Everyday people with new ideas and a lot of heart. Maybe you too can be a champion for change im to sanjay gupta. Thanks for watching hernandez you cant come here and act reckless and do your own stuff. You get changed by the patriot way, and now that im a patriot, i have to start living like one and making the right decisions for them. Welcome to how it really happened. Im hill harper. At the beginning of 2013, nfl star Aaron Hernandez is living the american dream. He has a 40million contract with the new England Patriots, a devoted fiancee, and a brandnew baby girl at home. But his seemingly perfect life is shattered when a brutal murder takes place and hernandez is the prime suspect. Could the nfl superstar with everything to lose really be the killer, or was there another explanation . The answer, as it turns out, was far more complicated and tragic than anyone could have imagined. This is how it really happened. A teenage boy is running through an Industrial Park in North Attleborough. He was training for track. As hes running through the park, he sees a body lying faceup riddled with bullets. Man kid came up knocking on the window saying he saw somebody laying down, not moving. My boss and i went down there, and we saw a guy dead there. Man 2 he was not buried. He was just lying there as if he was either dropped there or killed there. It was just a shocking scene. Altimari the body had been shot five times. The police get called in. Cramer hes wearing a Boston Red Sox cap. He also still has his wallet, so right away they know that this is not a robbery. This is something else. Investigators pretty quickly determined who it was, a guy named odin lloyd. Cramer odin lloyd was a 27yearold man Living A Pretty Unassuming life with his mother. He had a girlfriend he was very close to. He was very close to his family. He was a semiprofessional Football Player. Ward i answered the phone, and he says. Are You Ursula Ward . And i said, yes. I said, is my son okay . Sweet theres people i know, people i know that this could have happened to, and it would have been, like, i seen it coming. You know, odin, never seen anything like this happening ever. Hold on. [ sniffles ] he still has his phone, and he also has two sets of keys. They went about trying to figure out who these keys belonged to because there was a body and two sets of keys but no car, and they very quickly were able to track down the keys to a rental car. The car was registered to Aaron Hernandez, so that was like, whoa. You know, whats going on here . Aaron hernandez, the Football Player . Tight end for the patriots . Woman at 23, playing as a tight end, he has a contract reportedly worth 40 million. The guy who played in the super bowl and has his whole career ahead of him . Aaron hernandez was special. Montgomery every once in a while, you get this player, every 10 years, every 20 years, every 25, and aaron was that every25year player. The family is wellknown in bristol. His dad was a highschool star athlete. Willis when aaron and his brother came along, he basically tried to live his Athletic Career through them. He pushed them to be good athletes. That was his dream, and they followed along that path. They adored their father. You know, they were the kinds of kids who did whatever he told them to do. Ragali aarons dad was always at the games, somebody you knew, and he would, like, you know, put his arm around me and, you know, give me advice and everything. Not only did dennis want them to be good athletes, but he wanted them to do well in school, as aaron and d. J. Both did. He wanted them to be, you know, wellrespected people. And then aaron, as it turned out, probably the best of the hernandez clan. Ragali and the fact that he was so big, yet he could still was, like, faster than everybody and just agile was just ridiculous. He didnt spend his time, you know, messing around. He was working hard every day. He was one of the best players that connecticut has ever seen. As a senior, he was the connecticut state player of the year. Broke all kinds of state records. He was clearly talented enough to play College Football. He was heavily recruited. Hernandez half the family is telling me to go here. Half my family is telling me to go to notre dame, michigan, miami. Florida is just, you know, the topfive College Football program, and if you want to exceed expectations and reach the nfl, thats the place to go. I just had heard from a friend that he was going to be leaving school early, and he was going to the University Of Florida. Ragali it was pretty surreal, seeing him on tv, you know, playing with these guys. He won the John Mackey Award after a dominant junior year at the University Of Florida, and that award goes to the nations best collegiate tight end. His future is kind of limitless at this point. Woman a pats fan growing up, hernandez came out of the University Of Florida a year early to enter the draft. The patriots invested in him, giving him a longterm lucrative contract. Its a lifelong dream and still kind of surreal, but ill take it in over the next few days, months, years, and just, its a blessing, and hopefully i make the right decisions with it and have a good life. News of Aaron Hernandez even being questioned in connection with this case was obviously huge. Woman detectives were met