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On April 19, sometime before 3 a.m., Aaron Hernandez, the former star Novel England Patriots tight conclude, scrawled three notes—one to his fiancée, the mother of his little teen, 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 paired 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 footpath 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),
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 receive 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 time together in prison and requested to be cellmates last collapse, Army said. The request was denied because of the "size difference" between the two men.
Asked about the character of his client and Hernandez's partnership, Army said "Any discussion will enter directly from [Kennedy's] mouth so there's no confusion." He said Kennedy will address the extent of their partnership "At some indicate in time in the near future."
Army said his client was "stunned and saddened" by the news of Hernandez's suicide. "He consideration it was a joke. He idea the people in the jail were playing a game because they knew the closeness of the two."
Kennedy also issued a expression of his
EXCLUSIVE: Lonely Aaron Hernandez asked to share his cell with prison lover Kyle Kennedy - but the request was denied, says lawyer
Prison authorities turned down a specific request 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 life 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 man he left one of his three suicide notes.
Kennedy's attorney Larry Army Jr. confirmed that Hernandez had made the seek 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 observe. My client is obviously saddened by the decrease of his friend, Aaron Hernandez,' Kyle Kennedy's lawyer Larry Army, Jr. said Monday evening
The former Unused England Patriot, who was serving a life sentence without possibility of parole, was alone in a cell built for two and wanted company, says Kennedy's lawyer
This is one of the cells at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional C
Hernandez was drafted to participate as a tight conclude 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 gay 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 think of as male lover men.”
Playing for the Patriots “was the best feasible situation I could possess 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 respond exactly what prompted his crimes after he unite
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 dedicated 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 concern 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 queer 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