Plot Synopsis

Featuring exclusive courtroom footage, prison phone calls, and first-person interviews, KILLER INSIDE: THE MIND OF AARON HERNANDEZ is a three-part documentary series that examines the perfect storm of factors leading to the trial, conviction, and death of an athlete who seemingly had it all. As a gifted young football athlete from Bristol, Connecticut, Aaron Hernandez had capitalized rapidly on his promise, playing for a top tier college program before being drafted into the National Football League at the age of 20. But in 2013, fresh off of a newly inked five-year, $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, Hernandez would become a household name for the most infamous murder case involving an American athlete since OJ Simpson. Hernandez's trials for the brutal killing of Odin Lloyd and two Boston-area men yielded a Pandora's box of secrets: a tumultuous and often abusive upbringing, a growing fascination with gang life, and other discoveries that painted a maelstrom of motivations behind his violent behavior. On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT, Netflix released all three episodes of this series.