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On April 19, sometime before 3 a.m., Aaron Hernandez, the former star Recent England Patriots tight finish, scrawled three notes—one to his fiancée, the mother of his little young woman, 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 possess 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 connected with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Related: A timeline of the rise and tragic fall of Aaron Hernandez
Then the 27-year-old former NFL star serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murder, jammed the route of his cell door with cardboard to avoid 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),
Hernandez was drafted to play as a tight end for the Patriots in 2010; in Killer Inside, one of the more compelling insights about that (somewhat rocky) transition into the NFL comes from former Patriots player Ryan O’Callaghan, who came out as queer in 2017. He points out that football is an almost perfect hiding place for many gay men. “My beard was football,” he says. “I relied on all the stereotypes of a football player — a lot of testosterone and the aggressiveness, hitting each other, things you assume middle America wouldn't consider of as same-sex attracted men.”
Playing for the Patriots “was the best possible situation I could own ended up in,” says O’Callaghan, because "there's no distraction. There's just an extreme focus on winning and nothing else really flies there — and for a closeted guy, that's great."
Hernandez excelled on the field but stayed away from building relationships with other Patriots players off the field. (Even in the later conversations in prison included in the documentary, he only talks to former University of Florida teammates.) Killer Inside — like the prosecutors at Hernandez’s murder trials — can’t answer exactly what prompted his crimes after he join
A documentary about Aaron Hernandez has some… interesting commentary.
Oxygen recently released a two-part documentary, titled “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered,” about the former NFL player who devoted suicide while in prison for two suspected murder charges (the trials of which were later acquitted).
Rumors of Hernandez’s sexuality started to circulate during the trails after freelancer Michele McPhee first reported on his bisexuality.
Now, the second part of the documentary seems to be heavily focused on his sexuality.
First, one of Hernandez’s attorneys stated that Hernandez was extremely worried about his sexuality getting out.
“His biggest interest about his sexuality was how it would impact [Hernandez’s fiancee] Shayanna [Jenkins] and somehow diminish — in her eyes — the tremendous love that he felt for her,” said attorney George Leontire, “Here’s a man who happened to be gay who loved a woman.”
“This man clearly was gay,” Leontire added. “Acknowledged the immense pain that it caused him. I think that he also came out of a culture that was so negative about ga
EXCLUSIVE: Lonely Aaron Hernandez asked to divide his cell with prison lover Kyle Kennedy - but the request was denied, says lawyer
Prison authorities turned down a specific demand from Aaron Hernandez to be allowed to share a cell with his male lover, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
The former New England Patriot, who was serving a existence sentence without possibility of parole, was alone in a cell built for two and wanted company.
And he specifically chose 22-year-old armed robber Kyle Kennedy — the bloke he left one of his three suicide notes.
Kennedy's attorney Larry Army Jr. confirmed that Hernandez had made the request to authorities at the maximum security Souza-Baranowski lock-up in Shirley, Massachusetts.
Kyle Kennedy was so devastated by Hernendez suicide he was placed on suicide watch. My client is obviously depressed by the decrease of his buddy, Aaron Hernandez,' Kyle Kennedy's lawyer Larry Army, Jr. said Monday evening
The former New England Patriot, who was serving a life sentence without possibility of parole, was alone in a cell built for two and wanted firm, says Kennedy's lawyer
This is one of the cells at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional C
Just weeks before hanging himself in a Massachusetts prison cell, ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez reportedly hinted about suicide in a letter to a jailhouse friend.
"I think I'm going to hang it up, LOL," Hernandez allegedly wrote to inmate Kyle Kennedy, according his lawyer.
Kennedy, who is serving an armed robbery sentence, didn't take the comments seriously at the time, Attorney Larry Army Jr. said at a news conference Wednesday.
Hernandez, 27, and Kennedy, 22, were "close friends" who spent a great deal of period together in prison and requested to be cellmates last fall, Army said. The request was denied because of the "size difference" between the two men.
Asked about the innateness of his client and Hernandez's relationship, Army said "Any discussion will reach directly from [Kennedy's] mouth so there's no confusion." He said Kennedy will address the extent of their relationship "At some point in time in the near future."
Army said his client was "stunned and saddened" by the news of Hernandez's suicide. "He thought it was a joke. He reflection the people in the jail were playing a game because they knew the closeness of the two."
Kennedy also issued a statement of his