A Massachusetts Judge has unsealed eight documents in the Aaron Hernandez case. The documents were mostly sworn affidavits filed by police in order to obtain various search and seizure orders in the case. While the documents are numerous, media are currently looking into their contents to find the key revelations in the Hernandez case. Some of the highlights include:
– Keys to a rental car in Aaron Hernandez’s name were found in Odin Lloyd’s pocket. This discovery was what lead police to initially question Hernandez.
– Police noted suspicious behaviour from their first interaction with Hernandez, just one day after the body of Odin Lloyd was found less than a mile from his home. When police arrived at Hernandez’s home, he asked them “What’s with all the questions?” When told that they were investigating a death in the area, Hernandez did not ask who had died. And when told that investigators wanted to speak to his attorney, Hernandez went inside, locked the door behind him, and brought out his lawyer’s business card just minutes later. He later refused to answer any questions and again locked himself inside the house, emerging 10 minutes later and going to the Police Station to answer further questions.
– While Hernandez was in their presence, police phoned the number that Lloyd sent text messages to on the night of his death. They found it was Hernandez’s phone.
– Herandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, told police that Lloyd used marijuana and was a marijuana dealer. She also claimed that Lloyd’s phone was always ringing and he was constantly talking in “lingo” that led her to believe the conversations were about marijuana sales.
– While Jenkins was talking to police outside the North Attleborough police station and Hernandez was inside, he phoned her and told her to stop talking to authorities.
– Witnesses at Rumor Nightclub told police that Hernandez and Lloyd were there together at the club on June 14th. They also said that Hernandez appeared to have a gun in his waistband that night.
– Hernandez knew of the missing driver’s side mirror on the rental car, but told a rental agent he did not know how it happened. Police were searching for the mirror when this call was made.
– Police confiscated the following items from Hernandez’s home June 18: An Apple Iphone 5, Blackberry Bold cell phone, one 16 GB Apple Ipad and two Ipad Mini tablets, a digital video recorder and a hard drive.
– Also confiscated in a June 22 search: Three pairs of Nike sneakers, size 13; one long-sleeve shirt, size 3XL; two pairs of blue jeans, size 38; one Sentry Safe containing one box of .22 caliber ammunition; piece of mattress and brown bed skirt; a scale located in the safe; a dish located in the safe; a black duffle bag; wrist watch; bandages from duffle bag; one black Puma jacket and Puma track pants; black T-shirt; rifle ammunition; a boarding receipt for Ernest Wallace.
– Found on Lloyd’s body: a wallet, driver’s license, two sets of keys for a black 2013 Chevrolet Suburban belonging to Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a cell phone and $64.75 in loose cash.
– Police found numerous calls, texts, and other messages the evening of June 14th and morning of June 15th between Hernandez, Lloyd, Ernest Wallace, and Carlos Ortiz. The texts clearly indicate that the parties were meeting up that night and did eventually meet. There are numerous messages up to and after Lloyd’s death.
– A witness helped police determine the likely time of Lloyd’s death as he was sitting in his car (on his overnight break between 3:00am and 3:30 am) when he heard three gunshots approximately 200 m from the crime scene.
– Surveillance video from a camera at a home across the street from Lloyd’s house on Fayston Street in Boston showed Lloyd got into the car with Hernandez, Ortiz and Wallace at 2:33 a.m. Hernandez was the driver.
– Between 3:07 and 3:23 am Lloyd sent text messages to his sister Shaquilla Thobou, indicating he was out with “NFL” and that she was aggravating him with her texts. She indicated that “NFL” was a nickname for Hernandez.
– At 3:27 am Police see Hernandez, Ortiz and Wallace exit a car and enter Hernandez’s home on his surveillance video. Hernandez was the driver.
– An Enterprise Rent-A-Car manager in North Attleborough after the car was returned by Hernandez found, amongst other items, a .45 caliber shell casing found underneath the driver’s seat. Police Ballistic experts determined that the five .45 caliber casings found near Lloyd’s body and the casing found in the returned rental car were fired from the same unknown .45 caliber handgun.
Meanwhile:
– Documents in Florida to obtain warrants in that state indicate that Ortiz has stated that Wallace told him that Hernandez was the person who pulled the trigger in Lloyd’s death.
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