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what began as a mysterious disappearance
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would end in a horrifying investigation
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into a twisted man's online profile but
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the more investigators looked into this
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unexpected connection the more they
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realized that not everything was quite
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as it seemed well hello
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ladies welcome or welcome back to Coffee
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House crime folks my name is Adrien and
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today we're looking into the Twisted
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online world of Samuel woodwood and the
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red flags he left behind filled with
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hate lust violence and secrets this guy
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was a cry away from his victim Blaze and
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Samuel well he left behind scores of
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hateful content all over the Internet
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and so when the authorities finally
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found his online profiles he basically
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wrote the prosecution story all by
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himself therefore leaving this story
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quite predictable but also incredibly
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shocking now before we begin I don't
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need to tell you how dangerous the
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is the case of Blaze Bernstein
Blaze Bernstein
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it was late in the evening of January
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the 3rd 2018 that 19-year-old Blaise
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Bernstein was officially reported as
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missing by his parents all who lived in
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Lake Forest of California you see
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although blae had recently moved away to
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Pennsylvania to study at University he
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had come back for the holiday season
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however the festive period had now
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finally come to an end and so with
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Christmas and New Year now finally over
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blae was looking to return to
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Pennsylvania within the next few days to
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set the scene here Lake Forest is only
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several miles away from the coast and in
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general is a very beautiful place to be
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and of course would this been California
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it is normally drenched in Sun now in
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general this area is a very happy place
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to live however when he suddenly
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vanished in January quite understandably
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his parents were not happy at all born
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on April the 27th 1998 to his father
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Gideon Bernstein and his mother Jean
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pepper blae was part of a very loving
3:56
family of five he grew up in a happy
3:59
home and was was encouraged by his
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parents to follow his dreams to add to
4:03
this blae had a very good education
4:05
attending Orange County School of the
4:07
Arts before then studying at the
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University of Pennsylvania where he made
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many new friends and mentors now blae
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was an exceptionally friendly young man
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he was bright expressive creative Jewish
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and openly gay so let's cast ourselves
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back to the morning of January the 3rd
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2018 it was on that morning that blae
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was set to meet his mother in town for a
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dental appointment only he would never
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show up however when she tried to call
4:33
her son's mobile phone well that went
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straight through to voicemail in
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response she then called his father only
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he too had some even more concerning
4:43
news it was during that phone call that
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the two parents realized that neither of
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them had heard from him since the
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evening prior and so when did he vanish
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was it a mere hour ago or the better
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half of a day Jean rushed home to check
4:56
his bedroom but only to find it was
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empty and despite his wallet retainer
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glasses and keys all remaining her son
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was nowhere to be found what is odd is
5:06
that blae had messaged his mom for most
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of the day before making plans to meet
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her in town and so with him now suddenly
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gone well this was a very worrying
5:15
situation in response Jean called the
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police to file a missing person's report
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while Gideon called his friends to see
5:21
if they had seen him they would also try
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to check online because you know the
5:25
burn scenes were not ignorant of the
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internet they knew that there was a Hy
5:29
possibility that something could be
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found on his social media accounts and
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so with that in mind they made the
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difficult decision to invade his privacy
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and look on his laptop jumping onto it
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they tried to log into his various
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social media accounts and that is when
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they eventually managed to gain access
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to his Snapchat which of course is a
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messaging app with the option for
5:49
private messages to self-destruct and it
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was there while on his Snapchat that
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they came across one contact in
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particular that being a young man named
Tinder date?
