Investigators are now examining whether Hernandez, who hanged himself in his jail cell before dawn on Wednesday at Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, was taunted by Lloyd just before he killed him.
In April 2015, Hernandez was convicted for shooting and killing Lloyd, a semi-professional football player, on June 17, 2013.
According to Newsweek, Lloyd may have known that Hernandez was carrying on an affair with a male friend who was forced to testify before the grand jury in the Lloyd case.
At the time of his death, Lloyd, 27, was dating Shaneah Jenkins, the sister of Aaron Hernandez's fiancee.
Investigators now reportedly want to know if Hernandez killed Lloyd so as to prevent him from revealing details of the Patriot star's sex life to his girlfriend, who might then pass the information to Hernandez's fiancee.
Ernest Wallace, a co-defendant in the Lloyd murder case, told police that Lloyd had called Hernandez 'schmoocher,' which he interpreted as a gay slur.
Wallace is now serving at least four years in prison for helping Hernandez get rid of the murder weapon used to kill Lloyd.
He was overheard telling Hernandez's cousin that he would not have helped the football star hide the gun if he knew beforehand that he was a 'limp wrist.'
'Limp wrist' is known as a disparaging term used for homosexuals.
The revelations about a possible motive for the Lloyd murder came as news emerged that Hernandez left three handwritten notes in the cell where he hanged himself.
One note each was written to his fiancée, his daughter and his gay jailhouse lover.
Two of the notes were written to Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez and the couple's four-year-old daughter Avielle.
Both were seen leaving her mother's Connecticut home Thursday.
Sources close to the investigation tell DailyMail.com that the third letter was written to Hernandez's gay prison lover, who has not been identified but was believed to be the last person Hernandez spoke to before he took his own life.
Now that man is currently under 'eyeball to eyeball' suicide watch.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Henry N. Nields performed an autopsy on Mr. Hernandez on Wednesday and concluded today that the manner of death was suicide and the cause asphyxia by hanging,' stated Massachusetts District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr. in a statement on Thursday.
'An investigation into the death by the State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney's Office and Department of Correction investigators found cardboard jammed into the door tracks of his single-inmate cell to impede entry into the cell.'
The report went on to state: 'There were no signs of a struggle, and investigators determined that Mr. Hernandez was alone at the time of the hanging.
'Mr. Hernandez was locked in his cell about 8 p.m. and no one entered the cell until a correction officer observed him at 3:03 a.m. and forced his way through the impeded door to render aid.'
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