Blaze Bernstein, whose body was found in a shallow grave last week near a Lake Forest park, was stabbed more than 20 times, and authorities are investigating whether the killing was an act of rage, the Orange County Register has learned.
Before his arrest, Woodward told sheriff’s investigators that he picked up Bernstein for a late night visit on Jan. 2, but that Bernstein exited the vehicle and walked alone into Borrego Park.
Woodward also told investigators that he waited for Bernstein for an hour before driving to meet with a girlfriend. He said he returned to the park hours later to look for Bernstein. However, according to the 16-page affidavit, Woodward could not remember his girlfriend’s last name or where she lived.
Woodward was arrested Friday after crime lab technicians determined that blood found on a sleeping bag in his possession belonged to Bernstein, the Register learned.
In one conversation, Bernstein wrote that Woodward was about to “hit on me” and “he made me promise not to tell anyone … but I have texted every one, uh oh.”
On the night that Bernstein went missing, according to the affidavit, he and Woodward parked outside a Hobby Lobby in Lake Forest. The affidavit also noted that Woodward told investigators that Bernstein kissed him on the lips, and that he pushed Bernstein away.
Investigators said in the affidavit that as he recounted that part of his story, Woodward clenched his jaw and his fists, saying “he wanted to tell Blaze to get off of him.”
Authorities said they noticed scratches on Woodward’s hands and dirt under his nails, which Woodward said were a result of falling into a mud puddle and participating in what he termed a “fight club.”
The court document indicated that Woodward was known in high school for holding conservative political and cultural beliefs. Published reports cited Woodward’s social media missives in which he defended the Confederate Flag and other postings indicating his love of guns, the Bible and waterboarding.
Levi Wilson
The court document indicated that Woodward was known in high school for holding conservative political and cultural beliefs. Published reports cited Woodward’s social media missives in which he defended the Confederate Flag and other postings indicating his love of guns, the Bible and waterboarding.
The court document indicated that Woodward was known in high school for holding conservative political and cultural beliefs. Published reports cited Woodward’s social media missives in which he defended the Confederate Flag and other postings indicating his love of guns, the Bible and waterboarding.
The court document indicated that Woodward was known in high school for holding conservative political and cultural beliefs. Published reports cited Woodward’s social media missives in which he defended the Confederate Flag and other postings indicating his love of guns, the Bible and waterboarding.
Logan Young
bump
Carter Richardson
>The affidavit also noted that Woodward told investigators that Bernstein kissed him on the lips, and that he pushed Bernstein away.
fuck that man
Carter Watson
this happened in California
Connor Stewart
Supposedly both Sam and Blaze had ifunny accounts, and Sam's account (I think it was called "Saboteur") was dedicated to National Socialism.
John Williams
Sam the poltard having recently learned to hate Jews decided he better kill his Jew friend before anyone finds out he had a Jew friend.
Charles Powell
>meme flag
Didn't read. Can we kill faggots or not?
Camden Smith
My bad.
Asher Flores
You get jailed for hate speech in Bongistan, what do you think?
At the University Synagogue in Irvine on Monday, Rabbi Arnold Rachlis led more than 500 people in a tribute to Bernstein.
Rachlis’ voice quivered with emotion as he launched the 90-minute service with these words: “We are gathered here today because this is a death that we never expected and still find hard to believe.”
Bernstein was eulogized as a personable, sensitive and innovative young man whose passion for gourmet cooking and writing intersected in his work as a managing editor of Penn Appetit, a student-run food magazine.
Authorities said Bernstein left behind personal belongings, including his keys, wallet and eyeglasses, when he left his parents’ home to see a friend around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 2.
He was reported missing the next day.
During the memorial, Gideon Bernstein, Blaze’s father, addressed his son this way: “You were like a young pony just getting into a steady gallop, with your face to the wind and so looking forward to what was coming next.”
“Blaze, I know you didn’t like the spotlight,” he said, gazing out at the crowd, “but you’d be amazed at all the good things being done in your honor here today.”
>promise not to tell anyone >tell everyone >surprised when it has consequences Kike hubris has its price
Eli Reed
I'm sufficiently optimistic about this world that I feel like telling others that someone is gay is not legitimate grounds for the snuffing of human life. Whatever happened, he was barely an adult, and we don't know the specifics and won't until the trial so speculating isn't helpful. Either way, a gay panic defense won't fly in California. To me it sounds like he tried to kiss the closeted guy (Woodward) and that sparked a fight where he went too far.
