It was 2019 Samantha Josephson was 21 years old she was about to graduate from college and just got accepted into law school life was good but what no one knew was that Samantha’s life was about to end and clues to what happened to her in those last moments were caught on Video deadly deep Dives I want to introduce you to Samantha Josephson she was born August 13th 1997 and raised in Robinsville New Jersey she was the second daughter born to Marcy and Seymour Josephson her parents met when they were in college Seymour was working at a supermarket
That Marcy went to all the time and Marcy would purposely use his Lane when she was checking out 2 years after Marcy first saw Seymour in that store she was introduced to him by a friend when they walked past the store one night Seymour was like Hey I used to work there and
That’s when Marcy remembered that he was the cute guy behind the counter I love love stories like theirs cydney is Samantha’s older sister she was born 20 months before her and they were very close when Samantha was first born Sydney would only refer to her as baby Samantha Josephson was everybody’s best
Friend she got along with everyone to her friends she was known as Sammy and her family as sweet pea Samantha was Goofy she was silly and she was the life of the party and although Samantha had a playful side there was another part of her that was fiercely loyal and serious
One of Samantha’s friends Jessica would always say that no one knew what Samantha was up to when she was exploring and playing but she was an enormous amount of fun and she was feisty and funny so much so that Samantha’s friends would call her s silly antics sisms as a teenager
Samantha loved Justin Bieber at one concert she covered her face in face paint in order to catch the pop star’s attention one of Samantha’s College professors described her as trying to improve daily she was always trying to better herself in 2015 Samantha graduated from Robinsville high school and studied overseas in Barcelona in
2018 and she took this trip with her sister and there are so many really awesome Facebook posts that they made together I’m going to show you some of up on the screen their parents were so proud of the fact that they were traveling together learning together and
That they had such a close relationship when Samantha was a child she was interested in Beauty and cosmetics and she even considered studying cosmetology she practiced doing her hair and her makeup and she even did this with her mom and her sister before she decided on a completely different career path
Samantha had Big Dreams and big aspirations she was determined to change the world whatever Samantha’s future career path might have been she wanted to make a difference and that’s when she decided she wanted to become an attorney since Sydney and Samantha were so close in age and only pretty much one year
Apart in school Marcy told Samantha to take everything in that she could from the schools that her sister was visiting from New Jersey the family flew to South Carolina to tour the University of South Carolina while Sydney ultimately chose to go to another University the school made a very strong impression on
Samantha Samantha knew that this is a college that she was going to attend after she was done with senior high school and no one was surprised when she received her acceptance letter to the University of South Carolina the following year Marcy and Seymour were initially reluctant because they didn’t
Want to send their daughter so far away she was born and raised in New Jersey she was a Jersey girl but they discussed it in depth and having lived in the Northeast her whole life Seymour knew that the South was different from the Northeast he felt like Samantha had to
Take a New Journey especially as a Jewish woman he thought it would be good for her to be in a world that was completely different than the one that she already knew Marcy and Seymour also worried about their daughter safety what parent doesn’t these days especially when they’re sending their children off
To college in another state but they agreed that the University of South Carolina was likely safer than a large city school and they were happy that Samantha wanted to be there the University of South Carolina is a public research University located in Columbia South Carolina it was established over
200 years ago there are over 300 bachelor’s Master’s and doctoral degree programs that are offered at USC it’s actually the largest university in the state with business engineering law and medical schools on its Columbia campus among the University’s renowned Traditions are sports and Greek life Gamecocks are the University’s mascot
And the name of its sports team which are roosters bred to fight the University’s varsity teams all compete at division one level in the NCAA approximately 30% of the University city of South Carolina student body is involved in fraternities and sorority life Marcy and Seymour dropped Samantha
Off at the University of South Carolina on her 18th birthday and she acclimated immediately she was having the time of her life and it was nerve-wracking for Samantha’s parents because their child was so far away New Jersey was a 12-hour drive or a pretty expensive plane right
Away and Marc and Seamore would not be able to reach Samantha immediately if she needed something or if something were to happen to her they could only hope that they had prepared Samantha for the real world and Marcy and Seymour did Samantha was a bright responsible girl during her first year of college
Samantha’s entire family traveled to South Carolina to come see her it was on parents weekend they watched a football game they had a great time together and Sydney said it was really great to see her sister so comfortable at this University Samantha was proud to show
Her parents and her sister her dorm room and her school she fit in perfectly while Samantha was enrolled at the University of South Carolina she joined Alpha Gamma Delta which is a sorority on campus it was founded on May 30th 1904 at the University of Syracuse in New
York and their mascot is a squirrel and their colors are red light brown and green the sororities charity focuses on fighting hunger and there are over 201,000 members in the over 199 College chapters and more than 250 alumni chapters across North America so being in the sorority was kind of a big deal
For Samantha by her senior year she was living in a place called The Hub with some of her closest friends Carly Jordan and Jenny and her best friend Tegan Berry The Hub is a really nice off-campus housing building and let’s take a look okay this place is very nice
My college definitely didn’t have anything like this wow and the way that it’s advertised on the site is just so inviting there’s a spa a gym a nice big pool I mean look at this it looks like they even have a projector to play movies while you swim that’s awesome
There’s a real sand volleyball court plus lots of places to tan and hang out it was perfect for Samantha and her roommates on the site it also says it’s a luxury living in a college town they boast a pool and Sund deck work and study areas technology and security and
Lots of activities for students they even have VIP apartments and that gives you a lot more amenities like a private hot tub wow walk-in closets pretty awesome and it looks like they’ve just thought of everything look at this virtual tour video I want to live there it’s like take my money there’s hammocks
A pool table this place is so cool and they go up to five bedrooms I mentioned Samantha’s roommate and close friend Tegan well they really hit it off both being from New Jersey Tegan is from Clinton New Jersey and she did one year of Community College before transferring
To USC and she was set to graduate the very same year as Sammy in 2019 Tan’s friend and roommate jacqulyn was also transferring to USC and her older brother went there so she knew him him of course as well as some of his friends and Jacqueline was the one that ended up
Introducing Tegan to Sammy Carly Jordan and Jenny and tan became very good friends with Sammy they lived together at the Hub their senior year Tegan thought of Sammy as caring compassionate easygoing and Goofy they’d hang out all the time they go to football games they eat together go out to bars everything
They went to a popular college party area that’s in town called Five Points and they went there very often and they were very familiar with their area this is a small area consisting of bars and restaurants in Columbia South Carolina it’s only a 3 minute drive from the
University which makes it an ideal place for students to grab a bite to eat or have a few drinks or hang out with their friends when they’re not in class the main street in the middle of Five Points is called Harden and it’s right here on
The map there’s all kinds of fun places to go for food like home team barbecue this sushi place where you’d probably find me blue Pizza Breakers Bar and Grill and then there there are bars like the fivepoint saloon Rooftop Bar and the bird dog as well as a whole bunch of
Cute shops clothing stores smoke shops fast food it’s got it all it’s perfect for college students and it’s only a 7-minute try from The Hub which is ideal for the girls aside from making many close friends Samantha also had a boyfriend at the University of South Carolina his name is Greg corbishley as
A matter of fact the two of them met at Five Points he’s from Charleston South Carolina where he graduated from high school and eventually ended up attending South Carolina University he was a year ahead of Samantha and he and Samantha met one night when they were out having
