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2017-04-19 -Obits-

Former Patriots player and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez Tango Uniform

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-19 08:18|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 On the bright side, with credit for time served, his 'life sentence' was reduced just over two years and Massachusetts tax payers finally catch a break.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-19 08:59|| 2017-04-19 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Well he served out his sentence and been paroled.

win-win.

Posted by AlanC 2017-04-19 11:04|| 2017-04-19 11:04|| Front Page Top

#3 One assumes he didn't tie the proper neck-breaking knot, and did not have a long enough drop to break it anyway. An unpleasant way to die, and one he likely deeply regretted partway through.

I'm not familiar with the case -- was it really murder, or would it have been called manslaughter had he not been famous?

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-19 12:41|| 2017-04-19 12:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Nope TW, it was murder pure and simple. IIRC this was most like a mafia hit where they took the victim out in the woods and AH capped him.

Posted by AlanC 2017-04-19 12:55|| 2017-04-19 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 What I don't understand is the suicide after he was acquitted recently in a different case. Did he think he'd be released from the first sentence or something? Did someone say something to him and really amp up the guilt?

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-19 13:31|| 2017-04-19 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you, AlanC.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-19 15:21|| 2017-04-19 15:21|| Front Page Top

#7 The guy he went to prison for murdering, he murdered because he thought the guy was going to snitch.

He was just acquitted in the double murder case that he committed the murder to avoid. So I'm sure it was the horrible irony that made him lose hope and end his life.

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-04-19 15:51|| 2017-04-19 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Herb McCoy7309, except the snitch might have changed the course of the recent trial so its not really all that ironic.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-19 16:33|| 2017-04-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#9 There is a very good chance he did not know what acquitted meant.

Posted by Airandee 2017-04-19 17:01|| 2017-04-19 17:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Just heard on Howie Carr's show - 'When his lawyers told Hernandez to hang in there, they didn't mean it literally.'

Posted by Raj 2017-04-19 18:19|| 2017-04-19 18:19|| Front Page Top

#11 He spilled a drink on himself. He had to pay for disrespectin' hisself

Posted by Frank G 2017-04-19 18:54|| 2017-04-19 18:54|| Front Page Top

#12 "The ruling on the field stands.

Mr. Hernandez did not get both feet on the ground in time"

Posted by Frank G 2017-04-19 19:08|| 2017-04-19 19:08|| Front Page Top

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