A look at the disappearance of 2018 Blaze Bernstein And evidence due to which Sam woodwardArrest and guilty in hatred crime murder.
January 2, 2018
Bernstein Family 
A 19 -year -old Ivagous League student Blaze, Orange County, was spending a family visit to California during the holidays when she remembered on the night of 2 January 2018.
January 3, 2018
CBS nudes 
Blaze failed to show the appointment of a dentist and did not respond to texts and calls, his parents, gene paper and Gidon Bernstein checked their room. He did not get the blessings, but still got his wallet, keys and glasses at home.
He discovered Blaze’s computer and social media accounts for clues. On the Snapchat of Blaze, he received the message of Sam Woodward, who was a high school classmate of Blaze. Messaging revealed that the night’s blaze went missing, he had sent his address to Woodward. Gidon approached Bernstein Woodward, who claimed that he picked up the blaze and moved to the local Borrigo Park. Woodward said that Blaze then went into the dark to meet another friend.
“I didn’t see where he went,” Woodward told Gidon Bernstein. “I discovered everything for him … I didn’t find him anywhere.”
After that call, anxious Bernsteins filed a report of a missing man with the police.
January 6, 2018
CBS Los Angeles 
Law enforcement repeatedly combined Borrigo Park. By this point, the news of the disappearance of Blaze had already spread to Orange County.
The Bernstein family, who is still expecting good news, held a press conference, asking the public to stay in search of their son.
January 9, 2018
Orange county court 
After the discovery days, investigators found that Blaz, buried in the shallow grave at Borrigo Park, helped her body to highlight after heavy rains. He went Stabbed more than 20 timesThe damaged phone (painted) of the blaze was also found in that grave.
Investigators believed that Woodward was the last person to see Blaze before disappearing. Woodward told him what he told Bernsteins – he met Blaze, who then moved to the park. Investigators served a search warrant at Woodward’s house.
January 12, 2018
Orange County Sheriff Department 
Sam woodward It was arrested on January 12, 2018.
January 17, 2018
Woodward was Accused with MurdeWith enhancing the punishment of individual use of the knife.
Later in 2018, the then Orange County District Attorney Tony Rakkas told “48 hours” that investigators had found a knife in Woodward’s house.
“The knife blooded on him,” said Rikakas. “Blaze Bernstein’s blood on a knife.”
Orange County Sheriff Department 
He also said that he found blood in Woodward’s car.
“The blood was on the headliner of both blood Sam Woodward and Blaze Bernstein,” Rakkas told “48 hours” correspondent Tracy Smith.
February 2, 2018
Woodward was debated and pleaded not guilty,
August 2, 2018
The Orange County District Attorney’s office added a hatred crime growth in early allegations of Sam Woodward.
CBS Los Angeles 
The prosecutors claimed that Woodward killed Blaze with predetermined as Blaze was gay. If convicted, Woodward can now face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Officials say that after examining Woodward’s phone, laptops and social media accounts, he found evidence of Woodward’s participation in the new-Nazi terrorist group Atomwafen.
April 9, 2024
Pool 
In early statements Her testThe prosecution told the jury that Woodward killed Blaze as he was gay. Defense lawyer Kane Morrison admitted that Woodward killed Blaze but argued that the murder was not predetermined and instead there was a case of voluntary murder. He argued that Blaze did something that encouraged Woodward to kill him and told Jury Woodward that the night would testify about what happened to Blaze’s death.
10 April, 2024
Pool 
“I know that a lot of things will be said that are probably untrue,” gene paper described “48 hours”. “Because this is what happens in a criminal trial … I have an opportunity to defend the blaze and this is what I will do.”
Blaze Bernstein’s parents were one of the 23 witnesses who testified for prosecution.
June 20, 2024
Pool 
When it was the turn of defense, Woodward told the jury that he killed Blaze at night, Woodward had a joint smoke. He said Blaze was taunting him and threatened to exclude his sexuality. Woodward accused of sexual harassment. There is no evidence of this.
Woodward testified that he then killed Blaze. He said that he regularly stabbed a knife with him from his days as a boy scout.
3 July, 2024
CBS Los Angeles 
The jury found Sam Woodward guilty of killing the first-degree with Hate Crime Enhancement.
“He faces life without the possibility of parole,” said Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Walker. “And that’s what we will ask.”
November 15, 2024
Sam Woodward was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole.
Blaze’s legacy
KCBS 
After the murder of his son, Blaze’s parents were Hatred not determined to winTo honor his son, he started a movement “Blazitforward” Motivational functions of kindness.
In Borrigo Park, where Blaze was tragically killed, there is now a tribute to Blaze. Till date, people from all over the world continue to leave stones in his memory.
