question is if he can grow enough to win. >> that is going to do it for us. and the next "downward ♪ >> tonight, aaron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star racing toward greatness. >> what's the meaning on your forearm? >> if it is to be, it's up to me. basically saying my life is in mai hands, and whatever i want my life to be, it's up to me to make it out that way. >> the question now, kid he make himself a murderer? >> i plead not guilty. >> what's the evidence? >> in my opinion, the firearm shown in the video is a dplok pistol. >> where is the murder weapon? >> he told me to go downstairs and remove a box from our home.

>> and what will the jury decide? >> he said that he was innocent. >> 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's springtime saturday in new england patriot country. a perfect day for football. >> one, two, three -- >> hard work! >> mike branch coaches the boston bandits, a semi pro team. he remembers another day just like this. june 15th, 2013. something seemed out of place. >> a black suburban pulls up right on my car. i'm like who's pulling right in front of my car?

>> in the driver's seat, bandit defensive end, 27-year-old odin lloyd. >> then i see a smile. >> he thinks it's odd because lloyd doesn't own a car. >> i'm like, who's 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. >> oh, he said he was at the club with mr. 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. odin lloyd's best buddies, darryl 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 mom and his 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 got to do is start preparing myself for life. >> 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 shaneah 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. >> shaneah jenkins is the

younger sister of shayanna, who is engaged to hernandez and the 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? >> rarely. two different worlds. buddy had one world. we got our world. >> 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 the music playing, jamming to the music and stuff. we're laughing, we're talking. odin's 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.

oden made one of the most spectacular shots i've ever seen. >> over the table, over the door. >> it was a good day. >> it was a great day. 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 there was a part of you, i've got to go to work the next day. >> go home. it's already like 9, 9ish. >> so when you guys 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 attleborough, 35 miles south of

where he lived. 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. daryl hodge learns of the murder from lloyd's sister olivia, who calls him. >> i can hear it. >> did she say he's dead? >> in between the crying and balling, daryl, odin's dead. i'll with you in a minute. i got to the house, i got inside. >> and you saw his mom? >> yes. >> what did she say? >> darryl, who killed my son? what do you say to that? i immediately fell to my knees and gave her a hug. i wrapped my head around her hip. i was like, i don't know. i was like, i don't know. >> that night was tough for

darryl 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? who he possibly could have been with until i got the news about shaquillea's text. >> shaquilla is lloyd's youngest sister. she sees him picked up from their house and driven away earlier that night. just before lloyd dies, police say he sends shaquilla 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, shaquilla answers, my phone was dead.

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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 26, 2013, nine days after the murder of odin lloyd, hernandez is arrested. for first-degree premeditated murder, illegal weapon and ammo charges. 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, 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 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. law enforcement said hernandez drops about tenl grand that night. one of the men he's with, alexander bradley. the 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 wristband 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 more commonly known by his nickname. >> wallace has a long criminal history.

prosecutors say he sells and uses drugs, including angel dust or pcp. he's not the only one. sources also say that aaron hernandez also smoked a lot of pot. one said a boat load. 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. >> 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. aaron was our golden boy. he had the family traits, his father and his uncle were stand-out athletes. >> his older brother, dj, was a sports hero too. bob montgomery covers high school sports for the bristol press. >> aaron did track in addition to football and also did basketball. he was ascribed in any sport as a man playing with children. >> brad mcmillan and andrew played basketball with aaron

beginning in middle school. >> he was twice the size of me. we were like the same height, but he was just more athletic obviously. he practiced like 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 magic in my eyes. just ahead, in a heart beat, that closeness is gone. and aaron hernandez changes his game plan.

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♪ as a junior in high school, aaron hernandez is a sports hero. tearing up track and the basketball court. but then the 16-year-old's world crumbles. >> i was sitting in math class with another teammate, phone rang. and the teacher 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. >> 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 hodgson, who runs the jail where hernandez is being held. >> 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 way to college, aaron hernandez takes a pass on his father's school, the university of connecticut, despite pleas from his brother d.j., who plays there. >> at first, he wouldn't even talk to me. but there was days, he said, like, it's our dream to play together. come on, please. >> but aaron stands firm, believing his football career will soar in gator country. in january of 2007, he cuts his high school senior year in half and heads to the university of florida joining star quarterback tim tebow. >> i was bummed he would not be on our basketball team. >> by april, there's trouble off the field. the rookie 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. 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 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. how far back do they go? >> if you've done something in middle school, they will go back and find somebody 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 expected to be a first round pick and no later than a second round pick. >> 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 falling so far is more than just a story about marijuana. 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. >> 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. i might have acted the way i wanted to act but 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?

