What’s inside the box that Shay throws away

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for episode 8 of American Sports Story.

Aaron Hernandez’s Fiancee Shayanna Jenkins Throws Away Mysterious Box In American sports history episode 8 that could have important consequences. All over American sports history episode 8 titled “Odin”, Hernandez is depicted falling into a deep hole of paranoia and emotional instability that 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 the 2015 murder of Lloyd.

As pictured in American sports historyShayanna Jenkins met Aaron Hernandez in high school in Bristol, Connecticut. The two became engaged and had a son in November 2012, just months before Hernandez was convicted of Lloyd’s murder. Avielle, now 11 years old, is the only child of Aaron Hernandez and Shayanna Jenkins. Although Shayanna was never charged as an accomplice in Odin Lloyd’s murder, she was caught on security footage from her own home removing a mystery box from her house.

The box Shay threw away apparently contains Odin Lloyd’s murder weapon

Shayanna did not ask questions or raise suspicions about the contents of the box

In American sports history episode 8, Hernandez is depicted returning to his mansion in North Attleborough, Massachusetts with his friends Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace after murdering Lloyd. That’s it consistent with security footage taken from Hernandez’s home which can be seen on Netflix Killer inside documentary series. Hernandez also asks Shayanna to do him a favor in the series that must be done immediately. Shayanna is then shown removing a box from a trash bag and taking it to a local landfill.

The series does not specify whether Shayanna knew exactly what she was doing when she responded to her fiancée’s request to remove the large box from her home. It is implied in the series that Shayanna did not ask any questions or raise any suspicions about how she might be disposing of the gun that killed her sister Shaena’s boyfriend, Odin Lloyd. However, American sports history makes it clear that Shayanna obeyed Hernandez’s orders and discarded a cardboard box the day after Lloyd’s death.

Shay threw away a box for Aaron in real life?

She discarded the box but testified that she had no knowledge of its contents.

In real life, Shayanna Jenkins testified at Hernandez’s murder trial in March 2015 that she got rid of a cardboard box that was originally in the basement of her North Attleborough home. She stated that Hernandez instructed her to “come down to our warehouse and pick up a box from our house“which Jenkins also noted”smelled like skunk“, which made her think it contained cannabis (via ABC News). Jenkins stated that he did not know what was inside the box nor did he look at it before discarding it in a “random trash“as portrayed in American sports history episode 8.