Samuel Woodward, who admitted to killing former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein and burying his body at the edge of a Lake Forest park in what a jury agreed was a hate-crime murder ...

Tuesday was Samuel "Sam" Woodward's third day of testimony and day 28 of his trial. He testified about how he reconnected with his former Orange County School of the Arts classmate, Blaze Bernstein.

Samuel Woodward, the man responsible for killing his former classmate Blaze Bernstein in an anti-LGBTQ and anti-Jewish hate crime, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Woodward was ...

Samuel Woodward, the man accused of killing his former classmate Blaze Bernstein in an anti-LGBTQ and anti-Jewish hate crime, was found guilty by a jury on Wednesday. Woodward was found guilty of ...

In July 2024, Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 27, was convicted of first-degree murder with a hate crime enhancement for the killing of Bernstein, who was gay and Jewish, in Foothill Ranch, California.

Samuel Woodward, 21, has pleaded not guilty to killing his former high school classmate in January. Last month, a hate crime charge was added alleging that Woodward targeted Bernstein because he ...

Samuel Woodward, 20, was taken into custody on Friday afternoon for the alleged murder. (JTA) — A high school classmate of dead 19-year-old college student Blaze Bernstein has been named as a ...