Aaron Hernandez On April 19, sometime before 3 a. The Bible was opened to a section of the New Testament, John 3: A timeline of the rise and tragic fall of Aaron Hernandez Then the year-old former NFL star serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murder, jammed the track of his cell door with cardboard to prevent guards from coming in, slicked the floor with liquid soap and shampoo which investigators believe he did to make it harder for him to back out in case he lost his nerve , wrapped his bed sheet around his neck multiple times and then tied one end of it to a bar on the window of his cell. A correction officer saw his limp body through the cell door at 3: