California man convicted of murder in 2018 stabbing death of gay University of Pennsylvania student
By Jamie Ding And Amy Taxin, The Associated Press on July 3, 2024.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – A California man has been convicted of murder in the killing of a gay University of Pennsylvania student in a 2018 stabbing. Samuel Woodward, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of Blaze Bernstein. Bernstein, a gay, Jewish college sophomore, was home visiting his family in Southern California on winter break when he went missing. Authorities scoured the area for him and found his body a week later buried in a shallow grave at a nearby park. 4-3
