Too much guessing

This book gave a really solid insight into this guy’s life. The Tv series on Netflix plays him as the victim which he clearly was not. I didn’t like the conjectured and how they assumed how a person would think at the time.

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A brief look into the life of Aaron Hernandez

I'll be the 1st to admit that I don't really know anything about the NFL, as an Australian it's not something that we really think about talk about or associate with. The football that I consider newsworthy is the AFL. However that being said I think as humans we are inherently wired to want to know about people who seemingly have it all and then their fall from grace.

I think I first heard about Aaron Hernandez either last year or the year before on a video posted by Stephanie Harlowe on YouTube (if you haven't watched any of her videos go check them out) and I was interested by this young man because what he was being handed; a $40 million contract and then throwing it all away. I don't mean just the $40 million contract, but the NFL career the family, the fiancé, the daughter, the friends, the whole lifestyle that he had been working before prison and taking his own life.

This book explores the crimes of of Aaron Hernandez and his life and death, through the lens of Aaron most likely being homosexual or bisexual and killing people to keep his sexuality a secret. Considering that it is now the 21st-century it's horrific to think that somebody would have to feel like they would need to murder someone to keep their sexuality a secret but when you think about it how many gay football stars have you heard of? I actually cannot think of one openly homosexual AFL player. And there must be something percentagewise there must be at least a few but why do we as a society make this such a stigma?

Whether Aaron's sexuality had anything to do with his crimes I think we'll never really know, and I'm not sure I believe that he killed because he had HIV.I think there's just not enough evidence to make that claim. I think that there was a variety of factors that led to Aaron's crimes including is violent upbringing, his associations with gang members, is CTE, his drug use and possibly his fear of his sexuality getting out. To oversimplify this issue all these crimes I think does not do them justice and he's not really paying a picture of what happened.

I think this book does really well at looking at Aaron as a human and both his positive and negative traits. Aaron was clearly a very flawed person, he was failed by many people in his life. He was failed by his family who allowed his father to abuse him, he was failed by his high school who allowed him to graduate early without really being able to read or write, he was failed by the University of Florida by allowing his antics to go unpunished, and he was failed by the NFL for not getting him to help he clearly needed. Aaron clearly had a drug problem and I do not know how the NFL or the New England Patriots could take a blind eye to this when there are multiple drug tests happening.

The claim of the relationship between Kyle Kennedy and Aaron Hernandez… I'm not sure how I feel about it. I do think that it was most likely that they did have a relationship, there are a few too many people in the prison who have verified this claim. However, why would Kyle Kennedy come and talk about his relationship with Aaron when Aaron was so profoundly private about his sexuality? If the relationship was real and the Hernandez family did really keep a letter from Kyle Kennedy I think that's horrible and selfish and hopefully one day they will be able to give Kyle the closure he deserves.

If you are a fan of Stephanie Harlow then you probably don't have a lot of positive things to say about José Baez. If you have read anything about the Casey Anthony trial, you know that he is a bit of a contentious character. I would've liked to seen a little bit more of she's saying about Aaron and see what it what his comments were. I think to get a bit more of a picture of that I would have to read José buys his book about Aaron.

I think this book was well written as well researched and talk to you a variety of different experience from journalist two police officers to scientist to CTV experts which gave us a well rounded idea Aaron

I will I will highly it is quick easy read or listen if you want to listen to the audiobook on audible. If you want a really detailed look into you and him Hernandez's live out there that we're going to my details however this is a good place to start start.

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