AARON Hernandez told his fiancee she’s “rich” in the suicide letter he wrote to her before killing himself in his jail cell last month.
“Tell my story fully but never think anything besides how much I love you,” he wrote to fiancee Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez in the note, according to a copy obtained by NBC Boston.
“This was the supremes, the almightys plan, not mine! I love you!”
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At the end of the letter, the former New England Patriots star urges her to look “after [Redacted] and [Redacted] for me — those are my boys. (You’re rich.)”
Calling Jenkins-Hernandez his “soulmate” and an “angel,” Hernandez also tells his fiancee to “live life and know I’m always with you.”
“I told you what was coming indirectly!” he says. “I love you so much and know you are an angel — literally! We split into two to come change the world!”
Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for the killing of Odin Lloyd, hanged himself in his cell at the Souza-Barnowski Correctional Center on April 19.
It comes as more questions about his death were raised by the release of the official Massashusetts state Department of Correction report into his death was released.
Hernandez was excited about his acquittal in a 2012 double slaying and did not appear to have thoughts of suicide in the days before he killed himself in his prison cell, according to a report from Massachusetts prison officials.
The state Department of Correction report released Friday (AEDT) also said there were no drugs in Hernandez’s system when the former New England Patriots tight end hanged himself at the Souza-Baranowski prison on April 19 while serving a life sentence in a 2013 murder.
Hernandez was found hanging from a bed sheet in his cell just five days after he was acquitted in the killings of two men in Boston in July 2012.
The report described interviews with inmates who said that in the days before his death, Hernandez appeared happy about his acquittal and seemed to be looking forward to the future.
“They stated that he was positive and even happily emotional, which was not usual of Hernandez,” the report states.
An inmate who claimed to be one of Hernandez’s closest friends said he was shocked by Hernandez’s suicide because he seemed so upbeat after his acquittal. “Since Friday’s verdict he had been talking about the NFL and going back to play even if it wasn’t with the Pats,” the inmate said, according to the report.
“He talked about his daughter and spending time with her,” the same inmate said. “There was absolutely no indication he would do anything like that.”
A separate report released Thursday by state police said Hernandez wrote “John 3:16,” a reference to a biblical passage, in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his cell.
The Bible verse says: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
An inmate who claimed to be one of Hernandez’s closest friends said he was shocked by Hernandez’s suicide because he seemed so upbeat after his acquittal. “Since Friday’s verdict he had been talking about the NFL and going back to play even if it wasn’t with the Pats,” the inmate said, according to the report.
“He talked about his daughter and spending time with her,” the same inmate said. “There was absolutely no indication he would do anything like that.”
A separate report released Thursday by state police said Hernandez wrote “John 3:16,” a reference to a biblical passage, in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his cell.
The Bible verse says: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
In a statement, the defence team blasted state officials for leaks to the media of some of the information contained in the reports.
“The unprofessional behaviour of those entrusted to impartially and professionally conduct an investigation into Aaron’s death has caused grave concern as to the validity and thoroughness of the investigation,” the lawyers said in a statement.
“Accordingly, we intend to fully, completely and impartially review all of the evidence in this matter.”
Hernandez, 27, played three seasons for the Patriots before he was released by the team hours after his arrest in June 2013 in the killing of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee.
Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder in that case and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In 2014, he was charged in the drive-by shootings of two Boston men in 2012. He was acquitted in those killings last month.
— with AP