Fun at the bars and five points and they really just hit it off they started talking and the friendship ended up evolving into something more into more of a seeing each other type thing they were really just enjoying each other’s company for about a year until they officially became girlfriend and
Boyfriend in the spring of 2017 and they did everything together they were in constant contact even more than the average couple they only lived five minutes apart and they would be FaceTiming each other all the time checking in and they’d hang out almost every day going to restaurants bars
Football games they were in love and they just wanted to spend all of their time together Greg was studying marketing with a minor in sports management and he did end up graduating from USC in 2018 Samantha was a political science major with aspirations of going to law school she was expected
To graduate in the spring of 2019 and by 2019 19 Samantha and Greg had been dating for 2 years and they were happy together they were even planning on moving close to one another they just wanted to wait to see what would happen after Sammy graduated The Next Step was
Law school so Greg was currently living back in Mount Pleasant South Carolina but he would come see Samantha on a regular basis even though it was like a 2hour drive I think it was 120 M away although Samantha did not want her senior year at University of South
Carolina to end she knew it was time to begin preparing for law school she applied to Ruckers University in New Jersey and drexo University in Philadelphia Samantha ended up being awarded a partial scholarship from Recker University and a full scholarship from Drexel despite liking what both schools had to offer Samantha found it
Really hard to turn down a full scholarship to one of the country’s top 40 Premier Research institutions and as a result Samantha chose to enroll at Drexel University in the fall of 2019 and like I mentioned Drexel is located in Philadelphia so once Greg knew that Samy chose Drexel their plan after
Graduation due to the difficulty of law school would be that Greg was going to move to Philadelphia and look for work and they would not live together but they would be close enough so that they could still spend a lot of time together and see each other whenever they could
Lost student acceptance day was held in Philadelphia and Samantha was flown there by the university her whole family met her there and afterward Seymour Marcy Sydney and Sam samanth enjoyed their day at a winery they spent a lot of time together celebrating and getting excited about Samantha’s future and I
Love this picture of them they look so happy and they were happy on March 25th 2019 Samantha Josephson returned to the University of South Carolina Samantha only had one month to go before she graduated from college it was a joyous time she and her friends were ready to
Celebrate they decided that they were going to take a break from their studies on Thursday March 28th and go hang out at Five Points Thursdays was like Fridays for them because they only took classes from Monday to Thursday and no matter where they started the night every student seemed to somehow end up
At Five Points and after a night of partying the typical way to get home was good old Uber the plan was that the girls would pregame at the Hub go to their friend’s house to park their car it’s close to Five Points only a few minutes walk and they’d hang out at the
Bars and take an Uber back to the hub typical night that day Greg was in Mount Pleasant South Carolina he started his day going over to his brother’s house he was looking after his dog because he had to work the March Madness games were happening that night so he was watching
Them around 7:30 p.m. but Greg was in constant contact with Samantha the entire day as usual they facetimed together called each other texted but Samantha really wanted him to come visit her that night her and her roommates they had already started pregaming before they headed out and she was still
Begging Greg to make that drive and come hang out with her that day she had actually confided in Greg about a family member that found out some medical issues and she was not in a very good headp space mentally she was upset so Greg told her you know what get your
Mind off everything just go out enjoy some time with your friends she had just worked really hard to get into law school he told her she deserved to just have a Carefree night have fun and celebrate the NCAA game had just ended so Greg headed out to the gym around
9:30 p.m. and he talked to Samantha a couple times while he was at the gym she was still trying to convince him to come out that night if he had maybe things would have been different but like I said it was a 2hour drive and though he usually did say yes this particular
Night he didn’t want to because she was supposed to come see him 2 days later they had plans for her to go up there to Charleston they had a whole entire trip planned out so it really didn’t make sense for him to go all the way there
Just for her to be coming all the way back a couple days later and it was also getting late Greg got home from the gym around 11:30 p.m. and at this point Samantha was still asking him to come out that night her and her friends were heading to their friend Edgar’s house
Which was only 2 minutes away from Five Points everything was going as planned they left Edgar’s and they walked straight to the bird dog Lounge they got there around 12:15 a.m. and that was their go-to place they had really cheap drinks it was just a typical normal bar
They were listening to music talking laughing hanging out everyone’s just enjoying each other’s company they had gone to the bird dog numerous times before this and Samantha and Greg were in contact throughout the night just small talk via text about who was there what she was doing just casual
Conversation after hanging out with her friends until about 2 a.m. Samantha decided she wanted to call it a night although the bar was closed around 3: Samantha had to work she worked at Liberty Tap Room and she had to be there the next day around 11:00 and she was
Punctual and diligent about her work so for this reason Samantha found herself waiting on an Uber outside of 5 Points around 2:00 a.m. her dad had given her his credit card number because he wanted to make sure that any time she needed a ride home she could easily call an Uber
She didn’t have to worry if there was no money in her account he didn’t want her to take any chances driving with someone who had been drinking or hitchhiking home or trying to walk home in the middle of the night and that made sense because Greg and Samantha were dating
Long distance they decided to install this this app called find my friends on their phones to make sure that they both got home safely when they weren’t together all of their friends also had this app installed and it was super common for them to track each other to
Make sure they were safe I do this with my friends and family and my boyfriend as well I just use the find my iPhone app but the find my friend app is very precise like up to the second for example if you’re in a car you can actually see it moving after Samantha
Told Greg that she was leaving the bird dog Lounge to catch an Uber he wanted to ensure that she got home safely so he began to track her on the find my friend’s app as Greg watched he noticed that Samantha was traveling in the opposite direction of her apartment
Complex she was going south of the bird dog as you can see on this map this is where the bird dog is and this is where Samantha was supposed to be headed back home at first when he saw this he really didn’t think much of it he figured okay
Maybe she’s going back to Edgars he didn’t even know maybe she was with someone a friend but he kept tracking her phone and it was still going in the wrong direction at this point Greg was thinking is Samantha mad at me maybe she’s going somewhere and she didn’t
Want Greg to know so we texted her but he didn’t get an answer so we called again no answer when he tried to call again it went straight to voicemail that’s when he noticed that his text messages were marked delivered but not red and they both always had red
Receipts on Samantha read his messages there wasn’t a time she didn’t either she was purposely not opening his texts or she couldn’t for some reason so at this point Greg was worried he thought there might be something more serious going on this would be absolutely
Terrifying to me not being able to get a hold of someone that I’m close to that I care about that I love I would be worried sick Greg then attempts to contact her on Snapchat and she didn’t answer there either but what’s even more terrifying is when you go goes back to
The app he can no longer track her location it stopped that had never happened not even once and their entire relationship never so what’s going on this is around 2:30 2:40 in the morning and the last place her phone tracked was at Montgomery Avenue and this is in
Rosewood which is pretty far out of the way from where she was supposed to be headed and at this point he wasn’t sure what to think he thought okay maybe she left her phone in an Uber and it was just tracking where the driver was going Greg just kept calling and calling to
See if she would eventually pick up but she didn’t it was time to dig deeper he wanted to know what was going on so Greg contacted Samantha’s roommate and best friend Tegan and he sent her a screenshot showing where Samantha’s phone had last been tracked in Rosewood
A suburb of Columbia after talking to Greg Tegan pulls up the find my friend app and she sees that her app tracks Samantha to the same location that Greg mentioned so she and and her other friends decided they’re going to go to that location and look around they’re
