A new documentary explores the chilling story of three former high school football teammates, all of whom went on to commit murder. The documentary examines the common factors that may have contributed to their violent acts, including repeated head injuries, the pressure of being star athletes in an economically depressed community, and the struggle to reconcile their identities within a hyper-macho environment.
, the prodigiously gifted NFL star who was found guilty of murder and then hung himself in prison. Much less famous are two of his former teammates at Bristol Central High School in Connecticut, Nick Brutcher and Alex Ryng. Like Hernandez, they often led with their helmets, racking up hits and concussions on the field and leading increasingly troubled lives off of it. And, in a tragic defiance of statistical probability, they, too, committed murder.
makes an effort at socioeconomic analysis, as when Solotaroff describes Bristol as “a vintage snapshot of post-industrial America,” one of countless towns that nosedives when manufacturing jobs go away. The doc could use more of such material to bolster Solotaroff’s observation that “Bristol and Aaron were walking the same path.
The Brutcher and Ryng stories don’t have the gangland glamour of Hernandez’s tale, but they’re much sadder for their relative anonymity. In 2014, Ryng murdered his wife before taking his own life. In 2022, Brutcher killed two police officers after luring them to his home with a fake 911 call, before a third officer took him down. Both men had been in a tailspin, with increasingly erratic and violent behavior. Unlike Hernandez, they didn‘t flame out on the public stage.
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