Silent stone tells both sides of an epic story, life and death Blaze BernsteinHe is a marker of a violent murder, but also a promise in a better future belief. A monument for the best of humanity, and the worst of human behavior.
You can find stones in a cool corner of Borrago Park in suburban Orange County, California. Hundreds of them have been painted by hand with messages of tolerance, love and peace. “And they are sending to us from all over the world,” says Gidon Bernstein. “It is very good to see messaging. It is always positive,” Gidon’s wife says Jean Paper.
KCBS 
Jean and Gidon Blaze are the parents of Bernstein. On January 2, 2018, the 19 -year -old Blaze left his home. After some time that night, He was murdered In Borrigo Park, stabbed 28 times; His body was buried in a shallow, dirty grave there.
According to all accounts, Blaze was an extraordinary young man – a student of an Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania, a career in medicine, considering a writer and a budding chef. “I call him a unicorn,” Jean Paper told “48 hours” correspondent Tracy Smith in an Encor of “The Life and Death of Blaze Bernstein”, which now streaming on Paramount+.
Their disadvantage is a disadvantage that they live till date. “I think of Blaze all the time, because when I look at things, I think myself, ‘What would the Blaze be doing now?”
Blaze died due to some more original. He was targeted, and according to investigators, slaughtered, because who is he Was – a gay, Jewish man. Orange County District Attorney, Tony Racks says it was A hatred crimeOfficials say Blaze’s killer was a neo-Nazi, a member of a small violent hatred group called “Attamwafen”, whose beliefs were deep-LGBTQ + as well as viral antismitic.
Is the killer Samuel WoodwardHe once returned to Blaze classmate in high school. All this is common about Blaze and Woodward, according to classmate Riyah Rofsky, who tells Smith, “they were very different … as you could be different as you.” Rofsky recalls the unstable appearance of woodward. “He was very calm – taken back very much, didn’t really talk to people.” Rofsky states that Smith Woodward had a reputation. “Racist, homophobic, sexist.”
And when the word spread that Blaze College had gone missing during the house in California on a winter vacation, and that the last person saw him that he was Woodward, Rofci’s response was immediate. “This is why I could think of Sam to think that Blaze was met because either number one, he wanted to hook him, or two, because he was planning to kill him.” It was January 2018.
The detectives arrested Woodward exactly 10 days after the disappearance of the blaze at Borrigo Park.
It has been a six painful year. The Kovid was delayed, and there was a rotating door to defense lawyers who raised questions with the court about Woodward’s mental health and ability to protect themselves. All this disappointed the gene black pepper and Gidon Bernstein and waited for justice. “Slow Justice is not justice,” says black pepper. “This is not appropriate for the victims and it is not appropriate for the deceased.” In 2022, Woodward was found to be able to test. Finally, in April 2024, Case of murder started,
Remandable, he finally tolerated, the couple turned their grief into hope. They established that they say “a kind movement” – promoting “positivity” and random acts of kindness in the name of the blaze. They call their movement “Blazitforward.”
CBS News 
In Borrigo Park, where Blaze breathed its last, there is extraordinary response-hundreds of hand painted stones, which are left by total strangers in memory of Blaze Bernstein.
Silent stone talks about the change of tolerance and blaze in a kind of martyr; His murder is a marker of hatred from Rabid. His soul inspires LGBTQ + people, wherever he lives and whatever he loves.
Jean Pepper tells Smith, “Blaze’s life matters and has an inheritance, to make good news, to motivate people to be better, to be kind to be kind. And to work on repairing the world, because it is not too late and we can improve it.”
Sam Woodward was on July 3, 2024 Disgusting crime was found guilty of killing first-degreeOn 15 November, Woodward sentenced For life in jail without parole.
