WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for American Sports Story episode 8.

Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée Shayanna Jenkins throws away a mysterious box in American Sports Story episode 8 that could have major consequences. Throughout American Sports Story episode 8 titled “Odin”, Hernandez is portrayed as falling into a deep hole of paranoia and emotional instability which ultimately resulted in the murder of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating Shayanna’s sister. In reality, Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Lloyd in 2015.

As depicted in American Sports Story, Shayanna Jenkins met Aaron Hernandez in high school in Bristol, Connecticut. The two got engaged and had a child together in November 2012, just months before Hernandez would be convicted for murdering Lloyd. Avielle, who is now 11 years old, is the only daughter of Aaron Hernandez and Shayanna Jenkins. Although Shayanna was never charged as an accomplice in the murder of Odin Lloyd, she was caught on her own home security footage removing a mysterious box from her home.

The Box Shay Threw Away Seemingly Contains The Odin Lloyd Murder Weapon

Shayanna didn’t ask any questions or raise suspicions about the box’s contents

In American Sports Story episode 8, Hernandez is portrayed returning to his mansion in North Attleborough, Massachusetts with his friends Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace after murdering Lloyd. This is consistent with the security footage taken from Hernandez’s home that can be seen in Netflix’s Killer Inside docuseries. Hernandez also asks Shayanna to do him a favor in the series which must be done immediately. Shayanna is then shown removing a box in a garbage bag and bringing it to a local dump.

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The series does not specify whether Shayanna knew exactly what she was doing when she was fulfilling her fiancee’s request to remove the large box from their home. It’s implied in the series that Shayanna did not ask any questions or raise any suspicions about how she could potentially have been disposing of the weapon that killed her sister Shaena’s boyfriend, Odin Lloyd. However, American Sports Story makes it clear that Shayanna obeyed Hernandez’s orders and disposed of a cardboard box the day after Lloyd’s death.

Did Shay Throw Away A Box For Aaron In Real Life?

She disposed of the box but testified she was unaware of its contents

In real life, Shayanna Jenkins testified at Hernandez’s murder trial in March 2015 that she disposed of a cardboard box that was originally in the basement of their North Attleborough home. She stated that Hernandez instructed her to “go downstairs in our storage and remove a box from our home” which Jenkins also noted “smelled skunky“, which made her think it contained cannabis (via ABC News). Jenkins claimed that she didn’t know what was inside the box nor did she look before disposing of it in a “random dumpster” as portrayed in American Sports Story episode 8.

American Sports Story is a TV show from Stu Zicherman and executive produced by Ryan Murphy. The series stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow. The sports anthology series serves as the fourth installment in Murphy’s “American Story” franchise.

Cast

Josh Andrés Rivera , Patrick Schwarzenegger

Seasons

1

Directors

Paris Barclay , Carl Franklin