tom brady, the greatest man in all of humanity, or a bunch of [ bleep ] on twitter? >> sure, there's a lot of deflate gate on twitter, including hands down the best theory to emerge so far, brian donald son, late night with seth myers, maybe this ball just let out a big sigh after looking to tom brady's baby blues. glad to get that cleared up. that does it for us. thanks very much for watching. have a great weekend. see you monday. tonight, aaron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star racing toward greatness. >> what's the meaning on your farm? arm? >> it's up to me to make it up. >> the question now.

>> why would the football player be a murderer sfl. >> as the nfl struggles to deal with abuse and violence, hernandez goes on trial for murder. what will his jury hear, who could they hear from? and how could it all end? >> is there a chance that aaron hernandez may be found not guilty? downward spiral: inside the case against aaron hernandez. it will be unlike anything in fall river, massachusetts has ever seen as the trial of aaron hernandez finally begins.

four months now lawyers in the case have been arguing about evidence. >> if you have a warrant, a person will turn it over. >> talking about what they can put on to prove their case. >> including cell phones. >> the court should grant the motion. to suppress the telephone. >> text messages. >> totally innocuous. >> it has now been 18 months since the murder that hernandez is accused of committing. a murder that happened right here in the middle of new england patriots country. where football is a passion. and where saturday mornings are the perfect time to play. >> you wake up and your adrenaline is going. >> locked down --

>> mike branch coaches the boston bandits, a semi-pro team. he remembers june 15th, 2013 like it was yesterday. something seemed out of place. >> a black suburban pulls up on my car. in the driver seat, 27-year-old odin lloyd. >> i see a smile. >> he thinks it's od because lloyd doesn't own a car. >> i'm like whose car is this? grant says he is suspicious, but he never gets a straight answer. lloyd is busy telling his buddies about the good time he had at a club the night before. police say they are partying. they had a good time, and that

mr. hernandez spent a good amount of money. >> mr. hernandez is aaron hernandez, a $40 million rising star with the new england patriots. >> how much money? >> like ten grand. >> ten grand, in one night? >> that's what he said, yeah. >> odin lloyd's best buddies, darrell hodge and daryl sweet said their friend wasn't normally a big partier. they know a different side of him. >> he is coming full throttle. >> and family. >> oh, he definitely always took care of his mom and his sisters. >> my brother and i were kind of -- i would not say best friends, but as close as siblings can get. >> branch, who also coached lloyd in high school, didn't

hesitate to give him advice as an adult and an occasional reality check >> at some point, i realized i'm not going to the nfl, this is just for fun. what i have to do is start preparing myself for life. >> he says that lloyd was doing landscaping and figuring out what next. >> i spoke to him about taking a firefighter test. >> lloyd also began dating college student shaneah jenkins. she is the link between the nfl and the all american who made it. >> what is your understanding of how they met? >> they were dating sisters. >> shaneah is the younger sister of chi chianna. but how close were the talented tight end and the struggling landscaper. >> how much do you know that they hung out together? >> really? it was two different worlds.

buddy had one world and we have our world. >> i'm just checking out my new camera. >> on sunday, june 16th, father's day 2013, odin lloyd is cruising with his friends in that mysterious black suburban. we had music playing, jamming to the music and stuff. we're laughing, we're talking. odin driving. got the one hand type driving. we were just having fun. later when we went to my aunt's house, we were playing pool. >> i've seen odin make one of the most spectacular shots i've ever seen. >> you have no chance in hell. >> it was a good day? it was a great day. >> you got that? >> a great day. >> and it was coming to an end after lloyd got a text from his job saying he had to work the next morning.

>> then he got another text asking to hang out. >> a text from hernandez. >> the text alluded to, let's just have another great night. >> i take it a part of you thought, man, you have to go to work the next day. >> yeah, go home. it was already like nine-ish. >> so when you left each other, what do you remember saying to him? >> see you later. >> little did he know there would be no later. the next night, monday, june 17th, 5:37 p.m., lloyd's body is discovered by a jogger in north ad adaboro, 35 miles south of where he lives. >> here at the crime scene, investigators find odin lloyd's wallet, driver's license, and five shell casings. he was first shot in the back and finished lying on his back facing up. >> darrell hodge learning of the murder from his sister lydia who

calls him. >> did she say he is dead? >> in between the cries, she said owen is dead. i got to the house, got inside -- >> and you saw his mom, what did she say? >> darrell, who killed my son? what do you say to that? i immediately wrapped my hand her her and i said, i don't know. >> i just don't know. >> that night was tough for daryl sweet who was also at lloyd's home. >> i just went back there and sat in my car. >> what were the questions in your head? >> who was he with?

who he possibly could have been with? and i got the news from a text. >> shaquila is lloyd's younger sister. she saw him picked up at their house and driven away earlier that night. just before lloyd dies, police say he sends shaquila chilling text messages at 3:07 a.m. lloyd asks you saw who i'm with? at 3:11, he text again saying hello? 3:19, shequila says my phone was dead, who is that? and lloyd answers nfl. and a minute later at 3:23 a.m., lloyd sends his very last text. "just so you know."

