Late in the evening on Jan. 2, 2018, Woodward drove over to the Bernstein family home in Lake Forest, where Bernstein was staying during winter break. The two went to nearby Borrego Park.

Samuel Woodward, who admitted to killing former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein and burying his body at the edge of a Lake Forest park in what a jury agreed was a hate-crime murder, was ...

Samuel Woodward, who killed Blaze Bernstein, convicted of hate-crime in Lake Forest murder ...

Six and a half years after a weeklong community search ended with the discovery of Blaze Bernstein’s body in a makeshift grave at the edge of a Lake Forest park, the former classmate who ...