him. jurors and the defendant traveled off site this morning to see the bullet-riddled watertown boat he was captured in. and a controversial mega church pastor near atlanta is praying followers will bless him with about $65 million in donations to buy a private jet. dollar made the plea in a nearly six-minute-long video posted online. and that has since been taken down. anderson? >> wow. he could fly commercial. amara, thanks very much. inside the case against aaron hernandez starts now. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. tonight, aaron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star, racing toward greatness. >> what's the meaning on your forearm? >> it is up to me. basically saying my life is in my hands. whatever i want my life to be.

it's up to me to make it up that way. >> the question now, what sort of life did the ex-patriot make for himself? >> he wanted to be the best. >> but he's accused of the worst. >> not guilty. >> aaron hernandez, on trial for murder. >> this portion of the trigger guard here -- >> what's this jury hearing? >> in my opinion, the firearm shown in the video still is a glock pistol. >> what are they seeing? and how will they decide? >> aaron hernandez is an innocent man. >> do you think there's a chance that aaron hernandez may be found not guilty? >> downward spiral, inside the case against aaron hernandez. it's a springtime saturday in new england patriot country. a perfect day for football. >> you wake up, and you go to

work. >> a block down -- >> mike branch coaches the boston bandits, a semi-pro team. he remembers another day just like this. >> come on! >> june 15th, 2013. something seemed out of place. >> a black suburban pulls right in front of my car. i'm like, who's pulling in front of my car? >> in the driver's seat, bandit defensive end 27-year-old odin lloyd. >> then i see a smile. >> 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. >> odin said he was at the club with hernandez. and they were partying, and he had a good time.

>> 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. >> oden lloyd's best buddies, darrell hodge and darrell sweet say their friend wasn't normally a big partier. they know a different side of him. the friend they described was passionate about football. >> whistle blows, he's coming full throttle. >> and family. >> definitely always took care of his mom 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! >> 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 you're not going to the nfl. this is just going to be for fun. what i've got to do is stop and prepare myself for lloyd. >> he said 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 cheyennea, who is engaged to hernandez and mother of his little girl. but how close were the talented tight end and the struggling landscaper? how much do you know that they hung out together? >> really, just two different worlds.

he got one world, we got our world. >> on sunday, june 16th, father's day 2013, odin lloyd is cruising with his friends in that mysterious black suburban. >> we were jamming to the music, laughing, talking. odin driving, got the one hand type driving, like he's just having fun. later we went to my aunt's house. he was playing pool. i see him make one of the most spectacular shots i've ever seen. >> it was a good day? >> oh, it was a great day. >> i hope you got that on video. >> 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 that, let's have another great night. >> i take it there was a part of you that, you've got to go to work the next day -- >> go home. it's already like 9, 9-ish. >> so when you left each other, what do you remember saying to him? >> i'll 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 at eor boro, 35 miles south of where he lives. here at the crime scene, investigators find odin lloyd's wallet, his driver's license and five .45-caliber shell casings. they suspect he was first shot in the back and then finished off as he was lying face-up in this secluded area of an industrial park.

darrell hodge learns of the murder from lloyd's sister, olivia, who calls him. >> i could hear her. >> did she say, he's dead? >> in between the cries, and the bawling, darrell, odin is dead. i said, i'll be there in a minute. i got inside -- >> and you saw his mom. >> yes. >> what did she say? >> darrell, they killed my son. what do you say to that? i immediately fell to my knees, wrapped my arms around her hips and said, i don't know. >> that night was tough for darrell sweet. who was also at lloyd's home. >> i just went back to stand by my car. >> what were the questions in your head? >> who was he with?

you know, who he possibly could have been with until i got the text. >> shaquillea is lloyd's youngest sister. she sees him picked up from their house and driven away in the middle of the night. just before lloyd dies, police say he sends shaquillea chilling text messages. at 3:07 a.m., lloyd asks, you saw who i'm with? at 3:11, he checks in again, texting, hello? 3:19. shaquillea answers, my phone was dead. who was that? 3:22 a.m. lloyd answers, n-f-l. and at 3:23 a.m., lloyd sends his very last text. just so you know.

