The Aaron Hernandez murder case involving the shooting death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd will continue this week with a probable cause hearing in the case and that will pick up on Thursday after the original hearing was delayed by the judge last month.
Hernandez is currently behind bars waiting for trial, but that can't happen until the probable cause hearing and the grand jury bringing down an indictment that "concludes" that probable cause exist in regards to the former tight end committing the crime. An indictment could come down for Hernandez in the murder this week and authorities are also working on any connections that Hernandez has to a double murder that occurs last year in Boston during the summer that was a drive by shooting.
According to ESPN.com, police found a gun that is lined to those murders and reports from earlier in the summer said that Hernandez may be linked to those killings as well. On top of that reports came out from the Boston Globe over the summer that Lloyd may have been killed because he had knowledge of or about those crimes. The double murder was a drive by shooting near a Boston nightclub that saw Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu and Safiro Teixeira Furtado murdered in their car.
Witnesses reported seeing a gray or silver SUV with Rhode Island license plates leaving the scene of the crime and later on, police seized a vehicle with a similar description from Hernandez's uncle's home in Bristol. Some reports have suggested that Lloyd, Hernandez and others were involved in drugs, but so far no confirmation has officially been released by police. Warrants in the case were unsealed and it showed Hernandez getting agitated with police at various times and also that he at first did not want to speak with them about the murder.
Police have not found the Lloyd murder weapon yet and the gun from the double murder was located after a car crash involving Jailene Diaz-Ramos, who happens to also be from Bristol. Reports about the gun have said that Ramos said the gun belonged to her boyfriends and no true connection has been made yet with Hernandez.
The former Patriots star was released by the team soon after being arrested and now he sits waiting for trial and is charged with first degree murder in the case. Hernandez is facing life in jail and he was denied bail by the judge after being painted as the orchestrator in the crime. He is tied to the killing through text messages, video surveillance and shell casings and accomplice Carlos Ortiz said another accomplice, Ernest Wallace, told him that Hernandez admitted to the crime and later stashed guns in his basement.