Bisexual twist in Hernandez murder, suicide
Secret sex life in Hernandez slay-suicide saga
GRID STAR MAY HAVE KILLED PAL TO HIDE SECRET SEX LIFE REPORT: HE LEFT FAREWELL NOTE FOR PRISON LOVER
THE SECRET bisexuality of Aaron Hernandez emerged Friday as a possible motive for murder as the family of the disgraced ex-Patriots star won a court battle to preserve evidence in his prison suicide.
The 27-year-old former NFLer, the father of a 4-year-old daughter, was a bisexual man who penned a suicide note to his prison boyfriend before hanging himself in a Massachusetts jail cell earlier this week, Newsweek reported.
In another jolting revelation, the magazine also reported that Hernandez was locked up because of a murder that may have been motivated by a desire to keep his sexuality a secret.
Hernandez’s sexual ambiguity was known to his pal Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of the football star’s fianceé, multiple law enforcement sources told Newsweek.
The 6-foot-1, 245-pound Hernandez may have murdered Lloyd to ensure that he wouldn’t be outed to his bride-to-be, the magazine said.
Hernandez was allegedly involved with a male high school classmate, and he moved a large sum of money into an account for the man before his arrest in the Lloyd killing, according to the report.
The suicide note to his jailhouse lover was left alongside an open Bible with missives to his fianceé and their daughter — an open admission of his bisexual orientation just before his death.
Lloyd’s mother, speaking Friday to reporters, said the suicide delivered a fresh jolt of pain four years after her son’s slaying.
“I lost my son, the love of my life,” said Ursula Ward. “I’ll never see him again.”
Ward’s attorney, Doug Sheff, issued what he called “a friendly challenge” to the NFL players union and the Patriots to release any money still owed to Hernandez.
Ursula Ward filed a wrongful death suit against Hernandez for her son’s killing. Hernandez had signed a seven-year, $40 million contract with Patriots shortly before the murder.
Sheff, asked if the Hernandez estate had any cash left after legal bills from two murder trials, said he didn’t know the answer.
“Good question,” the lawyer said. “We wonder that ourselves.”
The estate also includes the late athlete’s $1.3 million property.
The reports about Hernandez’s sexuality came as Bristol Superior Court Judge Thomas McGuire granted a request from the former tight end’s girlfriend to preserve certain evidence linked to his death.
Although the hanging was officially ruled a suicide, the family hopes to conduct an independent probe of the circumstances around the death.
McGuire approved the preservation of video recordings of Hernandez’s prison cell prior to his death, recordings of phone calls from the 30 days before the suicide and all his writings — including the three notes he left behind.
Hernandez was serving a life sentence at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., for Lloyd’s murder.
He was found dead around 3 a.m. Wednesday, and one of the correction officers admitted that he skipped the 2 a.m. cell check that night. The unidentified officer was likely to catch a 30-day suspension.
The Hernandez suicide came hours before the Patriots visited the White House to celebrate their latest Super Bowl win. It also came just five days after Hernandez beat the rap in a double homicide prosecution.