Jury convicts Blaze Bernstein’s killer of premeditated murder and a hate crime
Samuel Woodward, Bernstein's former classmate, will face life in prison without the possibility of parole
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Fast Forward Killer of slain Jewish college student says victim threatened to out him
In testimony, Samuel Woodward says he was enraged and terrified when he stabbed Blaze Bernstein to death
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News In Blaze Bernstein murder trial, mother of accused testifies about his troubled childhood
Michele Woodward, whose son is accused of first-degree murder, proved an evasive witness
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News ‘His last name was Bernstein’: Exchange over yarmulke brings antisemitism into focus in murder trial
Was Blaze Bernstein's death an anti-gay murder, an antisemitic murder, or both?
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News ‘I want to find Blaze as much as you do’: Call from Blaze Bernstein’s alleged murderer to distraught parents played at trial
Samuel Woodward told them he had searched for Blaze after he disappeared into a local park
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Testimony from Bernstein’s mother will continue Thursday
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Fast Forward Five years later, a gay Jewish student’s alleged killer is going to trial
Prosecutors are expected to argue that the murder of Blaze Bernstein was rooted in homophobia
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