 Convicted in California, a man who killed a former high school classmate. ABC's Alex Stone with the story. 26-year-old Samuel Woodward convicted of first-degree murder with a hate crime enhancement for killing Blaise Bernstein. Bernstein was a gay Jewish college student who was back home in Southern California when he went missing. A week later, his body was found in a shallow grave in an Orange County park. The jury convicting Woodward. Guilty.