Jenkins-Hernandez, who was engaged to Hernandez at the time of his suicide and shares a daughter with him, said he was "certainly a man to me. There was no behavior that made me think differently. I would have understood. It's not shameful and I don't think anybody should be ashamed of who they are inside, regardless of who they love.
I think it's a beautiful thing, I just wish I was able to tell him that. We'll notify you here with news about. I do tell a lot of true-crime stories, and I played a lot of sports growing up. I understand that this is kind of the second iteration of this project.
I started making this film in , and I self-financed it, so it was really trying to make the best we could with a little bit. And we ended up making a really great film over the course of about a year and a half. And shortly after is when we decided to partner together, and we went right into production on the three-part series.
Why did you leave it out of the first version? By the time it was substantiated, we basically had to finish the film. It was the best we could do with the amount of time and resources we put into it. What was the experience like, going back and reporting that side of the story? And Dennis talks about them having a relationship together. So when that came out, we knew we wanted to get in front of Dennis and have an interview with him.
His dad, Tim SanSoucie, also gave us an interview. So being able to put that into the series was by virtue of being able to interview them and hear their perspectives. Dennis walked us through what it was like to have a closeted relationship with Aaron from middle school all the way up through high school. And then Tim SanSoucie was able to talk about the way he ran his house, why he understands that his son had to keep it quiet. So we kind of had a breakthrough there with that interview, and that kind of gave us the license to talk about that topic.
It must have been difficult to try to add in a discussion of his sexuality, while being careful not to somehow blame his actions on repressed homosexuality. We made sure of that. Our goal was to present all these topics, and all these kinds of themes. And one theme was sexuality in sports. I thought it was interesting because it would be very easy for someone making a different kind of documentary to link those two.
We wanted to present everything, present all the facts, present as many perspectives as people would give us in interviews. It just seems to never end. Whereas a lot of other true-crime stories, they end. This seems to continue to reveal new details and information. A lot of the longer documentaries have to do with crimes that took place a decade, two decades, 50 years ago. Given your experience working in true crime, I was wondering if that presented any challenges?
But as more time passes, things like that become available. The phone calls in prison, you mean? The following year, Hernandez teamed up with fellow tight end and draft pick Rob Gronkowski to spearhead an unstoppable New England offense. Hernandez was rewarded with a five-year contract extension in August Although he was slowed during the subsequent season by an ankle injury, the departure of New England receiver Wes Welker and Gronkowski's health problems left him poised to assume a bigger role with the team in On June 17, , the body of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd was found in an industrial park a mile from Hernandez's mansion in North Attleborough, Massachusetts.
Police quickly traced evidence back to Hernandez, though the NFL star complicated matters by destroying his cell phone and surveillance footage from his home.
On June 26, Hernandez was led from his home in handcuffs and charged with first-degree murder and five firearms violations. The Patriots announced his release less than two hours after his arrest, and Hernandez was soon dropped by corporate sponsors. The arraignment provided details for the motive and evidence: Apparently upset that Lloyd had talked with his enemies during a prior evening out at a Boston nightclub, Hernandez and two friends drove Lloyd around in a rented Nissan Altima before shooting him multiple times at around a.
Surveillance at the industrial park revealed the presence of the Altima at the time of the shooting, while more footage from Hernandez's home showed him arriving with a gun shortly afterward.
In addition, the same. In the meantime, other allegations against Hernandez surfaced. He was accused by a Florida man of discharging a weapon that caused him to lose an eye, and he was being investigated in a drive-by shooting from the previous summer.
Once poised for a prominent NFL career, the talented but troubled athlete instead found himself facing the prospect of life behind bars. In May , Hernandez found himself facing new charges in connection with a drive-by shooting in Boston. Two men, Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, were killed in this incident, which occurred a week before Hernandez began training with the New England Patriots. According to news reports, Abreu and Furtado had been at the same Boston nightclub as Hernandez on the night of the murders.
Hernandez was suspected of targeting them after they left the club, shooting them in their car at a traffic light. One of Abreu and Furtado's passengers was also hit in the attack. A Boston grand jury charged Hernandez with two counts of first-degree murder for the Abreu and Furtado murders. He also faced assault and weapons charges in connection with this case. At the time, his lawyers issued a statement on the Abreu and Furtado case, claiming that the former athlete was "innocent of these charges" and looked "forward to his day in court.
Hernandez went to trial for the killing of Odin Lloyd in January The trial lasted for more than two months.
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