Behind the highly-publicized trial of murderer Aaron Hernandez has played out a painful and private feud between two sisters. Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, 25, sobbed and hugged the killer's mom in the Massachusetts court on Wednesday as the jury returned a guilty verdict for first-degree murder, sending the ex-NFL star to prison for life with no chance of release. Just feet away across the aisle in the packed courtroom, sat her 23-year-old sister, Shaneah Jenkins, the girlfriend of victim Odin Lloyd who Hernandez executed with five bullets on June 17, 2013. The once-close sisters, who shared an apartment in their native Bristol, Connecticut, have not spoken since it became clear that Hernandez had a role in Lloyd's brutal death. Scroll down for video . Happier times: Sisters Shaneah (pictured left) and Shayanna Jenkins (right) pictured in 2011. The Aaron Hernandez murder trial has left them estranged . Torn apart: Shayanna Jenkins (pictured right) and her younger sister Shaneah (left) in their senior yearbook photo from 2007 at Bristol Central High School, Connecticut. The two sisters were close until Aaron Hernandez's murder of Odin Lloyd left them on opposite sides of a murder trial . The girlfriend of Odin Lloyd (circled, bottom left) dabbed her eyes with a tissue as she sat across the aisle from her estranged sister and Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, who sobbed and hugged the former NFL player's mother Terri (top right) when the guilty verdict was announced . Shayanna Jenkins left the courtroom immediately after the guilty verdict on Wednesday morning and was seen driving away in her car, eyes shielded by sunglasses. She did not wait to hear the victim impact statement of Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, who said that she had forgiven those who 'had a hand in my son's murder both before and after'. The mother also spoke of how her son Odin introducing her to his girlfriend Shaneah had been 'a gift' in her life. Shaneah did not speak before the court but placed a comforting hand on Ms Ward when she spoke to media outside. The Jenkins sisters, who introduced the men, both attended the trial at times, sitting on opposite sides without exchanging a word, their rift on full display. Shayanna sat behind Hernandez, 25, and could be seen joking with him, several times exchanging whispered 'I love yous' when she attended. Shaneah sat with Lloyd's family. Before he was killed, she and Lloyd, 27, had made plans to move in together while she attended law school in Boston. Both sisters took the stand during the two-and-a-half-month murder trial in Fall River, Massachusetts. When Shaneah took the stand against Hernandez, her sister sat in the front row, supporting the former Pats star and father of her two-year-old daughter, Avielle. The sisters, for a time, took similar paths, according to Shaneah's testimony. The women grew up together in Bristol, Connecticut, and both attended Bristol Central High School. They have a 16-year-old younger sister. Shayanna had an on-and-off relationship with Hernandez that spanned the last two years of high school. When Hernandez went off to Florida to play football, Shayanna went to community college. After Hernandez was drafted by the Patriots in 2010, Shayanna left college and moved with him to a Massachusetts condo. Hernandez's mother, Terri, (right) and fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, (left) broke down in sobs and clutched at each other as each juror pronounced Hernandez guilty on all charges on Wednesday . Victim Odin Lloyd's girlfriend, Shaneah Jenkins, appeared overwhelmed on Wednesday as Hernandez was jailed for life. The murderer is her sister Shayanna's fiancé . Aaron Hernandez reacts after being found guilty of first-degree murder and other charges on Wednesday. He was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole in Fall River, Massachusetts . Two years later, Hernandez signed a $40 million contract and, that November, Shayanna gave birth to a daughter, Avielle Janelle. The family moved into a mansion in North Attleborough, not far from Gillette Stadium. Shaneah, like her sister, enrolled in community college but later transferred to Central Connecticut State University. Shayanna Jenkins, pictured in her senior yearbook photo in 2007. She began dating Hernandez while she was at Bristol Central High School . She held down several jobs while majoring in criminology: at a home care company, for a law firm and at a Comfort Suites hotel in Southington, Connecticut. Her older sister, who had also once worked there, helped her get the job. It was there that Shaneah met Lloyd, who was doing electrical work with a crew staying at the hotel, in January 2012. By March, they were dating. They talked every day and after Lloyd's work in Connecticut ended, their relationship deepened. Lloyd and Hernandez first met in August 2012, when, for the younger sister's birthday, Hernandez got a skybox for a Patriots game at Gillette Stadium. After that, the men saw each other a few times a month, Shaneah told the court. She would stay with her sister and Hernandez when she went to Massachusetts to visit Lloyd every couple of weeks. 