Jackson Fisher
so what is the story? Why did he kill him?
Bentley Ramirez
a NatSoc kid off of iFunny killed him bc he was jewish
Lucas Morales
proofs?
Thomas Ramirez
bump
Isaac Brown
bump
Cooper Jenkins
Woodward needs to use the #metoo defence.
Zachary Martin
well that's one less Jew rat
Henry Lee
Die you poor redneck piece of shit. Signed the half Jew that could buy and sell your mother ten times over
Juan Gonzalez
be my bf!
Angel Harris
this is in california. SOCAL
Chase Baker
Hey fag-bro, this crime allegedly took place in CALIFORNIA.
Also while Blaze's parents are asking people to donate to "any charity that deals with hate crimes" at the end of their statement, the truth is his mom never accepted Blaze, it's clear from Blaze's Tumblr.
I don't even like most Jews and I've tried to give Blaze the benefit of the doubt. But as far as I can tell, this is setup to be a hate crime. if not anti-gay, then anti-Jewish. Blaze's dad is chairman of the big Jewish community center in Newport Beach.
I don't want this to be a hate crime, but the "Hitler youth" looking haircut and the high profile of Bernstein's dad... Also wtf is up with their names. Woodward and Bernstein... seriously?
Blaze should have not outed Woodward as far as I can tell that was probably a big factor in the motive.
>Sheriff’s investigators were led to Woodward by entries in Bernstein’s social media accounts. In text conversations made in June, according to the affidavit, Bernstein told two female friends about his interaction with Woodward.
>In one conversation, Bernstein wrote that Woodward was about to “hit on me” and “he made me promise not to tell anyone … but I have texted every one, uh oh.”
How did he know SW was about to hit on him? How did he text everyone to let them know before getting hit on...?
Someone else brought this up, BB was probably somewhat projecting or lying.
James Gray
>The court document indicated that Woodward was known in high school for holding conservative political and cultural beliefs. Published reports cited Woodward’s social media missives in which he defended the Confederate Flag and other postings indicating his love of guns, the Bible and waterboarding.
Cameron Morales
Oh shit really? That explains the Nazi Youth haircut. How did I miss the iFunny accounts... I saw his last FM account and I heard his Facebook was scrubbed by a company that specializes in that.
That's what I expected after the family asked people to donate to hate crime charities. Also the Rabbi wrote an open letter. Celebrities like Kobe Bryant and Jeremy Piven and Mayim Bialik were asking the public for help before the body was found.
This whole thing could definitely turn into a big hate crime investigation, but honestly this seems way too personal. It could not have been only political, imo a political extremist would go for different types of violent acts.
This must have been personal.
Chase Peterson
Let's avoid using this photo again just for the sake of this kids memory.
Hunter Bailey
>leave it to a mamzer/mishling to buy and sell mothers like property.
Ryder Sanchez
>Bernstein He was in the wrong timeline, natives don't take kindly to anomalies
Jack Cruz
Let's celebrate his contributions to society with this prophecy from his HS yearbook i.imgur.com/LkVQo68.jpg
FYI the city next over to lake forest is called Irvine and yes apparently Irvine family are Jews (or crypto-Jews, not exactly sure)
Anthony James
the only thing i noticed about this case was that his kike parents keeping tweeting about it. fuck this earth
The friend, who attended Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana with Bernstein, told detectives that he spoke with him on SnapChat that night. He agreed to pick up Bernstein and they drove to the parking lot of a Hobby Lobby in Lake Forest to “hang out” and “catch up.”
He said Bernstein then told him they were going to meet up with another friend from high school, and they arrived at the Borrego Park parking area shortly before midnight on Jan. 2, a Tuesday. He said Blaze exited the vehicle and walked by himself into the park.
The friend said he waited for about an hour and tried to contact him on SnapChat. He said he then left at around 1 a.m. and drove to his girlfriend’s house in Tustin and then returned to the park at about 3:40 a.m. after Bernstein still had not responded. During one interview, the affidavit says, he said he did not know her last name.
Luke Barnes
Why is Sup Forums not more interested in this? Jew with rich parents murdered by a racist possibly over being gay?
