad would die that day. Now,
by all accounts, this totally devastated Aaron. In particular, despite
his dad's harsh treatment, Aaron idolized him and he would
never really get over his father's death. Now, his father
was also the authority figure in the Hernandez household, and
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he would keep Aaron accountable. So this lack of an
authority figure, his dad passes away and there's no one
there really to keep Aaron accountable that would spell trouble
for him going forward.
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Now, it was not.
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Long after his father's death when his immediate family was
really hit hard.
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After it came out that Aaron's.
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Mother was having an affair with his older cousin, Tanya
Singleton's husband, Jeff, and that infuriated Aaron and he instantly
had hate for his mom over this affair. To complicate things,
this guy moves into the family home that Aaron lived in.
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Imagine that you're in high school, shortly after your dad
passes away, who you were enamored by. This guy moves
in and he's cooking eggs every morning.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
In your kitchen.
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Well, it was not long after that that Aaron had
had enough and he moves in with his older cousin,
Tanya Singleton, who he really looked at like a second mom.
And Tanya Singleton, of course, her husband was having an
affair with his mother. So he moves in with Tanya
and at school he continued to thrive athletically. In addition
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of football, Aaron Hernandez was also an amazing basketball player.
He was a track star, and he was also extremely popular.
As you might imagine, good looking kid, six foot two
two hundred and twenty five pounds, and it was in
high school that he would start dating Sanna Jenkins, who
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he had known since elementary school. Now, even at sixteen,
Aaron had already had his vices, including smoking weed before school,
during school, after school, at practice games, he was a
weed chainsmoker. Now, Aaron was also known to drink excessively
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at this time in his life.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
He would drink at parties.
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He would become very aggressive. But he was so gifted
athletically that as a senior, he becomes Connecticut's Gatorade Player
of the Year, even with all these vices already developing
in his life, and in addition to that, he was
named a first team All American.
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In high school, making him one of.
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The top football players in the country. Now, remember that
I told you earlier. Aaron had committed at just fourteen
years old to play football for Ukon Wells a He
wanted to at least get a taste of the college
football recruiting experience, and this led him to visit the
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University of Florida. So he only did this because he
thought it would be fun. He didn't really think he
was going to commit to the University of Florida. His
brother DJ was still playing. He was in fact a
starter at Yukon, but while he was visiting Florida, he
got an idea of what it was like to play
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SEC style football, and shockingly to everyone, he decommits from
Yukon and he commits to the Florida Gators. To add
to that, Urban Meyer, who was the head coach of
the Gators during this time, he actually flies to Connecticut
and he somehow convinces the principle of Aaron's high school
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to allow him to graduate a semester early. Now, physically
Aaron here named Es could handle that. He was a
big boy by this time, but maturity wise and mentally,
no way was.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He ready for that.
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To be away from home like that, have no one
looking over him outside of the coaching staff at Florida,
and this would be start of a big spiral for Aaron.
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Now.
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On the field in college, he was known as a
hard worker. He was very focused. But off the field,
totally different story with this guy. In his freshman year
of college, two men are actually shot in Gainesville.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Florida, and four Florida.
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Gators are questioned, including Aaron Hernandez. So as the story
goes the two men in a front of theirs had
left a bar and they were in their car. They
were stopped at a red light and shots rang out. Hernandez,
at this time was seventeen. Apparently he and some of
the other Florida Gators had an altercation with these guys
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at the bar they were at. In some my witness
described her named as to a t as being involved
in that shooting, but nothing ever came of it, and
there were several other incidents in college that were troubling.
His sophomore year, he was actually suspended for failing a
drug test.
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But you can't hide talent, and Aaron.
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Was a beast on the football field, so good in fact,
that his junior year he became a first team College
All American and he wins what's known is the John
Mackie Award for being the best tight end in college
football period. So he foregoes his senior season and he
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enters the NFL Draft, and although he should have went
in the first round, his off the field bullshit caused
him to slip into the fourth round, where he's drafted
by Tom Brady's New England Patriots. He was signed to
a two million dollar contract, and that was in twoenty ten. Now,
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in July of twenty twelve, two men are killed in
the drive by shooting in Boston. Why am I bringing
this up, Well, keep that in your back pocket for now,
and I'm going to circle back to it a.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Little later on today.
