tonight a ron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star racing toward greatness. >> if it is to be, it is up to me, basically saying my life is in my hands and it's up to me to make it out that way. >> the question now what sort of life did the ex-patriot make for himself? >> he wanted to be the best. >> you he's accused of the worst. >> why would a highly successful

c copulent football player be a murderer? >> as the nfl struggles to deal with issues of abuse and violence, hernandez goes on trial for murder. what will his jury hear? who might they hear from? and how could it all end? do you think there's a chance that aaron hernandez may be found not guilty? >> that's my biggest fear. >> downward spiral, inside the case against aaron hernandez. it will be unlike anything 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, of course we'll 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. >> on its face, totally innocuous message. >> and even the trial's location. >> your honor, the defendant aaron hernandez seeks a change of venue. >> it's now been 18 months since the murder 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 adrenalin's flowing. >> one, two, three! >> hard work! >> a block down and a pull. >> 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 like right up on my car. i'm like who is pulling right in front of my car? >> in the driver's seat, bandit defensive end 27-year-old odin lloyd. >> i see a smile, coach? >> branch thinks it's odd because lloyd doesn't own a car. >> i'm like, whose car is this? >> branch has his suspicions 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. >> he said he was at the club with mr. hernandez, and that they were partying, and 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, daryl hodge and daryl sweet say their friend wasn't normally a big partier. they know a different side of him. the friend they describe was passionate about football. >> whistle blows, he's coming full throttle. >> and family. >> definitely always took care of his mother and sisters. >> my brother and i were kind of like, i wouldn't say best friends, but you know, as close as siblings can get. >> in and out. you know what i'm talking about? >> 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 you realize we're not going to the nfl, this is just going to be for fun. what i got to do is start preparing myself for life. >> says lloyd was doing landscaping while figuring out what next.

>> i spoke to him about taking firefighter tests. >> lloyd also began dating college student shaniya jenkins. she's the link between the young man who dreamed of the nfl and the all-american who made it. what's your understanding of how they met? >> they were dating sisters. >> shaniya jenkins is the younger sister of shianna, who is engaged to hernandez and mother of his little girl. how close were the talented tight end and the struggling landscaper? how much do you know that they hung out together? >> really? it's two different worlds. buddy had one world, we got our world. >> i'll check this out with 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 the music playing, jamming to the music and stuff, we're laughing and talking, and odin driving, got the one hand type driving. he's just having fun. later we went to my mom's house, he was playing pool. >> over the table, over the ball. >> i've seen odin make one of the most spectacular shots i've ever seen. >> you have no chance in hell. oh! >> it was a good day. >> oh, it was a great day. >> you got that? i hope you all 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 him to hang out. >> a text from hernandez. >> he had a text, alluded to, let's have another great night. >> i take it there was a part of you, you got to go to work the next day -- >> go home.

it's already like 9:00, 9:00ish. >> when you left each other what do you remember saying to him? >> i'm going to see you later. >> little did he know there would be no later. the next night, monday night, june 17th, 5:30 p.m., lloyd's body is discovered by a jogger in south attleborough, 35 miles south of where he lives. investigators find odin's wallet, driver's license and five .45 caliber shot casings. he was first shot in the back april finished off as he was lying face up in this is he cruded area of an industrial park. daryl hodge learns of the murder from lloyd's sister, olivia who called him. >> i could hear him. >> did she say he's dad? >> in between the cries and the

bawls, she said he's dead. i got to the house, got inside. >> you saw him mom. >> yes. >> what did she say? >> daryl, who killed my son. what do you say to that? i immediately fell to my knees, gave her a hug, wrapped my head around her hip. i was like mom, i don't know. i was like, i don't know. >> that night was tough for daryl sweet who was also at lloyd's home. >> i just went back and sat in my car. hold on. >> what were the questions in your head? >> who was he with. i didn't know who he possibly could have been with until i got the news about shakila's text. >> shakila is lloyd's youngest sister. she had seen him picked up from

the house and driven away earlier that night. just before lloyd dies police say he sends shakila chilling text messages, at 3:07 lloyd sks "you saw who i'm with?" at 3:11, he checks in again, texting "hello?" 3:19, shakila answers "my phone was dead. who was that?" 3:22 a.m., lloyd answers "nfl." a minute later, at 3:23 a.m., lloyd sends his very last text. "just so you know." >> it was something is going down. >> but what was going down, and why? still ahead, will a jury ever see that final text? not if the defense can help it. >> these messages do not suggest

