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 admitted to ...

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 ...

When Samuel Woodward decided to kill a gay high school classmate in January 2018, according to a prosecutor, he chose a weapon with symbolic significance: a knife with his father’s name etched on it.