MURDERED: Blaze Bernstein

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

PAVE Studios

True Crime

4.4 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, 19 year-old Blaze Bernstein, an Ivy League student, gifted writer, and beloved son, vanished while home in California for winter break. Days later, his body was found in a shallow grave, and the truth that emerged stunned the nation. Morgan and Kaelyn trace the investigation that uncovered a hate-fueled murder, the years-long fight for justice, and the powerful movement his family built in his memory. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! For Ad-free listening and early access to episodes, subscribe to Crime House+ on Apple Podcasts. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House Daily, Crimes Of…, Killer Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Social YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @morgsyabsher | @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding Episode Sponsors:MasterClass always has great offers during the holidays, sometimes up to as much as 50% off. Head over to https://www.masterclass.com/CLUES for the current offer. Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/CLUES. Promo Code CLUESRight now, Merit Beauty is offering our listeners their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at https://www.meritbeauty.com.Go to https://www.Cymbiotika.com/CLUES for 20% off plus free shipping. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Crime House.
0:09.6	Today we're going to be covering the heartbreaking case of a 19-year-old chef, writer, and Ivy League pre-med student named Blaze Bernstein.
0:17.7	Blaze was talented, passionate, and poised to achieve anything he set his mind to.
0:21.9	But in 2018, while on winter break with his family in California, he vanished in the middle of
0:26.7	the night and was never seen alive again. His death took investigators down a dark, disturbing
0:32.3	rabbit hole that led to chilling revelations.
0:49.0	Thank you. that led to chilling revelations. Hi, guys.
0:49.9	Welcome back to another episode of Clues,
0:52.4	where we sneak past the crime scene tape to explore the key evidence behind some of the most gripping true crime cases. Also, are you subscribed? Be sure. Wherever you're listening, watching, hit the subscribe button. Morgan and I can see that 70% of you guys join us every week and don't hit the subscribe button. So hit it. Hit it, please. I'm Kayla Moore. I'm going to be the one digging deeper into the timelines, the backstories, and the court files released on these cases. And I'm your internet sleuth, Morgan Abshur. And the one who's diving into the Reddit forums to talk about some of those lesser known details and pulling out threads that just don't add up. At Crimehouse, we value your support.
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1:41.7	That's bringing you breaking cases, updates,
1:43.9	and unbelievable stories from the world of crime that's happening right now.
1:48.7	Let's get into this case and the clues that defined it.
1:54.4	This is going to be a tough one today.
1:56.1	This one's really dark and there's a big internet component to it and various rabbit holes. We're going to get into
2:04.3	all of that today. Very rabbit holly. Reddit comes into play quite a bit and it kind of hits close
2:11.6	to home for us because this is right in our backyard. I mean, where this happened is like an hour
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