5:58
Samuel Woodward would now Gideon and
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Jean had never heard of this name before
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and he wasn't a friend that they knew
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about but what they did know is that he
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had sent Sam his home address the night
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prior and that the rest of the
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conversation seemed to be long gone due
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to privacy settings this was looking
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rather suspicious and Gideon well he
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wanted to tackle this mystery head on in
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response he sent one message to Sam
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simply saying please pick up that is
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when he dialed Sam's mobile phone number
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all while Jean recorded the call in the
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background the word hello weakly spoke
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out on the other end of the line Gideon
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responded with hey I have just cracked
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into my son's Snapchat account and I saw
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that you had been trying to find him so
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you're the first real clue to the puzzle
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here Sam replied with I picked him up at
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11: he then described how he had driven
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the two of them to the nearby bgo park
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before then parking up Gideon asked okay
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and then did he get out of the car or
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what happened happened according to Sam
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blae had plans to meet another friend
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here and so he had spontaneously driven
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his friend to the park the two of them
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then allegedly got out of the car for a
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brief moment before blae then walked
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down a path and vanished into the
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darkness gidan noticed that Sam seemed
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quite panicked over the phone he also
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explained that their encounter was more
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of a spur of the- moment kind of thing
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apparently the two were friends while
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attending ocsa and hadn't been in
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contact for a while in in response
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Gideon then asked if this was the best
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number to reach him in the future Sam
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weakly replied with uh yes sir it is I
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want to find blae as much as you
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do now this entire situation was already
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concerning but the way that Sam acted on
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the phone call was even stranger and so
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no surprise Blaze's parents immediately
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handed over that recording to officers
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however they were not quite finished
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with their own investigations with
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police formalities often taking far
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longer than expected they decided to
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reach out to their son's friends to see
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what they thought about Sam and their
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response was not good for example one
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friend was thoroughly surprised that the
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two had even considered hanging out
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apparently Sam was crazy and not the
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good kind either he was actually very
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dangerous and the polar opposite of
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blaze in fact another friend was quite
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blunt about the entire situation he
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claimed that there would only be two
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reasons why Sam would ever want to meet
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up with blaze the first one would be to
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secretly hook up with them and the
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second would be murder now of course
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this was very crucial information for
8:36
the officers and sadly immensely
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worrying for his parents and so with him
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now officially declared as missing
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search operations to find him began
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immediately one of the local rabbis
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named Arnold rackless would coordinate
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the search from the University synagogue
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a place where blae was not just an
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active member but also seen as a role
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model the local community would print
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thousands of Flyers to help spread the
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word about his disappearance and
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although detectives did have a lead in
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Sam woodwood it was unfortunately hardly
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concrete at this moment in time there
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was very little evidence and Not only
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was it entirely circumstantial but it
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was not enough to Warrant an arrest
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moving forward the search for Blaze was
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an ongoing slog from early mornings
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right the way through to dark kns search
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parties would work through California's
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Countryside all day and sometimes long
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after Sunset but as the days approached
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the one we Mark the community became
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increasingly frustrated with the lack of
9:34
progress made by the police with it
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being winter in January the sun had also
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vanished from California's Skies The
The Rain
