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. >> if it is, to 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 out that way. >> and what did he make his life out to be? 12 massachusetts jurors 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 the adrenaline is flowing. >> one, two, three. >> hard work. >> go. >>a mike branch coaches the boston bandits a semipro team. he remembers another day just like this. >> come on! >> june 15th, 2013. something seemed out of place. >> a black suburban pulls up right on my car. i'm like who is pulling right in front of my car? >> in the driver seat, bandit defensive end, 27-year-old oweden lloyd. >> then i see a smile. coach. >> branch thinks it's oud 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 club the night before. >> oh, he said he was at the club with mr. hernandez. and they were partying. and that he had a good time. >> mr. hernandez is aaron hernandez, a $40 million rising star with the new england patriots. oweden 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 is coming at full throttle. >> and family. >> definitely always took ircalf 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

sibling can get. >> in and out, 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 we realized we are not going to the nfl, this is just going to be for fun. what do i got do to 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 sledge student shania jenkins. she is the link between the young man who dreamed of the nfl and the all american who made night what's your understanding of how they met? >> they were dating sisters. >> shania is the youngercity sister of shayana, 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? >> rarely. it's two different worlds. buddy had one world and we got our world. >> i'm just checking out my new camera. >> on sunday, june 16th, father's day 2013, oweden lloyd is cruising with his friends in that mysterious black suburban. >> we had the music playing. we were jamming to the music and stuff. we're laughing. we're talking. and oweden, driving the one hand type driving. we're having fun. later we went to my mom's house and we were playing pool. >> over the table. >> i seen one of the most spectacular shots i ever seen. >> you have no chance in hell. >> 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 just let's have another great night. >> i take it there was a part of you that thought, man, you've got to go to work the next day -- >> go home. yes. it's already like 9:00, 9:00ish. >> what 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 in north ate borrow, 35 miles south of where he lives. >> here at the crime scene, investigators find oweden's waltz, 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 found face up in this industrial park. >> darryl hodge learns of the murder from lloyd's sister, olivia, who calls him. >> i could hear her. >> she say, he's dead. >> in between the cries and the balling, darryl, oweden is dead. i was like olivia, i'll be there in a minute. i got to the house. i got inside. >> and you saw his mom? >> yeah. >> what did she say? >> darryl, who killed my son. what do you say to that? i immediately fell to my knees. wrapped my arm around her head. 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, sat in my car.

>> what were the questions in your head? >> who was he with? didn't know who he possibly could have been with until i got the news about shkila's text. >> shakila 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 her 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, shakila answers, my phone was dead. who was that? 3:22 a.m., lloyd answers, nfl. and a minute later, at 3:23

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for darryl 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 should still be lifting with my brow. he should still be trying to dunk. >> after a jogger finds odin lloyd's bullet-riddled body, police quickly find their first pieces of evidence. distinctive tire tracks, lloyd's cell phone, and keys for that black suburban he had 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. for first degree premeditated murder, illegal weapon and ammo charges. miss 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 has presented a case that's

circumstantial, to be sure, but very, very strong. >> as aaron hernandez adjusts the life behind bars, charges with murder, yet another accusation of gun violence makes headlines. four months before odin lloyd is gunned down, the football player is at tootsy's strip club in miami. a law enforcement source says hernandez drops about ten grand that night. one of the men he is would, alexander bradley. prosecutors describe him as hernandez's forearm 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. the motive is unclear. after bradley is shot, prosecutors say hernandez gets a new right hand man. a man named earne eest wallace. >> this defendant is more commonly don't by his nickname, which is hobo. >> or bo. wallace has a long criminal history. prosecutors say he sells and uses drugs, including the that louisino jen angel dust or pcp. he's not the only one. source tell cnn aaron hernandez also smoked a lot of pot, one calling ate boatload. >> prosecutors say the tight

ends 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. source 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

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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 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 -- 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 life-style 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. >> that'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. zmooit despite pleas from his brother, d.j., who plays there. >> at first, he wouldn't even talk to me. but there's days he is saying 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. by april, still long before the gator's season opener there's trouble off the field. the rookie teen loses his cool at this popular offcampus restaurant. there is 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 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 suspend 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 are going to go back and find somebody that was around that time. >> day three, round four. >> prior to the draft, aaron hernandez was projected as a player that could be a

first-rounds 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 the story about marijuana, that were there questions raised in backgrounds 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. >> tighten 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

