The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez

Aaron Hernandez was burgeoning Sports royalty earning a $40 million contract from the New England Patriots at just 22 years of age but then just as suddenly his career came to a halt Hernandez was arrested indicted and convicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd a semi-professional football player whose body was found in an industrial park near Hernandez's home the two men had known one another through Hernandez's fiance who sister was dating Lloyd a concrete understandable motive for the murder never became clear in April 2015 Hernandez was found guilty of murder in the first degree in April 2017 he committed suicide by hanging himself with his prison cell bed sheets since his death his family and others have tried to shed light on The Chronic traumatic and seal apathy CT Hernandez incurred during his football career and the role it may have played his crimes it's fascinating as a case because he was such a celebrity and had so much to lose says Kevin Flynn editor of the New York Times and of the New York Times book of crime you can't imagine someone with so much to lose risking at all