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It has taken only a scant 48 hours for the Aaron Hernandez memorabilia business to start booming. Dirt has come tumbling out of his life in the hours after his death. He purportedly waxed the floor of his cell with soap in order to make sure he would slip and break his neck whether the hanging worked or not. His body will be buried without a brain, which seems fitting, as his lawyers want Boston University to study this organ for concussion damage. Chico, as he was called and not in deference to the Marx Brothers comedy team, was said to have written John 3:16 in blood on the wall, but in red ink on his own forehead.
A man sued Hernandez last month for allegedly shooting him in the face in February, and on June 17, Lloydâs body was discovered in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandezâs home. The Boston Globe has reported that Hernandez also is under investigation for whether he was involved in a double murder in June 2012.