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Mosby

(16,317 posts) Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:13 PM Jan 2018

Missing Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein found dead

Blaze Bernstein, a 19-year-old Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania who went missing from his parents’ Southern California home, has been found dead.

Bernstein’s body was found Tuesday in brush surrounding Borrego Park in Lake Forest, his hometown, CBS News reported. His death is being investigated as a homicide and an autopsy was being performed on Wednesday.

Bernstein had left his parents’ Orange County home a week ago and was driven by a friend to the park.

An attorney and friend of the family told CBS Los Angeles that the two arrived at the park around 10:30 p.m., and Bernstein went off alone to meet another unnamed person. The driver said Bernstein didn’t return text messages; according to the family friend, the driver returned hours later to search for Bernstein.

https://www.jta.org/2018/01/10/news-opinion/united-states/missing-jewish-college-student-blaze-bernstein-found-dead

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Missing Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein found dead (Original Post) Mosby Jan 2018 OP

Seems they already have a suspect in custody. Behind the Aegis Jan 2018 #1

My old cops senses MosheFeingold Jan 2018 #3

Ooops... Behind the Aegis Jan 2018 #4

Shit MosheFeingold Jan 2018 #5

From a memorial service today question everything Jan 2018 #2

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)

1. Seems they already have a suspect in custody.

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:26 PM

Jan 2018

The suspect is a former classmate. I haven't seen anything as to motive in the articles I have read.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)

3. My old cops senses

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 04:05 PM

Jan 2018

Tell me this is about drugs or a woman, but probably drugs.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)

4. Ooops...

Reply to MosheFeingold (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 04:33 PM

Jan 2018

Suspect thought murdered Penn student was hitting on him

SANTA ANA, Calif. —
A man suspected in the killing of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student who was stabbed nearly two dozen times and buried in a shallow grave at a California park told investigators that he was being hit on ...

Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, was arrested and taken into custody Friday on suspicion of homicide after DNA evidence linked him to the death of, Blaze Bernstein, a college sophomore ...
The Orange County Register reported that Blaze Bernstein was stabbed more than 20 times.

Bernstein was home visiting his family in Lake Forest during winter break when Woodward picked him up on Jan. 2 and drove with him to several places before winding up at a park.
The two knew each other from high school, Barnes said.

The affidavit also noted that Woodward told investigators that Bernstein kissed him on the lips at a stop before the park ...

It was not immediately possible to reach Woodward in custody, where he listed his occupation as “Nerf games,” ...
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Of course, this just makes me even more angry!

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)

5. Shit

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 10:09 AM

Jan 2018

I'd much rather it be drugs.

That said, this reeks of a BS story to cover up something --- like being a drug dealer.

question everything

(47,485 posts)

2. From a memorial service today

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 10:58 PM

Jan 2018

Blaze was set to combine two of his passions by becoming managing editor of Penn Appetit, a student-run food magazine.

Some said he saw things others did not, and he worked tirelessly to make the world better.

(snip)

Rabbi Arnold Rachlis opened the service by reading an excerpt from one of Blaze’s writings, “Picking Marbles from Dirt,” which was featured in the Penn Review Literary Magazine:

“Maybe if the gears in my head didn’t turn so fast and the words didn’t pile up on the paper like snow on mountaintops, it wouldn’t take me so long to finish a story. But then again, it wouldn’t be something I had written, because the stories that I finish are never actually done.”

(snip)

here was a video montage of Bernstein, and a message to continue to do good deeds to make the world a better place.

“Blaze was on a path to repair our world, and it is a moral imperative that we all take steps now to make sure that his dream is realized,” the family said in a statement prior to the service.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/15/hundreds-attend-memorial-service-for-blaze-bernstein-teenager-found-dead-in-lake-forest-park/

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