1 00:00:04,758 --> 00:00:10,655 ♪ 2 00:00:10,655 --> 00:00:14,000 >>> LIKE MANY THINGS IN LIFE THE 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,758 FACTS OF THIS CASE ARE NOT 4 00:00:15,758 --> 00:00:16,000 SIMPLE. 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,827 THEY'RE NOT BLACK AND WHITE. 6 00:00:17,827 --> 00:00:20,862 >> IT'S EASY TO FORGET HOW 7 00:00:20,862 --> 00:00:23,137 SYMBOLIC THIS TRIAL WAS OF A 8 00:00:23,137 --> 00:00:25,310 GREATER PROBLEM IN THE WORLD. 9 00:00:25,310 --> 00:00:27,000 >> YOU'LL HEAR STRONG, 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,551 COMPELLING EVIDENCE THAT 11 00:00:28,551 --> 00:00:30,310 EXPLAINS THE REAL REASON FOR 12 00:00:30,310 --> 00:00:33,827 THIS VERY SAD AND TRAGIC 13 00:00:33,827 --> 00:00:34,068 KILLING. 14 00:00:34,068 --> 00:00:35,931 >> IT'S BEEN SIX YEARS. 15 00:00:35,931 --> 00:00:37,862 IS IT STILL HARD TO BELIEVE THAT 16 00:00:37,862 --> 00:00:38,517 BLAZE IS GONE? 17 00:00:38,517 --> 00:00:42,758 >> IT TOOK A WHILE FOR IT TO SET 18 00:00:42,758 --> 00:00:43,862 IN. 19 00:00:43,862 --> 00:00:45,172 BUT I'M AT PEACE WITH IT. 20 00:00:45,172 --> 00:00:47,241 MAYBE THAT'S ALL THAT WE WERE 21 00:00:47,241 --> 00:00:47,862 SUPPOSED TO HAVE. 22 00:00:47,862 --> 00:00:52,689 ♪ HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BLAZE 23 00:00:52,689 --> 00:00:54,275 >> THERE WERE LIKE 19 YEARS WITH 24 00:00:54,275 --> 00:00:57,965 SO MANY MOMENTS OF BRILLIANCE 25 00:00:57,965 --> 00:00:59,517 AND BEAUTY. 26 00:00:59,517 --> 00:01:02,448 >> BLAZE WAS VERY CREATIVE. 27 00:01:02,448 --> 00:01:04,000 DEFINITELY WHEN WE WERE LITTLE 28 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:04,172 KIDS. 29 00:01:04,172 --> 00:01:05,379 >> DID YOU WANT CHEESE? 30 00:01:05,379 --> 00:01:06,034 >> SURE. 31 00:01:06,034 --> 00:01:09,103 >> WE WERE LIKE ATTACHED AT THE 32 00:01:09,103 --> 00:01:09,517 HIP. 33 00:01:09,517 --> 00:01:13,103 >> I THINK OF HIM AS SOMEBODY 34 00:01:13,103 --> 00:01:14,896 WHOSE POTENTIAL FOR LIFE WAS 35 00:01:14,896 --> 00:01:17,931 COMPLETELY OBLITERATED. 36 00:01:17,931 --> 00:01:20,206 >> BLAZE BERNSTEIN WAS GAY, AND 37 00:01:20,206 --> 00:01:24,000 HIS KILLER WAS A MEMBER OF A 38 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:24,620 NEO-NAZI GROUP. 39 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:25,793 >> UNDERCOVER OFFICERS MADE 40 00:01:25,793 --> 00:01:28,033 THEIR MOVE ON SAM WOODWARD. 41 00:01:28,033 --> 00:01:31,000 >> WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT 42 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:31,241 NEO-NAZIS? 43 00:01:31,241 --> 00:01:34,172 >> THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. 44 00:01:34,172 --> 00:01:36,310 THEY'RE ALL OVER THE INTERNET. 45 00:01:36,310 --> 00:01:38,551 >> THEY'RE HERE IN ORANGE 46 00:01:38,551 --> 00:01:38,793 COUNTY. 47 00:01:38,793 --> 00:01:40,241 >> I BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS A 48 00:01:40,241 --> 00:01:41,000 HATE CRIME. 49 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,896 >> THE 26-YEAR-OLD'S APPEARANCE 50 00:01:42,896 --> 00:01:44,413 HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY FROM 51 00:01:44,413 --> 00:01:48,413 THE TIME OF HIS ARREST BACK IN 52 00:01:48,413 --> 00:01:48,723 2018. 53 00:01:48,723 --> 00:01:50,033 >> AT THE TRIAL SAM LOOKED LIKE 54 00:01:50,033 --> 00:01:54,275 A SPITTING IMAGE OF CHARLIE 55 00:01:54,275 --> 00:01:54,517 MANSON. 56 00:01:54,517 --> 00:01:56,000 >> IT WAS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING 57 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:56,655 TO LOOK AT. 58 00:01:56,655 --> 00:01:58,517 >> THE EVIDENCE WILL SHOW YOU 59 00:01:58,517 --> 00:01:59,620 THAT THE DEFENDANT KILLED BLAZE 60 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:02,344 BERNSTEIN BECAUSE HE WAS GAY. 61 00:02:02,344 --> 00:02:04,655 HE WAS GAY AND JEWISH. 62 00:02:04,655 --> 00:02:09,033 >> HATE CRIME OR CRIME OF 63 00:02:09,033 --> 00:02:09,758 PASSION. 64 00:02:09,758 --> 00:02:10,275 THE DIFFERENCE IS THE 65 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:12,103 POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. 66 00:02:12,103 --> 00:02:14,413 >> BLAZE BERNSTEIN WAS FOUND 67 00:02:14,413 --> 00:02:17,793 WITH 28 STAB WOUNDS. 68 00:02:17,793 --> 00:02:20,000 >> THE PROSECUTION HAS A BIT OF 69 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,482 A HIGHER BAR HERE BECAUSE THEY 70 00:02:21,482 --> 00:02:23,137 ALSO HAVE TO SHOW THAT SAM 71 00:02:23,137 --> 00:02:25,413 MURDERED BLAZE BECAUSE OF HIS 72 00:02:25,413 --> 00:02:26,103 GAY IDENTITY. 73 00:02:26,103 --> 00:02:28,896 HE HAD DEVELOPED HIS 74 00:02:28,896 --> 00:02:30,241 LONG-STANDING BELIEFS AGAINST 75 00:02:30,241 --> 00:02:33,067 JEWISH PEOPLE AND GAY PEOPLE. 76 00:02:33,067 --> 00:02:36,067 >> WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT WAS 77 00:02:36,067 --> 00:02:37,206 NOT A HATE CRIME. 78 00:02:37,206 --> 00:02:38,482 >> WE KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO 79 00:02:38,482 --> 00:02:39,896 PRESENT SOME STORY OF WHAT 80 00:02:39,896 --> 00:02:41,137 HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 81 00:02:41,137 --> 00:02:42,586 >> NOT THE TARGETING OF SOMEONE 82 00:02:42,586 --> 00:02:46,655 BECAUSE OF HIS SEXUAL 83 00:02:46,655 --> 00:02:46,965 ORIENTATION. 84 00:02:46,965 --> 00:02:48,000 >> WHAT KIND OF STORY COULD HE 85 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:48,862 COME UP WITH? 86 00:02:48,862 --> 00:02:51,241 >> SAM WOODWARD NEVER PLANNED TO 87 00:02:51,241 --> 00:02:53,310 KILL BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 88 00:02:53,310 --> 00:02:54,793 >> HOMOPHOBIA? 89 00:02:54,793 --> 00:02:57,482 SEXUAL REPRESSION? 90 00:02:57,482 --> 00:02:58,793 HOOKUP CULTURE? 91 00:02:58,793 --> 00:03:01,931 IT ALMOST NEVER ENDS, THE WAY 92 00:03:01,931 --> 00:03:02,655 THAT THIS STORY ENDS. 93 00:03:02,655 --> 00:03:03,862 >> WE DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL 94 00:03:03,862 --> 00:03:05,482 OVER WHAT THE OUTCOME IS. 95 00:03:05,482 --> 00:03:07,586 >> HE COULD BE INNOCENT. 96 00:03:07,586 --> 00:03:14,172 >> HE COULD BE INNOCENT. WE'LL LET THE JURY DECIDE. 97 00:03:14,172 --> 00:03:16,206 WE'LL LET THE JURY DECIDE. 98 00:03:16,206 --> 00:03:23,000 WE'LL LET THE JURY DECIDE. ♪ 99 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,793 ♪ 100 00:03:25,793 --> 00:03:35,172 ♪ ♪ 101 00:03:35,172 --> 00:03:37,620 ♪ 102 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:56,758 ♪ 103 00:03:56,758 --> 00:03:59,275 >>> THE WHY IS THE SINGLE MOST 104 00:03:59,275 --> 00:04:04,965 IMPORTANT ISSUE YOU WILL NEED TO 105 00:04:04,965 --> 00:04:05,413 DECIDE 106 00:04:05,413 --> 00:04:05,655 DECIDE. 107 00:04:05,655 --> 00:04:06,310 NOT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 108 00:04:06,310 --> 00:04:07,413 DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN BUT EXACTLY 109 00:04:07,413 --> 00:04:13,310 WHY HE WAS KILLED SIX YEARS AGO. 110 00:04:13,310 --> 00:04:14,000 >> FOR JEANNE PEPPER AND HER 111 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,379 HUSBAND, GIDEON BERNSTEIN, THOSE 112 00:04:15,379 --> 00:04:16,689 SIX YEARS WERE PAINFULLY MARKED 113 00:04:16,689 --> 00:04:21,344 BY COVID DELAYS, SHIFTING 114 00:04:21,344 --> 00:04:22,965 LAWYERS AND LEGAL STRATEGIES. 115 00:04:22,965 --> 00:04:25,827 >> SLOW JUSTICE IS NO JUSTICE. 116 00:04:25,827 --> 00:04:28,206 IT'S NOT FAIR TO VICTIMS, AND 117 00:04:28,206 --> 00:04:31,965 IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE DECEASED. 118 00:04:31,965 --> 00:04:34,413 >> FINALLY CAME APRIL OF 2024. 119 00:04:34,413 --> 00:04:36,862 JEANNE AND GIDEON WERE MORE THAN 120 00:04:36,862 --> 00:04:38,551 READY FOR THEIR DAY IN COURT. 121 00:04:38,551 --> 00:04:40,931 >> WE'RE IMPATIENT. 122 00:04:40,931 --> 00:04:42,275 WE WANT TO GET ON WITH OUR 123 00:04:42,275 --> 00:04:42,482 LIVES. 124 00:04:42,482 --> 00:04:43,620 >> BUT NOT BEFORE TELLING THE 125 00:04:43,620 --> 00:04:46,655 STORY OF THEIR FIRST-BORN CHILD, 126 00:04:46,655 --> 00:04:48,241 BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 127 00:04:48,241 --> 00:04:50,344 HOW HE LIVED AND WHY THEY 128 00:04:50,344 --> 00:04:52,482 BELIEVE HE DIED. 129 00:04:52,482 --> 00:04:54,655 MURDERED BECAUSE OF WHO HE WAS. 130 00:04:54,655 --> 00:04:57,000 TARGETED BY HATE. 131 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,758 >> IT'S NOT SAFE FOR YOU TO BE A 132 00:05:03,758 --> 00:05:04,551 LOT OF DIFFERENT MINORITIES NOW. 133 00:05:04,551 --> 00:05:07,068 >> THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE, AND 134 00:05:07,068 --> 00:05:10,862 NOBODY DISPUTES THAT HE WAS A 135 00:05:10,862 --> 00:05:13,103 VICTIM, WAS STABBED TO DEATH. 136 00:05:13,103 --> 00:05:14,517 >> KEN MORRISON WOULD DEFEND 137 00:05:14,517 --> 00:05:16,655 SAMUEL WOODWARD, CHARGED WITH 138 00:05:16,655 --> 00:05:18,344 FIRST-DEGREE PREMEDITATED 139 00:05:18,344 --> 00:05:18,586 MURDER. 140 00:05:18,586 --> 00:05:20,241 MORRISON SQUARED OFF AGAINST 141 00:05:20,241 --> 00:05:21,620 PROSECUTOR JENNIFER WALKER. 142 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:25,827 >> AND WHERE WE START IS WITH 143 00:05:25,827 --> 00:05:27,413 WHO WAS KILLED, BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 144 00:05:27,413 --> 00:05:28,310 AND HE WAS 19. 145 00:05:28,310 --> 00:05:32,275 HE WAS GAY AND JEWISH. 146 00:05:32,275 --> 00:05:35,620 >> THE SILENT, GHOSTLY PRESENCE 147 00:05:35,620 --> 00:05:36,275 IN THE COURTROOM WAS BLAZE. 148 00:05:36,275 --> 00:05:38,000 THAT SLENDER, CURIOUS, PLAYFUL 149 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,448 YOUNG MAN WITH A BIG WORLD. 150 00:05:41,448 --> 00:05:47,793 IMAGES THAT REFUSE TO FADE. 151 00:05:47,793 --> 00:05:49,275 >> ARE THERE PICTURES OR THINGS 152 00:05:49,275 --> 00:05:51,310 THAT FLASH THROUGH YOUR MIND 153 00:05:51,310 --> 00:05:52,862 THAT YOU THINK OF BLAZE? 154 00:05:52,862 --> 00:05:55,655 >> ALWAYS. 155 00:05:55,655 --> 00:05:57,793 EVERY DAY. 156 00:05:57,793 --> 00:05:59,793 >> IT WAS JUST WEEKS AFTER 157 00:05:59,793 --> 00:06:01,655 BLAZE'S DEATH THAT WE FIRST MET 158 00:06:01,655 --> 00:06:04,827 JEANNE AND GIDEON. 159 00:06:04,827 --> 00:06:07,827 WOUNDS RAW, THEY SHARED 160 00:06:07,827 --> 00:06:08,827 BITTERSWEET MEMORIES OF THE SON 161 00:06:08,827 --> 00:06:11,344 THEY DESCRIBED AS MAGICAL. 