>> something was going down. >> what was going down, and why? still ahead, will the jury ever see that final text? not if the defense can help it. >> these messages do not suggest fear. the government wants to put a much more sinister past on them. it's the family plan families are flocking to.

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for darrell hodge, going to the gym means lifting weights, but also carrying one. >> i started lifting with my bro. after a jogger finds odin lloyd's body, police start to find evidence. the vehicle was rented by aaron hernandez. over the next several days, investigators search his home and cars removing bags of possible evidence. june 26th, 2013. nine days after the murder of odin lloyd. hernandez is arrested. the charges are first degree premeditated murder and having illegal weapons.

>> his plea? >> and he is no longer a new england patriot. >> i and other members of the organization were shocked and disappointed. >> hernandez is canned before he gets to the courthouse. >> he is charged with a very serious crime. >> he is staying in jail. his attempts at bail have been denied. >> i think the commonwealth presented a case that is circumstantial to be sure, but very strong. >> hours after his arrest, the public hears those details for the first time. 9:02 p.m., father's day, june 16th.

>> the defendant sent a text message to his friend who is out of state, please make it back. >> that friend is ernest wallace in bristol, connecticut, more than 100 miles away. at 9:35, hernandez texts him again. get your ass up here. wallace is joined by carlos ortiz. both have criminal records. at about the same time, hernandez is also texting lloyd. i'm coming to grab that tonight, you going to be around? i need that, and we could step for a little again. when lloyd doesn't answer immediately hernandez sends another text at 9:34. what up? lloyd answers at 9:37, all right, where? at 9:39, he says i don't know, it don't matter but i'm going to hit you when i'm that way. after midnight, surveillance stills released by authorities show wallace and ortiz arriving

at hernandez's home. inside, the football player is holding what appears to be a gun. and he's not happy. >> he makes a statement that he's upset he can't trust anyone anymore. the three of them defense at 1:12 in the morning in a silver nissan altima. he's on camera at this gas station. he gets blue bubble gum and rolling papers for marijuana. >> about 20 minutes later, 2:32 a.m., camera captures the same altima that pulls up to lloyd's home. lloyd gets inside. as they start driving, a sign of trouble. hernandez tells lloyd he doesn't trust him, angry about who he was talking to at the club where they partied friday night. how do investigators know about the conversation in the car?

ortiz, sources say, squeals during questioning. at 3:22 a.m., a string of security cameras at an industrial part pick up the altima as it goes to a secluded area. >> it is now 3:23 and lloyd sends his wife the final message saying nfl, just so you know. >> at 3:27, workers near by say they hear gunshots. hernandez's home is only a half mile from the murder scene. at 3:29, a camera shows an altima pulling up in hernandez's driveway. only three people get out. odin lloyd isn't one of them. >> the defendant was walking

through the house. >> back inside the house, images show wallace, then again with ortiz in a basement door way with hernandez nearby. hernandez is wearing white with a gun in his left hand. police believe this is the murder weapon. a .45 caliber gun. it remains missing. >> and they all then go down to the basement. once in the basement, the surveillance is shut off. >> around 5:30 that evening, prosecutors say hernandez and his two friends show up here to return their rented nissan altima. the manager tells investigators offers her blue bubble gum. it's the same kind he bought at that gas station and now turning up in the returned rental, along with a .45 caliber bullet casing. the manager tosses the gum and

bullet casing in a dumpster. police say the shell came from the same gun that fired the rounds at the murder scene. and they say impressions taken near the body match the kind of tires on the altima. hernandez's attorneys won't comment on the case, and all parties are muzzled by a gag order. for family and friends of odin lloyd, knowing some details helps. but they don't answer this question. >> why? that's the biggest question. why?