'Almost every time I went there, he was with me,' Shaneah testified. During those visits, while the sisters would hang out upstairs, go shopping or get their nails done, Lloyd and Hernandez would sometimes hole up in the basement 'man cave' and smoke marijuana, often with other people, Shaneah testified. A few times, the couples went to clubs together. By May 2013, Shaneah graduated college and had big plans: pursuing a law degree at New England School of Law. She was moving to Boston, she testified, and she and Lloyd were planning to move in together. The next month, Lloyd was dead. Shaneah, now a second-year criminal law student, tearfully testified about getting the call from police in the middle of the night. She called her mother. Her next call was to her older sister. After heading to see Lloyd's mother in Boston, Shaneah and her uncle drove to the home Shayanna and Hernandez shared. Surveillance video played in court from inside the home showed Shayanna giving her a long hug. As she watched the video play from her seat in the front row, Shayanna put her hand on her forehead, then wiped away tears. But other parts of Shaneah's testimony seemed to agitate the older sister, who had her arms crossed and bounced her leg, occasionally emitting sighs as her sister spoke. Ursula Ward, mother of the victim, speaks to the media outside court on Wednesday. Her late son's girlfriend, Shaneah Jenkins, (second left) gave her a comforting pat on the arm . Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, fled the court on Wednesday morning after Aaron Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder . Shayanna pulled out a notebook and began scribbling notes at a few points, including when Shaneah insisted Hernandez had checked in with her only once to see how she was doing in the days after Lloyd was found dead. Hernandez's lawyer presented Shaneah with her own grand jury testimony, when she said he had periodically asked if she was OK. Shayanna then shared the notes with Hernandez's legal team. Shayanna attended just one day of her sister's testimony - when Shaneah was cross-examined. During that time, the sisters did not make eye contact, except once. Soon after she took the stand, the prosecutor asked if she saw her sister in the courtroom. Shaneah at first said no, until Shayanna craned her neck to make sure she was seen. Hernandez had been in the way. Then at the end of last month, it was Shayanna's turn to take the stand for the prosecution after she was granted immunity. Prosecutors earlier accused Jenkins of lying to a grand jury 29 times as it probed Lloyd's murder. Shayanna Jenkins, fiancee of the former Patriots player, testified at his murder trial in March. She stuttered and said 'we're estranged' when asked about her relationship with her sister . Shayanna Jenkins' younger sister, Shaneah, cried in court as her sister testified about disposing of items from Hernandez's home after the murder. To her right is Lloyd's mother Ursula . They accused her of getting rid of possible evidence on Hernandez's instructions - including the murder weapon, a .45 Glock pistol. Shaneah testified she saw her sister carry a garbage bag to the basement after getting calls and texts the morning after Lloyd's body was found. Shayanna was seen on her own home surveillance cameras carrying a box from her basement and borrowing her sister's car to take it away. She testified to the court that she had 'no memory' of where she disposed of the box. The box, nor the murder weapon, has ever been found. Her sister, Shaneah Jenkins, who was dating murder victim Lloyd, left the court sobbing as she made that statement. Shayanna,wearing her large diamond engagement ring on the stand, borrowed Shaneah's car to carry out the errand after the younger sister came to her home to grieve for her murdered boyfriend. She told the court that she believed it was the first time she had ever borrowed her sister's vehicle. Shayanna appeared unruffled by the intense scrutiny being placed on by the prosecution over her alleged lies to the grand jury. But when she was asked about her relationship with her younger sister, she paused and stuttered: 'We're estranged.'
Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, 25, sobbed when the verdict of first-degree murder was announced on Wednesday.
She left the courtroom with Hernandez's mother soon afterwards.
Her sister, Shaneah Jenkins, Odin Lloyd's girlfriend, wept alongside the victim's family as Hernandez was told he would spend rest of his life in jail.
The once-close Jenkins sisters have sat on opposite sides of the courtroom throughout the trial in Massachusetts.