William King
Sounds like Bernstein was stabbed while giving Woodward head, from websleuths (archive.is/tnRdI, post #829):
"Originally Posted by mmsugar: This is what I heard from someone who knows LE 1. The sleeping bag was SW- LE found it in his trash can when the searched SW house. 2. The stab wound are constant with B.B. giving Some kind of act ( LE cannot prove it) 3. The park they were at is known for MM relations."
With this as a follow up comment: "I was also told last night by someone who knows LE that he was stabbed. (I posted here about it last night as a theory, but I had that info) The information was reliable because that is indeed the COD as we know today. This person also said LE said the wounds were to his face, neck, and chest."
Austin Cook
Actually yeah, the ifunny political community has been collectively flipping shit over this and they are afraid there gonna get spammed with normies/fbi as a end result.
Lincoln White
>Walking around in Melrose Park after dark. It was a mugging gone wrong, that place is a dangerous shithole.
Liam Thomas
so he waited for a dude to give him head just to stab him for doing it? That's pol incarnate.
Kayden Phillips
lol not Melrose, it's actually very suburban and it's supposedly got the highest amount of mountain lion spotted in California recently.
Because of that faggot flag you're using. Also because the kike's parents are going to probably push for Woodward to get charged with the first ever dual hate crime.
Seriously tho I don't know why people aren't more interested, probably because he is the most likely Sup Forumstard user recently murderer since Stephen Paddock.
lol I meant the Irvine family but I can see how my phone makes "Irvine family" seem like I meant families in Irvine.
I don't really mind Jews, don't tell the rest of Sup Forums tho
Do you think this young man was killed because he was Jewish or it wasn't an anti-Semitism thing? If you don't want to say too much then up to you.
Zachary Rogers
Woodward was mad Benstain outed him, per the OC Register (archive.is/TWMLn): >Sheriff’s investigators were led to Woodward by entries in Bernstein’s social media accounts. In text conversations made in June, according to the affidavit, Bernstein told two female friends about his interaction with Woodward. >In one conversation, Bernstein wrote that Woodward was about to “hit on me” and “he made me promise not to tell anyone … but I have texted every one, uh oh.”
Their OCSA classmates on reddit said they were boyfriends back in high school.
Jayden Edwards
Were either openly gay or bi?
Jayden Peterson
when polgbt goes wrong (right)
Jeremiah Young
This happened a few miles from my house. Was annoying as fuck. Cops and helicopters all over for a couple days where I like to hike. I'm glad this faget kike got stabbed. Fagets go out and fuck in the local parks and leave their degenerate garbage behind. Condoms. Little vodka bottles. Porn.
They all deserve to be burnt.
Jason Mitchell
Was this park a known cruising area for gay men?
Michael Lewis
no witnesses >except god
Evan Jones
Every park in OC and elsewhere in CA is a cruising spot.
I am not at all exaggerating. I 100% believe these two went out to fuck and it went wrong. The one part that went most wrong was that it wasnt a murder suicide.
Kayden Campbell
It's supposedly one of the places in the state with the most mountain lion sightings so yes, red-pilled residents will suggest the gays go debase themselves there.
I'm kidding but honestly I dunno if the park is gay or the country has just been haunted by gay ghosts the past few decades.
Robert Ross
I wish i could show you the degenerate fagnests I have come across in my many years of working and hiking in CA parks and trail systems. Or rather, I am happy you have not had to see them. I have though.
Ethan Taylor
He looks a bit like ted cruz
Cooper Flores
Dude you are on a roll. I'm also a few miles from that area and when I first heard about the missing Jew and saw his face it was pretty clear he was gay and it was a hookup gone bad.
Now I'm sitting around wonder are they gonna charge him with one hate crime or two? Bernstein's dad was fairly well connected Jewish guy, chairman of the community center in Newport. That is actually a pretty big deal, so, I'm hoping this was fag on fag violence and not Nazi spergs.
Blake Gutierrez
THought it was funny :^)
It's funny, because live less than half a mile from Borrego Park. I shop at that Ralphs below it. To be honest, the whole thing is fucking weird and doesn't add up. I don't see him dragging him there just to revenge kill. Newport to FHR is a pretty good distance, just to know you will go down for murder. Call me lazy.
Crime of passion? Revenge Kill? Self-defense for BB attempting to grab his dick? 20 times seems like overkill.
