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Aaron Hernandez Update: Police back at lake in ex-NFL star's Conn. hometown

A Connecticut State Police dive team member searches Pine Lake in Bristol, Conn., the hometown of Aaron Hernandez, Monday, July 29, 2013. AP Photo/Jessica Hill

(AP) BRISTOL, Conn. - Police divers have returned for a second day of searching in a lake in the Connecticut hometown of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots player who is charged with murder.

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Authorities have declined to comment on the search at Pine Lake, a 54-acre man-made lake in Bristol, except to confirm it is related to the Hernandez investigation.

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Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old Boston semi-professional football player whose body was found June 17 about a mile from Hernandez's home in North Attleborough, Mass.

Authorities believe Lloyd was killed with a .45-caliber Glock, which hasn't been recovered.

Divers spent eight hours Monday at the lake, which has an average depth of 4 1/2 feet and is 12 feet at its deepest point.

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