162 00:06:11,344 --> 00:06:12,413 >> AND THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM 163 00:06:12,413 --> 00:06:14,275 I LOOKED IN HIS EYES, SOMETHING 164 00:06:14,275 --> 00:06:15,241 ABOUT THIS BABY. 165 00:06:15,241 --> 00:06:18,275 HE'S GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD 166 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:18,517 SOMEDAY. 167 00:06:18,517 --> 00:06:22,000 >> BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. 168 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,482 BA, BA, BOOM. 169 00:06:24,482 --> 00:06:25,241 HEY. 170 00:06:25,241 --> 00:06:26,862 BA, BA, BOOM. 171 00:06:26,862 --> 00:06:28,344 >> THAT'S GOING TO BE THE INTRO. 172 00:06:28,344 --> 00:06:30,000 >> WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT 173 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:30,206 BLAZE? 174 00:06:30,206 --> 00:06:31,689 >> YEAH, THAT'S IT. 175 00:06:31,689 --> 00:06:33,724 >> HIS QUIRKY PERSONALITY. 176 00:06:33,724 --> 00:06:37,551 ♪ BA, BA, BOOM, BA, BOOM 177 00:06:37,551 --> 00:06:38,241 >> HE WAS DIFFERENT. 178 00:06:38,241 --> 00:06:39,482 >> HE LIKED TO TURN THE ORDINARY 179 00:06:39,482 --> 00:06:41,482 INTO THE EXTRAORDINARY. 180 00:06:41,482 --> 00:06:43,206 >> I CALL HIM A UNICORN. 181 00:06:43,206 --> 00:06:46,482 HE WAS MAGNIFICENTLY CREATIVE. 182 00:06:46,482 --> 00:06:50,241 >> IT WAS LATE SUMMER 2016 AND 183 00:06:50,241 --> 00:06:51,965 BLAZE, WHO'D ALREADY ACHIEVED SO 184 00:06:51,965 --> 00:06:54,827 MUCH, WAS HEADED TO AN IVY 185 00:06:54,827 --> 00:06:55,275 LEAGUE SCHOOL HERE IN 186 00:06:55,275 --> 00:06:59,310 PHILADELPHIA, THE UNIVERSITY OF 187 00:06:59,310 --> 00:06:59,724 PENNSYLVANIA. 188 00:06:59,724 --> 00:07:00,655 THERE WOULD BE NEW FRIENDS, 189 00:07:00,655 --> 00:07:01,758 CHALLENGES AND MENTORS, AND 190 00:07:01,758 --> 00:07:06,862 BLAZE SEEMED READY FOR IT ALL. 191 00:07:06,862 --> 00:07:09,000 >> HE REALLY HIT HIS STRIDE. 192 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,344 >> A CREATIVE WRITER THINKING 193 00:07:10,344 --> 00:07:12,103 ABOUT A CAREER IN MEDICINE. 194 00:07:12,103 --> 00:07:14,344 >> HE WAS FINDING HIMSELF. 195 00:07:14,344 --> 00:07:16,931 >> THEN CAME WINTER BREAK, 196 00:07:16,931 --> 00:07:17,482 SOPHOMORE YEAR. 197 00:07:17,482 --> 00:07:18,482 BLAZE HEADED HOME. 198 00:07:18,482 --> 00:07:19,517 >> HE WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD 199 00:07:19,517 --> 00:07:21,517 TO BEING WITH US TOO. 200 00:07:21,517 --> 00:07:22,517 >> THERE WERE HOLIDAY 201 00:07:22,517 --> 00:07:23,896 CELEBRATIONS AND HANUKKAH 202 00:07:23,896 --> 00:07:24,241 HANDLES. 203 00:07:24,241 --> 00:07:26,758 THE BUDDING CHEF COOKED UP A 204 00:07:26,758 --> 00:07:28,103 GOURMET MEAL. 205 00:07:28,103 --> 00:07:29,413 AND THEN SOMETIME ON THE NIGHT 206 00:07:29,413 --> 00:07:32,620 OF JANUARY 2nd, 2018 BLAZE 207 00:07:32,620 --> 00:07:34,413 SECRETLY LEFT HIS PARENTS' 208 00:07:34,413 --> 00:07:34,620 HOUSE. 209 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:39,413 IT WOULD BE THE LAST TIME. 210 00:07:39,413 --> 00:07:40,448 >> THAT NIGHT WHEN DID YOU 211 00:07:40,448 --> 00:07:41,482 REALIZE HE WAS MISSING? 212 00:07:41,482 --> 00:07:42,206 >> WE DIDN'T. 213 00:07:42,206 --> 00:07:43,482 >> I DIDN'T KNOW THAT NIGHT. 214 00:07:43,482 --> 00:07:44,413 >> WE DIDN'T KNOW. 215 00:07:44,413 --> 00:07:45,689 WE THOUGHT HE SLEPT IN AND THE 216 00:07:45,689 --> 00:07:46,482 NEXT DAY WE WERE -- 217 00:07:46,482 --> 00:07:48,758 >> I HAD MY A-HA MOMENT WHEN I 218 00:07:48,758 --> 00:07:52,448 WAS AT THE DENTAL APPOINTMENT. 219 00:07:52,448 --> 00:07:54,482 >> THE NEXT DAY BLAZE WAS DUE TO 220 00:07:54,482 --> 00:07:56,896 MEET HIS MOTHER FOR THAT DENTIST 221 00:07:56,896 --> 00:07:57,827 APPOINTMENT, BUT BLAZE NEVER 222 00:07:57,827 --> 00:07:59,965 SHOWED UP AND WASN'T ANSWERING 223 00:07:59,965 --> 00:08:01,241 HIS CELL PHONE. 224 00:08:01,241 --> 00:08:04,000 >> I CALLED GIDEON. 225 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,413 HE ASKED ME IF BLAZE HAD EVER 226 00:08:06,413 --> 00:08:07,620 COME HOME THE NIGHT BEFORE. 227 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:09,517 AND I SCREAMED OUT, "I DON'T 228 00:08:09,517 --> 00:08:10,000 KNOW." 229 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,241 >> RUSHED OUT OF THE OFFICE AND 230 00:08:11,241 --> 00:08:12,034 CAME HOME. 231 00:08:12,034 --> 00:08:13,448 >> WE BOTH DID. 232 00:08:13,448 --> 00:08:14,724 WE FLEW HOME. 233 00:08:14,724 --> 00:08:15,896 >> Reporter: AND CHECKED BLAZE'S 234 00:08:15,896 --> 00:08:16,137 ROOM. 235 00:08:16,137 --> 00:08:22,379 >> HIS WALLET, HIS RETAINERS, 236 00:08:22,379 --> 00:08:22,931 HIS KEYS. 237 00:08:22,931 --> 00:08:24,620 >> THOSE ARE ALL STILL AT THE 238 00:08:24,620 --> 00:08:24,896 HOUSE. 239 00:08:24,896 --> 00:08:27,517 >> HIS GLASSES. 240 00:08:27,517 --> 00:08:27,724 YEAH. 241 00:08:27,724 --> 00:08:30,000 ALL OF THAT STUFF WAS AT THE 242 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:30,379 HOUSE. 243 00:08:30,379 --> 00:08:31,344 >> BUT YOUR THOUGHT WAS? 244 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:33,551 >> WELL, IT WAS JUST SO HIGHLY 245 00:08:33,551 --> 00:08:33,861 UNUSUAL. 246 00:08:33,861 --> 00:08:36,000 >> HE WANTED TO SPEND TIME WITH 247 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:36,586 US. 248 00:08:36,586 --> 00:08:37,413 I JUST KEPT TEXTING AND CALLING 249 00:08:37,413 --> 00:08:39,068 HIM AND LEAVING MESSAGES ALL 250 00:08:39,068 --> 00:08:39,344 DAY. 251 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:41,172 WHERE HAD HE BEEN? 252 00:08:41,172 --> 00:08:42,758 WE DIDN'T KNOW. 253 00:08:42,758 --> 00:08:43,861 >> THEY CALLED POLICE AND TRIED 254 00:08:43,861 --> 00:08:46,413 TO LOG ON TO BLAZE'S SOCIAL 255 00:08:46,413 --> 00:08:46,896 MEDIA ACCOUNTS. 256 00:08:46,896 --> 00:08:48,896 >> WE JUST JUMPED ON HIS 257 00:08:48,896 --> 00:08:49,137 COMPUTER. 258 00:08:49,137 --> 00:08:51,206 THIS WAS A BIG CHALLENGE FOR US. 259 00:08:51,206 --> 00:08:52,758 >> BUT WITH THE HELP OF FAMILY 260 00:08:52,758 --> 00:08:56,482 AND FRIENDS THEY LOGGED ON TO 261 00:08:56,482 --> 00:08:57,482 BLAZE'S SNAPCHAT. 262 00:08:57,482 --> 00:08:58,310 THAT'S WHERE THEY DISCOVERED THE 263 00:08:58,310 --> 00:09:00,103 NIGHT HE DISAPPEARED BLAZE HAD 264 00:09:00,103 --> 00:09:01,862 SENT HIS HOME ADDRESS TO 265 00:09:01,862 --> 00:09:02,827 SOMEONE. 266 00:09:02,827 --> 00:09:04,379 SAM WOODWARD. 267 00:09:04,379 --> 00:09:05,379 A SEEMING STRANGER. 268 00:09:05,379 --> 00:09:06,482 >> WE NEVER HEARD THE NAME. 269 00:09:06,482 --> 00:09:07,862 >> NEVER HEARD THE NAME BEFORE. 270 00:09:07,862 --> 00:09:10,758 >> GIDEON AND JEANNE WERE 271 00:09:10,758 --> 00:09:11,896 PANICKED AND BAFFLED. 272 00:09:11,896 --> 00:09:13,551 WHO WAS SAM? 273 00:09:13,551 --> 00:09:15,310 SO GIDEON MESSAGED SAM. 274 00:09:15,310 --> 00:09:16,517 PLEASE PICK UP. 275 00:09:16,517 --> 00:09:17,965 SAM GOT ON THE PHONE. 276 00:09:17,965 --> 00:09:20,241 THE BERNSTEINS RECORDED THE 277 00:09:20,241 --> 00:09:21,379 PHONE CONVERSATION AND WOULD 278 00:09:21,379 --> 00:09:24,275 SHARE IT WITH POLICE. 279 00:09:24,275 --> 00:09:26,103 >> WE JUST CRACKED IN HIS SNAP 280 00:09:26,103 --> 00:09:27,482 ACCOUNT AND SAW THAT YOU HAD 281 00:09:27,482 --> 00:09:30,517 BEEN TRYING TO FIND HIM. 282 00:09:30,517 --> 00:09:31,551 SO YOU'RE THE FIRST REAL CLUE TO 283 00:09:31,551 --> 00:09:32,517 THE PUZZLE HERE. 284 00:09:32,517 --> 00:09:35,103 >> SAM'S PIECES OF THE PUZZLE 285 00:09:35,103 --> 00:09:36,586 BEGAN WITH HIM MEETING BLAZE 286 00:09:36,586 --> 00:09:39,793 NEAR THE BERNSTEINS' HOME. 287 00:09:39,793 --> 00:09:42,206 >> I BIKD HIM UPPICKED HIM UP AT 11:00. 288 00:09:42,206 --> 00:09:44,379 >> Reporter: AND HE SAID HE 289 00:09:44,379 --> 00:09:45,689 DROVE HIM HERE, NEARBY BORREGO 290 00:09:45,689 --> 00:09:46,620 PARK, WITH ITS THICK BRUSH AND 291 00:09:46,620 --> 00:09:48,793 TWISTING PATHS, AND THAT ONCE 292 00:09:48,793 --> 00:09:49,517 THERE THEY PARKED. 293 00:09:49,517 --> 00:09:50,758 >> OKAY. 294 00:09:50,758 --> 00:09:52,000 AND DID HE GET OUT OF THE CAR OR 295 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:52,793 WHAT HAPPENED? 296 00:09:52,793 --> 00:09:54,000 >> YEAH. 297 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,448 HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND I GOT 298 00:09:56,448 --> 00:09:57,931 OUT OF THE CAR TOO. 299 00:09:57,931 --> 00:10:00,068 >> AND, SAM ADDED, BLAZE, 300 00:10:00,068 --> 00:10:01,758 CLAIMING HE WAS GOING TO MEET A 301 00:10:01,758 --> 00:10:03,931 FRIEND, WALKED DOWN A PATH AND 302 00:10:03,931 --> 00:10:05,551 VANISHED INTO THE DARKNESS. 303 00:10:05,551 --> 00:10:09,448 >> I SHOUTED OUT, "BLAZE, 304 00:10:09,448 --> 00:10:09,689 BLAZE." 305 00:10:09,689 --> 00:10:10,931 BUT I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING. 306 00:10:10,931 --> 00:10:13,172 I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING. 307 00:10:13,172 --> 00:10:14,517 >> SAM EXPLAINED TO THE 308 00:10:14,517 --> 00:10:17,448 BERNSTEINS HOW HE KNEW BLAZE AND 309 00:10:17,448 --> 00:10:20,275 WHY HE SAYS THEY WERE GETTING 310 00:10:20,275 --> 00:10:20,896 TOGETHER. 311 00:10:20,896 --> 00:10:22,379 >> IT WAS MORE OF A SPUR OF THE 312 00:10:22,379 --> 00:10:23,965 MOMENT KIND OF THING. 313 00:10:23,965 --> 00:10:25,034 IT WAS HANGING OUT. 314 00:10:25,034 --> 00:10:27,827 SINCE HE AND I WERE FRIENDS WHEN 315 00:10:27,827 --> 00:10:29,344 WE WERE AT OCSA. 316 00:10:29,344 --> 00:10:30,724 >> OCSA, THE ORANGE COUNTY 317 00:10:30,724 --> 00:10:33,448 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, WHERE RAIAH 318 00:10:33,448 --> 00:10:35,275 ROFSKY, BLAZE AND SAM WERE ONCE 319 00:10:35,275 --> 00:10:35,827 CLASSMATES. 320 00:10:35,827 --> 00:10:36,827 RAIAH'S HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIES OF 321 00:10:36,827 --> 00:10:39,413 SAM WERE ABOUT TO COME FLOODING 322 00:10:39,413 --> 00:10:40,275 BACK WITH A VENGEANCE. 323 00:10:40,275 --> 00:10:42,793 >> I GOT A CALL FROM MY MOM. 324 00:10:42,793 --> 00:10:43,862 RAIAH, DID YOU HEAR? 325 00:10:43,862 --> 00:10:45,068 AND I SAID WHAT? 326 00:10:45,068 --> 00:10:48,000 SHE SAID BLAZE IS MISSING. 327 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,034 AND THEN MY MOM SAID RAIAH, HE 328 00:10:50,034 --> 00:10:52,827 WAS WITH THIS GUY NAMED SAM 329 00:10:52,827 --> 00:10:53,068 WOODWARD. 