I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

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Breaking news very sad and very strange, the former NFL player Aaron Hernandez

has killed himself inside his prison cell in Massachusetts this morning.

Hernandez was found hanged with a bedsheet on the window area of his cell.

That 27-year-old former Patriot's player was just acquitted of a double murder last week,

but he was serving a life sentence for a separate murder.

Prosecutors had argued that Hernandez felt he was disrespected after one of the men

spilled a drink on him at a nightclub. This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.

Hernandez, a New England Patriot, former Florida gator drafted out a Florida by the Patriots

before that he's from Bristol, Connecticut. Once a star tied in for the New England Patriots,

Hernandez has already served two years of a life sentence in the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd.

Hernandez was found hanged with a bedsheet on the window area of his cell.

He was a football star. He was one of the brightest and the best, and now Aaron Hernandez is dead.

But not only was he a football star, he was a murderer. I believe many times over.

Aaron Hernandez reportedly hung himself behind bars on the very same day. He was scheduled to go

to the White House with all of his team members. Had he been on the team that won the Super Bowl?

But no, he didn't make it. And this after a not guilty in court on two of the murders,

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