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Heavy Rain reflected their dampened
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Spirits as the heavens opened up above
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hundreds of Searchers however it would
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be that rain that was the very thing
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which led this case to a breakthrough in
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light of his disappearance that Park
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where bla had vanished from had become a
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stomping ground many search parties
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began from this very spot usually with
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the park as a focal point of interest
10:06
but the newly found rain had changed the
10:08
Earth around the park and underneath
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this wettened soil emerged a devastating
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clue on January the 10th 2018 only one
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week after his last known contact with
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family Blaise Bernstein's body was found
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under a mound of hand compacted dirt all
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of which was hidden underneath a large
10:28
tree branch an in the undergrowth of the
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park if not for the rain then his body
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may never have been uncovered after an
10:36
investigation into his body it appeared
10:38
that he had been viciously stabbed a
10:40
total of 28 times indicating that
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whoever had murdered him had done so
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with an explosive amount of hate the
10:48
scene was contained as soon as the
10:50
discovery was made with the DNA samples
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being recovered not only from his body
10:54
but the surrounding area too however as
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you can probably imagine before those
10:59
samples could even be analyzed
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detectives had one person firmly in
11:04
their Spotlight that being his so-called
11:06
friend Samuel woodwood the gruesome
11:09
Discovery gave detectives enough of a
11:11
reason to obtain a search warrant not
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only to Sam's family home but also the
11:15
car he drove on the night of Blazer's
11:18
disappearance however before they would
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hand this warrant over they had one
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other task to do first it was in the
11:24
middle of the day and in broad daylight
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that police officers who were wearing
11:28
plain clothes at the time waited for Sam
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to leave his property eventually he left
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the house to then get into his vehicle
11:35
and the very moment that he did officers
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arrested him on suspicion of murder the
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next step in their process was to obtain
11:41
DNA evidence from that vehicle and
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although it would take a while to come
11:45
back the results were surprising however
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it would be what they would discover
11:49
inside the property that would shock
11:50
them even further after searching the
11:52
house they would eventually find a knife
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which appeared to be stained in Blood
11:57
and after obtaining a swab from that
11:58
knife they discovered that the DNA
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seemed to match that of Blaze Bernstein
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and now all that was left to do was for
12:05
detectives to dive into Samuel's online
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wild and Let Me Tell You Folks you
12:09
better buckle up for this one because
12:11
this guy he is seriously sick and
Samuel Woodward's Dark Online History
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depraved however before we take a look
12:18
at his online personality let's take a
12:20
brief look at Samuel's history born in
12:22
the year 1998 to his parents Mel and
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Blake Samuel is the second of two sons
12:28
after his old older brother Clay but
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unlike his Brother Sam is very different
12:33
to him described as timid closed off and
12:36
shy he was a troubled kid in his own
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peculiar way the troubling signs did
12:40
seem to start early when at the young
12:42
age of four he intensely despised how
12:45
t-shirts felt on his neck he would take
12:48
forever tying his shoes struggled to fit
12:50
in while at school and would often fight
12:52
with all of the other children in class
12:55
by third grade he was basically a sailor
12:57
because none of his sentences could be
12:59
finished without swearing by the age of
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10 his isolation had become far more
13:03
distinctive around this time he began to
13:06
fixate on things ranging from sharks and
13:08
spiders to cars and airplanes to World
13:11
War II more specifically he seemed to
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love the Nazi party and became
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infatuated with their ideas unrelated
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but Sam was eventually diagnosed with
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autism from seventh grade he enrolled at
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the Orange County School of the Arts
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where as you can imagine people from all
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walks of life were find finding their
13:29
own feet and their identities but this
13:32
became a big problem for Sam due to his
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conservative upbringing and his interest
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in Nazi ideologies he developed a
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largely judgmental view of minorities in
13:42
fact he struggled with it so much that
13:44
he was pulled out of school after the
13:46
first year this isolation would follow
13:48
him throughout his teenage years
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finishing his Junior and senior years at
13:52
Corona Delmar high school before then
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enrolling at the California State
13:56
University Channel Islands to absolutely
13:59
no one's surprise much like his younger
14:01
years he would not Prosper at all in his
14:03
university education his fellow peers
14:06
would describe him as quiet awkward and
14:08
unsociable withdrawn to himself he made
14:11
no effort to mingle with any other
14:12
students instead sitting quietly in
14:15
class while doodling in his notebooks
14:17
taking a brief look at his notebooks his
14:19
Doodles were primarily a scribbled mess
14:21
of his inner thoughts and feelings most
14:23
of his drawings were either military or
14:25
violent images often including a
14:27
selection of his favorite f their arms
14:29
because of the kind of person that he is
14:31
classmates called him racist homophobic
14:33
and sexist and since quite
14:35
understandably nobody wanted him around
14:38
all he could do was find his own crowd
14:40
online now it is quite strange how
14:42
similar this case is to my previous
14:44
story but Sam would find refuge in a
14:46
russian-owned meme sharing website named
14:49
iFunny and although this website was
14:51
intended for memes and nothing more it
14:53
would eventually become somewhat
14:55
hijacked by extremists around the year
14:57
2010 and once again the the main reason
14:59
behind this was the lack of moderation
15:02
while here Sam found many like-minded
