screeners going through the airport. and netflix bringing its total membership to more than 62 still, its stock shot up 12% in after hours trading. anderson. >> thanks very much. the cnn special report downward spiral 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 towards greatness. >> what's the meeting on your farm? >> it is to be, it is up to me. basically saying my life is in my hands and whatever i want my life to be, it's up to me to make it out that way. >> and what did he make his life out to be? 12 massachusetts jurors may

made to decide. was he a bystander or a brutal murderer? after hearing the evidence, finally the answer. >> what say you, madam foreperson? >> 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 -- >> one, two, three. >> hard work! >> a block down in the pool. >> 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 by my car. who is 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. 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 never gets a straight answer. lloyd is busy telling his buddies about the good time he had at a club the night before. >> all he said he was at the club with mr. hernandez and they were partying, 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 darryl 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 comes 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 friend 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 says lloyd was doing landscaping while figuring out what next. i spoke to him about taking firefighter tests. >> lloyd also began dating college student shanae jenkins. she's the link between the man who dreamed about nfl and the all-american who made it. what's your understanding of how they met? >> they are dating sisters.

>> shanae jenkins is the younger city of cheyenna, 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. buddy had one world, we got our world. >> check 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 driving, got with one hand type driving. he just having fun. later, when we went to my aunt's house, he was playing pool. >> through the bar.

>> i've seen odin make one of the most spectacular shots i've ever seen. >> no chance in hell. oh! >> it was a good day. >> it was a great day. >> you got that? >> 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. the. >> the text alluded to, let's have another great night. >> i take it there's a part of you that thought, man, you've got to go to work the next day. >> go home. it's already like 9:00ish. >> when you guys 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, june 17th, 5:37 p.m., lloyd's body is discovered by a jogger 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. >> did she say, he's dead? >> in between the cries and the balling, darrel, odin is dead. i said i'll be there in a minute. i got to the house, i got inside -- >> and you saw his mom? what did she say? >> darrell, who killed my son? what do you say to that? i gave her hug. i wrapped my hand around 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. 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 -- shaquila's text. >> shaquila is lloyd's younger 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 shaquila chilling text messages at 3:07 a.m. lloyd asks you saw who i'm with? at 3:11, he texts again saying hello?. at 3:07 a.m. lloyd asks you saw who i'm with?

at 3:11, he texts again saying hell at 3:07 a.m. lloyd asks you saw who i'm with? at 3:11, he texts again saying hello? 3:19, shequila says my phone was dead, who is that? 3:22:00 a.m. lloyd answers, nfl. a minute later at 3:23 a.m., he sends his very last text. just so you know. >> something was 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 fear. the government wants to put a much more sinister cast on them. look like this.

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for darrell hodge, going to the gym means lifting weights, but he's also carrying one. trying to understand why someone killed his best friend, odin lloyd. >> i started lifting with my bro. he would still be trying to dunk. >> after a jogger finds odin lloyd's bull lit riddled body police find their first piece of evidence. distinctive tire tracks.

a cell phone. and keys for the suburban he was driving all weekend. police learn 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. for first degree premeditated murder, illegal weapon and ammo charges. 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 gets to the courthouse. >> mr. hernandez is charged with

a very serious crime. that shouldn't be enough told him without bail. >> he is staying in jail. his attempts at bail have been denied. >> i think the commonwealth has presented a case that circumstantial, to be sure, but 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, turned out of the vehicle and left for dead. still wearing his 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 ernest wallace. 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 boat load. 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. >> 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 behavior does not describe the aaron hernandez that 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 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 and also did basketball. he was great in any sport he played as a man playing with children. >> brad mcmillan and andrew

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as a junior in high school, aaron hernandez is a sports hero. tearing up the football field. track. and the basketball court. but then the 16-year-old's world crumbles. >> coach walks in, he says, dennis has passed away. >> dennis hernandez, aaron's father, his anchor, dies after

routine hernia surgery. >> he is 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. >> this is a quote my father always used to give me. if it is to be, it is up to me. basically saying mon wharf 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

dj who plays there. >> at first he wouldn't even talk to me, but there's days he's saying it's my dream to play together, come on please. >> 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. 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 suckerpunching the manager on the left side of his head

bursting an ear drum. the manager later tells police university of florida coaches and lawyers have contacted him. and they are 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.

>> former patriot running back kevin faulk says the checks are thorough and intensive. >> if you done something in middle school, they will find somebody that was around that time and ask them. >> 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, 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. 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. >> 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. 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? scott: appears buster's been busy.

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it is a silver suv, but in the life of aaron hernandez, it's much more. in june of 2013, while searching for clues in his cousin's home 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. along with his friend on july 16, 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 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. >> how do you plead to this indictment? >> not guilty. >> the defendant leaned out of the drivers 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, while dancing near by, accidentally bumped into the defendant and caused his 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 he had deliberately bumped him and was 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 two men with hernandez the night odin lloyd is killed. earnest wallace and carlos ortiz. >> this will be 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.

