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Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

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4.8 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When Aaron Hernandez was found hanging from a bedsheet in a maximum security prison cell in Massachusetts, he joined a growing number of former football players who’d taken their own lives. But he was the only one who left a trail of bodies in his wake. Spotlight investigates how Hernandez’s personal life spiralled out of control even as he rocketed to NFL stardom. His teammates on the Patriots were never sure whether he was a goofball who took a special kind of thrill in unnerving them, or whether he was truly dangerous.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez, and Football Inc.
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0:13.0	A listener note.
0:14.0	This episode contains some adult language and themes.
0:20.0	911, different through accordion. Where is your emergency?
0:23.0	It's 307 in the morning.
0:26.0	A 911 call comes in from Susa Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Massachusetts.
0:33.0	I need a ALF ambulance for inmate hanging.
0:37.0	Okay, I'm going to put you on with what we're going to thank you.
0:40.0	A man has been found hanging from a make shift news, made from a bedsheet in his cell.
0:45.0	The emergency medical team arrives at the prison at 3.29am.
0:51.0	By then, prison guards have cut the inmate down and performed chest compressions.
0:56.0	20 minutes later, he still isn't breathing.
1:00.0	A little after four in the morning, the man was officially pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
1:06.0	He was one of 14 inmates to die by suicide that year in Massachusetts prisons.
1:11.0	And he was the only one of those 14 whose suicide made big headlines.
1:16.0	First in New England.
1:18.0	Fox six to one is Caitlin Gosling. She has the latest details as well as reaction.
1:22.0	Caitlin?
1:23.0	Yeah, Erin Hernandez was discovered dead in his prison cell by corrections officers in Shirley Massachusetts just after three o'clock this morning.
1:31.0	Then the story went national.
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