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police quickly find their first pieces of evidence, distinctive tire tracks, lloyd's cell phone, and keys for that black suburban he'd been driving all weekend. police quickly learn it was rented by new england patriot 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, first-degree premeditated murder and having illegal weapons. his plea? >> not guilty. >> 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 reaches the courthouse. >> mr. hernandez is charged with a very serious crime, but that shouldn't be enough to hold him without bail. >> and he's staying in jail. his attempts at bail denied. >> i think the commonwealth presented a case that is circumstantial to be sure, but very strong. ve very. >> hours after his arrest, the public hears those details for the first time.>> hours aft public hears those details for the first time. 9:02 p.m., father's day, june 16th. >> the defendant had sent a text message to his friend who is out of state, please make it back. >> that friend is ernest wallace in hernandez's hometown of bristol, connecticut, more than 100 mules away. at 9:35, hernandez texts him again. "get your ass up here."

wallace is joined by carlos ortiz. both have criminal records. about the same time, hernandez is also texting lloyd. "i'm coming to grab that tonight. are 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 replies "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 he's upset, that he can't trust anyone anymore.

the three departed the home in the morning. >> he is on camera at this gas station. he gets blue bubble gum and rolling papers for marijuana. >> about 20 minutes later, 2:32 a.m., a camera captures the same altima pulling 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 industrial park picks up the

altima as it heads to a secluded area. it is now 3:23 and odin lloyd send his sister that final text, telling her he's with "nfl" adding "just so you know." between 3:23 and 3:27, workers nearby tell police 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' driveway. only three people get out. odin lloyd isn't one of them. >> the defendant goes walking through the house -- >> back inside the house, images show wallace, then again with ortiz in a basement doorway with hernandez nearby, and this, hernandez wearing white with a gun in his left hand. police, a law enforcement source says, 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 gets 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 hernandez offers her blue bubble gum. it's the same kind he bought at that gas station, and now it's showing 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, tire impressions taken near the body match the kind of tires on the altima.

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with murder, yet another accusation of gun violence makes headlines. four months before odin lloyd is gunned down, the football player is at tootsie's strip club in miami. ♪ a law enforcement source says hernandez drops about ten grand that night. one of the men he's with, alexander bradley. prosecutors describe him as hernandez's former right-hand man. by morning, bradley is shot in the face, dumped out of a vehicle, and left for dead. still wearing his now blood-soaked vip rest band from the club. police retrieve this bullet fragment from his head, but bradley won't give them any details. >> when the police investigated this incident, alexander bradley didn't point the finger at hernandez. >> that changes when bradley

sues, claiming aaron hernandez cost him his right eye. bradley later tells prosecutors he was shot after hernandez felt disrespected during an argument over a missing cell phone. after bradley is shot, prosecutors say hernandez gets a new right-hand man, earne reas nest wallace. >> he's more commonly known by his nickname which is hobo. >> he has a long criminal history. he sells and uses drugs including the hallucinogen angel dust for pcp. he's not the only one. his sidekick carlos ordeez 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 boatload.

prosecutors say the tight end would give odin lloyd money to buy him marijuana. cnn obtained this photograph of a stack of blunts. 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. >> a combination of those drugs, depending on the long-term use of the drugs and the amount of drugs could cause someone to become violent, could cause someone to become very paranoid, 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. his father and uncle were standout athletes. >> his older droert, d.j., was a sports hero, too. bob montgomery covers high school sports for "the bristol press." >> aaron did track, in addition to football. he also did basketball. he was described in any sport he played as a man playing with children. >> brad mcmillan and andrew regale played basketball with aaron in middle school. >> we were all the same height but he was more athletic. he practiced all the time. >> practiced because his father, dennis, pushed him constantly. >> his father was pretty strict. he told me his father used to

make him shoot 500 shots before he went sometimes to play with his friends. his dad clearly kept him anchored. i saw a closeness with them that i had never seen before. there was something about dennis and aaron, the way they intertwined. it was just, it was magic in my eyes. >> but in a heartbeat, that closeness is gone. >> i was setting in math class with another teammate, phone rang, went to go pick up the phone and then she said you need to go up to the coach's room. coach walks in and he says, dennis has passed away. >> dennis hernandez, aaron's father, his anchor, dies after routine hernia surgery. it hit 16-year-old aaron hard. >> he was just sad. he couldn't stop the tears. >> felt uncomfortable, just to see him so hurt. i felt bad for him. >> that father/son relationship