Looking on the grass they’re looking on the road they don’t see any sign of her phone or any sign of Samantha they’re still not able to get in contact with her So eventually they decide to go back home to the hub when they get there Samantha was not there when they arrived
The room to her door was actually still open and her bedroom was empty her bedroom was before teegan’s down a hall so Tegan had to pass it on the way to hers and she noticed Samantha’s work shoes were still outside of her room she knew that Samantha had to work the next
Day so she kind of took a note of that and then she proceeded to go to her room and go to bed still assuming that Samantha just maybe left her phone in an Uber even though Samantha was not home at this late hour of the night into the
Early morning not answering any of their calls or texts and her phone was no longer tracking after going in the totally opposite direction from home I personally would not be able to sleep that night but I don’t want to judge Jud what a particular person was going
Through cuz I have no idea it’s never happened to me but that’s how Greg felt he couldn’t sleep throughout the night Greg called and called and texted Samantha and after convincing himself that he was freaking out for no reason he decided to try to get some sleep a
Restless sleep at that but he told himself Samantha would call him the next day and it was probably a big misunderstanding and they would have a hilarious laugh about it and there was probably a story behind everything and it was going to be just fine that’s what
Greg hoped he finally got to bed somewhere between 5 and 5:30 that morning that same morning though hours later Friday March 29th Tegan wakes up it’s around 10:30 and when she comes out of her room she sees Samantha’s shoes and Samantha’s door is still open Samantha is not there and that’s when
She really became concerned she starts a group chat with all the roommates via text and they come out to the living room and they start to come up with a plan around 11:00 in the morning Greg wakes up to his phone ringing he had missed three calls already from
Samantha’s roommates and the phone was ringing again it was Carly she informed him that Samantha was still not at the apartment and they were getting very concerned after talking to Samantha’s roommates Greg immediately got into his car and started driving towards Columbia Samantha’s roommates called the local
Hospitals and Greg just made his way down there to help them her roommates even went back to mcgomery Avenue but they still didn’t see any signs of Samantha at this point they called the jail the police station they wanted to check if maybe she literally got arrested the night before and that’s why
She couldn’t have access to her phone at that point they also believed they had to wait 24 hours before reporting somebody missing that is not true but that’s what they thought so they were just kind of conducting their own research until they finally called the police they went back to the apartment
And that’s when they decided to try her laptop to see if they could get into it and they did they were able to get into her email account and they go to the most recent messages and they locate a message from Uber and it’s a receipt from the night before it showed that
Samantha had requested an Uber to pick her up from Five Points around 2 a.m. but get this the ride was cancelled not by Samantha but by the driver they see the $5 cancellation charge the driver stated that Samantha never showed up the car she was supposed to get picked up in
Was a charcoal color Dodge Charger after discovering what they found on Samantha’s laptop they called Greg in a panic with no other option Greg decides to finally call Seymour and Marcy in New Jersey to let them know their daughter is missing Greg called Marcy first she
Was out having lunch with a friend and he told her nobody had been able to contact Samantha since the night before when she was at the bird dog Lounge at 2:00 in the morning Marcy hangs up the phone in a panic and she calls her husband this is her and her husband’s
Worst nightmare she asked Seymour if he had heard from Greg and he says no why she said Greg had just called and said Samantha was missing and he’s like what do you mean so she explained that she hadn’t come back the previous evening and Seymour told Marcy to get home right
Away because they’re driving to South Carolina I don’t know why they didn’t just fly because it is a 10hour drive but Samantha’s sister Sydney received that phone call from her father as well it was around 1:20 p.m. in the afternoon and he told her to get home immediately
When Sydney asked why her dad said that her sister was missing but Sydney couldn’t understand why her parents were freaking out so badly Samantha’s phone probably just died and Sydney thought she was fine but Seymour insisted that Sydney get home now when she finally did reach home in Robinsville New Jersey
Seymour and Marcy already started their 10-hour drive to Columbia South Carolina so while Seymour and Marcy were traveling there Greg was arriving there and by this time he and Samantha’s friends reported her missing to the police and they all started to search for her themselves officer Amanda muskus
Came out to the hub apartments and she was the one that took the missing person’s report that day it was around 1:00 in the afternoon she took all of their information and then she started calling places she did reach out to Liberty Tap Room and they were able to
Confirm that Samantha had not shown up for work that day while she’s sitting there writing up the report she’s approached by Greg he had just arrived and he also provided her with information that is when the officer was able to confirm that none of the roommates nor Greg had heard from her
Since the night before and she got in touch with Samantha’s parents and they let her know that they did not know where she was they had not heard from her either and that they were on their way there she also obtained a photo of Samantha from Tegan they wanted this for
Bolo report and this was sent out to the public and to the Columbia Police Department after the off officer left Greg and Samantha’s roommates decided to go back to the Rosewood area again where Samantha’s phone last pinged and they knocked on doors they went around the
Whole town they wanted to see if anyone had heard or seen anything suspicious the night before but no one had they did the same thing they did before they looked at the roads and the grass they were really looking everywhere for Samantha’s phone but there were no clues
Left behind that location everyone was also making social media posts they were begging their friends to share information about Samantha in case anyone had heard from her or seen anything the night before and the Word was traveling fast the campus was buzzing students were scared everyone was wondering what could have happened
In their close-knit College Community but they were holding on to hope they were praying that Samantha would turn up some of her friends like the family friend I told you about her name is Jessica she actually found out that Samantha was missing from Instagram and I cannot imagine opening an app and
Seeing a bunch of posts about someone that I know it’s terrifying but this became reality for friends like Jessica she immediately jumped out of a business meeting to call her mother and ask her is this true is Samantha really missing and her mom did give her the devastating
News that Samantha’s mom and dad were already on their way to South Carolina and that Jessica should probably come home from work it’s almost like they just had this feeling that this was not going to turn out well the drive for her parents seemed to drag on for an
Eternity even though see was going over 80 M an hour and they were in constant contact with the police department they were looking for updates minute by minute as many as they possibly could get this trip just could not go by fast enough they wanted to get there they
Wanted to find their daughter back in South Carolina Samantha’s friends go down to the Five Points area now they’re going to different establishments and asking the managers if they could look at the surveillance videos that they had they wanted to see if they could spot Samantha they wanted to see if she got
Into a car and if she did what did it look like did she walk somewhere they wanted anything they could get that would guide them in a direction to find her they went to a place called The Breakers because it had a pretty big view of Main Street but they didn’t have
Anything for them and after that they visited the bird dog Lounge this is where Samantha’s friends saw her last when they reached the bar Greg talked to the owner and asked if they could view the CCTV footage from the previous evening they explained how their friend had gone missing and they wanted to
Track her movements and see if she got into someone’s car the bar owner recognized Samantha’s friends and knew they were in distress so he let them see the surveillance footage the owner brought them into a room filled with screens and Greg pointed out the camera that pointed towards the street where
The Uber drivers typically pick people up it’s right here in this area under this tree this is where everyone in that area knows to stand so that their Uber can quickly stop and you can jump in and head out as Greg and Samantha’s roommates are reviewing the video vide
They see Samantha they see her enter the bar at 12:43 a.m. since they knew her so well and she was wearing a bright colored shirt that night it was easy for them to spot her in the footage she was wearing a reddish orange top black jeans platform sandals and a white bralette
