Aaron Hernandez Suicide

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I find myself wondering if his suicide benefits anyone financially. Since he died before the appeal was heard,it’s apparently the case that his conviction will be vacated. Does that change whether he can get the money he claimed the Patriots owed him? http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/report-patriots-void-remaining-guaranteed-money-due-hernandez/

This is pure SPECULATION on my part, but I wonder if this creates a better argument that Hernandez’s estate should get the money? Maybe he was trying to help his fiancee and child financially.

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^One supposes it benefits the Commonwealth of Massachusetts financially.

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I wonder if he timed his death to coincide with the Patriots visit to the White House today.

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Wasn’t he going to have life in prison anyways for killing some other sports person? I think it’s great he saved the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in prison costs.

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IMO, I don’t think it’s ever appropriate to laugh at someone’s death.

Whatever your feelings about him and what he did (and I do think he was a despicable human being), a mother has lost her son and a little girl has lost her father. In no universe is that “lol” worthy.

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Well as a young person who overuses “lol” I can assure you it’s not any kind of hysterical laugh. In any case, I edited the “lol” out, but I still think that keeping a murderer in prison is not worth taxpayer money.

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I am not convinced it was a suicide. Why would he kill himself right after being found not guilty of a double murder and right after appealing a conviction that could potentially be overturned. After all, why would he have killed Odin Lloyd to cover up a murder he was found not guilty of? Surely, there would be reasonable doubt. It doesn’t make sense for him to have done it now, of all times. I mean, if you can kill yourself right after filing for appeal, why even bother in the first place?

With his deep gang ties both in, and outside of prison, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a hit.

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He had written a bible verse on his forehead, a bible was open to that verse (John 3:16), he was in a single cell and had tried to barricade the door from inside. He may have smoked synthetic marijuana last night. Doesn’t sound like a hit to me but Agatha Christie would be intrigued.

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I can never understand why people who seemingly have so much going for them make decisions that essentially blow up their lives. One would think the good fortune his talent brought him would quell whatever demons he was fighting. At the time he was arrested he was engaged to be married, his first child had just been born and he was under a $40M contract – all good things. What was he thinking???

What a sad waste of a life.

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"people turned a blind eye "
ironic choice of words since he did this too,(allegedly)
http://cbs12.com/news/local/hernandez-suicide-reignites-memories-of-local-incidents

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Reminds me of the old line: “Money doesn’t change you; it makes you more like who you really are”.

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The only thing that makes sense is that maybe he’d been wanting to do this all along . . . but was waiting 'til this trial was over, 'cause he wanted to show his family that he really didn’t do all the things he’d been accused of. Once this case was resolved, and he was acquitted, he was ready to go.

If this was actually a suicide . . . which is not at all certain. How exactly do you write something on your own forehead???

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I think it would be very easy to write on one’s own forehead.

What I don’t get is why he killed Odin Lloyd.

It seems very likely to me that he did kill the two men after the club incident, even though they were able to establish reasonable doubt in the latest trial

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Reports were that he didn’t like that Lloyd was talking at a club, while with Hernandez, to friends of the two murdered men. I think there is little doubt that he killed those two men, in addition to attempting to kill another ‘friend’ in Florida. That man survived. I heard this morning that the families of the two murdered men have filed wrongful death suits against Hernandez’ estate.

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@CaliCash I’m with you. No one can convince me he killed himself.

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How could his cell door have been barricaded from the inside if he didn’t kill himself, unless you don’t believe that the door was barricaded.

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I agree that it was a tragedy. It’s an uncomfortable thought, but in cases of convicted murderers I prefer this outcome to state mandated killing.

Edit to add: I don’t mean to imply I’m comfortable with this outcome; it’s more a reflection of my opposition to state sanctioned killing.

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Interesting piece. Because Hernandez was under appeal and his conviction was vacated, the Patriots could be on the hook for his contract, which would mean that his wife and daughter could be entitled to the money from his guaranteed contract.

http://patriotswire.usatoday.com/2017/04/19/patriots-nfl-may-still-have-to-pay-aaron-hernandez-after-suicide/

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There will be an autopsy.

For me, the most upsetting part is that it is apparently very easy for a convicted murderer to get drugs in prison. The belief is that AH smoked K2 before he did it. Someone described as a “close friend” who was also in the prison is now on suicide watch. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/04/19/aaron-hernandez-john-316-prison-cell-death-investigation/

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The Patriots will have to pay the signing bonus, as that amount is ‘earned’ by signing. Nothing left to do. They will not pay the $2.5M in base salary as he was dismissed from the team and did not earn the salary. The Player’s association will not go after the team because it is well accepted that the player has to be part of the team to collect the base salary, other than for injury or the team firing for other than disciplinary reasons.

There will be a scrum for the money by his lawyers, daughter, mother, and those suing him. In the end, lawyers will get most of it, the IRS will get a lot of it, and those suing him will get none of it.