>> if he was leaving crumbs, something was going down. >> but what was going town, and why? still ahead, will a jury ever see that final text? not if the defense can help it. >> these messages do not suggest fear. the government wants to put how much more sinister cast on them.

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killed his best friend, odin lloyd. >> i should still be lifting with my bro. he should still be telling me to dunk. >> after a jogger finds odin lloyd's bullet-ridden body, they find their first pieces of evidence. distinctive tire tracks, odin's cell phone, and the keys to the black suburban he had been driving all weekend. police quickly learned that it was owned 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's 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. >> and he's staying in jail. his attempts at bail denied. >> i think the commonwealth has presented a case that is circumstantial, to be sure, but very, very strong. >> as aaron hernandez adjusts to life behind bars, charged 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 wrist 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. a man named earnest wallace. >> this defendant is more commonly known by his nickname, which is hobo. >> or bo. 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. 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 first revealed this photograph last year. it's a stack of blunts. prosecutors say lloyd made them with marijuana, 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, 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 orlando brother, 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 as a man playing in any sport as a player. >> he was twice the size of me. the same height, but he was more athletic obviously. 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 working. >> i saw a closeness with them i had never seen before. there was something about dennis and aaron, the way they intertwined, it was magic, in my

eyes. >> but in a heartbeat, that closeness is gone. >> i was sitting in math class with another teammate. the phone rang. d.j. went to pick up the phone. she said, you need to go up to the coach's room. the coach walks in and says, dennis has passed away. >> dennis hernandez, aaron's father, his anchor, dies after routine hernia surgery. it hits 16-year-old aaron hard. >> he was just sad. he couldn't stop the tears. >> felt uncomfortable to see him so hurt. i felt bad for him. >> that father/son relationship comes up in conversations with sheriff thomas hodgeson, who runs the jail where hernandez is being held. >> 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. >> there's a quote my father always used to give me. if it is to be, it is up to me. 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's days he's saying, it's our dream to play together. come on, please. >> but aaron stands firm. believing his football career will soar in gator country. coming up, a promising college career overshadowed by trouble off the field. it's more than a network and the cloud.

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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 that 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 gator season opener, there's trouble off the field. the rookie teen loses his cool at this popular off-campus

restaurant. there's an argument 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. a 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. it was trouble. they was arguing loud. >> the suspected chain snatchers get into this man's car. his name is cory, 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 cory'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. >> cory'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, 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 sent nell i know he was at the club. but he never saw any shooting. it's still an open case. no one's ever been charged. both cory and his aunt stephanie have been trying 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, 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 suspend at least once for using the drug. it was an issue that follows him when he enter the draft his junior year. >> teams spend a lot of time on background checks, hiring private investigators to be sure that this is somebody who will enter the nfl and stay out of trouble. >> former patriot running back kevin faulk says the checks are thorough and intensive. and how far back do they go? >> if you've done something in

middle school, they'll 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. >> 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 a story about marijuana. that there were questions raised in 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 are questions that, oh, he's too young to be in the league, that 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. 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 night, two young men are shot and killed after leaving that same club by a man driving a silver suv. is there a connection? hey mom, you want to live by the lake, right?

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it's a silver suv, but in the life of aaron hernandez, it's much more. in june of 2013, while searching his cousin's home for clues in odin lloyd's murder, police stumble on a toyota 4-runner. it's in a garage, and it 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 difficult has this loss been for you, sir, as a father? >> um -- >> abreu's son daniel was killed in that shooting outside a boston nightclub, along with his friend on july 16th, 2012. witnesses say two men in a silver suv with rhode island plates pulls alongside 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 abreu and fortado into the nightclub and 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 d. abreu, while dancing nearby, accidently bumped into the defendant, causing the defendant's drink to partially spill. >> the motive, prosecutor's say, is nothing more than a spilled

drink by a complete stranger. >> the defendant told his friend that mr. abreu bumped him and was trying him. >> court documents identified the friend with hernandez that night as alexander bradley. 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. at this club, two nights before lloyd is killed, prosecutors say hernandez gets angry when he sees lloyd talking with a group of friends. >> motive does not have to be

proven under the law. >> jerry 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 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 the two men who were with hernandez the night odin lloyd was killed. ernest wallace, and another man, carlos ortiz. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> this will be what's called a 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

