From Aaron Hernandez's alleged drug use to angering coach Bill Belichick for missing practices, the new Rolling Stone feature of the former New England Patriots tight end takes an in depth looking into an allegedly troubled young man's life.
The feature includes several interviews with family friends, high school teammates and NFL sources to help explain the allegations against Hernandez.
"You can't trust anyone anymore!" Hernandez was heard screaming on the footage of his home-security system after Odin Lloyd's alleged murder.
The quote sums up Hernandez's life and though process, as allegedly using the drug angel dust caused extreme paranoia, the former football player did not travel anywhere without a gun, according to Rolling Stone.
Sources close to the man accused of Lloyd's murder never developed his father's, Dennis Hernandez, street sense because he protected him from that kind of life.
"They were the roughest kids by far in Guinea Alley," Eddy Fortier, who went to Bristol Central with Hernandez and his "boys" in the Seventies and is a former youth counselor, told Rolling Stone.
"They had to be tough - they were about the only Puerto Ricans in an Irish-Italian town," added Fortier's brother, Gary, a reformed ex-con who's now a painter and assistant pastor at a Bristol church. "...Part of Aaron's problem is, he never got no street sense; [his father] sheltered them from that life with all his might."
Hernandez father was his idol, and many attested to how great he was to his son.
"He was the perfect dad: He went to every scrimmage, and got 'em up at dawn to work out," said Brandon Beam, an insurance agent in Southington who played against Aaron in practice each day as a cornerback for Bristol Central.
Not all the sources spoke about Hernandez's past in a negative light, one source described the former NFL player has are hard worker.
"He didn't speak Spanish and had no tattoos," Jordan Carello, a Bristol football teammate who recently worked at the Doubletree hotel in town, told Rolling Stone. "He was so focused on his body that he barely partied, maybe snuck a little weed here and there. But we all did that, 'cause our parents were always home. If we wanted to drink on weekends, we had to run out to someone's car."
According to Rolling Stone, when his father died, Hernandez's mother married a coke dealer, and things began to go downhill for the football player.
You can check out the full feature here, but here's a quick recap of six new details learned about Hernandez, according to Rolling stone:
• He surrounded himself with a cohort of gangsters, and cut himself off from his family and teammates.
• Hernandez had so infuriated his head coach, Bill Belichick, with missed practices and thug-life stunts, that he was one misstep from being cut.
• Both his parents, Dennis and Terri, had criminal records, as did much of his extended family.
• Terri allegedly cheated on Dennis before his death with a violent drug dealer named Jeffrey Cummings, then married Cummings after Dennis died and moved him into the house she shared with Aaron.
• In college his coach (then-University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer) may have helped cover up failed drug tests, along with two violent incidents - an assault and a drive-by shootout outside a local bar.
Aaron Hernandez has officially been indicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd. His court date for arraignment on the murder charges is set for Sept. 6.