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for odin lloyd's mother, ursula ward, every day is a struggle. >> hi, 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. >> 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 -- >> she is front and center when

aaron hernandez goes on trial. across the aisle, the football player's mom. terry hernandez. >> the commonwealth will prove to you that the defendant committed the crime of murder. >> the state says aaron hernandez's murder plot is in full swing as he gets high and leaves to get drinks on the evening of june 16th, 2013. >> while partying with his fiancee and friends, aaron hernandez is calling and texting co-defendants carlos ortiz and ernest wallace, summoning them from connecticut to massachusetts. >> this was the text that you were looking at. >> it says hurry your ass up. >> 03. >> at about the same time he's texting lloyd to arrange a meeting. >> i'm coming to grab that tonight.

you gon 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 ultima. at 2:10 a.m. they head towards odin lloyd's house while they stop at a gas station. >> he went to buy gum. >> 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 by, odin's older sister sees an ultima 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 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 ultima. for the next three minutes and 40 seconds there is no movement on screen. then headlights re-emerge. 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 about six or eight loud sounds. >> hernandez's home is just a half mile from the murder scene. at 3:29 the ultima 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. and an investigator testifies that impressions he made of the ultima's tires match tracks found at the scene. >> can you show the jury the overlay. >> this area here is the first hole marked. >> prosecutors say this shoe print found near lloyd's body was made by aaron hernandez. >> my opinion was that it was consistent with the retro11 air jordan size 13. >> this is the air jordan 11. >> a nike expert was the that's the kind of sneaker hernandez had on the night lloyd was killed. after hernandez returns the rented ultima the afternoon of

the murder the manager makes a startling discovery. >> i found a piece of blue bubble gum and found what i thought was a bullet. >> that's the type of gum purchased by hernandez hours earlier. 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 caliber ammunition. >> did you have an opinion as to the type of weapon that was? >> it's consistent with having been fired from a glock. >> a glock, a type of gun an employee says 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 in hernandez's hand that night has never been found. they suspect it's in a box inside this bag. >> that's shianna jenkins, h hernandez's fiancee. she testified 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. >> 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 a 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 yet been made public? why would hernandez kill odin lloyd? prosecutors suggest the motive was some sort of falling out

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it's not as bad now that i'm not playing. >> kevin faulk's old teammate, aaron her unanimous dedz, 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. >> 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. do 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. >> aaron hernandez as we sit here today -- >> faulk's friend is getting a solid defense inside court two. >> aaron hernandez is an

innocent man. hernandez's lawyers win a court battle from testifying hernandez shot out his right eye. they win this motion for a boston double murder. but a main contention of hurry unanimous dez's lawyers? >> the evidence will show the investigation was sloppy and unprofessional. >> what do you recognize that to be? >> 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 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, yes. >> and he challenges the way they collected gum and shell casing evidence from a dumpster.

>> did sergeant baker climb inside the dumpster? >> 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 bubblegum? >> not at the time i did my 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 was attached? >> objection, your honor. >>over ruled. >> yes, i would agree with that. >> and remember the glock employee who said hernandez is holding a glock in his hand? hernandez's lawyer, jamie sulton, 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 his in his hand was a glock? >> yes. >> the dmgz laubd gets allege i.t. expert to play a different portion of the video, where the item in hernandez's happened 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 fiancee 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 or 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 codefendants earnest wallace and carlos ortiz, suggesting they were high on pcp the night of the murder. >> either by -- >> 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. sweating. >> my opinion is that pcp and justin can cause psychosis. and some occasions, violent or aggressive behavior. >> did he make all the right choices? no. >> in closing statements, her in an unanimous dez's lawyer admits his client may have helped cover up a murder, but insists he did not commit it. >> he was a 2-year-old kid who witnessed something committed by somebody he didn't know what to do. he didn't know what to do, so he just put one foot in front of the other. keep in mind, he's not charged with being an accessory after the fact. he's charged with murder been and he did not do it. >> i think odds are hernandez will be convicted, but it is not a slam dunk case. there is still no gun. >> jurors got the case on

tuesday, april 7th. more than a week later, a verdict. >> what say you, madam foreperson? >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> guilty of murdering odin lloyd. >> you are sentenced by order of the court as follows. for the term of your natural life without the possibility of parole. >> first and foremost, i would like to thank the heavenly monster. because without him, nothing would be possible in my life and i probably wouldn't get justice today. just like god has left his footprint in the sand, my baby's footprint is in my heart foefr. >> aaron er unanimous dez, a $former $40 million man and rising nfl star will now spend the rest of his life in prison.

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