Samuel Woodward, who killed and buried Blaze Bernstein in Lake Forest, gets life without parole

Samuel Woodward, who admitted to killing former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein and burying his body at the edge of a Lake Forest park in what a jury agreed was a hate-crime murder, was sentenced on Friday, Nov. 15 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Woodward, now 27, was convicted in July of first-degree murder for the Jan. 2018 slaying of 19-year-old Bernstein, who also attended Orange County School of the Arts.
Friday’s sentencing hearing was delayed when Woodward