comes up in conversations with sheriff thomas hodgson, who runs the jail where hernandez was held for a year, before being moved. >> clearly at 16 years old, losing your father, it would be very easy to fall into the lifestyle of following people that don't help you make the best choices. >> one choice he makes is to tattoo some of his dad's advice on his arms. >> it's a quote my father always used to give me, "if it is to be it is up to me" basically saying whatever i want my life to be it's up to me to make it out that way. >> when it comes time to make his college pick, not even his brother, d.j., can get aaron to join him where their dad played, the university of connecticut. >> at first, he wouldn't even talk to me, but there was days he was saying it was our dream to play together, come on, please. >> but aaron stands firm, believing his football career will soar in gator country.

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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. cutting his high school senior year in half, he heads to the university of florida. >> i was kind of just bummed he wasn't going to be on our basketball team. >> in january 2007, he joins the gators and star quarterback tim tebow. by april, still long before the gators season opener there's trouble off the field. the rookie teen loses his cool at this popular offcampus restaurant. there's an argue the between aaron hernandez and the manager 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. university spokesman says they are not aware of any settlement. five months later in september, there's more trouble. this time a shooting near the university. it begins with young men snatching gold neck chains at a local club. there's an argument in the parking lot across the street. police report several uf football players are involved, including hernandez. >> i know hernandez was there. there was trouble. >> the suspected chain snatchers get into this man's car. his name is corey, and doesn't want his face shown for fear of retribution. can you point out roughly where it was? moments after leaving the club, someone fires into corey's crown vic, 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. >> corey's aunt stephanie remembers he nearly died. >> his heart stopped a couple times. >> they had to take half of my skull to get the bullet out. i was in rehab and they helped me to walk again and 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 evoking his right to counsel. at the time his mother, teri hernandez tells "the orlando sentinel" "i know he was at the club but he never saw any shooting." it's still an open case. no one's aever been charged. both corey and his aunt stephanie have been trying to get to the truth for seven

years. you've done a lot 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, so 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. the 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. it's an issue that follows him when he enters the draft his junior year. >> teams spent 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. >> i played 13 years. >> former patriot running back kevin faulk says the checks are thorough and intensive. and how far back do they go? >> if you done something in middle school they're going to go back and find somebody that was around that time and ask them. >> trying 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. >> now another selection they go aaron hernandez. >> he ends up the 113th pick, passed over until the fourth round. >> i have to believe that him falling so far is more than just a story about marijuana, that there were questions raised and background checks about him that caused teams to say we're going to downgrade him on our draft board. >> but during his first year with the patriots, he proves himself. >> there were questions that, oh, he's too young to be in the league, he's not going to be able to get belichick's system. he was able to debunk those by having a solid season. >> tight end in a receiver body, that could play running back, that could return punts, return kicks. >> 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 and act like, act like the way i wanted to act. you get changed by bill belichick's way. >> no one knew at the time, one month before he signs that deal, the football player parties at a boston club. that night, two young men are shot and killed after leaving that same club, by a man driving a silver suv. is there a connection? their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. that's why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday.

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it's 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 4runner. it's in a garage, taken belongs to a leasing company who 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 duff has this loss been for you, sir, as a father?

this -- >> ernesto abreu's son daniel was killed, along with safiro furtado in 2012. witnesses say two men in a silver suv with rhode island plates pulls along abreu's car. shots are fired. finding that suv and other tips leads to a stunning discovery. aaron hernandez, seen on security video, police say, with another man, following abruin furtado into that nightclub and stalking them, in a silver suv, after they leave. almost a year after he's charged with odin lloyd's murder -- >> aaron hernandez, please rise. >> aaron hernandez is indicted for the murders of those two

young men. >> how do you plead to this indictment? >> not guilty. >> the defendant leaned out of the driver's side window of the suv with a loaded revolver in his hand extended out. the defendant immediately fired at least five rounds from a .38 caliber revolver into the victim's car. >> but why? >> daniel dr. abreu, while dancing nearby, 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 that mr. abreu deliberately bumped him and was "trying him." >> court documents identify the friend with hernandez that night as al sand remember brexander b. the same alexander bradley who says 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, do those two violent acts suggest a dangerous pattern of behavior, driven by paranoia? cnn has learned prosecutors believe that behavior is what led to odin lloyd's murder. source with knowledge of the investigation says 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 was 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 is a former massachusetts district 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 was. >> 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. >> not guilty. >> charging of carlos ortiz and ernest wallace for murder signals a joint venture prosecution where anyone who actively participates in the murder can be held guilty for the murder. >> that would mean haar then in dez could be convicted of murder, even if prosecutors can't prove he fired the gun. but none of this makes the case rock solid. it still has holes. >> there remain no, sins no mur weapon. >> conviction without a gun is