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on july 167th, 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, scene on security video, place say, with another man, following abreu and furtado into that nightclub and stalking him 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 victims' car. >> but why? >> daniel deabreu, while dancing nearby zentally bumped into the defendant, causing the defendant's drink to partially spill. >> the motive, prosecutors say, is nothing more than a spilled trink by a complete stranger. >> the defendant told his friend that mr. deabreu had deliberately bumped and was, quote, trying him. >> authorities identified the friend with hernandez that night as alexander bradley, the man who says hernandez shot out his right eye seven months later. the motive for the bradley shooting now appears clearer. prosecutors say hernandez was trying to shut him up about the boston double murder. >> all leading to a key question. does the boston case, along with the odin lloyd murder, 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 odin lloyd is killed. earnest wallace and another man, corals 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. aaron hernandez's first murder trial begins. i don't want to live with

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ursula ward, every day is a struggle. >> hey handsome. mommy is here to see you again. i love you. i miss you so 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. >> the commonwealth is going to 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 my and leaves to get drinks on the evening of june 16th, 2013. >> shanea. >> okay. >> aaron. eddie. >> while partying with his fiancee and friends, aaron hernandez is calling and texting codefendants carlos ortiz and earnest wallace, summoning them from connecticut to massachusetts. >> this was the text this we were looking at. it hayes, 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 gone 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 are heading toward odin lloyd's house when they stop at a gas station. >> he went to buy gums. >> blue cotton candy gum. outside, hernandez is seen pumping his armn the air, apparently feeling good. about 20 minutes later, right after a black cat walks nearby, odin lloyd's younger sister, sahkila sees an altima pull up in front of their home. >> tell us what you saw. >> 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 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. 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. >> there was about six or eight loud sounds. >> hernandez's home is just a half mile from the murder scene. at 3:29, the at mltima pulls up 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 altima's tires match tracks

found at the scene. >> will you show the jury the overlay. >> this area here. >> and prosecutors say this shoeprint found near lloyd's body was made by aaron hernandez. >> my opinion was that it was consistent with a retro '11 air jordan size 13. >> this is the air jordan low. >> it's testified that that's the kind of sneaker hernandez had on the night lloyd was killed. after hernandez returns the altima the afternoon of the murder the manager on duty makes a startling discovery. >> i found a piece of chewed -- it was like blue bubblitious gun. and i moved the seat forward and 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 chamb chambering .45 caliber al anything. >> did you determine the type of gun. consistent with a glock. >> a glok, that's the type of gun an employee says hernandez is carrying when he returned home minutes after the sloo had in my opinion, the weapon shown in the video stills is a glock pistol. >> the murder weapon has never been found. they suspect it's in a box inside this bag. that's shayanna jenkins,

hernandez's fiancee. she tfd she doesn't know what's in the box and that she gets rid of and after hernandez called her and asked her to ditch night what did you do? >> i disposed of it. >> when you say that you disposed of it, where did you dispose of it? >> in a dumpster. >> and where was the dumpster? >> i don't know. >> jenkins suggestion 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 craft meets privately with hernandez two days after lloyd's murder. craft testifies his star tied 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 between hernandez and lloyd two nights earlier when the men were at a boston club. >> i was ought aaron hernandez storming out of the club. he looked kinds of angry. >> ahid -- >> you are not familiar with

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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. >> 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, do you think your boy did it? no, i don't want him to have done it. no. so, no, i don't think he did it. >> faulk's friend is getting a solid defense inside court, too. >> aaron hernandez is an innocent man snoop hearn's lawyers win a court battle to keep alexander bradley from

testifying hernandez shot out his right eye. they win the motion barring any mention of his upcoming trial for a boston double murder. but a main contention of hernandez'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 would be dna on that well, right? >> yes, sir. >> a well found at the scene was picked up by hand before a rainstorm hits. >> nobody murder it, right? >> nobo-- >> nobody measured it, right. >> nobody measured it. >> you eye bald it, is that what you are telling us. >> we eye bald it yes.

>> did sergeant baker climb inside the bumpster? >> yes, he did. >> okay. and he started throwing stuff from the inside of the dumpster into the befd 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 blubl gum? >> 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, ma'am, 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 to it? >> objection, your honor. >> 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 jamie sultan did his best tois credit that identification getting the man to admit he is 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 where 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 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 fall out 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 never met him before. >> so you are 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. 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 ingestion can cause psychosis. 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 insist he did not commit night 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 with being an accessory after the fachlkt 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. >> 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 master, 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 footprint is in my heart forever. >> aaron hernandez, a former $40 million man, and rising nfl star, will now spend the rest of his life in prison.

up next, a home invasion turns to murder. >> just extreme overkill. crime of passion, crime of rage. >> so much violence and no one with a clear motive. >> as best as law enforcement could establish, she had no enemy. >> that is until police discovered a romance gone horribly wrong. >> you believe it will be a lover or someone who wanted her out of the way so they could be the new lover. >> i don't know if a love triangle can go good. but this one went really bad. ♪ >> avis marie banks, cum laude.