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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 four-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? >> umm -- >> his son daniel was killed in

that drive-by shooting outside a boston nightclub, along with his friend safiro furtado on july 16th, 2012. witnesses say two men in a silver suv with rhode island plates pulls alongside the 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 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 in 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 resolver into the victims' car. >> but why? >> daniel de abreu bumped into the defendant, causing the defendant's drink to spill. >> the motive, prosecutors say, is nothing more than a spilled drink by a complete stranger. >> the defendant told his friend that mr. de abreu had deliberately bumped him and was, quote, trying him. >> court documents identify 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? being able to explain hernandez's behavior that night could help prosecutors at trial. eight months into the case, prosecutors bolster it by upgrading charges against the two men with hernandez the night lloyd is killed. earnest wallace and another man, carlos ortiz. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> 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 he fired the gun. ahead, videotape, tire tracks, gun shells. but no gun.

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for odin lloyd's mother, ursula ward, every day is a struggle. >> hey, handsome, mommy is here to see you again. love you. miss so you much, sweetie. i never thought i'd 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.

>> going to prove to you that the defendant is guilty of the crime of murder. ut >> the state says hernandez's murder plot is in full swing, as he gets high and goes to get drinks on the evening of june 16th. 2013. >> aaron. eddie. >> while partying with his fiance and friends, aaron hernandez is calling and texting co-defendants carlos ortiz and ernest wallace. summoning them from connecticut to massachusetts. >> this is a text you're looking at. >> it says, hurry your ass up. >> at about the same time, he's texting lloyd to arrange a meeting. >> i'm coming to grab that tonight. you going to be around? >> lloyd agrees to meet. he types, all right. where? after midnight, cameras show

wallace and his sidekick 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 towards odin lloyd's house when they stop at a gas station. >> he went to buy guns. >> blue cotton candy gum. outside, hernandez is seen pumping his arms in the air. apparently feeling good. about 20 minutes later, right after a black cat walks nearby,

lloyd's younger sister sees the car pull up in front of her home. >> what did you see? >> 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 as it travels towards 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. the judge bars the details, ruling what lloyd wrote is not proof he thought he was going to die. as lloyd sends that message, headlights in the upper left of this video can be seen pulling into the unlit section of the industrial park where odin lloyd is murdered.

prosecutors say it's the altima. for the next three minutes and 40 seconds, there is no movement on screen. then headlights reemerge. the time in between, prosecutors say, is when lloyd is shot dead. around that same time, employees working the overnight shift at the industrial park are jolted. >> i heard a loud bang. maybe four or five times. i thought it was fireworks. >> it was 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 this video of the crime scene. odin lloyd's bullet-riddled body. a lab scientist shows jurors lloyd's shirt with bullet holes and blood.

and an investigator testifies that impressions he made of the altima's tires match tracks found at the scene. >> can you show the jury the overlays? >> and prosecutors say this shoe print found near lloyd's body was made by aaron hernandez. >> my opinion was that it was consistent with 11 air jordan, size 13. >> this is the air jordan. >> a nike consultant testifies, that's the kind of sneaker hernandez had on the night lloyd was killed. 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 blue bubblelicious gum and then

the seat forward, i 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 capable of chambering .45 auto caliber ammunition. >> did you have an opinion as to the type of weapon that it was? >> it's consistent with having been fired from a glock. >> a glock. that's the type of gun a glock employee said hernandez is carrying when he returns home minutes after the murder. >> in my opinion, the firearm shown in the video stills is 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 bag. that's shayanna jenkins, hernandez's fiance. she testifies she doesn't know what's in the box and that she gets rid of it after hernandez called her and asked her to ditch it. >> what did you do with it? >> i disposed of it. >> when you say you disposed of it, where did you dispose of it? >> in a dumpster. >> and where was the dumpster? >> i don't know. >> jenkins suggests she can't remember because of the stress she was under. dealing with hernandez and with her sister whose boyfriend lloyd had just been murdered. the prosecution then surprises jurors with an unexpected famous witness. >> he said he was not involved, that he was innocent. >> patriots owner robert kraft meets privately with hernandez two days after lloyd's murder. kraft testifies his star tight

end claims he had an alibi and suggests his football player knew what time odin lloyd was killed long before the public did. >> what did he say about wanting, hoping for the time of the homicide to be revealed? >> my recollection is that he said that he hoped that the time of the event came out because he was in the club. >> back then, lloyd's time of death had not been announced. if hernandez knew the time of the murder, wouldn't he have to know something that had not been made public? why would hernandez kill odin lloyd? prosecutors suggest the motive was some sort of falling out between hernandez and lloyd two nights earlier when the men were at a boston club.