Ayden Smith
Woodward no. Bernstein was out at Penn since people have said they hooked up with him on grndr there but I don't think he was here. From what I've heard (third hand from someone who knows a neighbor of theirs) his mom would not have been ok with him being gay.
Bernstein's tumblr from a couple of years ago: archive.is/mwm9l > Things are super I don’t even know what to do anymore. My life is total shit. I’m completely emotionally unstable from my breakup, there’s no one I can talk to, my life at home sucks, my siblings hate me and I hate them, I have no real friends, I have very little social life, if any, people naturally and randomly think I hate them, nothing I ever do will be enough to appease the people I look up to in my life, I still haven’t come out and I can’t bc my home life is so bad, I’m under a crazy amount of stress, I constantly feel like shit and have to go off my stomach pain meds tomorrow which means I’m going to be in extreme pain again, I get no sleep, my grades are starting to slip, I can overhear my parents talking about me right now, I’ve lost a lot of inhibition to illegal, dangerous, and morally incompetent things and it scares me,my parents are firing my college counselor, making me my for all my apps, and no longer willing to pay for college, and I just want to feel genuine, unconditional love from someone and I want someone I can genuinely unconditionally love. But alas, that’s too hard to ask for. Well now that I got it all out I still feel like shit so like that really did nothing. Posted 2 years ago with 2 Notes
Henry Barnes
What were Bernstein's parents' occupations?
Blake Hughes
lol, Woodward even looks like Sup Forums
Adrian Ross
I'm sorry to hear about that. I don't really go on trails much. When I said on a roll I meant your post ID/# twice but yes it's true sadly, trashy queers like to break all sorts of laws on public use land.
Ryan Thomas
Murder/Burial Site
Lincoln Reyes
Why are so many young white males becoming radicalized? Is this just a taste of what’s to come?
Landon Roberts
What did you hear regarding why the cops didn't find the body right away? It wasn't hidden too far from the picnic table. I read the only reason they found it was the principal of the school next door reviewed security camera footage and saw a cell phone flashlight in the dark, and that was what pointed the cops to where it might be.
There is a ramp that goes up behind the Ralphs, or you can take Bake
But it is huge shopping centers (welcome to south OC), and I know a lot of people thought it was weird they were at Hobby Lobby. That HL is really empty, especially at night. Plus there is a Denny's, Del Taco, and Dunkin Donuts right there. Couldve had food and were just hanging out
Henry Russell
LOL the mom looks like and has the name of a stripper (Jeanne Pepper) or something and the dad is a partner at a hedge fund.
Both families seem fairly wealthy, but not super showy. Woodward's mom is a MFT (therapist) and the dad is a VP at a hugely powerful commercial real estate firm. So powerful I doubt you will find their name in any news articles. Not Irvine company either, CBRE.
No, not really.
What are your thoughts on Donald Bren? owner of the Irvine Company.
Jeremiah Nguyen
No shit? That sounds like some scooby doo shit right there. Fishy as hell. I was not really paying too much attention. I don't like company on my trails and I was happy to hear someone had died. Keeps the normals away. I figured a fall but turns out murder so even better.
Also lotta OC fags here. Fuck you bunch of comifornians
Kevin Hughes
>linking to an image on an imageboard
Jace Powell
It was buried in the bushes, until it rained for 2 days last week.
I walked the area wondering where he could be, and the spot where he buried him fucking borders the elementary school playground. didn't walk over there. you would think the cops, searchers, and k-9's would've combed it over and see recently fucked up ground
Nathaniel Smith
Are you fucking kidding me? The Irvine company is the devil.
Ryder Torres
Hit reply, didn't mean to
Charles Adams
Can you red-pill me on mountain lions in that area? Also what are your thoughts about Donald Bren and the Irvine Company? Ironically he considers himself a big environmentalist.
Jayden Price
Amen
Justin Flores
Mom was a lawyer but has inactive status with the CA bar.
Julian Torres
Gay lovers' quarrel. That's all it was. Mentally ill faggots with more neuroses than sense, and histrionic disorders stemming from childhood sexual trauma inflicted upon them by older gay men. They go nuts all the time. And sometimes they kill eachother.
Luis Watson
THere aren't that many. Last time someone was hurt by one was in like, 2003. mostly coyotes now. Whiting Ranch (nature preserve) borders the park (i thought his body would be in there.) and pretty much FHR is end of the line before you hit mountains and general socal brush.
