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In what is now becoming a daily occurrence there have been some new developments in the Aaron Hernandez suicide story.
First, the third note that Hernandez left in his cell at the time of his suicide that was reportedly for his alleged prison lover Kyle Kennedy has now been potentially revealed as something completely different.
The three notes recovered in Aaron Hernandez’s prison cell were written to his fiancee, his daughter and his attorney, Jose Baez … NOT a supposed gay lover, sources tell TMZ Sports.
The contents of the letters are being kept under wraps for now — but sources familiar with the investigation tell us the ex-NFL player did not leave any sort of a message for another inmate.
If true, this would corroborate what Hernandez’s attorney Jose Baez had previously stated.
Then on Wednesday, after previously releasing statements from Kyle Kennedy and his family, Kennedy’s attorney Larry Army, Jr. held a press conference where he revealed numerous new items of interest in this case.
Here are some of Army’s more fascinating quotes from the press conference, via CBS Boston…
There have been unconfirmed allegations about the nature of the relationship between Kennedy and Hernandez–but Kennedy’s attorney, Larry Army Jr., said Kennedy wants to elaborate on that relationship himself.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss the nature and the extent of that relationship,” Army said. “My client has made it very clear that he will, in fact, talk about that relationship in nature and extent, but he wants those words to come directly from his mouth to the world.”
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Army said that Kennedy believes one of the three letters Hernandez wrote prior to his suicide was intended for him.
Copies of the letters and notes left behind by Hernandez just before his death were ordered to be turned over to Hernandez’s family just an hour before he was buried in a private ceremony in Connecticut Monday.
Army said parts of one of those letters were “incoherent” because they might have been written in prison code intended for Kennedy to understand.
“I was told by a source that the letter and parts of the letter didn’t make a lot of sense,” he said. “When I explained that to my client, he said there’s a language that’s spoken and in written form in a prison that is made that way so that it appears incoherent and so that others don’t understand what the meaning is.”
Army stated that they he has requested a copy of the letter, but has not received it yet. He also said that Hernandez had written letters in the past to Kennedy’s father as well as his siblings.
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“He is my brother, and he always will be,” Army said Hernandez wrote to Kennedy’s father.
Army provided part of a copy of one of the letters, which he said shows Hernandez’s signature.
“They’re very personal letters, and they speak very candidly of the close relationship and mutual respect that my client and Mr. Hernandez had for one another,” Army said. “Mr. Hernandez refers to my client in both letters not by his legal name only, but also by his prison name of Pure.”
He said Kennedy did not know or suspect Hernandez was going to kill himself, but that Hernandez did write in a letter to Kennedy three weeks before his suicide, “I think I’m gonna hang it up lol.”
“My client was stunned and saddened by the news of the suicide,” Army said. “My client quite frankly told me, that he thought it was a joke, that he thought that the people in the jail were playing a game on him because they knew of the closeness of the relationship between the two.”
Army stated that Kennedy claims Hernandez promised him a watch worth about $47,000, something we had previously reported, but Kennedy has not received it yet and wants it now.
Army also said that Hernandez and Kennedy knew each other before being incarcerated and were “close friends who spent a great deal of time together in prison.”
The press conference itself can be viewed below, as well as a televised report filed by CBS Boston on Wednesday night…
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