Samantha could be seen drinking dancing and having a great time at the bird dog she appeared to be acting completely normal Greg asked the owner if he could fast forward the footage to about 1:50 a.m. that’s when Samantha was on the phone walking out of the bird dog and
She called for an Uber they watched closely they saw Samantha outside the bird dog and they wanted to see if she was being followed but everything seemed perfectly fine and I’m going to be showing you all of this footage here’s Samantha she comes out of the bar she’s
Standing in the designated Uber area or lift area the ride share portion of the sidewalk that everyone goes to this is where cars know to come pick up the patrons and nothing seems out of the ordinary there’s no creepy person following her there’s no one even near her she’s just standing there alone
Waiting for her ride at one point a gray sedan pulls up and as you see it’s kind of slowing down in front of that ride chair area Samantha walks forward she reaches for the door but then the car drives away the Uber either didn’t see her or it wasn’t actually her Uber and
To be fair she had been drinking so it’s not uncommon for you to get a little confused there’s a lot happening lots of cars going by lots of people outside but then at 2:12 a black four-door sedan pulls up pulls right into this little handicap spot right under the tree and
Once again she steps off the curb walks towards the vehicle reaches out to open the back passenger’s door and this time she was able to open the door and she gets into the vehicle however her friends know the Uber cancelled so was this the Uber did she get inside and
Then the driver canceled the trip and kidnapped her it was so hard to watch this footage especially since I know what’s going to happen after the traffic cleared the video captured the car pulling out of that parking spot and then driving off Greg and Samantha’s roommates felt sick to their stomachs
They knew that Samantha’s Uber ride had canceled and they knew it was supposed to be a charcoal gray Dodge if Samantha’s Uber was truly canceled then whose car did she get into had she called someone else there’s just a series of crazy scenarios that begin to
Play out in Greg’s head and they’d be playing out in mine as well whoever drove away with Samantha Greg hoped they had not hurt her he immediately contacted the Columbia police department and he informed them about what he saw on that disturbing CCTV footage investigator Chris Odum from the Columbia South Carolina Police
Department led the investigation into the dark vehicle that Samantha entered she contacted a company called Statewide security and they have cameras throughout the Five Points area so they requested the footage for the specific time that Samantha was outside the bar Statewide security had video of the
Parking lot that was next to the bird dog lounge and I have this footage from this angle it shows Samantha standing outside the bar but there was something unsettling about this recording as the investigator watched she noticed that in the 15 minutes prior to Samantha entering that black Chevy
Impala it had circled the bird dog Lounge a number of times the driver of this vehicle would stop for long periods of time which was strange then drive around Make U-turn after U-turn to come back to that area where these Ubers typically picked people up it was though
They were scouting for people they were stalking waiting at one point in the video investigator Odum noticed that the driver of the Chevy Impala was positioned in that parking lot that I showed you in a way that would give them a clear view of Samantha she was
Directly in their line of sight she was clearly looking for her Uber and the person driving that Impala was able to see her to see her try to get into the gray car before he decides to pull around and pull into that spot and this investigator noticed that the driver was
So eager to get to Samantha he actually jumped the curb to get into that parking spot it was like a shark circling it’s prey as investigator odm examined the video closely she recognized Samantha entering the car at 209 then she pulled up other video surveillance from this same security
Company and was able to track the vehicle she also tried to zoom in so she could see details but she could never actually make out who was driving she couldn’t see their face or any details about who they were she did notice however that they were sitting pretty
Far back like reclined in their seat that was apparent and you can see it right here if you look clearly the chair the actual seat of the car is leaned back and I will outline the line right here of where it is as far as she could
Tell no one else was in the car except for this driver and Samantha however whoever was driving that car was the main suspect in Samantha josephson’s disappearance at this point the investigator doesn’t think it would have taken Samantha that long to realize her driver was not headed in the right
Direction she also believes D that the driver had to engage the child locks and that was what was preventing Samantha from opening the door or rolling down the windows having realized she was trapped Samantha must have felt so helpless that is absolutely terrifying investigator Odum tracked the vehicle
Throughout Five Points and although the investigator searched as long as she could the last place she could locate the car in the CCTV footage was about 1 and 1/2 miles away and after the veh vehicle left that area there were no longer cameras on the streets to record
It based on the footage investigator odm concluded that Samantha was picked up in a late model Chevy Impala black in color and immediately issued an updated bolo however the investigator could not determine the license plan number of that vehicle the Columbia Police Department Enlisted the assistance of sled it’s the South Carolina law
Enforcement division sled Lieutenant Kristen Grant received a call from her Captain telling her that she was needed in Columbia to assist the Columbia South Carolina department Lieutenant Grant interviewed Samantha’s roommates once again and her boyfriend and she asked them to explain everything that happened from when they last heard from Samantha
Tegan told her the last time she remembers seeing Samantha was in the corner of the bird dog lounge and she was on her phone and it wasn’t uncommon for the group to kind of split up once they got there they would have other friends to talk to and it was common for
Them to to leave their little group at different times of the night and even go home at different times of the night whenever they felt like they had enough they would just call it night and leave Tegan had no idea that Sammy was no longer at the bar until Greg contacted
Her later it also wasn’t out of the ordinary for Greg to reach out to her and others in the group if he was trying to get a hold of Samantha after talking to Greg she explained she pulled up the F my friend app and she sees the location where Samantha last tracked to
And it was the same one that Greg had mentioned so she talks about how they went out to that location but they didn’t see any signs of her there and no one was able to contact her for the rest of the night while the Columbia PD and sled searched for Samantha and the
Vehicle that drove away with her Marcy and Seymour sped down to South Carolina Samantha’s parents were keeping in touch with investigators as they made their way there they wanted to learn as many details as they could a few hours into this 10-hour Journey investigator odm called Seymour to ask what their ETA was
After that phone call Odum called Seymour and Marcy again and asked them what time do you think you’re going to be in South Carolina she told them when they did arrive they needed to head straight to the police station as soon as they got in town zour did not
Have a good feeling about this he literally turned his face away from his wife and he started to curse under his breath his daughter was in trouble and he just had this feeling that this would not end well parents do end up having gut feelings sometimes they just know
Things meanwhile across town out in the country about an hour away from Columbia 25-year-old Ander Lee was turkey hunting with his buddy Ryan out in this area called New Zion which he had done many times Ryan’s family had land in New Zion so they hunted there quite a bit since
It’s close to his house and there’s easy access so they arrived around 1:30 in the afternoon and they went to a dirt road called black bottom road then they went down to a Farm Road this is sort of like an access road that’s not on the main Main Road and Ander was using
Binoculars to scan the area for turkeys he was walking down there for about 5 to 10 minutes but it was when he turned back around to head towards black bottom road again and he was looking in those woods that something caught his eye to the left he saw something and he
Couldn’t really make out what it was he kept looking and the more he did the more he began to realize it looked like a body and that’s when he called his friend down there they’re both standing there looking in total disbelief they didn’t want to believe what they were
Looking at obviously neither one of these men expected to see anything like that they were in the middle of nowhere it’s not somewhere you just end up it’s somewhere you would deliberately go it’s just farmland and woods as far as the eye Can See For example this nearest
Store is where the pin is on the map this is far from town so they weren’t exactly sure if it was a body but they knew it looked like it and they didn’t want to go in many closer there were a lot of dense trees and one of them was
