WARNING: SPOILERS forward for American Sports activities Story episode 8.
American Sports activities Story episode 8 “Odin” chronicles the homicide of Odin Lloyd by former New England Patriots tight finish Aaron Hernandez. Josh Rivera leads the American Sports activities Story forged as Aaron Hernandez, the previous collegiate and NFL celebrity tight finish who was convicted of murdering semi-pro soccer participant Odin Lloyd in 2015. Lloyd was relationship the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée Shayanna Jenkins on the time of his loss of life. Regardless of Hernandez and Lloyd being associates, prosecutors believed that Hernandez discovered a cause to lose his belief in Lloyd that concerned the house and an incident at a Boston nightclub, which prompted the killing.
American Sports activities Story episode 8 makes a number of true story modifications to the homicide of Odin Lloyd. American Sports activities Story creates a transparent motive for Aaron Hernadnez’s homicide of Odin Lloyd that was not ascertained in actual life. Lloyd did allegedly learn about Hernandez’s second house in Franklin, Massachusetts as a result of a declare made by Hernandez’s babysitter. American Sports activities Story makes use of this info to painting it as the primary reason behind Hernandez’s homicide of Lloyd. As depicted in ASS episode 8, Lloyd reveals to his girlfriend Shaena, Shayanna’s sister, that Hernandez has a secret second house, in any other case often known as his flop home.
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Aaron Hernandez By no means Confirmed Why He Killed Odin Lloyd
A transparent motive for his loss of life was by no means decided or revealed by Hernandez
Regardless of the portrayal of the homicide of Odin Lloyd in American Sports activities Story episode 8, a transparent motive for Lloyd’s homicide was by no means decided and Aaron by no means spoke about it. American Sports activities Story makes it look like Hernandez and Lloyd had simply met merely weeks earlier than the homicide. The collection portrays Hernandez and Lloyd solely hanging out sometimes earlier than Hernandez took his potential in-law’s life. In actuality, Hernandez and Lloyd had met sooner or later within the two years earlier than the 2013 homicide at a household get-together with Shayanna’s sister, Shaena. The collection makes Hernandez’s motive to kill Lloyd extra impulsive than it probably was.

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In line with ESPN, Hernandez had hooked Lloyd up with a number of perks, together with tickets to a number of New England Patriots video games. Hernandez had additionally promised Lloyd that he would take him on a visit to California sooner or later. Hernandez additionally rented Lloyd a black Chevy Suburban SUV days earlier than his loss of life, very like the one which Hernandez drives in American Sports activities Story episode 8. All indicators and alerts pointed to Hernandez and Lloyd being good associates for months and even years earlier than Hernandez took his life. American Sports activities Story skips over these information and finally presents Hernandez’s homicide as a spontaneous act of paranoia and instability.
Prosecutors Imagine Aaron Hernandez Killed Odin Lloyd Due To A Lack Of Belief
Hernandez despatched a textual content message saying “You may’t belief anybody anymore” the evening earlier than Lloyd’s loss of life
Prosecutors believed that Hernandez killed Lloyd as soon as he decided that he might not belief him with delicate info. This probably but unproven motive is per what takes place in American Sports activities Story episode 8, though it was by no means revealed whether or not Shayanna Jenkins knew about Hernandez’s second house after authorities found it in June 2013. There may be additionally hypothesis that Lloyd had gotten too near the reality about Hernandez’s different alleged crimes, significantly an alleged double murder in Boston. Whereas the precise circumstances stay unclear, Hernandez went from being Lloyd’s shut buddy to his executioner.

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American Sports activities story episode 8 depicts Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée Shayanna Jenkins disposing of a mysterious field the day after Odin Lloyd’s loss of life.
Lloyd’s physique was discovered with a complete of 5 bullet holes in what authorities decided to be an execution-style killing. It is unclear why precisely the creators of American Sports activities Story determined to change some particulars of Lloyd’s homicide, comparable to Hernandez firing two bullets as a substitute of 5. The collection already offered Hernandez’s alleged murders of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado and the alleged tried homicide of Alexander “Sherrod” Bradley as reality in earlier episodes. American Sports activities Story episode 8 additionally omits a textual content message Hernandez despatched to Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace the evening earlier than Lloyd’s loss of life that learn, “You may’t belief anybody anymore” (through New York Publish).
Some Imagine Aaron Hernandez Killed Odin Lloyd As a result of He Knew He Was Homosexual
It is a fashionable but unproven motive
A well-liked but unconfirmed perception about Hernandez’s motive for killing Lloyd was that he found that he was closeted homosexual or bisexual. Regardless of the idea being popularized and believable based mostly on Hernandez’s confessions of his sexuality whereas incarcerated, it is not a confirmed motive. The easy reply is {that a} clear motive was by no means decided, which is a irritating end in any homicide trial, significantly one as gorgeous and complicated as Hernandez’s homicide of Lloyd. Hernandez was found to have superior stage 3 CTE after his loss of life by suicide in 2017, including one other mysterious layer to the sophisticated tragedy in American Sports activities Story.
Sources: ESPN, New York Publish
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American Sports activities Story is a TV present from Stu Zicherman and government produced by Ryan Murphy. The collection stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow. The sports activities anthology collection serves because the fourth installment in Murphy’s “American Story” franchise.
Forged Josh Andrés Rivera , Patrick Schwarzenegger
Seasons 1
Administrators Paris Barclay , Carl Franklin