15:04
people people who encouraged his extreme
15:06
ideologies and Views rather than
15:08
shunning them he would become obsessed
15:10
with the atomwaffen division also known
15:13
as the National Socialist resistance
15:14
front and by the way these guys are so
15:17
extremist that multiple countries have
15:20
designated them as an online terrorist
15:22
group now his family had no idea he was
15:25
on this website or what he was up to and
15:28
this is why content moderation can be so
15:30
important here as through their
15:32
ignorance Sam became radicalized plenty
15:35
of images of him can be found online for
15:38
example this one of him wearing an atom
15:40
orphen mask a skull patterned face
15:42
covering often worn by its members after
15:45
Sam turned 18 years old he had more
15:47
access to his own Freedom stepping away
15:49
from the computer he once traveled to
15:51
Colorado to meet James Mason who at the
15:54
time was a Neo-Nazi group leader to add
15:56
to that he would then eventually attend
15:58
a Camp which was run by the very same
16:00
group while at this Camp they focused on
16:03
the downfall of society while also
16:05
enforcing their beliefs shortly after
16:07
leaving the camp Samuel returned to his
16:09
family home where he felt downtrodden
16:12
and frustrated with his loneliness it
16:14
was shortly after that that he decided
16:16
to sign up to the popular dating app
16:18
Tinder now I'm sure I don't need to
16:20
explain to you how Tinder works but one
16:22
of the necessary steps that you have to
16:24
take is to provide your gender
16:25
preference in order to get matched
16:27
partners and strangely enough Samuel who
16:30
quite clearly was the Avid sexist and
16:32
homophobe would then go on to select
16:34
that he was seeking not only women but
16:37
men as well now as soon as you hit that
16:39
button you'll be connected with other
16:41
people in your area and well let's just
16:44
say that this surprise Revelation would
16:46
spread rather quickly around town this
16:48
would be how blae would eventually
16:50
connect with Samuel and so in the latter
16:52
months of 2017 the two started chatting
16:56
before then exploring the idea of
16:57
meeting for some fun
16:59
simultaneously Sam would persevere with
17:01
his hatred online blae would be the
17:04
first one to start the conversation
17:05
reaching out to say I think you're hot
17:08
but the real surprise was from Samuel to
17:10
which he then replied with you're not
17:12
too bad looking yourself Blaze after
17:14
that infrequent messages were exchanged
17:16
between the two of them however due to
17:19
their physical distance while at
17:20
University no physical in-person meeting
17:23
was ever arranged that would be until
17:25
the holiday season and shortly after the
17:27
New Year being direct with you here but
17:30
we don't actually know if Samuel was
17:32
genuinely interested in blaze or if it
17:34
was a planned attack there is a chance
17:36
that he was simply looking for a Target
17:39
or maybe he was exploring his repressed
17:41
sexuality either way an investigation
17:44
into his computer and his online history
17:46
concluded that Samuel had indulged in
17:48
gay dating and porn sites many times
17:51
over the previous months this was both
17:53
before and after coming in contact with
17:56
blae so my personal opinion is that that
17:58
he was now exploring something that he'd
18:00
put off for quite some time anyway Sam
18:03
was on trial for murder and not for a
Sam's Story
18:06
sexuality but rather interestingly he
18:08
would have a lot to say about both of
18:11
these things according to him he picked
18:13
blaze up at around 11 p.m. before then
18:16
driving them to bgo park after that they
18:19
then chatted for a short while before
18:21
then sparking up a joint I guess this
18:23
was something to ease the nerves for
18:25
Samuel because after all it was the
18:27
first time he had done anything like
18:29
this before blae on the other hand who
18:31
was far more confident with his
18:33
sexuality would drive most of the
18:35
conversation and according to Sam due to
18:37
the effects of weed and him not being
18:39
used to it he then began to doze off Sam
18:42
claims that by the time he came around
18:44
he noticed that not only had blae undone
18:47
his belt buckle but he also had his
18:49
phone in his hand as a result he assumed
18:52
that maybe blae had taken a picture of
18:54
the two of them which then sent him in a
18:56
panic it is worth noting here though
18:58
that there is no evidence to suggest a
19:00
photo ever being taken and further
19:03
forensic analysis would conclude that no
19:05
phone activity ever seemed to occur
19:07
either way Sam claims that blae then
19:09
apparently threatened to tell not only
19:11
his friends but also his family about
19:14
their adventure to which he further
19:15
panicked saw red and then snapped he
19:18
admitted to grabbing the knife and then
19:20
stabbing blaze in a fit of rage and when
19:23
all of this was said and done he then
19:25
dragged his lifeless body into the
19:27
underbrush of the park after that Sam
19:30
then returned home to fall asleep as if
19:32
nothing had happened only to wake up the
19:34
next day from a phone call from Blaze's
19:37
father Gideon online analysis would
Legal proceedings
19:39
confirm that in the following days Sam
19:41
routinely visited websites and forums
19:44
that seemed to congratulate him over
19:46
Blaze's murder further suggesting that
19:48
he actually relished in his death moving
19:51
forward the authorities unsurprisingly
19:53
declared this incident to be a hate
19:55
crime for various reasons I mean was
19:58
this attack anti-semitic or
20:01
anti-homosexual I'll let you decide
20:03
shortly after his arrest which was on
20:05
January the 13th the presiding judge
20:07
would charge Sam not only with murder
20:10
but also with personal use of a deadly
20:12
weapon later on that year in August two
20:14
additional charges would be added those
20:17
being positioned around Blaze's
20:18
sexuality and his
20:20
religion at this point in time Samuel
20:23
pleaded not guilty to murder and
20:25
unfortunately with this happening just
20:27
before covid all appearances would be
20:29
sluggish and although his bail was
20:31
initially set at $5 million this would
20:33
later be revoked forcing Samuel to
20:36
remain behind bar until after his trial
20:38
of course there would be plenty of
20:40
questions around Samuel's mental health
20:42
and some even argued if he was even fit
20:44
enough to stand trial however after
20:46
being assessed by several psychologists
20:48
they found that he was in fact healthy
20:50
enough by the time all was said and done
20:52
and his pre-trial finally commenced it
20:54
had been 5 years since blae had been
20:56
murdered of course his family were both
20:58
both Furious and very eager to get the
21:00
trial underway however unfortunately
21:03
they would have to wait one extra year
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by the time April 2024 rolled around and
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Sam had finally been brought to the
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stand it became quite clear that time
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had not treated him well he showed up in
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court with long disheveled hair and
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gaunt malnourished facial features
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members of the Court would speak of his
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menacing presence often comparing it to
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that of the infamous cult leader Charles
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Manson and although you couldn't really
21:27
see his face behind that greasy mop his
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voice would often crackle weakly Samuel
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spoke minimally in his trial allowing
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his defense attorneys to speak for him
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instead in their opening statements his
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attorney admitted his client's guilt
21:40
which was a stark change from his
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non-guilty plea only 6 years earlier
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they claimed that Sam's actions were not