Uprooted and it was blocking their view but they were just a few feet away and they were certain they were looking at a deceased human being just lying there lifeless in the woods so at this point they know they need a call for help but they don’t know how to relay their
Location to authorities they don’t want to lose this spot so instead they call a man that they know named Mr Bubba Morris he actually works for the Department of Natural Resources and he’s very familiar with this area they call Ryan’s dad to get Bubba’s number and once they call
Bubba he was out there within 10 minutes Bubba Goes Down he looks at what they’re looking at and he calls law enforcement and they waited for them to arrive they never went closer to the body this is an area where you don’t see random traffic when you do see someone it’s someone you
Know it’s a local people who live in this area hunt and hang out in this area it’s not uncommon for people to grab some beers and guns and head out into these Woods to hunt have a few cigarettes talk you know kids ride their four-wheelers in this area they have
Little get togethers so when Mr Morris got there he parked He Walked on to where the guys were standing and from about 25 ft away he could clearly see clothing on what looked like a human body none of these men want to get any closer they were only trying to confirm
What they were seeing and once it was confirmed in their minds at least they called in the sheriff this area that they’re in is known as sort of a Lover’s Lane if you will and Mr Morris ever so often has to go down there and break up kids being kids hanging out drinking
Doing what teenagers do but these aren’t random kids like I said never in 26 years of him working in DNR has he stopped someone that wasn’t from this area so he does immediately call law enforcement Sheriff Thomas Huckabee was the officer notified to go to the scene
He parked his vehicle up on that main dirt road and walked down to where the guys were standing eventually making making his way towards what was believed to be a body and once he was close enough he was able to confirm that it was indeed a deceased female so he calls
His supervisor to let him know however when officer Huckabee went back to the station he’s looking through missing person’s reports and he realizes something there was a female that appeared to look like the body that he saw so he brought this to the Sheriff’s attention it was the clothing that she
Was wearing and the ones that were described in the bolo that matched what hucke saw the woman also looked very out of place for that area it looked as though she had been dumped there not that her death had occurred there that is when he alerted the CPD that their
Missing person may be the woman he found in the woods going to get a lot more interesting from here Lieutenant Todd shank from sled was one of the first crime scene investigators on this scene as he walked down the main d Road he did
Not see a body it wasn’t until he got to the foot path that the body was visible I’m going to show you this and blur the body so you can understand exactly where she was found she was laying sort of on her side with her left arm underneath
Her body and her right arm was laid across her chest near her left hip and they could distinctively see a broken pair of platform sandals one of them was still attached by the ankle strap but it was no longer across her toes her shirt had been pulled up towards her head and
There was a drawring that was on her shirt that was past her head it was apparent that this woman had been stabbed there was a very large amount of Blood on the victim and wounds could be seen all over her body at first glance without further inspection there were
Visible wounds to her head her shoulder her right hand her right leg her neck her back and her right foot they begin to look around because they’re trying to ascertain whether the struggle and the killing happened at this location or elsewhere they’re looking for a knife or
Blood around the area but based on where she was how she was laying and the lack of blood evidence at the scene other than on her body they determined that the altercation did not happen at this area and that she was left at this location after her death they don’t
Touch or manipulate the body until the coroner gets on scene and gives them permission to do so so until he gets there the investigators are taking photos they’re documenting what they see and when that coroner arrived they continued their investigation by Rolling the body over and looking at her back
And it was apparent that there were drag marks on her back on her arms she was dragged through the brush and the dirt on her back they also look at her fingernails they take fingernail scrapings to check for DNA they may exist underneath and that’s when they
Notice her fingernails were an area of Interest they looked ripped or broken or cut or torn they did not look normal they did not look right it almost looked like someone had deliberately cut her fingernails off with some kind of instrument so that maybe something wouldn’t be found underneath they also
Take a buckle swab from her cheek to get a sample of her DNA which they now call a known DNA sample since they know it’s hers they can now compare it to any other DNA that they find they also take her fingerprints and her footprints for
The same reason to rule them out when they find a crime scene if they do they also brought out their ALS which is an alternative light source this is a light that has a different wavelength than white light think about black lights it enables them to see blood bodily fluids
Fibers and bruises that cannot be seen with the naked eye and when the victim was on the stretcher they used the ALS to see a number of bruises on her sides on various areas throughout her entire body and there was also an earring that
Was in her right ear but the one on the left was missing so they ran a metal detector over the area to attempt to locate it but they were not successful and I thought this was something they did above and beyond I said that is so risk respectful to the victim to go
Looking for a missing earring but I come to find out this is actually common practice I had just not heard about it in any of the other cases that I’ve covered although DNA testing would be required to confirm their findings they do conclude that the body they found was
That of Samantha Josephson it was because she was dressed in the same clothes that Samantha had worn to the bird dog Lounge the night before a couple hours earlier Greg was the first to arrive at the police station he was taken into a room with investigators they were grilling him asking him a
Bunch of questions it had been 24 hours since Samantha had gone missing when he was done with that interview they escorted him to the main lobby and he was surprised because all of Samantha’s roommates were waiting there he had no idea and once they were all together
They escorted all of them into a conference room and when they get in there they’re surprised again that’s where they see Mr and Mrs Josephson just sitting there looking sad and distraught see more and Marcy had arrived in Colombia and headed straight to the police station as they were told to do
And after getting there officers LED them into that same large meeting room they looked around and that’s when they noticed there was a man and they looked at his jacket and they saw the word coroner embroidered on the back it was obvious to them that they were not going
To get good news they were going to get news that their daughter was no longer alive and the investigators confirmed that even though they don’t have the DNA results yet they found a body that matched Samantha’s description Greg broke down he fell to his knees and he actually blacked out he
Was in such shock and disbelief and Seymour and Marcy were just beside themselves Seymour had to make the hardest phone call he ever had to make to his daughter Sydney in New Jersey he said that hearing Sydney’s screams and not being able to be there for her hurt
Him and it still does when Seymour called her she was waiting for their call at a neighbor’s house and as the neighbor answered the phone Sydney saw her drop to the ground in tears and she rushed to that phone because she wanted to hear it for herself she already knew she just wanted
To hear it directly from him she also heard her mother screaming in the background as he was telling her what had happened Sydney began to hyperventilate she felt like she couldn’t breathe and for her parents not being with her at that time was just so difficult Marcy wasn’t sure if it was a
Good idea that Sydney remained at home but at that moment she just knew she wish she could be there to hold her an investigator with sled Lee Blackman said that they needed a lead to move this investigation forward he stepped out of that police station and this man said a
Prayer because he feared that he would not be able to solve this case it was then that he was told to return to Five Points because they had just pulled somebody over that was driving a dark colored Chevy Impala every police officer in this city had been searching
For a dark colored Chevy Impala for 24 hours since they got that bolo they were looking K9 Handler Jeffrey craft patrolled that area near Samantha’s last sighting that evening and before his shift he had looked repeatedly at that footage of Samantha her entering that vehicle he watched it time and time
Again and he was diligently searching the streets looking for for that car officer craft began his Patrol in Rosewood in that community and he started the shift Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. and his shift stretches into Saturday early morning after driving around in that Rosewood neighborhood and
