I think he’s a psychopath. And not a bright one. Plenty of children go through tragedies or the loss of a parent and it doesn’t lead them to murder 3 people over a spilled drink in a club. My armchair psychologist belief is that his personality “changed” after his dad died because he may have stopped trying to fake not being a POS. But it wasn’t really a fundamental shift. But I’m just throwing stuff out there.
The one thing I just cannot get over is being so stupid as to drive 40 miles to Dorchester to pick up the victim, then 40 miles back to murder him half a mile from your own house. The arrogance and stupidity are breathtaking.
Don’t know how, but the jurors know he’s already in for life so unencumbered by the potential guilt of allowing a murderer to go free they stuck to the evidence and found reasonable doubt. From what I know the evidence was not air-tight, it relied on statements from witnesses with credibility problems.
From what I remember. This case didn’t even come up until after the Lloyd case, even though it happened a year before. I’d bet it was a pretty thin case from the start and they only moved forward with it after the Lloyd conviction because they thought they could make it work with his notoriety.
Just a quick update… Phillips was potentially eligible for the death penalty following this murder and the prosecutor was considering whether to pursue this, but Phillips fatally hung himself in January 2016.
Sometimes it’s literally brain damage - not necessarily football related. Brain tumors, ven benign ones, can sometimes cause persistent violent behaviour.
I wonder what triggered the timing of the suicide? He was just found not guilty of 2 additional murders. He already had a life sentence for the convictions in the Odin Lloyd murder.
Was just kinda surfing around the web and came across this story from SI about Aaron Hernandez and his older brother DJ, about them growing up together, and how Aaron’s conviction and incarceration impacted his own life.
I saw this thread title, and my first thought was that it was a crass suicide joke. Maybe update the title?
One of his representatives said that Aaron had problems, but he had people who loved him and would never do this. He thinks it was a staged suicide. Although I can’t imagine how if he was alone in his cell, but it’s something that’s been thrown out there.
In an odd way, he may have done it to clear his name.
In Massachusetts, if an appellant dies before their appeal is concluded the results of the original trial and conviction are set aside and sealed (can’t be mentioned AT ALL during a civil trial). The murder convictions of John Salvi and the sexual abuse convictions of John Geoghan were set aside due to their deaths during appeal. In other words: In the eyes of the SJC of Massachusetts, Aaron Hernandez shall forever be considered innocent of the murder of Odin Lloyd.