Judge orders full trial for suspect in Blaze Bernstein's murder

Prosecutors said there were also more than 100 “materials” on Mr Woodward’s iPhone referencing the Atomwaffen Division, including a wallpaper and pictures referencing Nazism.

He reportedly told officers that he picked up Mr Bernstein from his home at 11pm on January 2 this year and drove to a local park, where they were alone.

Officers searching Mr Woodward’s home found a knife in a bedroom drawer with blood on the tip of the blade and the handle, as well as blood stains at various locations including the visor of his car.

His lawyer Edward Muñoz earlier said his client has asperger syndrome, a developmental disorder that often causes people to struggle with social interaction and nonverbal communication.

He added: “He has a lot of issues, I think, around sexual orientation.”

In June, Mr Bernstein’s mother Jeanne Pepper wrote for the JC about how she and her husband turned to tikun olam, “the practice of loving people and of repairing our world”, after their son’s death.

Mr Woodward will return to court for a further hearing on September 17.