330 00:10:53,068 --> 00:10:55,344 I SCREAMED IN THE PHONE, "HE 331 00:10:55,344 --> 00:10:56,758 WHAT?" 332 00:10:56,758 --> 00:10:57,517 THIS GUY? 333 00:10:57,517 --> 00:11:00,000 AND I SAID, "YES, I KNOW THIS 334 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:00,310 GUY! 335 00:11:00,310 --> 00:11:03,275 HE'S CRAZY." 336 00:11:03,275 --> 00:11:04,689 >> HOW DIFFERENT WERE SAM AND 337 00:11:04,689 --> 00:11:04,896 BLAZE? 338 00:11:04,896 --> 00:11:06,724 >> OH, THEY WERE SO DIFFERENT. 339 00:11:06,724 --> 00:11:07,689 PROBABLY ABOUT AS DIFFERENT AS 340 00:11:07,689 --> 00:11:08,862 YOU COULD BE. 341 00:11:08,862 --> 00:11:11,068 >> HAUNTINGLY DIFFERENT, SAYS 342 00:11:11,068 --> 00:11:12,344 BLAZE'S OLDEST FRIEND. 343 00:11:12,344 --> 00:11:14,241 SO WHEN THAT WORD BEGAN TO 344 00:11:14,241 --> 00:11:17,620 FILTER ACROSS ORANGE COUNTY, 345 00:11:17,620 --> 00:11:19,344 THAT BLAZE HADN'T COME HOME AND 346 00:11:19,344 --> 00:11:21,275 THAT SAM WOODWARD MIGHT BE A 347 00:11:21,275 --> 00:11:23,862 PERSON OF INTEREST, IT CHILLED 348 00:11:23,862 --> 00:11:25,103 RAIAH TO THE BONE. 349 00:11:25,103 --> 00:11:28,000 HER MEMORIES OF SAM IMPOSSIBLE 350 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:28,413 TO SHAKE. 351 00:11:28,413 --> 00:11:30,275 >> WELL, HELLO, LADIES. 352 00:11:30,275 --> 00:11:32,827 >> HE WAS DRAWING GUNS IN HIS 353 00:11:32,827 --> 00:11:33,793 NOTEBOOK IN CLASS. 354 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:34,793 >> DID YOU SAY ANYTHING? 355 00:11:34,793 --> 00:11:35,448 >> NO. 356 00:11:35,448 --> 00:11:36,793 >> BUT YOU THOUGHT? 357 00:11:36,793 --> 00:11:53,275 >> THIS IS TERRIFYING. 358 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:55,103 >>> THE SPOTLIGHT WAS ON SAM 359 00:11:55,103 --> 00:11:56,172 WOODWARD, WHOM RAIAH REMEMBERED 360 00:11:56,172 --> 00:11:57,172 FROM HIGH SCHOOL. 361 00:11:57,172 --> 00:11:58,862 >> HE WAS VERY QUIET. 362 00:11:58,862 --> 00:11:59,724 VERY WITHDRAWN. 363 00:11:59,724 --> 00:12:01,689 DIDN'T REALLY TALK TO PEOPLE. 364 00:12:01,689 --> 00:12:04,965 >> SAM WOODWARD, ODD MAN OUT, 365 00:12:04,965 --> 00:12:05,517 SAYS RAIAH. 366 00:12:05,517 --> 00:12:07,586 >> YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS THEIR 367 00:12:07,586 --> 00:12:07,862 CLIQUE. 368 00:12:07,862 --> 00:12:09,275 BUT I DON'T THINK HE IDENTIFIED 369 00:12:09,275 --> 00:12:13,448 WITH ANY OF THEM REALLY. 370 00:12:13,448 --> 00:12:16,896 >> AND AS FAR AS ANYONE KNEW, 371 00:12:16,896 --> 00:12:18,758 THE LAST PERSON TO SAY BLAZE 372 00:12:18,758 --> 00:12:20,034 BERNSTEIN ALIVE. 373 00:12:20,034 --> 00:12:21,448 >> THE ONLY REASON I COULD THINK 374 00:12:21,448 --> 00:12:23,068 OF SAM MEETING UP WITH BLAZE IS 375 00:12:23,068 --> 00:12:25,344 BECAUSE EITHER, NUMBER ONE, HE 376 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:27,758 WANTED TO HOOK UP WITH HIM OR, 377 00:12:27,758 --> 00:12:29,413 TWO, BECAUSE HE WAS PLANNING TO 378 00:12:29,413 --> 00:12:30,206 MURDER HIM. 379 00:12:30,206 --> 00:12:32,068 >> AND AS FOR THAT STORY SAM 380 00:12:32,068 --> 00:12:33,620 TOLD, THAT ON THE SPUR OF THE 381 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:35,413 MOMENT HE AND BLAZE HAD DECIDED 382 00:12:35,413 --> 00:12:38,206 TO HANG OUT, IT DIDN'T COME 383 00:12:38,206 --> 00:12:39,758 CLOSE TO ADDING UP FOR RAIAH. 384 00:12:39,758 --> 00:12:41,586 >> HE HAD A REPUTATION OF BEING 385 00:12:41,586 --> 00:12:41,862 WHAT? 386 00:12:41,862 --> 00:12:44,896 >> RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, SEXIST. 387 00:12:44,896 --> 00:12:47,000 >> IT WAS RAIAH WHO WAS THERE 388 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,551 WHEN BLAZE'S SEXUALITY WAS STILL 389 00:12:49,551 --> 00:12:52,862 A SECRET, UNTIL ALONG A 390 00:12:52,862 --> 00:12:55,413 GLISTENING CALIFORNIA BEACH HE 391 00:12:55,413 --> 00:12:56,931 BRAVELY CONFIDED IN HIS OLDEST 392 00:12:56,931 --> 00:12:57,137 FRIEND. 393 00:12:57,137 --> 00:12:58,724 >> SO YOU GUYS WERE KIND OF 394 00:12:58,724 --> 00:12:59,689 WALKING DOWN THE BEACH ALONE 395 00:12:59,689 --> 00:13:01,482 TOGETHER AND HE CAME OUT TO YOU? 396 00:13:01,482 --> 00:13:01,896 >> YEAH. 397 00:13:01,896 --> 00:13:06,034 >> RAIAH, WHO WOULD LATER ALSO 398 00:13:06,034 --> 00:13:07,965 COME OUT, STEPPED UP WHEN IT 399 00:13:07,965 --> 00:13:08,482 MATTERED MOST. 400 00:13:08,482 --> 00:13:10,448 >> ALL I COULD DO IS BE A GOOD 401 00:13:10,448 --> 00:13:12,172 FRIEND AND LOVE HIM 402 00:13:12,172 --> 00:13:12,586 UNCONDITIONALLY. 403 00:13:12,586 --> 00:13:13,448 >> DID YOU GET THE SENSE THAT 404 00:13:13,448 --> 00:13:14,862 BLAZE HAD TOLD ANYONE ELSE THAT 405 00:13:14,862 --> 00:13:15,965 HE THOUGHT HE WAS BI? 406 00:13:15,965 --> 00:13:17,137 >> I DON'T THINK THAT HE DID. 407 00:13:17,137 --> 00:13:20,379 HE WAS KIND OF UPSET TO SAY IT. 408 00:13:20,379 --> 00:13:21,724 >> SOMETHING THAT CLEARLY WAS A 409 00:13:21,724 --> 00:13:22,758 BIG SECRET FOR HIM AND -- 410 00:13:22,758 --> 00:13:23,241 >> YEAH. 411 00:13:23,241 --> 00:13:25,655 YOU KNOW, COMING OUT TO YOURSELF 412 00:13:25,655 --> 00:13:28,965 IS A REALLY MATURE, DIFFICULT 413 00:13:28,965 --> 00:13:29,965 THING TO DO. 414 00:13:29,965 --> 00:13:32,448 >> AND WHAT DID YOU TELL HIM? 415 00:13:32,448 --> 00:13:35,068 >> I TOLD HIM, "IT'S OKAY. 416 00:13:35,068 --> 00:13:37,275 IF YOU LIKE BOYS, THAT'S TOTALLY 417 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:38,758 FINE. 418 00:13:38,758 --> 00:13:40,620 LOVE WHO YOU LOVE." 419 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:43,413 >> WHILE HE HADN'T YET TOLD HIS 420 00:13:43,413 --> 00:13:44,931 PARENTS, GIDEON AND JEANNE 421 00:13:44,931 --> 00:13:46,413 SENSED BLAZE MIGHT BE GAY. 422 00:13:46,413 --> 00:13:49,034 >> WE WENT UP TO HIM AND SAID, 423 00:13:49,034 --> 00:13:50,103 "LISTEN, WHATEVER YOUR SITUATION 424 00:13:50,103 --> 00:13:51,655 IS, WE EMBRACE IT. 425 00:13:51,655 --> 00:13:52,413 WE LOVE YOU. 426 00:13:52,413 --> 00:13:54,000 WE DON'T CARE." 427 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,275 >> BUT IN THOSE FIRST DAYS OF 428 00:13:57,275 --> 00:14:00,689 2018 IT WASN'T JUST LOVE. 429 00:14:00,689 --> 00:14:03,655 IT WAS ALSO AN UNIMAGINABLE FEAR 430 00:14:03,655 --> 00:14:06,241 THAT CONSUMED JEANNE AND GIDEON 431 00:14:06,241 --> 00:14:09,103 AS THE SEARCH FOR BLAZE BEGAN. 432 00:14:09,103 --> 00:14:11,034 ORANGE COUNTY COPS SPOKE WITH 433 00:14:11,034 --> 00:14:11,275 SAM. 434 00:14:11,275 --> 00:14:13,758 HE REPEATED WHAT HE'D TOLD THE 435 00:14:13,758 --> 00:14:14,689 BERNSTEINS ON THAT PHONE CALL, 436 00:14:14,689 --> 00:14:16,241 THAT HE HAD PICKED BLAZE UP, 437 00:14:16,241 --> 00:14:19,206 DRIVEN TO BORREGO PARK, AND THAT 438 00:14:19,206 --> 00:14:22,620 THEN BLAZE HAD VANISHED. 439 00:14:22,620 --> 00:14:24,344 BY JANUARY 5th THE SEARCH HAD 440 00:14:24,344 --> 00:14:28,758 BECOME MASSIVE. 441 00:14:28,758 --> 00:14:30,724 >> WE'RE OUT HERE CONDUCTING A 442 00:14:30,724 --> 00:14:32,000 SEARCH FOR BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 443 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,172 >> WE'RE HERE TODAY TO GET YOUR 444 00:14:33,172 --> 00:14:34,206 HELP TO FIND OUR SON. 445 00:14:34,206 --> 00:14:35,965 >> PLEASE KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN 446 00:14:35,965 --> 00:14:36,827 FOR MY BABY. 447 00:14:36,827 --> 00:14:38,551 I WANT HIM HOME WITH ME NOW. 448 00:14:38,551 --> 00:14:40,827 >> SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAMS AND 449 00:14:40,827 --> 00:14:43,758 HELICOPTERS SEARCHED THE 450 00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:44,172 WILDERNESS AREA. 451 00:14:44,172 --> 00:14:46,655 >> AND WE PRINTED UP THOUSANDS 452 00:14:46,655 --> 00:14:48,551 AND THOUSANDS OF FLYERS THAT 453 00:14:48,551 --> 00:14:50,965 PEOPLE IN THE CONGREGATION PUT 454 00:14:50,965 --> 00:14:51,103 UP. 455 00:14:51,103 --> 00:14:52,586 EVERYBODY'S LOOKING. 456 00:14:52,586 --> 00:14:56,034 >> SHABBAT SHALOM. 457 00:14:56,034 --> 00:14:58,137 >> RABBI ARNOLD RACHLIS 458 00:14:58,137 --> 00:14:59,000 COORDINATED THE SEARCH FROM 459 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,965 UNIVERSITY SYNAGOGUE, WHERE 460 00:15:01,965 --> 00:15:03,000 BLAZE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER AND A 461 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:03,965 ROLE MODEL. 462 00:15:03,965 --> 00:15:05,448 >> PLEASE JOIN ME IN HONORING 463 00:15:05,448 --> 00:15:06,482 BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 464 00:15:06,482 --> 00:15:06,793 [ APPLAUSE ] 465 00:15:06,793 --> 00:15:08,482 >> BLAZE EMBRACED HIS JEWISH 466 00:15:08,482 --> 00:15:11,413 HERITAGE AND CONFRONTED ITS 467 00:15:11,413 --> 00:15:11,655 HATERS. 468 00:15:11,655 --> 00:15:13,586 >> NOT ONLY WERE 6 MILLION 469 00:15:13,586 --> 00:15:15,000 JEWISH PEOPLE SYSTEMATICALLY 470 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,137 MURDERED THROUGHOUT EUROPE IN 471 00:15:16,137 --> 00:15:17,172 CONCENTRATION CAMPS -- 472 00:15:17,172 --> 00:15:21,448 >> AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE TO SEE 473 00:15:21,448 --> 00:15:23,206 SOMEONE WITH SO MUCH TALENT IS A 474 00:15:23,206 --> 00:15:23,896 BEAUTIFUL THING. 475 00:15:23,896 --> 00:15:24,689 A GOOD HEART. 476 00:15:24,689 --> 00:15:26,000 A GOOD SOUL. 477 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,689 THAT'S WHAT BLAZE HAD. 478 00:15:28,689 --> 00:15:31,103 >> EVERYONE WAS SOMEHOW HOPING 479 00:15:31,103 --> 00:15:33,689 FOR GOOD NEWS, INCLUDING IT 480 00:15:33,689 --> 00:15:36,034 SEEMED SAM WOODWARD. 481 00:15:36,034 --> 00:15:37,068 >> OKAY. 482 00:15:37,068 --> 00:15:39,172 SO IS THIS THE BEST NUMBER TO 483 00:15:39,172 --> 00:15:40,482 REACH YOU AT? 484 00:15:40,482 --> 00:15:41,551 >> YES, SIR, IT IS. 485 00:15:41,551 --> 00:15:44,034 >> ON THAT CALL THAT GIDEON HAD 486 00:15:44,034 --> 00:15:45,310 RECORDED SAM SOUNDED DEEPLY 487 00:15:45,310 --> 00:15:45,586 CONCERNED. 488 00:15:45,586 --> 00:15:47,413 >> YEAH, I WANT TO FIND BLAZE AS 489 00:15:47,413 --> 00:15:52,448 MUCH AS YOU DO. 490 00:15:52,448 --> 00:15:55,448 >> BUT BLAZE WAS NOWHERE TO BE 491 00:15:55,448 --> 00:15:55,655 FOUND. 492 00:15:55,655 --> 00:15:57,275 ANXIOUS HOURS STRETCHED INTO 493 00:15:57,275 --> 00:15:57,965 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. 