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>> as aaron hernandez adjusts to life behind bars, charged of murder, another accusation of gun violence makes headlines. four months for odin lloyd is gunned down, the football player is at a strip club in miami. a law enforcement source says hernandez drops about $10,000 that night. one of the men he is with, alexander bradley. prosecutors describe him as hernandez's former right hand man. by morning, bradley is not in the face, dumped out of a vehicle and left for dead. still wearing his now blood soaked vip wristband from the

club. police retrieve this bullet fragment from his head. >> when the police investigated this incident, alexander bradley did not point the finger at hernandez. that changes when bradley sues saying hernandez caused him to lose his right eye. hernandez felt disrespected over an argument over a missing cell phone. after bradley is shot, prosecutors say hernandez gets a new right-hand man. ernest wallace. >> this defendant is more commonly known by his nickname which is hobo. >> wallace has a long criminal history. prosecutors say he sells and uses drugs including the hallucinogen, angel dust, or pcp. he's not the only one. court documents show carlos

ortiz admits he's regularly abusing pcp, alcohol, and thc, pot. sources tell cnn aaron hernandez also smoked a lot of pot. one calling it a boat load. prosecutors say the tight end would give odin lloyd money to buy him marijuana. cnn obtained this photograph of a stack of blunts. a source says it was made with marijuana, said to be supplied by hernandez. sources tell cnn aaron hernandez also used angel dust and that could have made him paranoid. one says he felt he was a target, that people were coming after him. >> the combination of those drugs, depending on the long-term use of the drugs, and the amount of drugs, can cause someone to become violent.

it could cause someone to become very paranoid. it could cause someone to overreact to a situation. appear to be more impulsive. >> that kind of behavior doesn't describe the aaron hernandez many remember growing up in bristol, connecticut. where his family was celebrated as a local sports dynasty. >> i don't think there was another family that was more familiar in bristol. aaron was our golden boy. he had the family traits, standout athletes. >> his older brother, e.j., was a sports hero too. bob montgomery covers high school sports for the bristol press. >> aaron in addition, in any sport, a man pleading with children. >> brad mcmillan and andrew ragali played basketball with

aaron beginning in middle school. >> he was twice the size of me. like the same height, but just more athletic, obviously. and i mean, he practiced like all the time. >> practiced because his father dennis pushed him constantly. >> his father was pretty strict. he told me he used to make him do 500 shots before he played with his friends. his dad clearly kept his anchored. i saw a closeness with them i had never seen before. it was just magic in my eyes. >> in a heart beat, that closeness is gone. >> i was sitting in math class with another teammate. the phone rang. he went to go pick up the phone, and she said you need to go up to the coach's room. coach walks in and he says dennis has passed away. >> dennis hernandez, his father, dies after routine hernia surgery.

it hits 16-year-old aaron hard. >> he is just sad. he couldn't stop there. it felt uncomfortable just to see him so hurt. i felt bad for him. >> the father/son relationship comes up in conversations with sheriff thomas hodgson. for a year before being moved. >> it's easy to fall into the lifestyle of falling, people who don't help you make the best choices. >> one choice he makes is to tattoo some of his dad's advice on his arms. >> the quote my father used to give me. if it is to be, it's up to me. whatever i want my life to be, it's up to me to make it up that way. >> when it comes time to make his college pick, not even his brother d.j. can get aaron to

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>> > with the man who kept him grounded now gone, aaron hernandez takes a pass on his father's school, the university of connecticut. he heads to the university of florida. >> i was kind of just bummed he wasn't going to be on the basketball team. >> in january 2007, he joins the gators. star quarterback tim tebow. by april, still long before the gator season opener, there's trouble off the field. the rookie team losing his cool at the popular off-campus restaurant. there's an argument with aaron hernandez and over a bill. tim tebow tries to calm things

down and settle the check but according to this police report, it all ends with aaron hernandez sucker punching the manager on the left side of his head bursting an eardrum. the manager later tells police, university of florida coaches and lawyers have contacted him. and they're working on an agreement. said they're not aware of any settlement. five months later in september, there's more trouble. this time, a shooting near the universi university. the police report several u.s. football players including hernandez. >> we know hernandez was there. trouble. it was loud.

into this car, his name is cory and doesn't want his face shown for fear of ret by bugs. >> where it was. >> moments after leaving the club, someone fires into cory's crown vick, hitting him in the head. >> can you tell me and show me where is it that that bullet went? it came right about there. >> i can't imagine what he would have felt that night. >> cory's aunt stephanie remembers he nearly died. >> his heart stopped a couple of times. >> i was in rehab and they helped me to walk again, talk again. >> police interview more than 20 people and they try to question hernandez, but he's the only one who doesn't make a statement after invoking his right to counsel. at the time, his mother, terry hernandez, tells the orlando sentinel, i know he was at the club but he never saw any

