Samuel Woodward remains in the California Medical Facility at Vacaville. He will remain incarcerated for life because the court gave him life without parole.

Blaze Bernstein, 19, disappeared from his parents’ Orange County home on a rainy January 2, 2018. He had planned a late-night meetup with former classmate Samuel Woodward.

Blaze Bernstein was a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore who vanished on the night of January 2, 2018, while ...

Blaze Bernstein was a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore who came home to Orange County for winter break in ...

Samuel Woodward, a California man found guilty of murdering his former classmate in 2018 in a hate crime, was sentenced to ...

Six years after the murder of Blaze Bernstein, a gay, Jewish college student, his family faced his killer Sam Woodward, a ...

In 2022, Woodward was found competent to stand trial. Finally, in April 2024, the murder trial began. Remarkably, after all they have endured, the couple turned their grief into hope.