Data: Victim's Cell Pinged Along Hernandez's Alleged Route

Testimony in the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez will resume Thursday

In another day of testimony, a Massachusetts State Police trooper said a tire track near Odin Lloyd's body matched the tire from Aaron Hernandez's rented Nissan Altima.

"The passenger rear tire positively made the impression," said Trooper Todd Girouard.

The defense wasted no time attacking that trooper for how he made the match through stone impressions, and for his credentials.

A realtor also took the stand, saying a Patriots representative contacted her back in April of 2013, just three months before Lloyd was killed, to help Hernandez look for rental properties.

She says she would often help the team do this, many times for players like Hernandez who already owned homes.

"Any type of relocation," said Barbara Scardino. "Anything that they need to make themselves comfortable."

Ultimately, Hernandez rented what investigators called the secret "flop house" in Franklin, Massachusetts, where they say they removed ammunition and a sweatshirt he allegedly wore the night of the murder.

Next door neighbor Carol Bailey says she would often see Ernest Wallace in the apartment. She says the first time she greeted Hernandez, he wasn't friendly.

"He just looked at me and made ... sort of a non descript sound," said Bailey.

Bailey testified she'd smell a strong "skunk" smell coming from the apartment, and that Wallace placed air fresheners in the hallway.

She says she would hear men's voices coming from the apartment, but that Hernandez appeared to fly under the radar, often concealing himself.

"He was wearing gray sweatpants and a gray hoodie, and the hoodie was pulled up over his head," she said.

A T-Mobile representative also took the stand, testifying about the route Lloyd's cell phone pinged the night he was killed.

One ping came from near the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 128 at 2:53 a.m., the same time a photo shows Hernandez's car drive through a toll plaza.

Prosecutors say Hernandez picked Lloyd up at his home in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood and drove him to North Attleborough, where he was murdered.

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