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Murder of Blaze Bernstein

Blaze Bernstein was a University of Pennsylvania student murdered in 2018 by a former high school classmate, Samuel Woodward. By 2020 the opening said Woodward was "a member of neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division" when he was arrested and charged with the murder. Today the word does not appear in the opening, surviving twice in the body, and the opening identifies the case only as an "Antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ hate crime" without naming Atomwaffen Division. A reader of the opening today does not learn that Woodward was tied to a group Wikipedia once called a neo-Nazi terrorist organization.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2.
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The opening as it read in 2020

Antisemitic and anti-LGBT hate crime On January 10, 2018, 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore Blaze Bernstein was found dead in a park in Orange County , California , eight days after having been reported missing. He was visiting his family in Lake Forest, California , when he was killed. Two days later, Samuel Woodward, one of Bernstein's former high school classmates and a member of neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division , was arrested and charged with murdering Bernstein. As Bernstein was both openly gay and Jewish , authorities declared that Bernstein was a victim of a hate crime . "The Man Suspected of Killing Blaze Bernstein Attended a Three-Day Nazi "Hate Camp" " .1

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Today
“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2. Read the current article and compare.
2020Oct '232025
terror110
antisemitism111
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

Where the word went

It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.

  • “terror” now appears 1× under Disappearance and investigation, 50% of the way down the article

Sections that no longer exist

Present on 6 October 2023, absent today. A heading can vanish because the section was deleted or because it was renamed or merged, and we have not separated those here, so treat this as a list of what to check rather than a verdict.

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