with a strange reaction from the former star tight end after discovering odin lloyds body. And that was the wow moment. Woman Aaron Hernandez is keeping a very low profile. Man as investigators search for answers to a mysterious murder. Police sift through the woods for clues, clues that could shed some light on what happened to 27yearold odin lloyd, a victim of homicide found dead in this Industrial Park less than a mile away from the 23yearold star Football Players home. Wilson so when police first found odin lloyds body, they found keys to a car that Aaron Hernandez had rented in his pocket. Cramer so naturally they go to his house to speak with him. And what they find there is a pretty uncooperative person. Woman detectives were met with a strange reaction from the former star tight end after discovering odin lloyds body. Mr. Hernandez became argumentative, the documents read, and asked, whats with all the questions . Police learned that odin lloyd had the keys to the car that hernandez had rented because hernandez had loaned him the car to let him use it. So one of the first questions in the investigation was, how did these two men know each other . Daniel lloyd was dating the sister of hernandezs fiancee. Cramer so odin lloyd and Aaron Hernandez met through the sisters. At the very least, they had a casual friendship. Woman according to police, officers told him it was a death investigation, and, mr. Hernandez quote slammed the door. You would think that he might have some questions or might be a higher level of concern. Cramer news of Aaron Hernandez even being questioned in connection with this case was obviously huge. Man media, neighbors, and tourists flood the streets outside his North Attleborough home. You had probably 25 cameras that were stationed in this nice neighborhood, positioned looking right at his house, just waiting for any type of activity. I think people thought that, hey, maybe this was just some sort of mistake, and this was just some weird connection. Man this is the first time were seeing the new England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez outside his massachusetts home. Wilson the public didnt know exactly why hernandez was being questioned. They did know that a dead body had been found not far from his house. Daniel the biggest piece of information that we had was from a lawenforcement source who told us that hernandez was driving this Nissan Altima that he had rented the night that odin lloyd was killed. Four guys were in this car, including odin lloyd. That car is out for a couple of hours. When it returns to Aaron Hernandezs home, only three guys are in that car, and odin lloyd isnt one of them. That piece of information really got everyone thinking, okay, whats going on here . What happened in this time frame where odin lloyd was with these guys, then All Of A Sudden hes not there . People were very careful, cause he was a member of the revered new England Patriots, not to start making him a criminal or a suspect. No one was thinking he was the murderer. But then another twist. Sometime the next day is when Aaron Hernandez returns the rental car to this Enterprise Dealership near his house. Wilson police learned after talking to the employee at enterprise who had cleaned out the car after hernandez returned it that she had found some items in the car that perhaps were cause for concern, items that the woman at Enterprise Subsequently had thrown in the dumpster. Authorities were able to go dumpster diving. Altimari found the bullet casing. The bullet had traces of Blue Bubblicious gum on it. The shell casing matched the shell casings that were found at the murder scene near odin lloyds body. So the police was piecing together what might have happened. Wilson and then it was one wednesday morning that several police cars came up. A lot of officers, all in business attire, knocked on the door, and hernandez opened the door, did not appear to be expecting them, had just rolled out of bed. They went inside the house, cuffed him. Daniel and within 10 minutes, aarons coming out in that picture, you know, you cant forget, in the white tshirt and the handcuffs behind his back. That was the wow moment. Altimari and he was at the top of the world, really. So to, All Of A Sudden, be a suspect in a murder. [ Camera Shutters clicking ]. I think, for a lot of people, it was pretty surprising. Within hours of his arrest, the patriots released him. Its really a sad day on so many levels. Having someone in your organization thats involved in a Murder Investigation is a terrible thing. After consultation with ownership, we acted swiftly and decisively. Wilson aarons fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins was seen carrying a big, Heavy Trash Bag. Man did he indicate to you what was inside . No. And theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. Cooper the story were following tonight, Aaron Hernandez is being held without bail, charged with firstdegree murder. It wasnt an accessory charge. They were saying, no, aaron is the guy that pulled the trigger. Hes the murderer. Woman hernandez remains here in the county jail, locked up in a cell similar to this one. Aaron hernandez, when he came into our facility, could interact with anybody to a point where you go, hey, i want to go out and grab a beer