Sebastian Edwards
Yea. I met Donald Bren once and I told him thank you for his commitment to environmental excellence. (Only way I could think to insult him with a compliment)
He had so many face lifts he didn't really have to put any effort in to offer a smile.
Hunter Sanchez
There are not a lot of ML left in Ca, really not a lot in OC. Never seen one in OC. Bobcats sometimes. People claim ML. I think just normals seeing Bobcats.
I have seen them in northern Ca but thats totally different. Huge wild forests and mountains up there.
Bren and the Irvine Company are more or less responsible for the destruction of all that is good in Socal.
Joseph Collins
Ah okay. Thanks. I've seen bobcats and coyotes, of course, but never a mountain lion. Someone posted in reference to this murder that the area has one of the highest mountain lion sighing rates in the state. Wasn't sure if that was true... Mountain Lions are rarely spotted, too.
Isaiah Collins
>Thinking anybody on Sup Forums will care about some aids ridden sodomite pedophile getting fucking rek't
Nathaniel Davis
A fucking hero. F
Juan Murphy
That's what i thought initially. The ML sighting was in Whiting Ranch next door to the park. But, it was just too weird with the story that was going on.
I thought his Woodward dropped him off so he could hang with some gay dude (2 entrances to the park if you see my picture a few posts up) and the guy kills him and leaves him in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Reserve.
Jose Moore
stabbed him 20 times? a normal reaction from a real man. girls are lucky they didn't come on to him.
Anthony Foster
One less asshole faggot calling me a flyover on /ck/ praise the gods
Joseph Harris
:^)
Jayden Smith
Ah I see. Yeah, I don't like Bren either. He is interesting in terms of being crazy a bit. Notice all the Freemason or Egyptian style or symbols on lots of the Irvine Company properties? Irvine was the first master planned city.
Also all the Irvine Company properties have green parking space lines so he can easily identity properties he does not yet own via helicopter.
He's also threatened to evict Tennant's before because the top floor of the building didn't look the right color, etc. This was Neiman Marcus in fashion island, not that it matters. I'm so tired of all that shit. It's all about money, growing up here has made me HATE money. I notice I feel sick when having to deal with money.
Hunter Jones
What else do you want us to do?
Zachary Price
Yeah hes probably a pedo satan worshipping whaever, wouldent doubt it.
I mostly see the extreme greed and wanton environmental destruction the IC has wrought over the last 20 years. Brought in the worst assholes to live here too.
Pol may not believe it but OC was once a white utopia the likes of which this country has not seen in many years. A lot of that is gone now. Progress I suppose.
The fags killing themselves in the woods is not new since the 80s.
Aaron Cooper
you gotta wonder how this guy might have reacted to other new situations. no homo but I don't think I'd kill anyone for what happened to him. seems like wingnuts lose their minds pretty easily
Levi Morris
well the guy who stabbed him is probably an even bigger faggot since he'd rather stab someone and go to jail forever than be truthful with himself.
also they probably didn't even plan to do anything in the park, Woodward most likely drove the body there hoping that if it got found they would pin it on some random cruiser
Hunter Richardson
now he's gonna get lots of cock,
Landon Taylor
>fuck that man That's exactly what did. Then stabbed him 20 times. It's what fox call fair and balanced.
Robert Martin
what is the IC? did you misspell OC?
Christopher Davis
I will absolutely agree with you there. The stabber was a true piece of shit. And he likely did go dump the body there. Really strange place to dump the body. How was it not going to be found right away? How did it even take two days? It hardly rained. Stabber comes off as basically retarded so it is almost a believable story.
>Mentally ill faggots with more neuroses than sense, and histrionic disorders stemming from childhood sexual trauma inflicted upon them by older gay men
you need to take a break from Sup Forums if you actually believe all gay people are like this. from what it sounds like Blaze came from a good, albeit religious background, and from what they said at this wake his parents seemed to have unfairly high expectations of him. him being gay was just the way the cookie crumbled for him.
I feel legitimately bad for him, although if there were warning signs that Woodward had gone full Sup Forums then Blaze should have known better than to try and rekindle whatever fling they used to have.
Luke Rogers
I always try to tell my GF how the good days were. No traffic, No overbuilding, No lines anywhere. Now driving down Bake, i see homeless people, trash, fucking degeneracy. i can't wait to move
