Murder of Odin Lloyd could be connected to double murder in 2012

Aaron Hernandez has been charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd, an associate of his. According to Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley at Hernandez's arraignment yesterday, Lloyd was killed because the Patriots tight end did not trust him. Apparently, he was talking with some people whom Hernandez had trouble with.

This morning, Fox25 reported that Hernandez was being investigated in a double murder that occured in July of last year. According to the Boston Globe, the double murder and Lloyd's could be related.

ProFootballtalk:

The latest detail from the Boston Globe will make jaws drop even farther. According to Maria Cramer of the Globe, an unnamed law-enforcement official has said there’s a possible link between the crimes.

“The motive [for killing Odin Lloyd] might have been that [Lloyd] knew [Hernandez] might have been involved” in the July 2012 homicides, the unnamed law-enforcement official told Cramer.

If true, this would help explain why Hernandez allegedly was upset with Lloyd for something he had said to others on Friday, July 14. As prosecutor Bill McCauley explained it in court on Wednesday, “The victim had spoken to a couple of people and the defendant told him he was upset about that because he had essentially troubles with those people.”

Certainly, this might shed some light into why Hernandez is being investigated into the double murder. The Fox25 report gave no insight into why he was connected to this. One could assume that if the Globe's report is true, that Lloyd must've been either talking to people that were in the same "crew" as the victims of the double homicide, or he could've been likely to go to the police. That would provide a much clearer motive for Lloyd's death.

If the double homicide is true, that means Hernandez reported to training camp with the Patriots not long after committing the crime. Let's hope it's not.