with this guy. And within a matter of a day, he acclimated and transitioned seamlessly as though it werent a big deal. Police had i. D. ed the other two guys who were in the car with Aaron Hernandez that night, and they were also charged with odin lloyds murder. Carlos ortiz and Ernest Wallace were friends of hernandez. Both these guys had criminal records from various charges back in connecticut where they had met hernandez. That was back in his highschool days when then 16yearold hernandez was hit with this unexpected family tragedy. Hernandez was very close to his father. Montgomery as a father, dennis was the best. There was a special closeness they had. His dad was a Football Player also. Altimari his father had gone into the hospital for a routine surgery. There were complications. He bled to death and shockingly died. Willis and All Of A Sudden, he loses his father who had been his Guiding Light and his mentor and the person he looked up to most. All of a sudden, he was gone. That was the one thing that really impacted his life in a very difficult way. Mcmillan everyone was sad for aaron and d. J and the rest of their family, and it was just heartbreaking. Montgomery its a Pivotal Point in your life, 16. In high school, you need dad there for support and guidance, and he lost that. His mother remarried maybe a year later. You might expect when the father passed away, that she would grow closer to aaron, but they actually began to grow apart. Wilson then hernandez started staying at this cousins house in bristol, and it was there that he met carlos ortiz and Ernest Wallace. Some of his friends were, you know, not guys you want a potential professional Football Player hanging around with. There were some that had been arrested on drug charges. Right now, as his former nfl team prepares to play in the super bowl, Aaron Hernandez goes on trial for murder. Opening statements are scheduled for today. Fee we are here because the police and the prosecutors targeted aaron from the very beginning. As soon as they found out that Aaron Hernandez, the celebrity Football Player, the new england patriot, was a friend of odin lloyds, aaron never had a chance. In june of 2013, Aaron Hernandez had the world at his feet. Aaron hernandez was planning a future, not a murder. Daniel in this day and age, there are Surveillance Cameras everywhere, and that was extremely evident in this trial. Woman investigators say they built their case against hernandez using cellphone tower tracking, text messages, and surveillance tapes at hernandezs home and elsewhere. Wilson the prosecutors strategy was very painstaking, very thorough. They put each piece of the puzzle together for the jury and thread this timeline to prove that hernandez was the one that killed lloyd. Daniel first, aaron texts his two friends to come to his house in North Attleborough. Altimari they were friends from back in the bristol area. It was not unusual for them to come, you know, just spur of the moment. Daniel then he sends odin lloyd a text telling him hes going to come pick him up. Altimari the three of them get into the rental car. Its all on the video from the Security Cameras at his house. They were leaving to go pick up odin lloyd. On the way to pick up lloyd, hernandez had stopped to get gas at a gas station not too far from lloyds house. Hernandez is seen filling up the car. He buys the gum, the same kind of bubblicious gum that was found in the dumpster and on a piece of the bullet. There was a camera that caught a car going down the street, picking odin lloyd up. Woman in the wee hours of the morning, investigators say lloyd was last seen leaving his boston home with hernandez in a silver Nissan Altima. Altimari so they could put lloyd with hernandez within hours of his murder. They also had surveillance from cameras around the Industrial Park. Wilson footage that showed headlights going into the Industrial Park where lloyd was found, but you couldnt identify the car itself from the headlights, but that was where other crimescene evidence came in tire tracks that they found in the Industrial Park where odin lloyds body was found. And through the crimescene analysis, they managed to match those tire tracks to the Nissan Altima that hernandez was driving that night. Altimari and then theres video of the car leaving about four minutes after it had gone into the Industrial Park. And then picks up again when aaron returns home. And thats when you see him walk into his house with wallace and ortiz, no odin lloyd. Evidence that aaron was at the scene is not enough to prove. Mere presence is not enough. In our system, we cannot be convicted of a crime just because you hang with the wrong people or are in the wrong place at the wrong time. So to prove firstdegree murder, prosecutors had to show that hernandez actually participated in the crime, not solely that he was just there, and so they had to introduce evidence that he probably got out of the car. Wilson there was a Marijuana Blunt found close to the victim, and hernandezs dna was identified on that blunt. Cramer the police already had very compelling evidence, but what, ironically, ended up helping them the most was the evidence found inside Aaron Hernandezs home. So through a search warrant, investigators were able to obtain footage from Surveillance