Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Dan Shaughnessy Globe Staff November 10, 2018 Picked-up pieces while wondering why everyone who coaches against Bill Belichick loses his football mind (your turn, Mike Vrabel) . . . ■ For those of you who were caught up in the Red Sox ride, or perhaps too busy to read the Globe Spotlight’s team’s six-part series on Aaron Hernandez, here are some nuggets you might have missed: Remember the “safe house” in Franklin where Hernandez stored ammunition and drugs, a few miles from the North Attleborough home he shared with his fiancée and infant daughter? Based on Belichick’s own statements when he was interviewed by the State Police after Odin Lloyd’s murder, the Patriots helped Hernandez find the flop house. In July 2013, after Hernandez was arrested for murdering Lloyd, we asked Belichick about the flop house and the coach answered, “We have absolutely done as much work as we can on finding out things like that and we’ll try to get all the information that we can. . .” Advertisement It was not difficult for the Patriots to find that information. According Bob Hohler and the Spotlight team – based on Belichick’s interview with police and information from Hernandez’s texts – after Hernandez went to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis to tell Belichick he feared for the safety of his fiancée and daughter in February 2013, Belichick dispatched team employee Kevin Anderson to… [Read full story]
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