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So, by August of twenty twelve, Hernandez was a bonafide
star for the Patriots, and he signs a contract extension
for forty one million dollars, which at that time was
the second most for a tight end. Then in February
twenty thirteen, a man by the name of Alexander Bradley,
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he's found shot in Riviera Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
And that is around the Miami Beach area. This is
just hours.
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After spending an evening with Hernandez and a Miami strip club.
And that's another one I want you to keep in
your pocket for now, and I'll get back to it.
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Time moves on.
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Then, on June seventeenth of twenty thirteen, a high school junior,
in a hurry to get home from the gym, he
decides to cut through a grivel pit and he makes
what I can only imagine to be a horrific discovery,
he sees a bullet riddled body lying in that pit.
He calls police and investigators arrive on the scene and
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they identify that deceased body as that of Odin Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now, Lloyd had.
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Been shot six times, so police they start investigating, and
first they needed to find out who the heck Odin
Lloyd was. They discovered that he was twenty seven years old.
He was a linebacker for a semi pro football team
in the Boston area, and he was thought of very
highly in his community. He had a lot of friends
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and family who loved him deeply. He had a steady girlfriend.
So they worked the crime scene. They really get a
mountain of evidence that they end up sending off to
the Boston crime Lab. They're going to get that tested.
That will come into play later on because there's a
lot of evidence there. And they also find keys inside
the pocket of Odin Lloyd, but no car was at
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the scene and these keys were from a rental company.
So they have that lead and they're going to chase
down that lead. But in the meantime, they start interviewing
the family of Odin Lloyd, and they discover that Lloyd's
girlfriend and the girlfriend of Aaron Hernandez or sisters. They
also discovered those keys they found in Odin's pocket were
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to a car that was rented by Aaron Hernandez. There
was also what I consider a big early key to
this case, a giant piece of evidence surface when police
theorized Odin. Lloyd knew something bad was going to happen
that night, and he text his sister.
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Did you see who I'm with?
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And when she responded who, he replied in l Just
so you know, police know they need to talk to
Aaron Hernandez. So they drive to that home and they're
sitting out in front of that home. They're trying to
secure a search warrant, and they want to talk to him.
They've got a lot of evidence already on this guy,
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but more than anything else, they want to make sure
he didn't just disappear.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you
what happened in New York.
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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told
you about yesterday in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
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Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link
in the description of this podcast. In the meantime, other
detectives they search the cell phone of Oden Lloyd and
they discover the night he died, Aaron and Odin had
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communicated late that night. So Aaron he notices on his
security cameras cops outside his house and they were in
an unmarked car, but Aaron knew they were cops, so
he calls his agent, who is also his attorney, and
he says, Heymrph, there's cops outside my house.
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What should I do? And Murph is like, well, if
you've done anything wrong?
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And Aaron's like no, and Mrph said, well, go out
there and ask them why they're sitting out in your
front yard. So he does and two detectives they see
Aaron her Nanez coming out and they get out and
they kind of meet him halfway. They identify themselves to Aaron,
and one detective asked him, did you rent a blok
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Lack suburban, to which Hernandez says, yes, I rented it
from my friend.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh.
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The detective said, who's oh, and Aaron says Odin. The
detective then says, how do you know Odin? And this
kind of goes back.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And forth between the.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Detective and Aaron, and Aaron's starting to get frustrated with
all these questions. He answered that when he said Odin's
girlfriend is my girlfriend's sister, that's how we know each other.
He then cuts off the conversation completely and he says, look,
I'm gonna check with my attorney. Y'all are asking too
many questions, and he walks away. Aaron goes back in
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his house and the detectives are following close behind. He
goes inside, shuts the door and locks it. They's standing
there for a minute or so. He opens the door
back up and he hands the detectives a business card
for his lawyer, and the detectives they kind of hurriedly say,
we're investigating a out and at that point Aaron just
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shuts the door, doesn't say a word, and likes it again.
Now to me, that's the biggest red flag of all.
What innocent person do y'all know that would not at
the very least upon hearing that say who died? And
I believe it was a test by the detectives, and
I believe that Aaron Hernandez failed that test with flying colors.
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So the officers head back to their car and they
make a call to an assistant DA in the area
and they inform him of Aaron's representation. If you will,
they read him off the business card, and at that
point he tells the officers just sit tight because he
knew Aaron's lawyer. They actually knew each other very well,
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had known each other for years. And the assistant DA
calls Aaron's lawyer and he lets him know, hey, the
police they need to talk to Aaron, and the lawyer
in turn calls Aaron, and I don't know what was
said during that conversation, but if a few minutes later,
Aaron emerges from the house. He has his girlfriend and
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his child in two and he tells the officers he'll
follow them to the station to talk. So his girlfriend
is driving. She pulls up to the front of the station.
She lets Aaron out because his intention is he's going
to wait for his lawyers to get there and she's
gonna go ahead and drive back home, but as she's leaving,
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the two detectives that met him at his house pull
her over and they start asking her questions in the
parking lot. They proceeded to ask her if she knew
who Odin Lloyd was, and she said, well, I don't
know him that well, he dates my sister. They asked
her the last time she saw Odin and she answered
it was this past Saturday morning. She gave the officers
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at that point aaron cell number because they asked for it.
And then the officers asked, well, when was Aaron home
and when was he not home this past weekend? She
said he was home all day Sunday, but was gone
when she went to bed that night, and that was
the night that Odin Lloyd died. And it was about
this time that Aaron must have seen her from inside
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the police station, because he called her on her cell
and he said, hey, look, Murphy, which is his lawyer, said,
did not talk to detectives about anything. She relays that
message and they let her go. So inside the station,
Hernandez's lawyers arrive and he confers with them back and forth,
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but he goes outside to do that. As a matter
of fact, he walks to their car, gets in the
car with the attorneys and they're conferring, and police are
watching this. They're located on an upper level floor in
this police station, and they can actually see Aaron inside
of the car, and they see him pull out his
cell phone and remove his battery, which Aaron was known
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at this time for being paranoid that people listen to
his conversations through his iPhone. He would tell a lot
of his friends that. So Aaron and his attorneys, they
get done conferring, they get out of the car, they
go back into the police station, and his attorneys, while
Aaron is standing there, says he's decided that he doesn't
want to interview at this time. So police say, okay, well,
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can we see his cell phone and make a copy
of it and then we'll give it back to him,
And the attorney's basically said not without a warrant.
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That was it.
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They turn around and they leave and they bring Aaron
back to his house. Now word of gotten around.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Quickly in Boston. By this time, everybody.
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Knew Aaron Hernandez in Boston, very popular New England patriot,
and in that time flight. The Patriots even heard, and
I'm talking to the upper level. I'm talking the owner
of the Patriots had heard, and they promptly bar him
from the stadium until he is cleared of any wrongdoing
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in this case. Now, the same day that police attempted
to question her Nandez, they were also able to secure
a search warrant for his house and they searched it
for nearly four hours. They also asked for a cell
phone again, which this time it was given to them
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in pieces form one of his attorneys. He smashed it.
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They get a.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Hold to a security video from his residence and they
discover Aaron had tried to destroy the entire video, but
he screwed up and he didn't delete a big part
of it. We're going to get to that a little
later because it had some really damning footage on it,
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including Aaron walking around the house with a gun.
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So they gather all this.
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Evidence and on June twenty sixth of twenty thirteen, Aaron
is arrested at his home and he's charged with the
murder of Odin Lloyd. In that very same day, the
New England Patriots release him from his contract. Aaron was
charged with first degree murder, and he was also charged
with some weapons offenses, a total of five in all,
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and he was placed in suicide watch when he got
to the jail. Now that's standard for high profile inmates
for several reasons. First, you don't want other inmates trying
to make a name for themselves by attacking a high
profile inmate before a trial. And second, guys like Aaron
Hernandez lateral millionaires. They're not used to confinement and being
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told when to eat, shower and all these sort of things.
