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California man with neo-Nazi ties gets life for 2018 murder of former classmate Blaze Bernstein

Nov 18, 2024, 07:48 PM

Samuel Lincoln Woodward, a California man with ties to a neo-Nazi group and anti-gay rhetoric, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2018 murder of Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old gay and Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania. Woodward, a former high school classmate of Bernstein, was convicted of fatally stabbing him and burying his body in a park, an act prosecutors described as a hate crime.