Dave Davies

He's living with his family and he has this interaction which leads to a murder here of this young man, Blaise Bernstein.

These two guys knew each other.

They were at the same high school for a while.

They were never close but they did know each other.

What kinds of interactions did they have?

We will get to how this led to a murder in a few moments.

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So it's January 2nd, 2018, and Blaze had been to the University of Pennsylvania where he'd gotten very involved and was back home for break.

And he gets this online outreach from Sam Woodward.

What happens?

Right.

Now, Blaze hadn't told anyone that he was going to meet Sam.

His parents discover he's missing and it seems pretty clear that this was unusual.

They couldn't find anything missing.

Then Blaze's sister discovers from Blaze's Snapchat he had met with Sam Woodward.