Up and down the streets for hours he found nothing officer craft then decides to drive back to Five Points and within seconds of pulling toward the border of the town the officer spots a black Chevy Impala it matched the description of the car that Samantha got in it was was
Going down that Main Street Harden towards Blossom Street right here where this red star is on the map officer craft got behind the impal at this point and he followed it towards Five Points the car got into the left lane to taking left turn on Blossom Street this is just
Two blocks away from the bird dog roughly 800 ft officer craft flashed his blue lights because the vehicle matched the description in the bow but the driver kept going he did not pull over he kept driving down Blossom and then he tried to make a left turn down a street
Called Saluda Avenue however if you look here this is a very unique Road it’s divided by a grassy medium there are two roads with the same name one going in each Direction and it’s very obvious to drivers typically which one you’re supposed to travel down I looked at the
Street view and it’s really obvious to me there’s no light at the First Street see there it is it’s facing the opposite way you would not turn left here besides there’s a oneway sign right here this is the correct road that you would go down except the driver didn’t do that the
Driver was going down the wrong way on the first road on oncoming traffic right here there’s even White Lines the turn arrows upside down the cars are facing the opposite way how would he not know but then he finally comes to a complete stop on Salute AV and granted it was
Already pretty dark we do have that dash cam video from the patrol car and you see officer craft following behind the car right here craft immediately notifies dispatch of his find and signaled for the impola to pull over the whole exchange was recorded on officer Craft’s body cam footage however what I
Find interesting is that the dash cam comes on first when you turn on the blue lights the moment you hit the blue lights it actually starts to record the previous minutes to catch the moment you turn on the lights which is pretty cool so it kind of jumps back in time and is
Already recording so we get to see this vehicle make the wrong turn turn again I don’t know how he thought that he was going in the right direction when he’s pulled over you already see him kind of rumaging around and moving in the car so craft goes up to the driver’s side of
This vehicle his primary goal at that point is to make sure everything’s safe he’s also observing everything and he too sees the driver moving around in the car he didn’t know Samantha’s body had already been discovered so we was hoping to find her alive inside the Chevy
Impala as soon as the officer got out of the vehicle to approach the car he smelled marijuana he gets up to the driver and he’s Cooperative at first he’s kind of slumped back with his hoodie over his head but he’s answering all of Craft’s questions officer craft
Asked a driver for his license but the driver didn’t have it and the driver actually scoffs if you listen carefully when craft says why don’t you have your license the driver says something about him leaving it at a club but he gets very defensive right away what’s going on sir sir you got
Your license got your license on you I’m also C col police for K9 license on you when the officer inquired about who was smoking the driver replied that he was but it was before he left his house who’s smoking the marijuana I had smok some ear sir when I was at
Home feeling uneasy officer craft asked the driver to step out of the vehicle the driver was still Cooperative that is until officer craft noticed his hands were in his pocket all right man you’re to step on out [Applause] man all here’s a deal man I pulled your car over cu the
Matches a suspect get your hand in your pocket what are you crazy having no idea whether the driver of this Impala was about to take out a weapon officer CR ordered him to remove his hands from inside his pockets and once the driver did that officer craft started to
Explain why he pulled him over but the driver began to run and craft ran after him yelling for him to stop where do people think they’re going to go to when they run I’m really curious like why run they have fire your information right because you left your vehicle behind so
It makes you look extremely suspicious to run get over here hey get over here come on run hey I’m relase a dog as the driver fled officer craft called for backup and described his attire his hoodie his sweatpants watch carefully as craft is trying to explain why he pulls
Him over the driver puts his hands in his pockets which is one of the scariest things an officer can encounter by the way this person may have a weapon on them so craft tells him to take his hand out of his pocket the driver starts to
Turn and craft tells him to get over here and then he takes off running with craft trying to keep up unsuccessfully but within moments the backup arrives on the scene and runs after the suspect officer craft returns to the Chevy Impala other officers were called as
Well as that K9 craft goes back to the car because there was another occupant inside in the passenger side of the car that’s why he was asking who’s smoking cuz there’s two people in there the woman who was now outside the car was being questioned by one of the other
Officers unseen she was standing there near the front of the car providing officers with information now craft wanted to make contact with this person because he didn’t know who this driver was or why he would run but because officer craft smelled that marijuana when he pulled them over he had probable
Cause to search the vehicle he did search the interior of the vehicle and found a rose gold cell phone between the driver’s seat and the center console and he was also able to determine that there were remnants of marijuana on the driver’s side floorboard he located a set of keys with
A pink key ring on it inside the car as well he took them and he placed them on top of the Impala along with that rose gold iPhone craft scanned the back seat and he opened the trunk but he didn’t do a complete search because this was not
The time to do that he could tell something happened in this car he needed professionals to be called in because there was a significant amount of blood there were footprints on the Windows there were cleaning supplies bleach in the car it was a crime scene and he
Needed a crime scene Tech who was specialized in this area of expertise to analyze and preserve the evidence a Second Officer arrived at the scene when officer craft asked him what kind of phone Samantha had he wanted to know because it’s initial thought was that the rose gold iPhone belonged to her and
On the keychain they noticed a USB drive and they wondered if this might be something a college student would carry he knew the missing girl was a University of South Carolina Student I’m trying to give you information from all directions everything that’s going on so while this is going on office Justin AIA
Had hurried that way when he heard the call and he was the one that intercepted the driver on foot he was able to catch up to him and arrest the driver around 2:36 a.m. running from the police is an arrestable offense so he fris the driver for weapons and none were found the
Officers were evaluating the situation and trying to gain info about why this man ran the driver did State he was sick that he had the flu and then he was having trouble breathing so they did have to call the EMTs to come check him out that’s protocol Safety First it’s a
Big priority so the officers let the driver sit down so that he could catch his breath and he could breathe better while they were waiting for the EMTs to get there and this is the point where they also read him his Miranda rights but the driver refused to answer any
Questions even a yes or no about whether he understood the Miranda Rights but he would not answer but that’s something he did need to answer but after that not speaking is his Fifth Amendment right but he didn’t even respond to the emt’s questions when they were trying to check
Him out and his vitals are being taken at one point the driver is just laying on the ground looking like he’s having issues breathing the officer just think yeah he’s he just has some issues because he was just running so the officers start to rub his sternum per
Protocol set him up so he can breathe better like I said but the driver would still not speak to EMS workers and it didn’t really seem like there was anything wrong with him they take him to the ambulance to get him fully checked out but they were thinking this must be
Some kind of act that he wasn’t really hurt especially because he’s not talking then he finally says he wants to speak to an investigator so investigator Le Blackman was summoned to the Five Points area Blackman explained to this man that is now handcuffed in the back of a
Police vehicle that he was there to speak to him the man asked the officer why he was being detained and he told him he ran away from the police during a traffic stop the man nodded and said he knew that investigator Blackman also told him the marijuana was found inside
The car which was enough to keep him in custody things that were confiscated were his phone and bandanas were taken from his head at this time the driver of the Impala refused to give law enforcement his name so officers started taking pictures of him they were trying to do facial recognition scanning his