494 00:15:57,965 --> 00:15:59,413 >> I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW IF WE 495 00:15:59,413 --> 00:16:01,137 WOULD EVER FIND HIM. 496 00:16:01,137 --> 00:16:03,000 >> AS THE DAYS PASSED. 497 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,103 >> YOU KNOW -- 498 00:16:04,103 --> 00:16:05,413 >> IT BECAME MORE AND MORE 499 00:16:05,413 --> 00:16:05,689 DIFFICULT. 500 00:16:05,689 --> 00:16:06,931 >> AND I THOUGHT, WE'RE NEVER 501 00:16:06,931 --> 00:16:07,620 GOING TO KNOW. 502 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:08,758 WE'RE NEVER GOING TO KNOW WHAT 503 00:16:08,758 --> 00:16:09,344 HAPPENED EXACTLY. 504 00:16:09,344 --> 00:16:13,206 WE'RE NEVER GOING TO FIGURE IT 505 00:16:13,206 --> 00:16:14,172 OUT. 506 00:16:14,172 --> 00:16:14,482 YEAH. 507 00:16:14,482 --> 00:16:17,896 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. 508 00:16:17,896 --> 00:16:21,172 >> I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT, HE'S 509 00:16:21,172 --> 00:16:21,379 DEAD. 510 00:16:21,379 --> 00:16:22,655 HE'S DEAD. 511 00:16:22,655 --> 00:16:23,931 >> JUST FROM HEARING THAT HE WAS 512 00:16:23,931 --> 00:16:24,931 WITH SAM? 513 00:16:24,931 --> 00:16:25,620 >> YES. 514 00:16:25,620 --> 00:16:28,206 >> IT WAS DAY SEVEN SINCE BLAZE 515 00:16:28,206 --> 00:16:29,310 LAST LEFT HOME. 516 00:16:29,310 --> 00:16:31,586 A FAMILY, A COMMUNITY WAS BEYOND 517 00:16:31,586 --> 00:16:32,965 FRUSTRATED. 518 00:16:32,965 --> 00:16:34,482 DETECTIVES HAD SEARCHED BORREGO 519 00:16:34,482 --> 00:16:35,379 PARK OVER AND OVER. 520 00:16:35,379 --> 00:16:37,068 BUT THEY DECIDED TO GIVE IT ONE 521 00:16:37,068 --> 00:16:38,103 MORE LOOK. 522 00:16:38,103 --> 00:16:40,758 IN THE POURING RAIN A DETECTIVE 523 00:16:40,758 --> 00:16:43,655 STOOD RIGHT OVER THERE, AND 524 00:16:43,655 --> 00:16:44,620 HIDDEN UNDER A LARGE TREE BRANCH 525 00:16:44,620 --> 00:16:46,103 WAS A MOUND OF DIRT. 526 00:16:46,103 --> 00:16:48,482 UNDER THE WET, CAKED EARTH LAY 527 00:16:48,482 --> 00:16:54,379 BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 528 00:16:54,379 --> 00:16:56,517 >> IF NOT THE RAIN WE WOULD HAVE 529 00:16:56,517 --> 00:16:58,275 NEVER KNOWN WHAT HAPPENED TO 530 00:16:58,275 --> 00:16:58,448 HIM. 531 00:16:58,448 --> 00:17:02,000 SO THE RAIN UNCOVERED HIS FACE. 532 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,896 >> LEAH AND RICHARD BERNSTEIN 533 00:17:03,896 --> 00:17:05,344 ARE BLAZE'S GRANDPARENTS. 534 00:17:05,344 --> 00:17:06,862 >> WE JUST LOVED HIM. 535 00:17:06,862 --> 00:17:09,137 >> I WISH I COULD WRITE LIKE HE 536 00:17:09,137 --> 00:17:09,517 WROTE. 537 00:17:09,517 --> 00:17:10,619 ♪ 538 00:17:10,619 --> 00:17:14,482 I WISH I COULD COOK LIKE HE 539 00:17:14,482 --> 00:17:14,723 COOKED. 540 00:17:14,723 --> 00:17:16,758 IT WAS BLAZE, YEAH. 541 00:17:16,758 --> 00:17:17,378 HE'S IN FRONT. 542 00:17:17,378 --> 00:17:19,310 >> "48 HOURS" MET THEM JUST A 543 00:17:19,310 --> 00:17:20,344 FEW MONTHS AFTER BLAZE WAS 544 00:17:20,344 --> 00:17:20,758 MURDERED. 545 00:17:20,758 --> 00:17:25,172 >> I THINK THE WORLD LOST A 546 00:17:25,172 --> 00:17:25,655 BEAUTIFUL SOUL. 547 00:17:25,655 --> 00:17:26,964 >> I ALWAYS THINK OF HIM BEFORE 548 00:17:26,964 --> 00:17:29,965 I GO TO SLEEP. 549 00:17:29,965 --> 00:17:32,724 >> THEIR GRANDCHILD, ONCE 550 00:17:32,724 --> 00:17:36,517 BRIMMING WITH LIFE AND 551 00:17:36,517 --> 00:17:37,620 POSSIBILITY, HAD BEEN 552 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:41,827 HORRIFICALLY SLAUGHTERED WITH A 553 00:17:41,827 --> 00:17:43,000 KNIFE. 554 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,379 >> THEN THE FUNERAL HAPPENED. 555 00:17:45,379 --> 00:17:49,103 AND IT WAS SHATTERING. 556 00:17:49,103 --> 00:17:52,655 >> THE GRIEF STRETCHED ACROSS 557 00:17:52,655 --> 00:17:53,896 ORANGE COUNTY. 558 00:17:53,896 --> 00:17:56,862 >> WE'RE HUGGING HIM RIGHT NOW. 559 00:17:56,862 --> 00:17:58,586 WE'RE ALL HUGGING THEM. 560 00:17:58,586 --> 00:18:01,620 THIS IS OUR BIG GIANT HUG TO 561 00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:01,827 THEM. 562 00:18:01,827 --> 00:18:03,551 >> I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY. 563 00:18:03,551 --> 00:18:05,310 >> I DON'T -- I DON'T EVEN WANT 564 00:18:05,310 --> 00:18:05,862 TO KNOW. 565 00:18:05,862 --> 00:18:07,034 BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO LIKE 566 00:18:07,034 --> 00:18:16,310 BECAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO LIKE THAT ANSWER. 567 00:18:16,310 --> 00:18:29,482 THAT ANSWER. 568 00:18:29,482 --> 00:18:32,482 >>> THREE DAYS AFTER BLAZE 569 00:18:32,482 --> 00:18:34,068 BERNSTEIN WAS FOUND, BUTCHERED 570 00:18:34,068 --> 00:18:35,000 AND BROKEN -- 571 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,655 >> CAN YOU TELL US WHAT HAPPENED 572 00:18:36,655 --> 00:18:39,103 TO BLAZE? 573 00:18:39,103 --> 00:18:40,793 >> NO. 574 00:18:40,793 --> 00:18:42,413 >> INVESTIGATORS CONFRONTED HIS 575 00:18:42,413 --> 00:18:43,862 ONE-TIME CLASSMATE, SAM 576 00:18:43,862 --> 00:18:44,103 WOODWARD. 577 00:18:44,103 --> 00:18:46,344 >> WERE YOU THERE WHEN HE 578 00:18:46,344 --> 00:18:46,655 DISAPPEARED? 579 00:18:46,655 --> 00:18:48,827 >> AT HIS PARENTS' HOME. 580 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:49,689 >> NO COMMENT. 581 00:18:49,689 --> 00:18:51,310 >> UNDERCOVER OFFICERS MADE 582 00:18:51,310 --> 00:18:53,827 THEIR MOVE ON SAM WOODWARD THIS 583 00:18:53,827 --> 00:18:55,551 AFTERNOON AS HE PULLED OUT OF 584 00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,137 HIS NEWPORT BEACH DRIVEWAY AND 585 00:18:57,137 --> 00:18:59,931 WENT DOWN THE ROAD. 586 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:01,931 THEY PULLED THAT CAR OVER AND 587 00:19:01,931 --> 00:19:02,862 ARRESTED HIM. 588 00:19:02,862 --> 00:19:04,758 >> SAM WOODWARD WAS CHARGED WITH 589 00:19:04,758 --> 00:19:06,310 MURDER WITH THE PERSONAL USE OF 590 00:19:06,310 --> 00:19:06,758 A KNIFE. 591 00:19:06,758 --> 00:19:10,344 >> THEN ORANGE COUNTY D.A. TONY 592 00:19:10,344 --> 00:19:10,965 RACKAUCKAS. 593 00:19:10,965 --> 00:19:12,344 >> HOW DID BLAZE BERNSTEIN DIE? 594 00:19:12,344 --> 00:19:14,068 >> HE WAS STABBED MULTIPLE TIMES 595 00:19:14,068 --> 00:19:14,689 IN THE NECK. 596 00:19:14,689 --> 00:19:16,000 >> WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU? 597 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,758 >> WELL, IT TELLS ME THAT THERE 598 00:19:17,758 --> 00:19:21,206 WAS A LOT OF HATE. 599 00:19:21,206 --> 00:19:22,931 >> ANYTHING TO SAY, SAM? 600 00:19:22,931 --> 00:19:27,000 >> FOR BLAZE'S PARENTS THE 601 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,137 DETAILS OF HIS MURDER WERE TOO 602 00:19:28,137 --> 00:19:30,896 MUCH TO EVEN IMAGINE. 603 00:19:30,896 --> 00:19:33,000 >> I JUST TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT 604 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:33,724 WHAT THAT REALLY MEANT. 605 00:19:33,724 --> 00:19:36,310 I DON'T THINK THAT I -- THAT I 606 00:19:36,310 --> 00:19:37,620 PHYSICALLY CAN DEAL WITH THE 607 00:19:37,620 --> 00:19:42,000 TRAUMA OF WHAT'S HAPPENED. 608 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,896 >> AS POLICE GATHERED EVIDENCE, 609 00:19:43,896 --> 00:19:46,586 THE VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENED IN 610 00:19:46,586 --> 00:19:48,310 BORREGO PARK WAS REVEALED. 611 00:19:48,310 --> 00:19:52,344 WITH BLAZE'S BODY, HIS BATTERED 612 00:19:52,344 --> 00:19:52,724 PHONE. 613 00:19:52,724 --> 00:19:55,000 INSIDE SAM WOODWARD'S CAR, 614 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 BLOOD. 615 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 >> THE BLOOD ON THE HEADLINER 616 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,482 BELONGED TO BOTH SAM WOODWARD 617 00:20:00,482 --> 00:20:01,413 AND BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 618 00:20:01,413 --> 00:20:02,931 >> BLAZE BERNSTEIN'S BLOOD WAS 619 00:20:02,931 --> 00:20:04,586 IN SAM WOODWARD'S CAR? 620 00:20:04,586 --> 00:20:05,241 >> YES. 621 00:20:05,241 --> 00:20:05,413 YES. 622 00:20:05,413 --> 00:20:06,689 >> AND THEN THEY WENT ON TO 623 00:20:06,689 --> 00:20:07,896 SEARCH THE HOUSE? 624 00:20:07,896 --> 00:20:08,448 >> YES. 625 00:20:08,448 --> 00:20:10,689 >> WHAT KIND OF FORENSIC 626 00:20:10,689 --> 00:20:12,275 EVIDENCE DID THEY GATHER? 627 00:20:12,275 --> 00:20:13,482 >> THERE WAS A KNIFE. 628 00:20:13,482 --> 00:20:15,275 THE KNIFE HAD BLOOD ON IT. 629 00:20:15,275 --> 00:20:18,931 BLAZE BERNSTEIN'S BLOOD ON THE 630 00:20:18,931 --> 00:20:19,103 KNIFE. 631 00:20:19,103 --> 00:20:21,103 >> AT HIS ARRAIGNMENT SAM 632 00:20:21,103 --> 00:20:25,275 WOODWARD WOULD PLEAD NOT GUILTY. 633 00:20:25,275 --> 00:20:26,137 INVESTIGATORS WOULD CONTINUE TO 634 00:20:26,137 --> 00:20:27,103 SEARCH FOR WHAT HAPPENED THAT 635 00:20:27,103 --> 00:20:30,586 NIGHT IN BORREGO PARK. 636 00:20:30,586 --> 00:20:31,931 THEY WOULD SOON COME TO BELIEVE 637 00:20:31,931 --> 00:20:35,689 THAT SAM HAD A DARK AND 638 00:20:35,689 --> 00:20:36,103 FRIGHTENING SECRET. 639 00:20:36,103 --> 00:20:41,103 >> HE WAS INVOLVED IN THIS 640 00:20:41,103 --> 00:20:43,793 EXTREME NEO-NAZI ORGANIZATION 641 00:20:43,793 --> 00:20:45,551 ATM WAFEN DIVISION WHICH DOES 642 00:20:45,551 --> 00:20:47,344 EXPECT ITS MEMBERS TO EXPLICITLY 643 00:20:47,344 --> 00:20:49,172 TARGET MEBDS OF THE JEWISH AND 644 00:20:49,172 --> 00:20:49,896 LGBTQ COMMUNITY. 645 00:20:49,896 --> 00:20:51,551 >> CEARA MOORE MONITORS HATE 646 00:20:51,551 --> 00:20:52,620 CRIME, WORKING FOR GLAAD, ONE OF 647 00:20:52,620 --> 00:20:54,068 THE MOST PROMINENT GAY RIGHTS 648 00:20:54,068 --> 00:20:57,586 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY. 649 00:20:57,586 --> 00:20:59,103 SHE'S KEPT A CLOSE EYE ON THE 650 00:20:59,103 --> 00:21:01,793 SMALL BUT VIOLENT GROUP 651 00:21:01,793 --> 00:21:02,034 ATMWAFFEN. 652 00:21:02,034 --> 00:21:03,241 THESE ARE THEIR PROPAGANDA 653 00:21:03,241 --> 00:21:06,310 VIDEOS, POSTED BETWEEN 2017 AND 654 00:21:06,310 --> 00:21:07,034 '18. 655 00:21:07,034 --> 00:21:08,965 >> THEY WANT TO KIND OF BLOW UP 656 00:21:08,965 --> 00:21:12,000 THE WORLD AS IT IS. 657 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,379 THEY WANT TO CREATE SOMETHING 658 00:21:13,379 --> 00:21:13,862 ENTIRELY NEW. 659 00:21:13,862 --> 00:21:15,241 >> AND THE NEW THING IS WHAT? 660 00:21:15,241 --> 00:21:16,896 >> IN THEIR MIND IT WOULD BE A 661 00:21:16,896 --> 00:21:18,482 WHITE ETHNOSTATE. 