shooting. it's still on open case. both cory and aunt stephanie try to get to the truth for seven years. you've done a lot to try to get to the heart of what happened. what about going to the university of florida? >> i tried it. i was just told that they would put the guys on curfew is that they could, i guess, lessen their activities. in clubs and things of that nature. i would have liked to have seen some more in depth questioning of those football players. >> citing privacy laws, the university of florida won't discuss specifics of how players are disciplined. was hernandez on a slippery slope? he was tearing up the field as a gator but some who knew him were

worried. especially when he was unsupervised away from the game. if you could keep him on one side, he'd be fine, one source put it. problem was, he couldn't stay away from the other side adding, it was a recipe for disaster. and it was a recipe that included marijuana. hernandez was suspended at least once for using the drug and an issue that follows him the draft for junior year. >> teams spend a lot of time on background checks, hiring private investigators to be sure this is somebody who will enter the nfl and stay out of trouble. >> 13 years. >> former patriot running back kevin falk said the checks are thorough and intensive. >> and how far back do they go? >> if you've done something in middle school, they're going to go back and find somebody who was in that time and ask them. >> try to head off trouble before the draft, hernandez goes

on the offensive, writing a letter to the patriots director of personnel. if you draft me as a member of the new england patriots, he wrote, i will willfully submit to a biweekly drug test throughout my rookie season. >> day three, round four. >> prior to the draft, aaron hernandez was projected as a player that could be a first round pick and no later than a second round pick. >> and now with another selection, they go aaron hernandez. >> he ends up the 113th pick passed over until the fourth round. >> i have to believe that him following so far is more than just the story about marijuana. there were questions raised and background checks about him that caused to say, we're going to downgrade him on our draft board. >> but during his first year with the patriots, he proves himself. >> there are questions that, oh, he's too young to be in the lead and he was able to debunk

those by having a solid season. >> tight end and a receiver body. they could play running back. they could run punts. >> that talent gets the 22-year-old a five-year, $40 million extension. >> you can't come here and act reckless and do your own stuff. you get changed by bill belichick's way. >> what no one knew at the time, one month before he signs that deal, the football player parties at a boston club. that nigh, two young men are shot and killed after leaving that same club by a man driving a silver suv. is there a connection? it is a silver suv, but in the life of aaron hernandez, it's much more. now at t-mobile, get 4 lines for just a $100. with unlimited talk, text, and up to 10gb of 4g lte data,

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it is a silver suv, but in the life of aaron hernandez, it's much more. while searching his cousin's home for clues in odin lloyd's murder, police stumble on a toyota four runner.

it's in a garage and it belongs to a leasing company that loaned it to the patriot tight end in exchange for promotional work. for a year, boston police have been looking for an suv linked to an unsolved double murder. this appears to be it. >> how difficult has this loss been for you, sir, as a father? >> ernesto's son, daniel, was killed in that drive by shooting outside of a boston nightclub. witnesses say two men in a silver suv with rhode island plates pulls alongside the car, shots are fired. funding that suv, and other tips, leads to a stunning discovery. aaron hernandez, seen on security video police say with

another man, following a fight in a club and stalking them in a silver suv after they leave. a year after he is charged with odin lloyd's murder, aaron hernandez is indicted for the murders of those two young men. >> the defendant leaned out of the drivers side window of the suv. the defendant immediately fired at least five rounds from a .38 caliber revolve. >> but why? >> daniel, while dancing near by, accidentally bumped into the defendant, causing the defendant's drink to partially spill. >> the motive, prosecutors say,

is nothing more than a spilled drink by a complete stranger. >> the defendant told his friend he deliberately bumped him and was quote, trying him. and that night, alexander bradley. the same alexander bradley who said hernandez later shot out his right eye because the football player felt disrespected during an argument over a cell phone. all leading to a key question. those do those two violent acts suggest a dangerous pattern of behavior? cnn learned that prosecutors believe that behavior is what led to odin lloyd's murder. the night they were at this club, hernandez gets angry when he sees lloyd talking with two men.

and angry again later at an apartment he rents. it's unclear whether there's another tipping point. possibly, prosecutors say, hernandez was mad at himself for telling lloyd about the double murder. >> motive does not have to be proven under the law. >> jared leoni a former attorney and federal prosecutor. >> juries like motive. juries want to know why someone did something. especially when they've done something that's alleged to have been as heinous as this one. >> the defendant was the one -- >> a motive, no matter how trivial, would make the state's case stronger. prosecutors have already bolstered the case by upgrading the charges against codefendants ortiz and wallace to murder. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> charging of carlos ortiz and ernest wallace for murder will signal the joint venture murder

prosecution where anyone who actively participates in the murder can be held guilty for the murder. >> that would mean hernandez could be convicted of murder even if prosecutors can't prove he fired the gun. but none makes the case rock solid. it still has holes. >> there remains no murder weapon. >> conviction without a gun is more difficult. still ahead -- attorneys argue whether jurors should hear odin lloyd's very last text. >> they are totally and not, or are they?

