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Netflix releases trailer for Aaron Hernandez docuseries

“How can someone who had everything throw it all away,” wrote Netflix in a Twitter post debuting the trailer for their new series about former New England Patriots Tight End and convicted killer, Aaron Hernandez.

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The Netflix original documentary series is titled Killer Inside: The mind of Aaron Hernandez.

Hernandez was acquitted of killing two men in the South End in 2012.

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He was convicted in the killing of Odin Lloyd and was serving a life sentence when he was found hanged in his prison cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley.

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After his death, Massachusetts’ high court vacated Hernandez’s conviction.

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In 2017, Boston University researchers revealed that Hernandez had “the most severe case” of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy they had ever seen in a person his age.

Research has shown the degenerative brain disease is associated with aggressiveness, depression, memory loss, and other cognitive problems.

Hernandez’s family filed a lawsuit against the New England Patriots and the NFL over his case of CTE.

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The docuseries premieres on Netflix on January 15.

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