662 00:21:18,482 --> 00:21:19,862 >> RACE WAR NOW! 663 00:21:19,862 --> 00:21:21,793 >> AND THERE'S EITHER NO JEWISH 664 00:21:21,793 --> 00:21:24,310 OR NO LGBTQ, OR NO PEOPLE OF 665 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:26,344 COLOR IN THAT SOCIETY. 666 00:21:26,344 --> 00:21:31,517 >> HOW DOES ATOM WAFFEN RECRUIT? 667 00:21:31,517 --> 00:21:33,068 >> THEY RECRUIT PRIMARILY 668 00:21:33,068 --> 00:21:33,448 ONLINE. 669 00:21:33,448 --> 00:21:34,758 >> JUST A CLICK AWAY. 670 00:21:34,758 --> 00:21:37,931 AND EXACTLY WHERE SAM, WHO RAIAH 671 00:21:37,931 --> 00:21:38,758 ROFSKY REMEMBERS HAD TROUBLE 672 00:21:38,758 --> 00:21:40,586 MAKING FRIENDS, FOUND SOME. 673 00:21:40,586 --> 00:21:43,827 STRANGERS WHO WELCOMED AND 674 00:21:43,827 --> 00:21:44,655 ENCOURAGED HIM. 675 00:21:44,655 --> 00:21:46,103 >> DID YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A 676 00:21:46,103 --> 00:21:46,379 NEO-NAZI? 677 00:21:46,379 --> 00:21:48,724 >> I JUST CONSIDERED MYSELF A 678 00:21:48,724 --> 00:21:49,344 NAZI. 679 00:21:49,344 --> 00:21:52,068 >> THIS MAN DOES NOT WANT HIS 680 00:21:52,068 --> 00:21:52,724 IDENTITY REVEALED. 681 00:21:52,724 --> 00:21:54,241 BUT HE SAYS HE WAS ONCE A MEMBER 682 00:21:54,241 --> 00:21:56,620 OF ATOMWAFFEN AND THAT HE CAME 683 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:58,862 IN CONTACT WITH SAM THE YEAR 684 00:21:58,862 --> 00:22:00,103 BEFORE BLAZE WAS MURDERED. 685 00:22:00,103 --> 00:22:04,758 >> IT WAS LIKE A CAMARADERIE 686 00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:05,448 TYPE OF THING. 687 00:22:05,448 --> 00:22:06,000 COMMON INTERESTS. 688 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,068 >> AND THOSE INTERESTS WERE 689 00:22:07,068 --> 00:22:08,586 HATING OTHER GROUPS, HATING 690 00:22:08,586 --> 00:22:10,965 JEWS, HATING GAYS, HATING 691 00:22:10,965 --> 00:22:11,206 BLACKS. 692 00:22:11,206 --> 00:22:13,862 >> YEAH. 693 00:22:13,862 --> 00:22:14,413 OH, YEAH. 694 00:22:14,413 --> 00:22:16,965 >> HOW INVOLVED WAS SAM WOODWARD 695 00:22:16,965 --> 00:22:18,827 IN ATOMWAFFEN? 696 00:22:18,827 --> 00:22:19,827 >> I KNOW THAT HE WAS INVOLVED. 697 00:22:19,827 --> 00:22:22,724 >> INVOLVED ENOUGH, SAY 698 00:22:22,724 --> 00:22:25,241 INVESTIGATORS, TO WEAR THE ATOM 699 00:22:25,241 --> 00:22:26,862 ATOMWAFFEN MASK, GIVE THE NAZI 700 00:22:26,862 --> 00:22:29,103 SALUTE, MAKE I APILGRIMAGE TO 701 00:22:29,103 --> 00:22:32,172 COLORADO TO MEET NEO-NAZI LEADER 702 00:22:32,172 --> 00:22:34,689 JAMES MASON, AND TRAVEL TO TEXAS 703 00:22:34,689 --> 00:22:37,517 TO ATTEND ATOMWAFFEN'S VERSION 704 00:22:37,517 --> 00:22:39,517 OF A CORPORATE RETREAT. 705 00:22:39,517 --> 00:22:41,620 THEY CALL IT "HATE CAMP." 706 00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:43,034 >> AT HATE CAMPS MEMBERS WILL 707 00:22:43,034 --> 00:22:44,586 GET KIND OF A ONE-ON-ONE 708 00:22:44,586 --> 00:22:48,793 TRAINING ON HOW TO BE A VIOLENT 709 00:22:48,793 --> 00:22:50,068 EXTREMIST. 710 00:22:50,068 --> 00:22:53,827 >> AND THAT BITTER JANUARY 2018, 711 00:22:53,827 --> 00:22:55,793 WHEN NEWS BROKE THAT BLAZE HAD 712 00:22:55,793 --> 00:22:57,862 BEEN STABBED TO DEATH, ALLEGEDLY 713 00:22:57,862 --> 00:23:02,689 BY A MEMBER OF ATOMWAFFEN, AS 714 00:23:02,689 --> 00:23:06,103 ORANGE COUNTY MOURNED NEO-NAZIS 715 00:23:06,103 --> 00:23:07,068 REPORTEDLY CHEERED. 716 00:23:07,068 --> 00:23:08,655 >> EVERYBODY CELEBRATED HIM. 717 00:23:08,655 --> 00:23:10,551 LIKE HE KILLED A GAY JEW. 718 00:23:10,551 --> 00:23:12,034 >> WHICH IN THEIR MIND IS SORT 719 00:23:12,034 --> 00:23:16,068 OF A JACKPOT. 720 00:23:16,068 --> 00:23:18,620 >> UGH. 721 00:23:18,620 --> 00:23:20,655 >> IT'S DISGUSTING. 722 00:23:20,655 --> 00:23:21,862 >> THERE WERE PEOPLE 723 00:23:21,862 --> 00:23:22,551 CONGRATULATING THIS ACCUSED 724 00:23:22,551 --> 00:23:23,724 KILLER FOR WHAT HE HAD DONE, 725 00:23:23,724 --> 00:23:24,724 KILLING MY SON. 726 00:23:24,724 --> 00:23:25,172 CONGRATULATING HIM. 727 00:23:25,172 --> 00:23:28,310 >> HAD YOU EVER HEARD OF 728 00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:28,620 ATOMWAFFEN? 729 00:23:28,620 --> 00:23:29,103 >> NO. 730 00:23:29,103 --> 00:23:30,724 >> BEFORE THIS? 731 00:23:30,724 --> 00:23:31,724 >> BUT WE SHOULD HAVE. 732 00:23:31,724 --> 00:23:33,103 BECAUSE WE'RE A PERFECT TARGET 733 00:23:33,103 --> 00:23:34,172 FOR THAT GROUP. 734 00:23:34,172 --> 00:23:36,034 >> BECAUSE OF SAM'S INVOLVEMENT 735 00:23:36,034 --> 00:23:39,517 IN ATOMWAFFEN, SEVEN MONTHS 736 00:23:39,517 --> 00:23:40,931 AFTER BLAZE'S MURDER PROSECUTORS 737 00:23:40,931 --> 00:23:42,379 UPPED THE ANTE, ADDING A HATE 738 00:23:42,379 --> 00:23:44,000 CRIME ENHANCEMENT, A MURDER 739 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,137 MOTIVATED BY PREJUDICE. 740 00:23:48,137 --> 00:23:52,724 >> AS THE STORY UNFOLDED THAT 741 00:23:52,724 --> 00:23:55,896 THE MURDER WAS RELATED TO 742 00:23:55,896 --> 00:23:58,275 HOMOPHOBIA AND ANTISEMITISM, 743 00:23:58,275 --> 00:24:00,241 WELL, THEN THE ANGER IN THE 744 00:24:00,241 --> 00:24:03,172 COMMUNITY RATCHETED UP. 745 00:24:03,172 --> 00:24:04,793 >> FOR SOME IT BROUGHT BACK THE 746 00:24:04,793 --> 00:24:06,000 DARKEST OF TIMES. 747 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,931 >> IT MUST SEEM LIKE ALL OF THIS 748 00:24:07,931 --> 00:24:12,896 HATE WAS BEHIND YOU, THAT'S 749 00:24:12,896 --> 00:24:13,793 SOMETHING IN THE PAST. 750 00:24:13,793 --> 00:24:14,793 >> YOU CAN'T FORGET IT. 751 00:24:14,793 --> 00:24:16,827 >> YOU CAN'T FORGET IT? 752 00:24:16,827 --> 00:24:18,620 >> NEVER. 753 00:24:18,620 --> 00:24:20,896 >> IT'S A MURDEROUS ECHO FROM 754 00:24:20,896 --> 00:24:22,551 HER PAST, ALL TOO REAL FOR 755 00:24:22,551 --> 00:24:26,000 GRANDMA LEAH, A HOLOCAUST 756 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:26,758 SURVIVOR. 757 00:24:26,758 --> 00:24:29,551 ONCE A LITTLE GIRL FORCED BY 758 00:24:29,551 --> 00:24:32,655 HITLER'S NAZIS TO WEAR A YELLOW 759 00:24:32,655 --> 00:24:32,862 STAR. 760 00:24:32,862 --> 00:24:35,103 >> YES, WE DID WEAR THE STARS. 761 00:24:35,103 --> 00:24:37,448 >> IT'S A HORRIBLE IRONY THAT 762 00:24:37,448 --> 00:24:40,275 WHAT YOU ESCAPED IS -- 763 00:24:40,275 --> 00:24:43,413 >> IS FOLLOWING ME. 764 00:24:43,413 --> 00:24:45,793 >> SAM WOODWARD WAS LOCKED UP IN 765 00:24:45,793 --> 00:24:47,586 THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL. 766 00:24:47,586 --> 00:24:49,896 HE WOULD BEGIN HIS YEARS-LONG 767 00:24:49,896 --> 00:24:51,758 JOURNEY THROUGH THE JUSTICE 768 00:24:51,758 --> 00:24:52,034 SYSTEM. 769 00:24:52,034 --> 00:24:55,689 IT INCLUDED A REVOLVING DOOR OF 770 00:24:55,689 --> 00:24:57,482 DEFENSE LAWYERS, WHO RAISED 771 00:24:57,482 --> 00:24:58,827 QUESTIONS WITH THE COURT ABOUT 772 00:24:58,827 --> 00:25:00,724 SAM'S MENTAL HEALTH AND HIS 773 00:25:00,724 --> 00:25:03,724 ABILITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF. 774 00:25:03,724 --> 00:25:06,586 IN 2022 SAM WOODWARD WAS FOUND 775 00:25:06,586 --> 00:25:10,103 COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. 776 00:25:10,103 --> 00:25:11,896 INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY ALSO 777 00:25:11,896 --> 00:25:13,344 MINED SAM WOODWARD'S PHONE AND 778 00:25:13,344 --> 00:25:15,241 SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY. 779 00:25:15,241 --> 00:25:18,689 AND ALONG WITH THE NAZI 780 00:25:18,689 --> 00:25:20,551 PROPAGANDA THEY FOUND SOMETHING 781 00:25:20,551 --> 00:25:20,758 ELSE. 782 00:25:20,758 --> 00:25:24,206 SAM HAD VISITED GAY DATING AND 783 00:25:24,206 --> 00:25:24,896 PORN SITES. 784 00:25:24,896 --> 00:25:28,448 AND HE HAD EXCHANGED FLIRTATIOUS 785 00:25:28,448 --> 00:25:31,310 MESSAGES WITH BLAZE. 786 00:25:31,310 --> 00:25:33,206 >> SO THEY MATCHED TWICE ON 787 00:25:33,206 --> 00:25:33,448 TINDER. 788 00:25:33,448 --> 00:25:34,379 >> Reporter: LOUIS KEENE, A 789 00:25:34,379 --> 00:25:36,103 REPORTER FOR "THE FORWARD," 790 00:25:36,103 --> 00:25:37,310 WOULD COVER THE CASE AND REPORT 791 00:25:37,310 --> 00:25:40,068 ON THE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN SAM 792 00:25:40,068 --> 00:25:41,034 AND BLAZE. 793 00:25:41,034 --> 00:25:43,793 >> BLAZE ADMITS THAT HE'S GAY. 794 00:25:43,793 --> 00:25:45,655 BLAZE SAYS, "I THINK YOU'RE 795 00:25:45,655 --> 00:25:45,862 HOT." 796 00:25:45,862 --> 00:25:48,137 AND SAM SAYS BACK TO BLAZE, 797 00:25:48,137 --> 00:25:52,137 "YOU'RE NOT TOO BAD-LOOKING 798 00:25:52,137 --> 00:25:53,206 YOURSELF, BLAZE." 799 00:25:53,206 --> 00:25:55,275 SO THEY KIND OF HAD THIS FLIRTY 800 00:25:55,275 --> 00:25:56,310 INTERACTION. 801 00:25:56,310 --> 00:25:58,241 >> MAYBE SAM WAS LIKE CLOSETED 802 00:25:58,241 --> 00:26:00,896 AND WANTED TO HOOK UP. 803 00:26:00,896 --> 00:26:02,413 >> RAIAH ROFSKY MOVED TO NEW 804 00:26:02,413 --> 00:26:04,172 YORK CITY, WHERE SHE LIVES AS AN 805 00:26:04,172 --> 00:26:06,655 OPENLY BISEXUAL WOMAN. 806 00:26:06,655 --> 00:26:09,413 SHE STILL WONDERS ABOUT SAM'S 807 00:26:09,413 --> 00:26:11,448 INTENTION AND BLAZE'S THAT 808 00:26:11,448 --> 00:26:13,000 TRAGIC NIGHT IN BORREGO PARK. 809 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,551 >> THE DEFENSE MAY ARGUE THAT 810 00:26:14,551 --> 00:26:16,724 BLAZE MADE A MOVE ON SAM AND SAM 811 00:26:16,724 --> 00:26:18,344 FREAKED OUT. 812 00:26:18,344 --> 00:26:18,586 >> OKAY. 813 00:26:18,586 --> 00:26:20,000 AND IF YOU FREAK OUT DOES THAT 814 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,689 EXCUSE YOU STABBING SOMEBODY? 815 00:26:23,689 --> 00:26:26,172 >> APRIL 2024. 816 00:26:26,172 --> 00:26:27,206 >> STUFF IS GETTING REAL. 817 00:26:27,206 --> 00:26:29,310 THE JURY'S BEING PICKED. 818 00:26:29,310 --> 00:26:32,793 >> FINALLY, SAM WOODWARD HEADED 819 00:26:32,793 --> 00:26:33,172 TO TRIAL. 820 00:26:33,172 --> 00:26:35,724 OVER TIME THE CASE HAD TAKEN ON 821 00:26:35,724 --> 00:26:36,758 EVEN GREATER MEANING. 