As trial begins, O.C. prosecutors will try to prove Blaze Bernstein's killing was a hate crime
by Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times
Apr 09, 2024
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Blaze Bernstein had been missing a week when investigators found his body buried under a thin layer of mud at Borrego Park in Lake Forest in January 2018, with 19 stab wounds to his neck.
A 19-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the managing editor of Penn Appetit, a student-run food magazine, he had come home to spend the holidays with his family in Orange County.
Suspicion soon fell on 20-year-old, Bernstein's former
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