Blaze Bernstein, a ga.y, Jewish college sophomore, was home visiting his family in Southern California on winter break when he went missing.

Samuel Woodward testifies in Orange County Superior Court on Thursday, June 13, 2024 in Santa Ana. Woodward is accused of stabbing his former Orange County School of the Arts classmate Blaze Bernstein to deat.h more than six years ago and burying his body near a Foothill Ranch park.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been convicted of murde.r in the kill.ing of a ga.y University of Pennsylvania student in a 2018 stabbing.

Samuel Woodward, 26, was found guilty of first-degree murder for the ki.lling of his former classmate at hte Orange County School of the Arts, Blaze Bernstein.

Bernstein, a ga.y, Jewish college sophomore, was home visiting his family in Southern California on winter break when he went missing. Authorities scoured the area for him and found his body a week later buried in a shallow grave at a nearby park.