Aaron Hernandez Special Leads ID’s ‘Murder Under Friday Night Lights’ [Video]

A two-hour special on the downfall of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez will kick off the new season of ID’s football-themed true crime series “Murder Under the Friday Night Lights.”

“Aaron Hernandez and the Untold Murders of Bristol” will premiere Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, ID president Jason Sarlanis announced during his panel at Content London on Thursday. New episodes of “Murder Under the Friday Night Lights” will then follow Wednesdays starting Jan. 15.

According to a press release, the new documentary special “delves into the tragic intersection of Aaron Hernandez with two of his high school teammates, Alex Ryng and Nicholas Brutcher, who, in a disturbing twist of fate, also went on to commit murder.”

The special will feature interviews with Hernandez’s childhood friend Alex Bradley, who was shot in the face by Hernandez, and Ernest Wallace, a family friend who was with Hernandez on the night Odin …