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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 neej pay -- new england patriot still has his back. >> i wanted to tell him that he has somebody on his side that is praying for him. >> and not even two more murder charges in the so-called spilled drink case have changed faulk's opinion of what he knew. >> i get the question all of the time, do you think that your boy did it? i say no, because i don't want to think that he did it. >> faulk's friend is getting a solid defense inside of court, too. >> aaron hernandez is an innocent man. >> hernandez's lawyers win a court battle to keep alexander bradley to keep from testifying that hernandez shot out his right eye, and they win the motion barring any mention

of his upcoming trial for a boston double murder, but the main contention of hernandez' lawyers -- >> the evidence will show the investigation was sloppy and unprofessional. >> during nearly every cross-examination, his lawyers 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 p towel, right? >> yes, sir. >> a towel found at the scene was picked up by hand. >> nobody measured it, right? >> nobody measured it. >> you eyeballed it? >> that's what i'm telling you, yes. >> he challenges the way they collected gum and shell casing evidence from a dumpster. >> did sergeant baker climb inside the bakeer? >> yes, he did. >> okay. 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 sh >> not at the time i did any testing. >> she did find a partial dna match for hernandez's dna on the shell casing. but the defense argues it got there from 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. >> overruled. >> yes, i would agree with that. >> and remember the glock employee who said hernandez is holding a glock in his hand? 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. >> did it occur to you that it would help the prosecution try to convict aaron hernandez if you testified that, in your opinion, what was in his hand was a glock? >> yes. >> the defense later gets an i.t. expert to play a different portion of the video, why the item in hernandez's hand appears to be an ipad, not a glock. investigators believe a glock was used to murder odin lloyd. but they've never found it.

or these sneakers, photographed but not seized by police in hernandez's basement in june of 2013. prosecutors believe the ones in the middle are the air jordans hernandez was wearing, the sneaker that made this print near lloyd's body. but the defense gets the investigator to admit he can't prove a key point. >> sir, you can't tell us if aaron hernandez made that impression, can you? >> no. >> the defense also chips away at the prosecution's contention that the murder weapon was in this trash bag, and that hernandez told his fiance to get rid of it. >> as you were taking that box out, did you smell anything? >> i did. >> what did you recognize that smell to be? >> marijuana. >> the defense also attacks what prosecutors hint is the motive

for murder. some sort of fallout between lloyd and hernandez two days earlier. defense attorney michael fee hammers this witness, who describes hernandez as very angry at a nightclub. >> how much time have you spent with aaron? >> i've never met him before. >> so you're not familiar with aaron's expressions, what he does with his face, are you? >> i'm familiar with human expressions. >> how were they acting? >> and the defense tries to shift blame to co-defendants ernest wallace and carlos ortiz, suggesting they were high on pcp the night of the murder. this witness says the men she knows as bo and charlie boy use angel dust making them sweat and act crazy. >> they were just real jittery, sweaty. >> my opinion is that pcp can cause psycho cyst. and on some occasions, violent

or aggressive behavior. >> did he make all the right choices? no. >> in closing statements, hernandez's lawyer admits his client may have helped cover up a murder, but insists he did not commit it. >> he was a 23-year-old kid who had witnessed something, committed by somebody he knew. he really didn't know what to do, so he just put one foot in front of the other. keep in mind, he's not charged for being an accessory after the fact. he's charged with murder, and that he did not do. >> i think odds are, hernandez will be convicted. but it is not a slam dunk case. there is still no gun. >> we will soon know what the jurors think. they got the case tuesday afternoon.

odin lloyd's 28th birthday, family and friends gather at number 53's headstone. >> i don't think anything can really heal me right now. >> in loving memory of odin lloyd, our son, our brother, amen. >> and you still talk to him? >> yeah. >> what do you say? >> i miss hit, i 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! -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com shot in the back. the shocking moment a police officer killed a man who was running away. it was one of the most sophisticated security breaches ever, and it happened inside the white house. who did it and how they got in. and rand paul is officially running. we will look at his chances for a presidential bid in 2016. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. this is cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us, everyone. in the wake