The doctors also discovered a small region in the left frontal lobe of his brain with evidence of scarring consistent with a small, old, traumatic brain injury. Many former NFL players and boxers have committed suicide in a way that would allow their brain to be researched and studied to be able to find a way to diagnose or prevent CTE. Junior Seau is just the latest of them to do this. There were reports that Junior had texted his family that he loved them hours prior to his passing and he waited till his girlfriend was gone before he killed himself. I believe that Junior Seau committed suicide because of the mental anguish he was going through and could not handle what his life was becoming because of CTE and that he shot himself in the heart
This case raised many questions from the media, all wondering how an elite football star could be involved in such a horrifying crime. Answers were soon revealed. The body of 27 year old Odin Lloyd was found on June 17th, 2013 with six bullet wounds to his back. It was quickly discovered that Aaron Hernandez was the last
Aaron Hernandez was once a star tight end in the NFL. Aaron was accused and later convicted of three shootings that killed 3 people and left two others injured. Aaron Hernandez was once one of the greatest tight ends in the NFL. Now Hernandez serves life in prison without peral. Odin Lloyd had been brutally shot 5 times, leaving Aaron Hernandez as the suspect.
Aaron Hernandez was charged in a murder case on June 17th, 2013. It is said that Aaron Hernandez and three of his friends were involved in the homicide of Odin Lloyd. Lloyd, a 27-year-old semi professional football player from Boston, was found shot to death in an industrial park in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. There is background information that might link Hernandez to the death of Odin Lloyd. On July 14th, 2013, Hernandez and Lloyd went to a club in Boston, called Rumor.
Amanda Knox was once an average, college student from Seattle before studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. However, on November 2, 2007 her life changed forever. Knox reported that she returned to her house, which she shared with three other women, to find one of her roommates, twenty-year old Meredith Kercher, dead from exsanguination, or severe blood loss. Knox was immediately a suspect due to her odd behavior before finding Kercher’s body; finding the door to her home open along with a broken window in one of the bedrooms, blood drops on the floor in the bathroom, but still Amanda decided to shower. When Knox was taken in for questioning her odd behavior continued when she reportedly did cartwheels in the hallway of the police station.
One of the most famous and recent off the field incidents involving a college athlete was the rape allegation made against Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston in 2012. Winston was never charged, mainly because the Tallahassee police didn’t investigate the case thoroughly if at all. The football team and the athletic director stood behind their start athlete as he claimed his innocence of the allegations. This incident was the first of many that Winston had while playing for Florida State, and for all these troubles he caused for the school he was suspended once for one game.
(SI,2020) He killed 2, injured 1 and 2 others went unharmed. (SI,2020) While leaving the scene, Hernandez was said to have thrown the gun out the window after wiping it off and taking the bullets out. Aaron got in contact with his cousin to come pick up the Toyota 4runner that he and Bradley were in during the shooting and have her store it in the garage at her home. (SI,2020) Investigators later discovered the 4runner in the garage at the cousins home where the vehicle was said to be stored.
Michael Vick was one of the most exciting football players in the National Football League since his inception into the league in 2001. Vick was not only a star quarterback in the NFL, but he represented many corporation and their products. Things would begin to turn on Vick in the next few years and he would find himself in trouble with the league, the law, and court of public opinion. Through it all, Vick persevered and found himself back in the NFL in 2011 as the starting quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles. All of the PR practitioners who worked for Vick to bring him back faced extremely difficult challenges.
Madison Police Officer to Resume Desk Job With Force After Being Cleared of Wrongdoing Officer Matt Kenny has been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of Tony Robinson, Jr. on Mach 6. Robinson was shot in Madison, Wisconsin after several 911 calls complained about a man acting insanely, jumping into traffic and assaulting them. Officer Kenny was the first on the scene and followed Robinson into his house. According to the statements of Kenny, Robinson attacked him, knocked him into a wall and when he tried to retreat Robinson came after him.
surveillance footage showed Hernandez held true to his word. Lloyd piled into the car along with two of Hernandez’s acquaintances, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz. During this time Lloyd had texted his sister “Did you see who I am with?” and when his sister asked who, his short reply was “NFL”, followed by the last text of his life “Just so you know.” These messages between Odin Lloyd and his sister were later dismissed in court for lack of evidence that claimed Lloyd feared his life was in danger.
In recent years there seems to be a case building to support the early mentioned suspect by the name of Aaron Kosminski by using DNA. In Polly Dunbar news article she details how recent DNA evidence might help finally uncover the century old murder case. A man named Russell Edwards purchased a shawl believed to have belong to Catherine Eddowes and present on the night of her murder. Mr. Edwards hired Dr. Jari Louhelainen to test the fabric that had remnants of what might possibly be both blood and semen. DNA samples were then collected from living descendants of both Eddowes and Kosminski.
CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain caused by repeated head injuries. CTE was first found in boxers and recent studies show that CTE is also found in football players. It causes a buildup of an abnormal protein called Tau. During the recent interview conducted by the New York Times, NFL members have denied having any relationship between the NFL and CTE. However, there is evidence pointing against them.
In a 2017 study from Boston University of deceased NFL players, it found that 110 out of the 111 players’ brains had CTE (Fleming). That is astounding evidence of CTE
The first example is future hall of famer Junior Seau. In 2012, he was the first of many NFL players to get diagnosed with CTE. On May 2, 2012 he was found dead at his home in California with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest (“What is CTE”). Later he went in for an autopsy and it revealed that he had CTE.
“Within the limbic system, the amygdala, which is responsible for emotions and partially responsible for memory, has been found to directly influence changes in violent or hostile activity (Wright et al., 2008)”, (Renegdanoble, 2014). The amygdala is an almond-shape set of neurons located deep within in the brain's medial temporal lobe – one of the four major lobes of the brain in the cerebral hemisphere, (ScienceDaily, 2017). It is thought that people who are excessively aggressive or fearful have problems with their amygdala. This can be because their amygdala is damaged which can occur through stroke, tumour or developmental problems. Moreover, damage to the prefrontal cortex- a part of the brain located at the front of the frontal lobe near the forehead, which is implicated in a variety of complex behaviours, and greatly contributes to personality development, would reduce the inhibition of the amygdala resulting in higher levels of aggression, (Good Therapy,
