Man stabbed pal to death so his family wouldn't discover his double-life

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A man who stabbed a former schoolmate to death so his family would not find out about his double-life has been jailed for life.Samuel Lincoln Woodward stabbed 18-year-old Blaze Bernstein to death in 2018.

The 27-year-old was convicted in July, however, sentencing took place last week.An emotional statement was delivered to the court by the victim's grieving mother, Jeanne Pepper Bernstein, in the presence of Woodward.As reported in the Mirror, she said: "This calm and earnest-sounding young man lied to us, the emphatic parents of the young man he had, less than 24 hours before, stabbed 28 times with a 6-inch blade and buried in a park by our home, he misled us to believe that Blaze had wandered off into a dark and vast park by our home that leads into the wilderness behind our house."Woodward had studied at the same California school as his victim but had been radicalised by online neo-nazis into a dangerous and hate-filled ideology.

This ultimately triggered the horrific violence against gay and Jewish Bernstein.Bernstein's impact statement continued: "As the search began the next day tremendous law enforcement and resources came to our aid to search the forest, the park, and the internet for clues.

His killer also showed up that day at the park and then went home to clean his car of any evidence...I'm so scared thinking that my child is injured, lost in the woods, or being held by an extremist neonazi group.