Fingerprints to determine who he was and ultimately they find out that Nathaniel Roland was his name and he was 24 years old so while waiting in Five Points for Nathaniel to be brought to the station and investigator Blackman asked him where he was the night before Nathaniel
Told the investigator he had been at a party at an apartment near the university and slept in the stadium suites hotel he explains to the investigator that he found his car in the hotel parking lot when he woke up that morning when Nathaniel opened the door he said that his car was Blood
Stained so someone must have borrowed it investigator Blackman walked over to the vehicle to inspect it and he saw saw just how much blood had to have been in that car his first thought was this is where Samantha died during Nathaniel’s interrogation investigator Blackman asked him if he had traveled to the Five
Points area the night before and he told the investigator he was at a house party and he would not provide specific information about who he was with or where Nathaniel also denied ever visiting New Zion where Samantha’s body was found New Zion as I explained was a
Small town it was not a place someone would consider dumping a body unless they were familiar with it at this point Blackman explained to Nathaniel that a young woman was abducted from Five Points around 2 a.m. on Friday Nathaniel refused to answer any further questions they did collect a swab of suspected
Blood off of a shoe as well as scrapings from under his fingernails but before the investigator left the room he told Nathaniel to reflect on the past few days and to tell the truth Nathaniel asked the investigator what he was talking about before shaking his head
And saying that he was just going to go to sleep the investigator was determined not to get tunnel vision and to think we have our man instead law enforcement had to investigate and find out where Nathaniel was and to do their due diligence to ensure that Samantha was
Given the justice that she deserved that’s when they located the Uber driver who had been requested to pick Samantha up at Five Points the night she went missing his name is Marcus Williams Marcus told investigators he was 49 years old married from Columbia South Carolina went to school there worked for
The city for 10 years until he was injured that’s when he began driving for Uber all he said he had to do to get started was to send his driver’s license registration and a copy of his insurance he told them he had a charcoal gray
Dodge Charger at the time then they do a background check and either approve or deny you and he was approved and he began working he drove his 2011 Dodge Charger he had been driving for 3 or 4 months of the time that Samantha requested a ride he accept accepted that
Ride and he drove out to Five Points to pick up Samantha he had a fstar rating his car was always clean he always got good tips and he was a good driver and in case you’re not familiar with Uber don’t be ashamed if you’ve never heard
Of it or you haven’t taken one I realized there are viewers who watch my videos from all over the world Uber is a ride share app anyone can sign up for free and begin requesting a ride the only thing I think you need to provide is your legal name or your Facebook
Account the last time I checked then all you do is open the app put in the address of the destination you want to go to and once the app connects with an authorized and approved driver that works for them they get an alert and you get an alert with the driver’s
Information you usually get their name the color of the vehicle the model of their car their rating and you can even cancel if you want for whatever reason but it’s important not to do that frequently because it can reflect badly on your rating Marcus heard that the
Five Points area was a very busy location for college kids so we frequently work worked there he was actually just ending a ride from another person in the Five Points area when he got another alert that Samantha needed a ride Marcus said he was diligent he always called the person right when he
Got the alert to let them know he was on the way so he called Samantha when he was on Harden and divine right here and she did not answer so Marcus circled around he usually gave people 5 to 10 minutes as a grace period because you know they’re at bars they maybe cashing
Out maybe they’re talking in maybe they’re walking slower you know they’ve maybe had a few drinks after the app realizes that you were at the destination and you’ve not picked up the rider it will send an alert to cancel the ride so as he circled again and
Again a couple times he had to cancel he said he never picked her up never to his knowledge had he ever seen her or had she ever been in his car Marcus did give them a DNA sample and they let him go and they told him they would call him
Back in if they needed him so using the information that Samantha’s parents gave them investigators searched her bank records that was the next thing they wanted to do and they realized that there were several attempts where someone was trying to use her ATM card at a couple banks one was 45 miles away
From Columbia and twice in another bank in Sumter County this was very early in the morning on Friday 5:45 a.m. Sumter and 6:48 a.m. in Colombia with a search warrant the investigators obtained CCTV footage from the ATMs and they showed a man wearing dark clothing gloves he was
Clearly trying to conceal his identity his hoodie was so tight around his face look at this and his face was hidden by a mask this is what they saw and this man was unable to withdraw any money from the ATMs because he did not have the correct pin they zoomed in and they
Can tell he’s wearing a bandan with a money design on it he’s wearing a black jacket gloves a beige shirt underneath and a black hoodie underneath this black jacket with a white white drawstring and black Nike Slides crime scene investigators began searching the Chevy Impala and processing all of the
Evidence investigators were able to search the vehicle much more closely after they obtained that warrant and first they do notice the child locks were engaged indicating that Samantha couldn’t have escaped once she stepped into that car Samantha would not have been able to open the doors or roll down
The windows the entire interior of this car was covered in blood it had permeated the seats Lieutenant Christen Grant said that she had never in her life seen so much blood in the 25 years of being an officer never in Nathaniel’s car investigators found a footprint on a
Window and it appeared as though whoever left it there was trying to kick it open so they lifted those prints for analysis lab workers with sled arrived early that morning to test the evidence they found in the Chevy Impala and obtain a DNA profile the results confirmed what the
Investigator had suspected the blood inside the Impala belonged to Samantha Josephson and that footprint that was hers as well clearly she was fighting for her life meanwhile investigators tried to access Samantha and Nathaniel’s cell phones they wanted to find out where they were that night and it turned out Nathaniel and Samantha’s phones
Traveled the same route out of Columbia up Highway 378 toward where the hunters found Samantha’s body in New Zion the Columbia police chief gave Samantha this family an update telling them they believed they had captured the suspect and even though Seymour and Marcy were relieved Marcy still felt like it wasn’t
Real she was waiting for Samantha to come home Sydney Samantha’s sister flew to South Carolina to attend a vigil that was held by the University of South Carolina in memory of Samantha their dad said I can’t tell you how painful this is Samantha was alone she had no chance
None he urged the students at this Memorial to be vigilant when they were out late and to always travel in pairs and I have to agree I know it’s hard I’ve definitely taken rides alone but I I I would say the same travel impairs at the very least Marcy told the crowd she
Would never come to terms with this there was no time to sit and say goodbye or to hold Samantha’s hand nevertheless Marcy said she was choosing to remember Samantha as a beautiful girl instead of what happened to her in her final moments when Samantha walked into a room
Her friend said that everyone felt happier Samantha sorority sisters described her as the next Amal Clooney because they knew that she would excel in the field of international law and Greg talked about how his girlfriend had impacted so many people with her positive attitude and her energy during
Her short stay on this planet investigators reviewed Samantha’s autopsy results when the medical examiner was finished and that report reved revealed just how much poor Samantha had been through that fateful night she suffered over 100 stab wounds the interesting and equally confusing thing about these wounds is that the
Medical examiner knew that they were from some sort of sharp object with a single blade but others were made with something else an unknown sharp weapon it seemed to have parallel Blades of some kind and he thought were there two weapons the medical examiner was stumped
The wounds were small they were about 2 in deep so 2 in blades in length but the double stab wounds were very close together and the exact distance from one another in every double wound of its kind he scoured the internet searching through thousands of photos on Google to
Try to find a knife with two blades he knew that if they could find this unique looking weapon and they could match it to Samantha stab wounds and locate it they could find the killer she had wounds everywhere on her head her neck shoulders arms legs even her feet there