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premeditated nor were they motivated by
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homophobia or anti-Semitism instead they
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claimed it was an unfortunate buildup of
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panic and repression his defense team
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would also highlight the consensual
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messages sent between him and blae and
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would further reveal that Sam's father
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who was very homophobic often scared his
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son from being openly gay they would
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also discuss Sam's mental health issues
22:09
which included his diagnosis of asgus
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syndrome and obsessive compulsive
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disorder and as for the knife well
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apparently it was never meant to hurt
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anyone Sam claimed that old habits die
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hard and thanks to him being a Boy Scout
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he was never without one however the
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prosecution would destroy all hope that
22:28
Sam had they argued that online
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radicalization encouraged Sam's already
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conservative upbringing further
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nurturing him into a poisonous
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extremists who supported racism
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homophobia and sexism their evidence was
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quite solid too as they would produce
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numerous emails sent by Sam to fellow
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extremists this was alongside photos of
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him proudly posing with well-known
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self-identified extremists but in the
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end it would actually be Sam himself who
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sealed his own fate when called to the
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stand and he was asked do you remember
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what you were thinking when you were
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driving the knife down and after a long
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pause Sam replied with an anger like
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nothing I'd ever felt in my life he
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would go on to say I grew up in a home
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with my mother and father and I love
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them more than I can imagine my father
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though there is no way not a chance
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people like him just even thinking about
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the look on his face if he saw or heard
23:23
about something like that if that got
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out somehow I couldn't fathom that to No
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One surprise whatsoever on July the 3rd
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2024 which was 6 and 1/2 years after the
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death of blae Sam was finally found
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guilty of his murder and it must be
23:38
noted here that during his verdict he
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did not seem to be remorseful whatsoever
23:43
with the jury in theti election find it
23:45
to be true he Defender Samuel Woodward
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committed hate crime first-degree
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murder on November the 16th 2024 he was
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then sentenced to life in prison without
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the possib ibility of parole while
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issuing the sentence the judge said
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there was evidence that he had planned
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the murder and that furthermore it was
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committed out of hate against a
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sexuality Sam was not present for a
24:10
sentencing as apparently he was too sick
24:13
to attend the judge declared this case
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to be a true tragedy further saying you
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have one young man who was smart funny
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successful and on track for a bright
24:22
future and then you have a second
24:24
intelligent young man with lots of
24:26
promise but struggling with the sexual
24:28
identity
24:28
his mental health and his loneliness and
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never receiving psychological support
24:33
that he so clearly needed but saying
24:36
that the only one who really matters
Remembering Blaze
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here is Blaise Bernstein found within
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the park where he lived his final
24:42
moments there are now hundreds of hand
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painted stones in memory of him several
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communities from various walks of life
24:49
all remember him for his happy positive
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self he was a bright Beacon of
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positivity to all of those who knew him
24:56
a person who could turn the ordinary
24:58
into the extraordinary and his mother
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more than anyone else saw that spark in
25:02
her son his message of Tolerance love
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and acceptance rings out through his
25:07
memory and the pile of stones have only
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grown over time as people are brought
25:11
together through their loss through his
25:13
death his parents are now dedicated to
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spreading love and kindness in his honor
25:18
they have since created the blaz It
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Forward Campaign which encourages people
25:22
to perform acts of kindness in memory of
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their son
Outro
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Samuel on the other hand will remain
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behind bars for the rest of his life
25:32
until he rots what a waste of a human
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life with that said we've reached the
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end of today's video folks thank you so
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much for watching today I really do
25:40
appreciate you being here however before
25:42
I go I'd love to know what you think
25:44
about this story why do you think Samuel
25:46
murdered blae was this an act of
25:48
violence against his sexuality or his
25:50
religion or was it something else as
25:53
always please share your thoughts in the
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and as always I'll see you again very
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soon for another video Until That moment
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arrives though please do remember to
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look after yourselves and look out for
26:12
each other thank you so much goodbye