Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced today that his office is charging Samuel Woodward, 21, with a hate crime in the murder of Blaze Bernstein. Investigators uncovered new evidence revealing the “dark side of Woodward” in leading to the new charge. If convicted, the enhancement brings with it a maximum punishment of life without […]
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How an OC Murder Is Connected to a Shadowy Nationwide Neo-Nazi Group With Troubling Ties to the U.S. Military
Produced by journalists with ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news operation, and Frontline, the PBS documentary series, this report focuses on Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group with a direct link to Orange County. County prosecutors have charged Atomwaffen member Samuel Woodward, 20, with the January murder of Blaze Bernstein, 19, a gay Jewish college student whose […]
ProPublica: Neo-Nazi Group Celebrated Blaze Bernstein’s Murder Online
Members of Atomwaffen Division, a notorious neo-nazi group, gloated in the weeks following Blaze Bernstein’s murder. ProPublica, which first tied Bernstein’s accused killer, Samuel Woodward of Newport Beach, to Atomwaffen, obtained their secret chat logs in a damning new exposé published this morning. The nonprofit investigative team of A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston, and Jake Hanrahan sifted through […]