822 00:26:36,758 --> 00:26:38,241 >> THERE'S A LOT AT STAKE HERE 823 00:26:38,241 --> 00:26:40,103 BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT 824 00:26:40,103 --> 00:26:42,586 GETTING JUSTICE FOR BLAZE, BUT 825 00:26:42,586 --> 00:26:44,241 IT'S ALSO ABOUT WHAT PRECEDENT 826 00:26:44,241 --> 00:26:48,310 THIS IS SETTING FOR OTHER LGBTQ 827 00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:49,758 PLUS PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN OR 828 00:26:49,758 --> 00:26:53,310 MIGHT IN THE FUTURE BE IN 829 00:26:53,310 --> 00:26:54,482 SIMILAR SITUATIONS. 830 00:26:54,482 --> 00:26:55,689 >> BLAZE'S PARENTS STEADIED 831 00:26:55,689 --> 00:26:56,758 THEMSELVES TO RELIVE THE NIGHT 832 00:26:56,758 --> 00:26:59,103 THAT SHATTERED THEIR LIVES. 833 00:26:59,103 --> 00:27:01,000 >> I KNOW THAT A LOT OF THINGS 834 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,896 WILL BE SAID THAT ARE PROBABLY 835 00:27:03,896 --> 00:27:04,655 UNTRUE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT 836 00:27:04,655 --> 00:27:09,413 HAPPENS IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL. 837 00:27:09,413 --> 00:27:10,931 I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEND 838 00:27:10,931 --> 00:27:11,137 BLAZE. 839 00:27:11,137 --> 00:27:15,724 AND THAT'S WHAT I WILL DO. 840 00:27:15,724 --> 00:27:34,758 AND THAT'S WHAT I WILL DO. >> SEE MORE EVIDENC 841 00:27:34,758 --> 00:27:38,448 >> SEE MORE EVIDENC 842 00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:39,413 >>> MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS SOME 843 00:27:39,413 --> 00:27:40,827 FORM OF JUSTICE. 844 00:27:40,827 --> 00:27:42,793 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MISS PEPPER. 845 00:27:42,793 --> 00:27:44,896 >> IT TOOK MORE THAN SIX YEARS 846 00:27:44,896 --> 00:27:46,482 FOR JEANNE AND GIDEON TO GET 847 00:27:46,482 --> 00:27:47,000 THIS DAY IN COURT. 848 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,517 >> I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR 849 00:27:48,517 --> 00:27:50,827 BEING HERE AND I'M SORRY THAT 850 00:27:50,827 --> 00:27:51,310 THE CIRCUMSTANCES -- 851 00:27:51,310 --> 00:27:53,344 >> BUT IT COMES WITH TERRIBLE 852 00:27:53,344 --> 00:27:53,620 MEMORIES. 853 00:27:53,620 --> 00:27:55,413 >> THANK YOU. 854 00:27:55,413 --> 00:27:57,724 >> OF THE DAY THEY LOST THEIR 855 00:27:57,724 --> 00:27:58,000 SON BLAZE. 856 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:58,655 >> YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE 857 00:27:58,655 --> 00:27:59,586 WHEN YOU GOT THE PHONE CALL? 858 00:27:59,586 --> 00:28:01,000 >> I DO REMEMBER THAT, YES. 859 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,551 >> AND WHY DOES THAT STAND OUT 860 00:28:02,551 --> 00:28:08,137 IN YOUR MIND? 861 00:28:08,137 --> 00:28:11,758 >> BECAUSE IT WAS THE BEGINNING 862 00:28:11,758 --> 00:28:14,275 OF HELL. 863 00:28:14,275 --> 00:28:16,172 >> THE COUPLE HAVE TO COME FACE 864 00:28:16,172 --> 00:28:18,344 TO FACE WITH THEIR SON'S KILLER. 865 00:28:18,344 --> 00:28:21,000 BUT THE KILLER, SAM WOODWARD, 866 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,689 DOESN'T SEEM TO WANT TO BE SEEN. 867 00:28:23,689 --> 00:28:25,344 >> CAN I ASK YOU TO MOVE THE 868 00:28:25,344 --> 00:28:29,655 HAIR OUT OF YOUR FACE A LITTLE 869 00:28:29,655 --> 00:28:29,931 BIT? 870 00:28:29,931 --> 00:28:31,965 MAYBE PULL THE HAIR ON THE RIGHT 871 00:28:31,965 --> 00:28:35,275 SIDE OF YOUR HEAD AWAY SO WE CAN 872 00:28:35,275 --> 00:28:38,827 SEE YOU. 873 00:28:38,827 --> 00:28:39,517 PLEASE. 874 00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:40,241 THANK YOU. 875 00:28:40,241 --> 00:28:42,827 >> EVEN BEFORE HE TOOK THE STAND 876 00:28:42,827 --> 00:28:44,517 SAM WOODWARD WAS ALREADY AN 877 00:28:44,517 --> 00:28:45,379 EERIE PRESENCE IN THE COURTROOM 878 00:28:45,379 --> 00:28:47,275 WHO GOT EVERYONE'S ATTENTION. 879 00:28:47,275 --> 00:28:51,655 >> SAM LOOKED LIKE CHARLES 880 00:28:51,655 --> 00:28:51,896 MANSON. 881 00:28:51,896 --> 00:28:53,172 YOU COULDN'T REALLY SEE HIS 882 00:28:53,172 --> 00:28:53,448 FACE. 883 00:28:53,448 --> 00:28:54,275 >> NO. 884 00:28:54,275 --> 00:28:55,344 >> YOU COULDN'T REALLY HEAR HIM 885 00:28:55,344 --> 00:28:57,482 ALL THE TIME. 886 00:28:57,482 --> 00:28:58,827 >> REPORTER LOUIS KEENE. 887 00:28:58,827 --> 00:29:00,482 >> IF YOU'RE IN THE JURY, HE 888 00:29:00,482 --> 00:29:01,689 LOOKS EXTREMELY MENACING. 889 00:29:01,689 --> 00:29:04,379 >> DO YOU WANT TO LOOK HIM IN 890 00:29:04,379 --> 00:29:05,034 THE EYE? 891 00:29:05,034 --> 00:29:06,275 >> NOT REALLY. 892 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:09,000 I DON'T CARE. 893 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,689 HE'S MEANINGLESS TO ME. 894 00:29:11,689 --> 00:29:12,793 >> DO YOU WANT MORE TIME TO MOVE 895 00:29:12,793 --> 00:29:14,344 YOUR HAIR OUT OF YOUR FACE A 896 00:29:14,344 --> 00:29:17,206 LITTLE BIT FOR US? 897 00:29:17,206 --> 00:29:19,827 >> BLAZE, WE LOVE YOU, AND WE 898 00:29:19,827 --> 00:29:21,103 WANT YOU TO COME HOME. 899 00:29:21,103 --> 00:29:24,000 >> BACK WHEN THEY WERE 900 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:24,551 FRANTICALLY SEARCHING FOR 901 00:29:24,551 --> 00:29:25,137 BLAZE -- 902 00:29:25,137 --> 00:29:27,517 >> KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR MY 903 00:29:27,517 --> 00:29:27,724 BABY. 904 00:29:27,724 --> 00:29:30,172 I WANT HIM HOME WITH ME NOW. 905 00:29:30,172 --> 00:29:32,517 >> -- SAM WOODWARD TOLD THEM HE 906 00:29:32,517 --> 00:29:33,586 DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT 907 00:29:33,586 --> 00:29:35,000 HAPPENED TO THEIR SON. 908 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000 >> I DIDN'T SEE WHERE HE WENT. 909 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:43,448 I SEARCHED ALL OVER FOR HIM. 910 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:45,000 I DIDN'T FIND HIM ANYWHERE. 911 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,793 >> BUT HIS LOOKS HAVE CHANGED 912 00:29:46,793 --> 00:29:47,896 DRAMATICALLY AND SO HAS HIS 913 00:29:47,896 --> 00:29:48,586 STORY. 914 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:50,482 >> DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU'RE 915 00:29:50,482 --> 00:29:51,448 THINKING WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING THE 916 00:29:51,448 --> 00:29:55,448 KNIFE DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND 917 00:29:55,448 --> 00:30:11,551 KNIFE DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN? 918 00:30:11,551 --> 00:30:16,862 AGAIN? 919 00:30:16,862 --> 00:30:18,448 >> AN ANGER LIKE NOTHING I'D 920 00:30:18,448 --> 00:30:26,896 EVER FELT IN MY WHOLE LIFE. 921 00:30:26,896 --> 00:30:28,482 >> THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO 922 00:30:28,482 --> 00:30:29,758 QUESTION SAM WOODWARD KILLED 923 00:30:29,758 --> 00:30:32,965 BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 924 00:30:32,965 --> 00:30:34,413 >> THE EVIDENCE WILL SHOW THAT 925 00:30:34,413 --> 00:30:38,931 SAMUEL WOODWARD IS GUILTY OF 926 00:30:38,931 --> 00:30:39,448 HOMICIDE 927 00:30:39,448 --> 00:30:39,724 HOMICIDE. 928 00:30:39,724 --> 00:30:40,344 >> THE QUESTION FOR THE JURY 929 00:30:40,344 --> 00:30:40,586 IS -- 930 00:30:40,586 --> 00:30:42,137 >> WHY THIS HOMICIDE WAS 931 00:30:42,137 --> 00:30:42,413 COMMITTED. 932 00:30:42,413 --> 00:30:43,862 >> SAM'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAID 933 00:30:43,862 --> 00:30:45,068 IN OPENING ARGUMENTS THAT WE 934 00:30:45,068 --> 00:30:46,758 WERE GOING TO HEAR FROM SAM 935 00:30:46,758 --> 00:30:48,931 ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED 936 00:30:48,931 --> 00:30:50,655 THAT NIGHT THAT PROVOKED SAM 937 00:30:50,655 --> 00:30:53,724 INTO KILLING BLAZE. 938 00:30:53,724 --> 00:30:54,965 >> THE CHALLENGE FOR DEFENSE 939 00:30:54,965 --> 00:30:56,517 ATTORNEY KEN MORRISON IS TO 940 00:30:56,517 --> 00:30:57,862 PROVE VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, 941 00:30:57,862 --> 00:31:00,758 THAT WOODWARD ACTED IMPULSIVELY. 942 00:31:00,758 --> 00:31:03,241 >> THERE WAS NO COLD, CALCULATED 943 00:31:03,241 --> 00:31:08,896 DECISION TO KILL. 944 00:31:08,896 --> 00:31:10,103 >> AND THE KNIFE? 945 00:31:10,103 --> 00:31:11,689 ACCORDING TO THE DEFENSE, IT 946 00:31:11,689 --> 00:31:14,206 WASN'T EVER MEANT FOR MURDER. 947 00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:17,655 FROM THE TIME SAM WAS A BOY 948 00:31:17,655 --> 00:31:19,137 SCOUT, SAM WAS NEVER WITHOUT 949 00:31:19,137 --> 00:31:19,310 ONE. 950 00:31:19,310 --> 00:31:20,379 >> WOULD YOU EVER CARRY A POCKET 951 00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:22,620 KNIFE WITH YOU IN YOUR PANTS 952 00:31:22,620 --> 00:31:22,862 POCKET? 953 00:31:22,862 --> 00:31:24,137 >> YES, I WOULD. 954 00:31:24,137 --> 00:31:26,379 ALMOST ALL THE TIME. 955 00:31:26,379 --> 00:31:28,689 >> DID YOU HAVE A KNIFE IN YOUR 956 00:31:28,689 --> 00:31:30,517 POCKET WHEN YOU WERE WITH BLAZE 957 00:31:30,517 --> 00:31:30,793 BERNSTEIN? 958 00:31:30,793 --> 00:31:34,827 >> YES, I DID. 959 00:31:34,827 --> 00:31:35,931 >> THE KILLING HAPPENED IN LESS 960 00:31:35,931 --> 00:31:37,241 THAN AN HOUR. 961 00:31:37,241 --> 00:31:38,551 >> PROSECUTOR JENNIFER WALKER 962 00:31:38,551 --> 00:31:40,793 ARGUES THIS WAS PREMEDITATED 963 00:31:40,793 --> 00:31:41,862 MURDER AND A HATE CRIME. 964 00:31:41,862 --> 00:31:43,758 > YOU'LL SEE THE CELL PHONE 965 00:31:43,758 --> 00:31:45,758 EVIDENCE, THE DNA EVIDENCE, THE 966 00:31:45,758 --> 00:31:49,482 DEFENDANT'S WORDS, THE 967 00:31:49,482 --> 00:31:50,275 DEFENDANT'S HATE. 968 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:52,000 >> IN THE NEARLY THREE MONTHS AT 969 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,862 TRIAL WALKER PAINSTAKINGLY PUT 970 00:31:54,862 --> 00:31:55,793 ON MORE THAN 20 WITNESSES, 971 00:31:55,793 --> 00:31:58,000 INCLUDING THE SAME FORMER 972 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,103 ATOMWAFFEN MEMBER WHO SPOKE WITH 973 00:31:59,103 --> 00:32:01,172 US, NOW A WITNESS FOR THE 974 00:32:01,172 --> 00:32:03,206 PROSECUTION, WHO STILL WANTED 975 00:32:03,206 --> 00:32:04,448 HIS IDENTITY CONCEALED. 976 00:32:04,448 --> 00:32:05,310 >> DO YOU RECOGNIZE THAT? 977 00:32:05,310 --> 00:32:06,000 >> YES. 978 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,793 >> WHAT IS IT? 979 00:32:07,793 --> 00:32:10,172 >> THAT'S A PICTURE OF SAMUEL 980 00:32:10,172 --> 00:32:10,586 WOODWARD. 981 00:32:10,586 --> 00:32:12,724 >> ALL TO BUILD THE CASE FOR THE 982 00:32:12,724 --> 00:32:14,206 ADDED HATE CHARGE AND A GREATER 983 00:32:14,206 --> 00:32:14,482 SENTENCE. 