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i never thought i would be talking to my son in the ground, you know. >> she attends every pretrial hearing, hangs on every word. and on january 29th, 2015, more than 19 months after her son's murder -- >> ladies and gentlemen, on june 16th of 2013 -- >> -- ursula ward is front and center when aaron hernandez goes on trial. across the aisle, the football player's mom, terry hernandez. >> the commonwealth is going to prove to you that the defendant committed the crime of murder. >> just ask you if you recognize that picture -- >> the state says aaron hernandez's murder plot is in full swing the evening of june 16th, 2013. while partying late sunday night

with his fiancee and friends, he's calling and texting co-defendants carlos ortiz and ernest wallace, someoning them from connecticut to massachusetts. >> the text you're looking at says hurry your -- up. >> at about the same time he's texting lloyd to arrange a meeting. >> i'm coming to grab that tonight. you gun be around. >> lloyd agrees to meet. he types, all right. where? after midnight, cameras show wallace and his side kick carlos ortiz arriving at hernandez's home. when hernandez returns at 1:00 a.m., video shows him inside, walking through his house, with what appears to be a gun. >> in this photo, you begin to see the outline of a firearm.

>> and at 1:12 a.m., the men drive away in a rented nissan altima. at 2:10 a.m., they're heading toward odin lloyd's house when they stop at a gas station. >> he went to buy gum. >> blue cotton candy gum. he said the cigar paper was used to roll marijuana. outside, hernandez is seen pumping his arms in the air, apparently feeling good. about 20 minutes later, right after a black cat crosses the street, odin lloyd's younger sister shaquillea sees an altima pull up in front of their home. >> just tell us what you saw of that car. >> the car stopped in front of the driveway. >> at that time, did your brother get in the car? >> yes. >> cell towers and a toll booth

camera track the car along the way as it blows through a toll plaza, heading south toward a secluded area of an industrial park. at 3:22 a.m., lloyd's sister gets a final message from him, telling her he's with nfl, just so you know. but the jury never sees or hears that message. >> a text message from the number that you recognize your brother, a text came back to you, yes or no? >> yes. >> the judge bars the details. ruling what lloyd wrote is not proof he thought he was going to die. injure ros do hear from employees working the overnight shift at the industrial park. >> i heard a loud bang, maybe four or five times. i thought it was fireworks.

>> there was about six or eight loud sounds. >> hernandez's home is just a half mile from the murder scene. at 3:29, the altima pulls up in hernandez's driveway. jurors see video of the crime scene, and odin lloyd's bullet-riddled body. a lab scientist shows jurors lloyd's shirt with bullet holes and blood. experts testify that a blunt found near lloyd's body has dna from both lloyd and hernandez. >> so the dna profile came from this item. it's from at least two individuals. >> and an investigator testifies that impressions he made of the altima's tires matched tracks found at the scene. >> can you show the jury the overlay. >> this here --

>> the inside of the car contains prints from all four men. after hernandez returns the rented altima, the afternoon of the murder, the manager on duty makes a startling discovery. >> i found a piece of chewed bubbleicious gum. and i looked up and saw what i thought was a bullet. >> that's the type of gum purchased by hernandez hours earlier. and it's not a bullet she finds, but a shell casing. a ballistics expert testified that casing matches five others found at the murder scene. >> they were fired from the same unknown weapon, 45 caliber ammunition. >> do you have any opinion of the type of weapon that is? >> it's consistent from having been fired from a glock. >> a glock, the type of gun an

employee says hernandez was carrying minutes after the murder. >> in my opinion, the video shows a glock pistol. >> the murder weapon, the one prosecutors say is in hernandez's hand that night has never been found. they suspect it's in a box inside this black trash bag. and that hernandez's fiancee, cheyennea jenkins, got rid of it after getting a coded message from him. she's accused of lying to a grand jury about her actions that day, and has pleaded not guilty. >> ahead, the defense shoots holes in the state's theory of the case. will they raise a reasonable doubt? >> detective elliot picked up the towel. >> nobody measured it, right? >> nobody measured it.

