Fiancée On Aaron Hernandez's Death: 'I Don’t Think This Is A Suicide'

Originally published May 15, 2017

The fiancée of Aaron Hernandez believes that the death of the former football player may not have been a suicide and believed that he had nothing to do with the death of Odin Lloyd.

Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez broke her silence on Monday's episode of Dr. Phil. She said Hernandez's suicide came as a surprise because all their conversations were positive and were about him possibly coming home.

"I don’t know what to believe. That’s not the Aaron I knew. It was looking so bright, we were going up a ladder in a positive direction," she told Dr. Phil. "I don’t think this is a suicide, knowing him."

When asked what would cause her to doubt the official cause of death, she said there was no indication of suicidal thoughts when the two spoke hours before his death. (Subscribe to your local Patch for news and updates.)

"It was a normal conversation, which makes me doubt so many things. I know that our last talk had nothing to do with suicidal thoughts," she said.

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Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of Lloyd when he hanged himself during the early hours of April 19, days after he was found not guilty of a 2012 South Boston double murder. Officials found him with John 3:16 written on his forehead and in blood. Jenkins-Hernandez said the bible reference does not sound like Hernandez because he was spiritual but not religious.

"It seemed well thought out in a sense. None of it seems believable to me. Not the findings, not the investigation. I don’t believe it," she said.

Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez was made aware of Hernandez's death at 5:27 a.m. She said she initially thought the call from an official from Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center was a hoax.

On the letter written to her, she said the fact that it was addressed to "Shay" rather than "Babe" or "Bae" stuck out.

When asked if she thinks Hernandez murdered Lloyd, she said Hernandez said he had nothing to do with the murder and that's all she needed to hear. Hernandez, who was convicted of the murder in 2015, had his conviction vacated because the appeals process was not over at the time of his death.

The second part of the interview is scheduled to air Tuesday.

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