984 00:32:14,482 --> 00:32:16,689 >> THE DIFFERENCE IS THE 985 00:32:16,689 --> 00:32:19,586 POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. 986 00:32:19,586 --> 00:32:21,620 IF IT'S NO HATE CRIME, THEN IT'S 987 00:32:21,620 --> 00:32:22,758 25 YEARS TO LIFE WITH THE 988 00:32:22,758 --> 00:32:24,551 POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. 989 00:32:24,551 --> 00:32:26,206 IF IT'S A FIRST-DEGREE 990 00:32:26,206 --> 00:32:28,586 PREMEDITATED MURDER AND A HATE 991 00:32:28,586 --> 00:32:32,379 CRIME, SAM FACES LIFE IN PRISON 992 00:32:32,379 --> 00:32:34,137 WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. 993 00:32:34,137 --> 00:32:35,758 >> THE FACTS OF THIS CASE ARE 994 00:32:35,758 --> 00:32:36,241 NOT SIMPLE. 995 00:32:36,241 --> 00:32:39,241 >> THE DEFENSE USES A 996 00:32:39,241 --> 00:32:40,482 TIME-HONORED TACTIC. 997 00:32:40,482 --> 00:32:41,655 SUGGESTING THE VICTIM IS NOT AS 998 00:32:41,655 --> 00:32:44,310 INNOCENT AS HE APPEARS. 999 00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:48,896 >> YOU WILL LEARN THAT BLAZE 1000 00:32:48,896 --> 00:32:49,758 BERNSTEIN WAS NOT KILLED BECAUSE 1001 00:32:49,758 --> 00:32:55,103 OF WHO HE WAS BUT BECAUSE OF 1002 00:32:55,103 --> 00:32:55,620 WHAT HE DID. 1003 00:32:55,620 --> 00:32:56,965 >> TELL US WHAT HAPPENED. 1004 00:32:56,965 --> 00:32:58,275 >> IN SAM WOODWARD'S VERSION -- 1005 00:32:58,275 --> 00:33:00,482 >> SAM, CAN YOU PICK YOUR HEAD 1006 00:33:00,482 --> 00:33:01,551 UP, MOVE YOUR HAIR? 1007 00:33:01,551 --> 00:33:06,172 >> BLAZE WAS TOYING WITH HIM AND 1008 00:33:06,172 --> 00:33:07,241 THREATENING TO OUT HIM. 1009 00:33:07,241 --> 00:33:09,137 ONCE THEY WERE IN BORREGO PARK 1010 00:33:09,137 --> 00:33:10,275 SAM SAYS HE SMOKED A JOINT. 1011 00:33:10,275 --> 00:33:11,551 >> I STARTED NODDING OFF. 1012 00:33:11,551 --> 00:33:14,448 >> SAM SAYS HE THOUGHT BLAZE 1013 00:33:14,448 --> 00:33:16,275 TOOK A COMPROMISING PICTURE. 1014 00:33:16,275 --> 00:33:18,793 >> I SAW MY PANTS UNBUCKLED. 1015 00:33:18,793 --> 00:33:22,689 I COULD PRACTICALLY LIKE FEEL 1016 00:33:22,689 --> 00:33:24,379 SOMETHING SOMEWHAT CLOSE TO MY 1017 00:33:24,379 --> 00:33:24,551 LEG. 1018 00:33:24,551 --> 00:33:28,689 AND HE HAD HIS PHONE IN HIS 1019 00:33:28,689 --> 00:33:28,965 HAND. 1020 00:33:28,965 --> 00:33:31,517 >> HE TELLS US THAT HE BELIEVES 1021 00:33:31,517 --> 00:33:36,482 THAT BLAZE IS TAKING A PHOTO OF 1022 00:33:36,482 --> 00:33:37,862 HIS PRIVATES. 1023 00:33:37,862 --> 00:33:39,689 >> I JUST CAME UNDONE. 1024 00:33:39,689 --> 00:33:42,103 I WENT IN A STATE OF JUST 1025 00:33:42,103 --> 00:33:42,344 TERROR. 1026 00:33:42,344 --> 00:33:43,827 AND I ASKED, "WHAT ARE YOU 1027 00:33:43,827 --> 00:33:44,137 DOING? 1028 00:33:44,137 --> 00:33:45,137 WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" 1029 00:33:45,137 --> 00:33:47,137 >> NO PHOTO WAS EVER FOUND. 1030 00:33:47,137 --> 00:33:48,241 SO THERE'S NO EVIDENCE THAT 1031 00:33:48,241 --> 00:33:53,310 BLAZE ACTUALLY TOOK ONE. 1032 00:33:53,310 --> 00:33:56,103 >> WHAT WERE YOU AFRAID OF? 1033 00:33:56,103 --> 00:33:59,310 >> I GREW UP IN A HOME WITH MY 1034 00:33:59,310 --> 00:34:01,000 MOTHER AND MY FATHER AND I LOVE 1035 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,206 THEM MORE THAN I CAN IMAGINE. 1036 00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:05,068 MY FATHER, THOUGH, HE -- THERE'S 1037 00:34:05,068 --> 00:34:09,000 NO WAY, NOT A CHANCE PEOPLE LIKE 1038 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:09,688 HIM, JUST EVEN THINKING ABOUT 1039 00:34:09,688 --> 00:34:11,896 THE LOOK ON HIS FACE IF HE SAW 1040 00:34:11,896 --> 00:34:14,000 SOMETHING LIKE THAT, IF HE'D 1041 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,862 HEARD ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT 1042 00:34:15,862 --> 00:34:17,034 THAT GOT OUT SOMEHOW. 1043 00:34:17,034 --> 00:34:20,413 I COULDN'T FATHOM THAT. 1044 00:34:20,413 --> 00:34:23,620 >> SAM GREW UP IN AN 1045 00:34:23,620 --> 00:34:24,688 ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC 1046 00:34:24,688 --> 00:34:26,000 HOUSEHOLD. 1047 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,516 HE HAD PARENTS WHO BELIEVED 1048 00:34:28,516 --> 00:34:29,757 HOMOSEXUALITY WAS A SIN. 1049 00:34:29,757 --> 00:34:31,344 BUT SAM ALSO SEEMED TO HAVE 1050 00:34:31,344 --> 00:34:33,447 REALLY CONFLICTED FEELINGS ABOUT 1051 00:34:33,447 --> 00:34:38,275 HIS OWN SEXUALITY. 1052 00:34:38,275 --> 00:34:42,034 WHAT YOU COME AWAY WITH IS JUST 1053 00:34:42,034 --> 00:34:44,172 IMMENSE SADNESS OF ALL THESE 1054 00:34:44,172 --> 00:34:46,827 EXTERNAL FORCES COMING TO BEAR 1055 00:34:46,827 --> 00:34:48,965 ON HIS LIFE. 1056 00:34:48,965 --> 00:34:52,482 HE DID WHAT HE DID. 1057 00:34:52,482 --> 00:34:55,172 AND WHAT HE DID CAN'T BE UNDONE. 1058 00:34:55,172 --> 00:34:58,758 >> ANY IDEA HOW LONG IT TOOK TO 1059 00:34:58,758 --> 00:35:03,206 STOP STABBING BLAZE? 1060 00:35:03,206 --> 00:35:04,827 >> NO IDEA, NO. 1061 00:35:04,827 --> 00:35:07,655 >> IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL 1062 00:35:07,655 --> 00:35:08,620 THINGS I'VE EVER HEARD. 1063 00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:10,586 AND YOU KNOW THAT BLAZE'S 1064 00:35:10,586 --> 00:35:14,206 PARENTS ARE SITTING THERE FOR 1065 00:35:14,206 --> 00:35:17,206 MONTHS OF THIS TRIAL. 1066 00:35:17,206 --> 00:35:19,862 THEY'VE BEEN HEARING THEIR SON 1067 00:35:19,862 --> 00:35:24,000 IS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. 1068 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,517 YOU CAN'T REALLY IMAGINE WHAT 1069 00:35:27,517 --> 00:35:29,241 THAT'S LIKE. 1070 00:35:29,241 --> 00:35:31,965 JEANNE PEPPER WALKED OUT OF THE 1071 00:35:31,965 --> 00:35:32,137 ROOM. 1072 00:35:32,137 --> 00:35:34,172 >> FOR THE PROSECUTION THE ONLY 1073 00:35:34,172 --> 00:35:36,655 PREDATOR IN THIS STORY IS SAM 1074 00:35:36,655 --> 00:35:36,931 WOODWARD. 1075 00:35:36,931 --> 00:35:38,689 >> HE HAS A SIX-INCH KNIFE OUT 1076 00:35:38,689 --> 00:35:40,206 AND BLAZE IS THE PREDATOR? 1077 00:35:40,206 --> 00:35:42,862 BLAZE IS THE PROBLEM HERE? 1078 00:35:42,862 --> 00:35:46,758 THAT'S WHAT'S BEING SOLD TO YOU 1079 00:35:46,758 --> 00:35:48,103 BY THE DEFENDANT. 1080 00:35:48,103 --> 00:35:51,482 HE WAS INTERESTED IN FIXATED ON 1081 00:35:51,482 --> 00:35:51,689 HATE. 1082 00:35:51,689 --> 00:35:53,689 ATOMWAFFEN DIVISION HAD THAT 1083 00:35:53,689 --> 00:35:58,172 OUTLET FOR HIM. 1084 00:35:58,172 --> 00:36:00,310 >> ONLY TWO PEOPLE KNOW WHAT 1085 00:36:00,310 --> 00:36:01,310 REALLY HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. 1086 00:36:01,310 --> 00:36:03,655 SAM WOODWARD HAS HAD HIS SAY. 1087 00:36:03,655 --> 00:36:04,827 BLAZE BERNSTEIN ISN'T ALIVE TO 1088 00:36:04,827 --> 00:36:05,379 TELL US. 1089 00:36:05,379 --> 00:36:07,241 >> YOU SHOULD FIND HIM GUILTY OF 1090 00:36:07,241 --> 00:36:08,482 THE FIRST-DEGREE MURDER WITH THE 1091 00:36:08,482 --> 00:36:09,862 HATE CRIME. 1092 00:36:09,862 --> 00:36:11,034 IT'S THE ONLY REASONABLE 1093 00:36:11,034 --> 00:36:11,586 CONCLUSION. 1094 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:13,275 >> DO YOU HAVE ANY HESITATION? 1095 00:36:13,275 --> 00:36:15,586 DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT? 1096 00:36:15,586 --> 00:36:21,275 DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT? >> NOW IT'S UP TO THE JURY. 1097 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:31,000 >> NOW IT'S UP TO THE JURY. 1098 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,482 >>> THE PASSAGE OF TIME HAS BEEN 1099 00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:36,103 DOUBLY HARD FOR BLAZE'S 1100 00:36:36,103 --> 00:36:37,448 GRANDPARENTS, RICHARD AND LEAH, 1101 00:36:37,448 --> 00:36:39,586 STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE FOR 1102 00:36:39,586 --> 00:36:43,206 THE GRANDSON THEY LOVED AND 1103 00:36:43,206 --> 00:36:43,413 LOST. 1104 00:36:43,413 --> 00:36:45,206 >> I MISS HIM ALL. 1105 00:36:45,206 --> 00:36:46,034 EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. 1106 00:36:46,034 --> 00:36:47,931 HE WAS LOVING AND CARING. 1107 00:36:47,931 --> 00:36:52,724 HE WAS HANDSOME TOO. 1108 00:36:52,724 --> 00:36:55,413 >> BLAZE AND HIS EXCEPTIONAL 1109 00:36:55,413 --> 00:36:55,965 APPETITE FOR LIFE. 1110 00:36:55,965 --> 00:36:57,586 >> I TRIED TO TREAT HIM AS JUST 1111 00:36:57,586 --> 00:37:00,241 A NORMAL KID, YOU KNOW. 1112 00:37:00,241 --> 00:37:09,551 AND HE TURNED OUT -- 1113 00:37:09,551 --> 00:37:12,241 >> I'M SORRY. 1114 00:37:12,241 --> 00:37:15,000 >> HE TURNED OUT WELL. 1115 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,241 >> ON JULY 3rd, 2024 THE JURORS 1116 00:37:20,241 --> 00:37:21,931 BEGAN THEIR DELIBERATIONS. 1117 00:37:21,931 --> 00:37:23,482 >> I DON'T WANT HIM TO DIE. 1118 00:37:23,482 --> 00:37:24,862 I WANT HIM TO SUFFER EVERY DAY 1119 00:37:24,862 --> 00:37:26,724 OF HIS LIFE. 1120 00:37:26,724 --> 00:37:28,482 >> IS THERE A PART OF YOU THAT 1121 00:37:28,482 --> 00:37:29,827 WANTS TO LOOK THAT YOUNG MAN IN 1122 00:37:29,827 --> 00:37:31,241 THE EYE? 1123 00:37:31,241 --> 00:37:31,793 >> NO. 1124 00:37:31,793 --> 00:37:32,551 >> WHY NOT? 1125 00:37:32,551 --> 00:37:36,724 >> BECAUSE HE'S A FOOTNOTE IN 1126 00:37:36,724 --> 00:37:37,000 HISTORY. 1127 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,724 >> WHETHER FOOTNOTE OR HEADLINE, 1128 00:37:41,724 --> 00:37:44,275 GRANDPARENTS, PARENTS, RABBI, 1129 00:37:44,275 --> 00:37:45,655 OLDEST FRIEND, IT FELT LIKE 1130 00:37:45,655 --> 00:37:46,068 FOREVER. 1131 00:37:46,068 --> 00:37:48,724 >> I WAS NERVOUS. 1132 00:37:48,724 --> 00:37:49,965 AND I FELT THE ANXIETY BECAUSE I 1133 00:37:49,965 --> 00:37:52,379 WAS NOT SURE WHAT THE VERDICT 1134 00:37:52,379 --> 00:37:58,827 WAS GOING TO BE. 1135 00:37:58,827 --> 00:38:03,517 >> 2,364 DAYS AFTER HIS ARREST, 1136 00:38:03,517 --> 00:38:07,344 SAM WOODWARD'S FATE IS ON THE 1137 00:38:07,344 --> 00:38:07,793 LINE. 1138 00:38:07,793 --> 00:38:09,586 LIVING AND DYING IN PRISON OR 1139 00:38:09,586 --> 00:38:12,103 SOMEDAY POSSIBLY WALKING FREE. 1140 00:38:12,103 --> 00:38:13,172 >> IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT 1141 00:38:13,172 --> 00:38:14,482 YOU DO HAVE A VERDICT. 