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♪ ♪ >> it's not as bad now that i'm not playing. >> kevin faulk's old teammate, aaron hernandez, is on trial for murder in massachusetts. but this retired new england patriot still has his back. >> i want to tell him that he has somebody on his side that's praying for him. >> prosecutors are saying that he orchestrated the execution of someone. >> you not going to make me believe that he's 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. >> i get the question all the time. you think your boy did it? no, i don't want him to have done it, no. so if you want me to say no, no, i don't think he did it. s 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 getting a solid defense inside court too. >> aaron hernandez is an innocent man. >> hernandez' lawyers win a court battle to keep alexander bradley from testifying hernandez shot out his right eye. they also win a motion barring any mention of his upcoming trial for a boston double murder. but their main contention -- >> the evidence will show the investigation was sloppy and unprofessional. >> what do you recognize that to be? >> during nearly every

cross-examination, his defense attorneys try to raise reasonable doubt by questioning the competence of investigators. >> as an experienced police officer, you understood that there could be dna on that towel, right? >> yes, sir. >> a towel found at the scene was picked up by hand before a rain storm hits. >> nobody measured it, right? >> nobody measured it. >> you eyeballed it, is that what you're telling us? >> that's exactly what i'm telling you. >> and he challenges the way they collected gum and shell casings evidence from a dumpster. >> did sergeant baker climb inside the dumpster? >> yes, he did. >> and he started throwing stuff from the inside of the dumpster into the bed of his pickup truck, right? >> stuff was being handed out and it was being placed. >> has anyone ever taught you to collect evidence that way, sir? >> no. >> the gum and casing were found clumped together inside a piece

of paper. but that's not how they were tested. >> were you ever told when you conducted this testing that the casing had been attached to a piece of chewed blue bubble gum? >> not at the time i did my testing. >> the forensic scientist did find a partial dna match for hernandez on the shell casing, but she never tested the gum. >> would you agree with me, that there is a high likelihood that the dna on the chewed blue chewing gum would be transferred to that shell casing that is attached? >> objection. >> yes, i would agree with that. >> and remember, the glock employee who positively identified an object in hernandez's hand as a glock? hernandez's lawyer did his best to discredit that identification, getting the man to admit he's not an expert at

identifying guns, and that he wanted to help police. >> you knew, did you not, sir, that the prosecution team wanted you to say that in your opinion, the object in aaron hernandez's hand in all those grainy video clips was a handgun, and that it was a glock? >> yes, i believe that they were hoping that i could render that opinion, yes. my belief is that, yes, that would be helpful to the prosecution. >> did it occur to you that it would help the prosecution to try to convict aaron hernandez if you testified that, in your opinion, what was in his hand was a glock? >> yes. >> the defense shows the jury a freeze frame of a glowing object in hernandez's left hand, suggesting it could be an ipad. or possibly a soft pellet gun, displaying one for the jury. >> a glock pistol don't have --

>> no, they do not. >> investigators believe a glock was used to murder odin lloyd, but they never found it. another thing they never found, these sneakers. police photographs them in hernandez' basement in june of 2013. court documents state a shoe impression found near lloyd's body is consistent with these sneakers, but they don't have the shoes. even though the picture was taken during an early search of hernandez's home, investigators didn't take the shoes. >> i think, odds are, hernandez will be convicted, but it is not a slam dunk case. there is still no gun. >> eternal rest 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 heal 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? >> yeah. >> what do you say? >> miss him. love him. 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! ♪

>> murder trial of aaron hernandez is set to resume tomorrow, but we have breaking news on another true crime story. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. robert dufrt charged with murder in l.a. after a microphone caught him confessing to three murders. he's managed to beat the odds before. can he do it again? the lead investigator says he cannot tell the truth. plus, the house mom and the racist rant. my exclusive with the man behind this song. ♪ don't believe me