And these inmates, if they're going to kill themselves, it's
going to be early on. So while Aaron was being
booked and introduced to his new home, something else hit
the news that was even more shocking. Aaron Hernandez was
a suspect in a double murder in boss a year
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prior to his arrest. On July sixteenth of twenty twelve,
three friends went out for a night on the town.
At the end of the night, two of those friends
were dead. A guy by the name of George Abro
and a guy by the name of Supirio Fortado were
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found shot and killed at a red light in Boston
after leaving a bar they were twenty eight years old.
A third man was also shot.
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But he survived that drive by sheitting.
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Now, not only did police suspect Aaron Hernandez was the
one who killed him, they had a witness that was
willing to testify to it.
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So We're going to fast.
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Forward a little bit and I'm going to give you
a bit of a timeline up to the trial. On
June twenty eighth of twenty thirteen, police recover a silver
Chrysler they believe Aaron and two other men were.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
In the night of the shitty. Who were those two
other men?
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A guy by the name of Carlos or Tees and
another guy by the name of Ernest Wallace. Now these
two guys were bad news and not the type of
people that Hernandez would typically hang out with. Basically a
couple of want to be thugs. So I mentioned the car,
and it was interesting not only how they found it,
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but where.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
They found it.
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So the house side of that is they had plenty
of video with these two guys and Aaron together with
Odin Lloyd, and I'm talking surveillance video from street cameras, etc.
The night he was murdered, they were riding around in
the exact car. They even had video of Hernandez stopping
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and getting gas.
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With all three of them.
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Hernandez actually went inside of a store and he bought
some blue bubbleishes gum that would play big role in
this case later on. But the wear as it relates
to this car that they found is even more intriguing.
Remember Aaron's older cousin, Tanya Singleton, who he.
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Looked at like a mother.
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They found out Tanya was the person he trusted most
in the world. They secured a search warrant to search
her home, knowing some sort of evidence may be there,
and sure enough, in the garage covered with a tarp
was a Nissan Ultima. And not just that, five forty
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five caliber shell casings fired from the same gun that
killed Odin Lloyd were found. Fingerprints of both Hernandez and
Odin Lloyd were found on that car as well, and
it's important to note that Tanya at this point she
had stage four cancer. So on July ninth of twenty thirteen,
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police released text messages between Lloyd and Hernandez on the
night of the murder, in which Hernandez texted Lloyd quote,
do you want to meet up? I want to step
out for a little Odin texted quote we still on
which that text was sent at twelve thirty in the
morning on the night Odin died. On July thirtieth of
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twenty thirteen, police divers they search a lake in Bristol,
Connecticut after they got an anonymous tip, and they're looking
for that murder weapon. But nothing turned up in that lake. However,
the next month, police in Springfield, Massachusetts, they find a
weapon which just so happens to be the gun used
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in the twenty twelve double murder in Boston. Then in
September of twenty thirteen, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz they
are indicted in the murder of Odin Lloyd. They have
gathered enough evidence to tie three up them to this.
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But it shortly after that that Hernandez is fighting a
lawsuit against another shooting victim. Now, this victim alleged he
was shot in the face, and that guy's name is
Alexander Bradley. So let's talk about this guy, Alexander Bradley,
because he tells a wild story about his relationship with
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Aaron Hernandez. So they were friends and Alexander Bradley not
the type of guy to be played with, kind of
a gangster.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now.
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Bradley contends that he and Aaron go out one night,
this is in February of twenty thirteen, to a strip
club in Miami called Tootsis Cabaret.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
They leave the.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Club early that morning, and they were having conversation about
an incident that I touched on earlier. And I'll give
you the details later, but let's just say for now
that it involved that double shooting I've already mentioned. So
it's during the conversation and Hernandez gets more in more
pissed off at Bradley. Hernandez pulls out a gun, shoots
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Bradley in the face, and leaves him for dead in
the wee hours of the morning in an industrial park.
