The Patriot Way | 4
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
The Boston Globe | Wondery
4.8 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Hernandez was enjoying success on the field, but in his third season with the Patriots, the fragile balance of his life tipped. There were people who cared for him trying to intercede, from an old girlfriend to his teammates. But no one could successfully help him escape from violence, drugs, and extortion attempts.
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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, this episode contains some adult language and themes. |
| 0:19.0 | It's 2.30 a.m. on July 16, 2012, a steamy mid-summer night in Boston. |
| 0:26.0 | Two men, Ciferro Fertado and Daniel Dayabreu, are heading home from a club in the theatre district called Cure. |
| 0:33.0 | The two are friends, both born and Cape Verde. |
| 0:40.0 | A night out on the town has been a rare treat for them. They drank and danced. |
| 0:45.0 | At some point, Dayabreu may have spilled a drink on a big guy who was also drinking at the club. |
| 0:50.0 | If the guy took offense, he barely showed it. |
| 0:57.0 | Now the two friends are riding in an old BMW, heading home. |
| 1:02.0 | They stop at a red light just outside the theatre district. |
| 1:08.0 | A silver SUV holds up alongside them. |
| 1:12.0 | What's up now, someone's shouts, followed by the N-word. |
| 1:16.0 | There are five shots, shattered glass, clicks of an empty revolver, chaos. |
| 1:23.0 | Operator 219, what is the location of your emergency? |
| 1:27.0 | There's actually just a shooting, a thick shot, two night in the front seat. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm not sure what they're dead. |
| 1:33.0 | I was supposed to sleep. |
| 1:34.0 | That's Detective Paul MacEizick, Boston PD, dispatched called him. |
| 1:38.0 | I was sound asleep and it's that sound and he just said, no, it's never good. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, they make a phone call and get up, brush teeth and help them do the go. |
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