The Worrisome Reporting on Aaron Hernandez’s Sexuality

Two days before the April 19th suicide of Aaron Hernandez, the former star New England Patriots tight end who had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd, the investigative journalist Michele McPhee appeared on a Boston sports radio show. It was “Marathon Monday” in Boston. McPhee, an ABC News producer, formerly a New York Daily News bureau chief, and an author of true-crime books, had been invited on WEEI’s “The Kirk & Callahan Show” to talk about her new book, “Maximum Harm,” which investigates the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Hernandez had just been acquitted of murder the previous Friday, in a separate case. But McPhee’s friends Kirk Minihane and Gerry Callahan wanted to discuss something else: Hernandez’s sexuality, which McPhee had been investigating as a possible motive in the Lloyd murder. Lloyd was shot to death, on June 17, 2013, in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez’s North Attleborough, Massachusetts, home after spending the previous evening with him. A specific motive for the killing was never established, beyond a suspected breach of trust.

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