What Aaron didn't know is that another car was in
that industrial park at the time, and the occupant of
that car drives to where he hears a gunshot and
he sees a body laying in the road. He calls
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an ambulance and he literally saves the life of Bradley,
who was severely injured gunshot to the face. Right police
show up at the scene. Detectives go to the hospital
to interview Bradley, but he ain't talking. I mean, he's
a street guy, right, and he wants to handle this himself.
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So he ends up from the.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Shooting being blind in one eye.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Now what's crazy is Aaron after he shot Bradley. Later on,
come to find out he actually called Bradley's girlfriend and
he asked her she had heard from Bradley. He acted
like he and Bradley never showed up at that club.
The problem was plenty of surveillance footage of this from
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street cameras, etc. At that point, he did not realize
that Bradley had survived, and it would not be long
before he would realize that Alexander Bradley did indeed survive.
When Bradley himself as soon as he was able to
calls Aaron her Nan does, Aaron picks up the phone
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and Bradley says, what up? And Aaron's response to that
was who is this? Which he knew exactly who it was.
But long story short, on that, Alexander Bradley files a
civil suit regarding Hernandez shooting him. So all this becomes public.
So what was that shooting all about? Well, they get
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into an argument because as Alexander Bradley told him, quote,
you need to settle down before you pull some stupid
shit like those two guys you killed in Boston.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
That's right, folks.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Not only did Alexander Bradley know about Hernandez being responsible
for that double murder in Boston in twenty twelve, he
witnessed it. So let's get into the details. On July
sixteenth of twenty twelve, Daniel Brew and Superior for Tito.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
They go to a club and according to.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Bradley, it was the same club in Boston that he
and Aaron went out to. Now, everyone's having a good
time that night until completely on accident in this jam
pack club, one of the men accidentally spills his drink
in just a little bit of it splashes onto Aaron Hernandez.
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But this dude's got a short temper. He gets pissed
off pretty quick. So Bradley said that that point forward,
Hernandez whole demeanor chain. It was like he went from
happy to piste off in two seconds flat, like most
psychopaths would do. Right well, just as they are pulling
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out of the club, because he decides, hey man, we
need to get out of here. Her Nandez spots the
guy in a vehicle that drives right past him in Alexander,
and he tells Alexander, hey follow that vehicle. They follow
these people. They pull up side by side of the
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red light, and according to Bradley, before he knew anything
was happening, Hernandez pulls out a gun and just starts
firing into that other vehicle, and he killed the two
occupants in the car, injured a third, and I believe
there was a fourth in the car that was not injured.
And he and Alexander sped away right before the trial
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is starting for the Oden Lloyd case. He gets indicted
for that double murder, but that trial for that double
murder would have to wait, so Aaron at this point
he's in jail. He's a waiting trial for the Odin
Lloyd murder, and work gets out that he is not
playing well with other inmates. On February twenty fifth of
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twenty fourteen, as he was out of his cell, another
inmate who was also out totally by mistake, he sees
Aaron and in an attempt to make a name for himself,
they throw down, but by most accounts, Aaron gets the
best of him in this altercation. Also around that time,
it comes out that Aaron also threatened to beat the
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shit out of a jail worker, So jail by.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
This time is getting to him.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Then, finally, on June twenty ninth of twenty fifteen, the
trial in the murder of Odin Lloyd. And I'm going
to pick up in the next episode with the details
of that trial. But I bet you thought when I
started this when I wasn't going to tell you this
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guy was a just about a legit serial killer, Aaron
her nand is just a really sad story. Is we
get deeper into it. Thank you so much for listening today.
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Speaker 3 (33:43):
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Speaker 2 (33:44):
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Speaker 3 (33:47):
I do that with award.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Winning host Unspeakable Zonwn Kelly Jennings. She is the queen
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exposed scandalous files of the elite, I'm your host, Jim Chapman.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
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