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for odin lloyd's mother, ursula ward, every day is a struggle. >> hey, handsome. mama is here to see you again. i love you. i miss you so much, sweetie. i never thought i would be talking to my son in the ground, you know? >> may it please the court -- >> at every pretrial hearing she is surrounded by family. hangs on every word. and after 18 months of waiting, the justice she seeks may finally be around the corner. her nab hernandez's trial is under way. for more than a year, sheriff thomas hodgson was in charge of keeping an eye on hernandez.for

thomas hodgson was in charge of keeping an eye on hernandez. >> i've talked to him at length. there is a warmth within this person. >> what went wrong? >> learned behaviors. and the environment that people grow up in have an incredible influence on who we become. >> sheriff thomas hodgson believes in modifying behavior behind bars. he says inmate number 174954 reads the bible. and another book, he suggested. >> got to read "tuesdays with morrie." >> it examines how to create a centered meaningful life. >> he was clearly moved by the book. he called his mother. told her she needed to read it. >> the sheriff tells hernandez to find his center by turning to his childhood anchor. his late dad. >> he would never be able to get back to that place that you felt comfortable and safe in. that's only going to happen if you go back and talk to your father. go back to your cell and talk to your father. >> what did he think about that advice?

>> when i see him, every so often, did you do what i asked you? "no, but i'm getting there." >> it's not as the bad now that i'm not playing. >> retired patriot running back, kevin faulk isn't giving up on his ex-teammate. >> i want to tell him he has somebody on his side that's praying for him. >> prosecutors are saying that he orchestrated the execution of someone. >> you are not going to make me believe he is a monster. because you used those type of words. >> not even two more murder charges in the so-called spilled drink case have changed faulk's opinion of the player he knew. >> get the question all the time -- you think your boy did it? no, i don't want him to have done it, no. so you want me to say no. no, i don't think he did it. at the same time, anybody can be pushed to do something drastic like that, if they push you to that point.

>> faulk's friend is on trial for the murder of odin lloyd, the first of two murder trials, expected to revolve around electronic evidence, including data from hernandez's cell phone. his lawyers had tried but failed to get it excluded from trial. why was the defense so intent on getting hernandez's texts thrown out? >> because the texts imply at least, that aaron hernandez was going to do something to odin lloyd. >> among the text evidence that will be blocked from trial -- the message odin lloyd sends his sister minutes before his death. saying he's with "nfl, just so you know." >> totally innocuous message. it doesn't suggest. it doesn't indicate fear. it doesn't indicate a cry for help. >> the court finds the commonwealth has not met its

burden by showing with a preponderance of the evidence that the statement was made when the victim was actually under the belief of imminent death. >> the judge rules it's hearsay, and 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 rulings, major victories for the defense. among people who may testify, patriot coach bill belichick, owner robert kraft, and hernandez's college teammate, miami dolphins center, mike pouncey. >> all rise for the jury. >> as the trial gets under way, lawyers for hernandez insist their client is innocent. >> aaron hernandez did not

murder his friend, odin lloyd. >> in opening statements they cut to 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 a father to a 7-month-old baby girl. aaron hernandez was planning a future, not a murder. >> hernandez's attorneys and mother declined our request for interviews. >> i think odds are hernandez will be convicted, but it is not a slam dunk case. there is still no gun. >> give rest, grant unto him -- >> days after what would have been odin lloyd's 28th birthday, family and friends gather at

number 53's headstone. >> i don't know if anything can really hear me right now. he was the love of my life. >> in loving memory of odin lloyd, our son, our brother, amen. >> and you still talk to him? >> yes. >> 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. do you really come out a winner? i don't think so. >> do you think there's a chance that aaron hernandez may be found not guilty? >> that's my biggest fear. because all it takes is one juror. >> we love you odin.

♪ good evening. i'm anderson cooper. tonight a murder that's gone unsolved for more than half a century. a south texas beauty queen sexually assaulted, killed shortly after going to confession. suspicion turned to the priest but nothing stuck. police, though, they never gave up. so, now, 53 years later, evidence points only to the man who heard irene garza's final confession, the man they still suspect took her life. cnn's gary tuchman has the remarkable story. >> she had beautiful, shiny hair. she had this natural