1142 00:38:14,482 --> 00:38:15,482 IS THAT ACCURATE? 1143 00:38:15,482 --> 00:38:16,000 >> WE HAVE. 1144 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,551 >> IT TOOK THE JURY EIGHT HOURS. 1145 00:38:17,551 --> 00:38:19,413 >> THE VERDICT BEING READ, 1146 00:38:19,413 --> 00:38:21,965 THERE'S NO WAY TO DESCRIBE WHAT 1147 00:38:21,965 --> 00:38:22,413 IT'S LIKE. 1148 00:38:22,413 --> 00:38:25,137 SORT OF THE EMOTIONAL INTENSITY 1149 00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:26,000 OF THE MOMENT. 1150 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,655 >> WE THE JURY FIND THE 1151 00:38:27,655 --> 00:38:29,275 DEFENDANT, SAMUEL WOODWARD, 1152 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:33,137 GUILTY OF THE CRIME OF 1153 00:38:33,137 --> 00:38:35,620 FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. 1154 00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:38,689 >> BUT AS SOON AS THE JURY SAYS 1155 00:38:38,689 --> 00:38:40,827 "GUILTY" I HEARD JEANNE SAY "OH, 1156 00:38:40,827 --> 00:38:42,551 THANK GOD." 1157 00:38:42,551 --> 00:38:45,034 >> THANK GOD. 1158 00:38:45,034 --> 00:38:47,172 >> GUILTY OF MURDER. 1159 00:38:47,172 --> 00:38:49,206 BUT WAS IT HATE? 1160 00:38:49,206 --> 00:38:50,379 DID SAM TARGET BLAZE BECAUSE HE 1161 00:38:50,379 --> 00:38:52,103 WAS GAY? 1162 00:38:52,103 --> 00:38:52,896 THE JURY SPOKE AGAIN. 1163 00:38:52,896 --> 00:38:55,344 >> WE THE JURY FIND IT TO BE 1164 00:38:55,344 --> 00:38:56,482 TRUE THAT THE DEFENDANT SAMUEL 1165 00:38:56,482 --> 00:38:59,000 WOODWARD COMMITTED HATE CRIME 1166 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,448 FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. 1167 00:39:02,448 --> 00:39:05,275 [ APPLAUSE ] 1168 00:39:05,275 --> 00:39:07,000 >> OUTSIDE THE ORANGE COUNTY 1169 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,827 COURTROOM ALL THAT PAIN AND 1170 00:39:08,827 --> 00:39:09,896 UNCERTAINTY OVERFLOWED. 1171 00:39:09,896 --> 00:39:11,655 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. 1172 00:39:11,655 --> 00:39:12,448 MY NAME IS TODD SPITZER. 1173 00:39:12,448 --> 00:39:14,137 I'M THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF 1174 00:39:14,137 --> 00:39:15,000 ORANGE COUNTY. 1175 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,310 >> THE CURRENT D.A. OFFERED 1176 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:18,241 THOUGHTS ON LOVE AND LAW. 1177 00:39:18,241 --> 00:39:20,241 >> WE DON'T CARE WHO YOU LOVE OR 1178 00:39:20,241 --> 00:39:21,379 WHO YOU WANT TO BE WITH. 1179 00:39:21,379 --> 00:39:24,482 YOU DESERVE TO BE A FREE PERSON 1180 00:39:24,482 --> 00:39:28,689 WITH FREE WILL AND LOVE WHO YOU 1181 00:39:28,689 --> 00:39:28,896 LOVE. 1182 00:39:28,896 --> 00:39:34,344 AND THAT NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED. 1183 00:39:34,344 --> 00:39:38,448 >> WE ARE THRILLED WITH THE 1184 00:39:38,448 --> 00:39:41,068 VERDICT, WHICH HOLDS SAMUEL 1185 00:39:41,068 --> 00:39:42,000 WOODWARD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE 1186 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,448 BRUTAL, VIOLENT, PAINFUL MURDER 1187 00:39:44,448 --> 00:39:49,310 OF OUR SON, BROTHER, GRANDSON, 1188 00:39:49,310 --> 00:39:50,793 COUSIN, BLAZE BERNSTEIN ON 1189 00:39:50,793 --> 00:39:53,655 JANUARY 3rd, 2018. 1190 00:39:53,655 --> 00:39:55,206 >> HIS PARENTS WILL NEVER GET TO 1191 00:39:55,206 --> 00:39:56,206 SPEAK TO HIM AGAIN. 1192 00:39:56,206 --> 00:39:59,000 AND THAT LOSS IS INCALCULABLE. 1193 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000 THE WOODWARDS ALSO LOST THEIR 1194 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:03,379 SON. 1195 00:40:03,379 --> 00:40:05,137 HE'S GOING TO PRISON. 1196 00:40:05,137 --> 00:40:06,413 >> WHEN THE VERDICT WAS THAT THE 1197 00:40:06,413 --> 00:40:12,000 MURDER WAS A HATE CRIME, THAT 1198 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,172 ESSENTIALLY MEANT THAT THERE IS 1199 00:40:14,172 --> 00:40:15,586 THE PROOF THAT BLAZE WAS 1200 00:40:15,586 --> 00:40:19,241 MURDERED BECAUSE HE WAS GAY AND 1201 00:40:19,241 --> 00:40:19,586 JEWISH. 1202 00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:20,965 SIMPLE AS THAT. 1203 00:40:20,965 --> 00:40:23,068 >> FOR RAIAH, WHO BLAZE FIRST 1204 00:40:23,068 --> 00:40:26,379 CAME OUT TO ON THAT CALIFORNIA 1205 00:40:26,379 --> 00:40:26,758 BEACH -- 1206 00:40:26,758 --> 00:40:29,620 >> IN MY HEAD I WAS TELLING 1207 00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:31,724 BLAZE, WE FINALLY GOT HIM. 1208 00:40:31,724 --> 00:40:34,206 LIKE YOU KNOW, CASE CLOSED. 1209 00:40:34,206 --> 00:40:36,965 >> AND, SAYS THE PROSECUTOR, SAM 1210 00:40:36,965 --> 00:40:38,758 WOODWARD SHOULD PAY THE MAXIMUM 1211 00:40:38,758 --> 00:40:38,965 PRICE. 1212 00:40:38,965 --> 00:40:40,275 >> HE FACES LIFE WITHOUT 1213 00:40:40,275 --> 00:40:41,275 POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE, AND 1214 00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:45,137 THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE ASKING FOR. 1215 00:40:45,137 --> 00:40:46,655 >> THANK YOU. 1216 00:40:46,655 --> 00:40:49,689 >> EXPERTS WHO MONITOR 1217 00:40:49,689 --> 00:40:51,482 ATOMWAFFEN SAY IT HAS LARGELY 1218 00:40:51,482 --> 00:40:53,344 DISSOLVED BUT THAT THE THREAT OF 1219 00:40:53,344 --> 00:40:56,068 HATE GROUPS REMAINS TODAY. 1220 00:40:56,068 --> 00:40:59,344 >> YOU SAID LOVE WHO YOU LOVE. 1221 00:40:59,344 --> 00:41:01,034 IT SOUNDS SO SIMPLE. 1222 00:41:01,034 --> 00:41:02,275 BUT IT'S NOT. 1223 00:41:02,275 --> 00:41:04,413 >> MM-HMM. 1224 00:41:04,413 --> 00:41:05,793 JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ACCEPTING OF 1225 00:41:05,793 --> 00:41:07,379 YOURSELF, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT 1226 00:41:07,379 --> 00:41:08,793 EVERYBODY'S GOING TO SEE IT THE 1227 00:41:08,793 --> 00:41:19,689 SAME WAY AS YOU DO, YOU KNOW. 1228 00:41:19,689 --> 00:41:21,172 >> CAN YOU PICTURE BLAZE IF HE 1229 00:41:21,172 --> 00:41:22,724 WAS ALIVE TODAY? 1230 00:41:22,724 --> 00:41:25,413 >> NO, I DON'T THINK I CAN. 1231 00:41:25,413 --> 00:41:30,655 >> CAN YOU STILL HEAR HIS VOICE? 1232 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:31,793 >> NO. 1233 00:41:31,793 --> 00:41:34,827 >> THAT'S KIND OF SAD. 1234 00:41:34,827 --> 00:41:36,000 >> YEAH. 1235 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,689 >> FOR JEANNE AND GIDEON EVERY 1236 00:41:38,689 --> 00:41:42,413 DAY BRINGS REMINDERS OF WHAT 1237 00:41:42,413 --> 00:41:43,379 MIGHT HAVE BEEN. 1238 00:41:43,379 --> 00:41:44,758 >> I THINK ABOUT BLAZE ALL THE 1239 00:41:44,758 --> 00:41:47,517 TIME BECAUSE WHEN I SEE THINGS I 1240 00:41:47,517 --> 00:41:48,931 THINK TO MYSELF WHAT WOULD BLAZE 1241 00:41:48,931 --> 00:41:50,379 BE DOING NOW? 1242 00:41:50,379 --> 00:41:53,379 >> THEY FOUNDED WHAT THEY CALL A 1243 00:41:53,379 --> 00:41:54,655 KINDNESS MOVEMENT, PROMOTING 1244 00:41:54,655 --> 00:41:57,068 POSITIVITY AND RANDOM ACTS OF 1245 00:41:57,068 --> 00:41:59,379 KINDNESS IN BLAZE'S NAME. 1246 00:41:59,379 --> 00:42:01,000 >> BLAZE IT FORWARD IS A 1247 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,862 RESPONSE TO BLAZE'S DEATH. 1248 00:42:03,862 --> 00:42:05,482 >> AND IN BORREGO PARK, WHERE 1249 00:42:05,482 --> 00:42:10,275 BLAZE TOOK HIS LAST BREATH, 1250 00:42:10,275 --> 00:42:12,068 THERE IS THIS. 1251 00:42:12,068 --> 00:42:14,931 HUNDREDS OF HAND-PAINTED STONES, 1252 00:42:14,931 --> 00:42:17,448 MOST LEFT BY TOTAL STRANGERS, IN 1253 00:42:17,448 --> 00:42:21,931 THE MEMORY OF BLAZE BERNSTEIN. 1254 00:42:21,931 --> 00:42:23,103 >> THIS PILE OF STONES HAS GROWN 1255 00:42:23,103 --> 00:42:24,034 AND GROWN AND GROWN. 1256 00:42:24,034 --> 00:42:24,517 >> YES. 1257 00:42:24,517 --> 00:42:28,586 IT'S GREAT TO SEE THE MESSAGING. 1258 00:42:28,586 --> 00:42:29,586 IT'S ALWAYS POSITIVE. 1259 00:42:29,586 --> 00:42:30,862 >> AND THEY'RE GETTING SENT TO 1260 00:42:30,862 --> 00:42:32,206 US FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 1261 00:42:32,206 --> 00:42:34,310 >> STILL? 1262 00:42:34,310 --> 00:42:35,689 >> STILL. 1263 00:42:35,689 --> 00:42:38,827 >> THE SILENT STONES SPEAK OF 1264 00:42:38,827 --> 00:42:41,482 TOLERANCE AND BLAZE BERNSTEIN'S 1265 00:42:41,482 --> 00:42:43,344 TRANSFORMATION INTO A KIND OF 1266 00:42:43,344 --> 00:42:43,793 MARTYR. 1267 00:42:43,793 --> 00:42:48,586 HIS MURDER A MARKER OF RABID 1268 00:42:48,586 --> 00:42:49,000 HATE. 1269 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,586 HIS SPIRIT AN INSPIRATION TO 1270 00:42:53,586 --> 00:42:55,275 LGBTQ-PLUS PEOPLE, WHEREVER THEY 1271 00:42:55,275 --> 00:42:57,310 LIVE AND WITH WHOMEVER THEY 1272 00:42:57,310 --> 00:42:57,586 LOVE. 1273 00:42:57,586 --> 00:43:02,896 >> BLAZE'S LIFE MATTERED, AND HE 1274 00:43:02,896 --> 00:43:04,517 HAS A LEGACY TO CREATE GOOD 1275 00:43:04,517 --> 00:43:05,793 NEWS, TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO BE 1276 00:43:05,793 --> 00:43:07,620 BETTER, TO BE KINDER. 1277 00:43:07,620 --> 00:43:10,482 AND TO WORK ON REPAIRING THE 1278 00:43:10,482 --> 00:43:12,551 WORLD, BECAUSE IT'S NOT TOO LATE 1279 00:43:12,551 --> 00:43:16,827 WORLD, BECAUSE IT'S NOT TOO LATE AND WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER. 1280 00:43:16,827 --> 00:43:28,448 AND WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER. 1281 00:43:28,448 --> 00:43:29,689 >> NEW CBS NEXT. 1282 00:43:29,689 --> 00:43:31,206 A YOUNG GIRL'S MYSTERIOUS 1283 00:43:31,206 --> 00:43:31,551 DISAPPEARANCE. 1284 00:43:31,551 --> 00:43:32,068 >> SHE JUST VANISHED. 1285 00:43:32,068 --> 00:43:34,310 >> AND A CAT AND MOUSE GAME WITH 1286 00:43:34,310 --> 00:43:35,310 A CONVICTED KILLER. 1287 00:43:35,310 --> 00:43:37,137 >> WE DON'T HAVE SARAH'S BODY. 1288 00:43:37,137 --> 00:43:38,000 >> DO YOU THINK HE'LL GIVE THAT 1289 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:38,206 UP? 1290 00:43:38,206 --> 00:43:39,310 >> I DON'T KNOW. 1291 00:43:39,310 --> 00:43:41,310 IF HE DOES IT WON'T BE OUT OF 1292 00:43:41,310 --> 00:43:42,620 THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART. 1293 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:45,655 >> NEW "48 HOURS" TWO EPISODE 1294 00:43:45,655 --> 00:43:45,965 PREMIERE. 1295 00:43:45,965 --> 00:43:46,931 NEXT ON CBS AND STREAMING ON 1296 00:43:46,931 --> 00:43:47,137 PA