for odin lloyd's mother, ursula ward, everyday is a struggle. >> hey, handsome. mommy is here to see you again. i love you. i miss you so much, sweetie. i never thought that i'd be talking to my son in the ground, you know. >> reporter: at at every pretrial hearing, she's surrounded by family, hangs on every word. and after 18 months of waiting, the justice that she seeks may finally be around the corner. hernandez' trial is under way. for more than a year, sheriff thomas hudson was charged with

keeping an eye on hernandez. >> i talked at length with this person and there was a warmth. >> reporter: what went wrong? >> learned e behaviors of an environment in which people grow up in have an incredible influence. >> reporter: he says that inmate number 174954 reads the bible. and another book he suggested. i had him read "tuesdays with more ri" and it is how to create a center and meaningful life. >> he was moved by the book, and he told her that she needs to read it. >> reporter: and the sheriff says he needed to find his s center by turning to his childhood anchor, his late dad. >> he never would get back to where he felt comfortable and safe, and that is only if you go back to talk to your father, and

go back to your cell and talk to your father. >> reporter: what did he think about that advice? >> i would ask him, have you done what i asked you? and he would say, i'm getting the there. >> it is not as bad mou that i'm not playing. >> reporter: retire running back kevin faulk is not giving up on his former teammate. >> i want him to know that not everybody is giving up on him. >> reporter: he is accused of executing someone. >> you won't make me believe that he is a monster, because you use those type of words. >> reporter: not even two more murder charged in the so-called spilled drink case change faulk's opinion of the man he knows. >> if you want me to say, did he do it? did he do it? i don't know. but at the same time anybody can be pushed to do something

drastic like that if they push you to that point. >> reporter: faulk's friend is on trial for the murder of h his friend odin lloyd. the first is to revolve around electronic evidence and data from his cell phone. the lawyers tried but failed to get it exclude predators the trial. why was the defense so intent to get the text thrown out? >> because the text imply at least that aaron hernandez was going to do something to odin lloyd. >> reporter: among the text evidence that will be blocked from trial, the message odin lloyd sends his sister minutes before his death. saying that he is with nfl just so you know. >> totally h -- innocuous message. it does not indicate fear or cry

for help. >> the court find has the commonwealth has not found the burden by a prepond raps the evidence that the victim was under threat of imminent death. >> reporter: the jury won't hear it. the jury also won't hear alexander bradley's claim that aaron hernandez shot him in the face. or any information about the boston double murders. those rulingsing major victories for the defense. among the people who may testify, patriot coach bill belichick, owner robert kraft and hernandez' college teammate miami dolphin center mike pouncey. >> all rise for the jury. >> reporter: as the trial gets under way, the lawyers for hernandez insist has the client is innocent. >> aaron hernandez did not

murder his friend odin lloyd. >> reporter: in the opening statements they cut the chase, asking what so many fans of the former patriot have been trying to figure out. >> why would aaron hernandez do this? aaron hernandez had the world at his feet. he had a long-term professional football contract. he had a girlfriend with whom they had started talking about wedding plans. he was the father to a 7-month-old baby girl. he was planning a future, and not a murder. >> reporter: hernandez' attorneys and mother declined a request for interviews. >> i think that odds are that hern h dez will be convicted, but it is not a slam dunk case. there is still no gun. >> eternal rest grant unto him. >> reporter: days away from what would have been odin lloyd's

23rd birthday, family and friends gather at his headstone. >> i don't know if he can hear me right now. he was the love of my life. >> in loving memory of odin lloyd, our son, our brother, amen. >> reporter: can you still talk to him? >> yeah. >> reporter: what do you say? >> i miss him. i love him. i miss him. >> no matter what the outcome is, we still lose at the end of the day, even if you get justice rarely do you come out a winner. i don't think so. >> reporter: do you think that there is a chance that aaron hernandez may be foundt not guilty? >> that is my biggest fear. all it takes is one juror. >> we love you, odin.

>> we love you, odin. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the following is a cnn special report. 911, what are you reporting? >> this is ojc, i have o.j. on the run. >> the los angeles police department right now is searching for mr. simpson. >> and on the edge. >> he is still alive with a gun to his head. >> was that gun loaded? >> oh, yeah, a real gun, real bullets. >> and real drama. >> they are going through orange county. >> news helicopters hovering above as the bronco drives past stunned onlookers. >> people were