Aaron Hernandez, during the trial for the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2015. Image: AP Photo/Steven Senne/Pool

How Netflix’s ‘Killer Inside” Reveals The Childhood Trauma of Aaron Hernandez

Ezinne Ukoha
8 min readJan 20, 2020

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Things change as we get older, and often times you’re caught off guard by the matured point of view about the complexities of carrying the bloody cuts of childhood atrocities, that should’ve been addressed for the freedom of victims.

I have been undergoing the intense cycle of mandated reconciliation with the harmful issues of the past, that are ultra-sensitive and scarily formidable. Youthfulness is an addictive drug that does exactly what mind-altering substances provide with manifested trickery.

Watching the three-part documentary, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, that recently premiered on Netflix was an excruciating experience.

It held me hostage from start to finish.

Director Geno McDermott sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to discuss the procedural aspects of the ambitious project, that began when the late football star and “tight end” for the New England Patriots was still alive.

McDermott never got the chance to interview Hernandez because the planned attempt to make contact with Hernandez, who had just been spared the worst outcome in his second trial for the 2012 shooting deaths of Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, in Boston…

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