Shayanna Jenkins, the fiancée of accused triple-murderer Aaron Hernandez, previously faced perjury charges for allegedly lying to a grand jury about having no knowledge of disposing of a box that may have contained a key piece of evidence in the Odin Lloyd murder case. At the trial regarding the June 2013 shooting death of Lloyd, Jenkins has admitted to disposing of the box -- although she claimed to have no knowledge of its contents.
“He told me to go downstairs in our storage room and remove a box from our house,” Jenkins testified Monday, via Greg Bedard of TheMMQB.com.
“I believe he said it was important, I’m not sure,” Jenkins added. She later explained that she doesn’t remember whether he told her specifically why the box should be removed.
Jenkins admitted that she indeed disposed of the box, but that she doesn’t remember where she disposed of it.
Prosecutors have long believed that the box contained the murder weapon, a Glock used to repeatedly shoot Lloyd. And the jury now has enough evidence to account for the absence of the murder weapon, since common sense suggests that innocent people rarely instruct a loved one to remove a box with unknown contents from the house during the early stages of an investigation arising from the murder of a friend whose body was found not far from the house from which the mystery box was removed and disposed.
On Friday, Jenkins admitted that she asked Hernandez if he killed Lloyd, and that Hernandez denied it. The mere fact that she asked the question could become strong circumstantial evidence of guilty during jury deliberations. While Hernandez’s denial is as useful as the standard response to the “do I look fat in these jeans?” question, the “hey, did you kill that guy?” question rarely gets floated in the households of the non-criminal.