Were defensive wounds to her hands the one in the palm of her right hand went all the way through to the other side and this is most likely because she instinctively put her hand up to Shield her face as this killer swung the weapon at her notably one of the wounds was
Through her ear and it went into her neck those wounds in her neck were most likely the cause of her death she did have a defect on the hyoid bone on the right side but they believed it was from a stab wound not strangulation the neck wounds impacted the cored artery and the
Jugular vein and wounds of that nature would have caused a significant amount of blood loss and this coincided with the amount of blood that was left behind in the black and Paula there was only an eighth of a cup of blood left in her
Body at the time I want to show you how much this is on the screen the human body usually holds 4 to 5 lers of blood so about a gallon of blood the medical examin had a hard time getting enough blood for a Toxicology test this poor
Woman bled out that is how Samantha spent her last moments on Earth with a stranger who kidnapped her locked her in a car trapped her in this confined space and attacked her with an unusual sharp bladed weapon hundreds of times it’s absolutely gut-wrenching to think about
I take Ubers all the time most of you do too to think that this poor girl innocently got into this Monster’s car hoping that was taking her home safely only to realize that she was living out her absolute worst nightmare Seymour spoke with the prosecutors that were handling Samantha’s case and he asked
For the death penalty for the killer he said that he wanted to see him fry but his family advised him that this wasn’t the time they had to think about Samantha they had to plan for her funeral that’s not what sour wanteded he didn’t want to bury his child Samantha
Should have been at his funeral not the other way around so in the days following Samantha’s murder the University of South Carolina offered extended counseling hours and ride chair safety tips there was a visual at the West Town Center Lake gazebo in New Jersey for Samantha as well about 500
People showed up to honor Samantha as MERS lit white candles one of her cousins saying I’ll Never Love Again by Lady Gaga Greg Samantha’s boyfriend told the crowd that he’s always imagined himself coming here 10 years from now with Samantha and their friends and family and now that would never happen
He said there were no words for what happened Samantha’s funeral was at congregation Beth Kim where she had her B Mitzvah on April 5th 2019 the Jewish community at USC honored Samantha with a shabat candle ceremony I’m doing my best to try to pronounce these Hebrew words
But about 30 people were in attendance and a rabbi led the attendees in the traditional dinner and a symbolic donation to the charity was made in a reading from Psalm 23 many students and organizations on campus held vigils for Samantha but this ceremony was one that the Jewish faith lit candles every
Friday evening for in Tradition to light the candles and perform good deeds in memory of those who have passed away Samantha was very active in the Jewish community at the University of South Carolina she attended many of these services and even larger events such as rashash Shana Uber also released a
Statement following Samantha’s brutal murder and an email sent to the state a South Carolina newspaper a spokesperson for the ride share company said quote since 2017 we’ve been working with local law enforcement and college campuses around the country to educate the public about how to avoid fake ride share
Drivers everyone at Uber is devastated to hear about this unspeakable crime and our hearts are with Samantha’s family and loved ones we remain focused on raising public awareness about this incredibly important issue end quote among the evidence found in Nathaniel’s vehicle was an envelope it looked like
It had a shopping list on it one of the items on the list duct tape and it said tape whole body next was gloves all black flip phone gasoline matches and then there’s also a crossed out line where you can’t decipher what was being written there an eviction notice was
Also found in the glove compartment It Was Written from someone named Maria Howard and a Wendy’s receipt from $699 to Garner fairy Road from March 29th at 1238 was found so investigator Fisher goes to that location to retrieve video and the video shows Nathaniel Roland in his car wearing a head covering and
There’s a white sheet covering the headrest and the back seat of his vehicle however they can’t see Samantha in the car on April 3rd while Nathaniel Roland was still in jail on the unrelated traffic charges investigators wanted to quickly obtain a arrest warrant for Samantha’s murder so sled
Investigator Lee Blackman and an officer from columia PD drove to the address listed on that eviction notice Maria Howards when they arrive at Maria’s they knock on Unit C Maria comes to the door and she’s completely Cooperative with police they told her they found the eviction notice in nathani Roland’s
Black Impala they want to know if she knew him and if so how she tells the investigators that n is her boyfriend and she agrees to go down to the police station however Maria does inform them she has not slept in a couple days she pulled all nighters at work at
McDonald’s and she was pretty Delirious she told them that she would do her very best to provide them with as much information as she could in regard to what she knew about Nate she was questioned for hours but she was too tired to recall details she needed sleep
So they agreed to let her come back in in a couple days to reinter her and good thing they did because she had a lot to tell them this poor girl honestly I feel so bad for people who get into these horrific situations on account of being a loving
Caring person who gets involved with the wrong individual there’s going to be a lot to take in here but this is what they find out Maria Howard was 24 years old she lived in Columbia for the past 10 years and she moved there in high school and then she went to college in
Denmark South Carolina at that point in life it was all about partying on a regular basis and when she came back home she would party at Five Points on the weekends she just like Samantha and Greg met Nate when she was at 5 Points with their friends one weekend they were
Friends they didn’t just jump into a relationship and they actually lost contact for a while but they reconnected when he stopped by McDonald’s when her shift had just ended back in the beginning of March she was working at the McDonald’s in garness fairy across from Rosewood and this was like I said
In the beginning of March he drove up through the drive-thru and then he pulled up next to her and he’s like hey girl and she couldn’t believe it she hadn’t seen him in a couple years so they chitch for a bit they exchanged phone numbers and he asked her what she
Was doing that night she explained that she had just recently moved into a new duplex and she was just waiting for a ride home from a coworker well Nate insisted that she let him give her a ride home she didn’t have a car so she was used to getting rides from other
People and she knew Nate so she accepted the ride he took her back to her duplex in Mountain Brook which was about 25 to 30 minutes away and they hung out for a bit and and then Nate went home but they definitely hit it off and they were
Inseparable from that day forward they started seeing each other every single day after that they were dating at this point and in a sexual relationship so Nate was there all the time but he didn’t live with her he actually lived with his sister however Maria hated
Being home alone so she was letting her cousin Naisha stay with her but recall that eviction L her well her cousin hadn’t been following her rulle she wasn’t cleaning she wasn’t taking care of things and now that Nate was around Maria wanted her out she felt like her
Cousin had to go so she typed up that eviction letter and she was planning to get it notorized Maria also had a four-year-old daughter that lived in the duplex with her but she spent a lot of time with her grandma who was a school teacher they would share responsibilities like taking her and
Picking her up from preschool now that Nate was in the picture Maria would have him drive her to the preschool so she could go get her daughter and to run other errands in addition to taking her to work at McDonald’s and picking her up and he would always do that for her as
Well as just be there for her at night or in the morning because like I said she didn’t like to be alone however they did just start dating so Nate did still go out with his friends from time to time especially to Five Points he
Referred to it as being lit this was one of his favorite places to party he would go out maybe a couple times a week but Maria couldn’t she had to work a lot and frequently she would pull double shifts and she just wasn’t interested in that life anymore instead they would just
Hang out all day watch TV eat but she wouldn’t go out with him to bars together the first couple weeks they were dating she explained to investigators that Nate slept downstairs on the couch Maria wasn’t keen on letting him stay in bed with her but as they got more serious she finally began
Letting him sleep with her around the third week they were together which was around that third week of March Maria told investigator Blackman that on Wednesday March 27th 2019 Maria had reminded Nate she had to go to work at 7:00 a.m. the next day and all of her
Work shirts were dirty she didn’t have a washer and dryer so she needed to drive to her mom’s house to use the washer but her mom wasn’t home it was getting later and Maria had other things to do that night she didn’t know how she was going
To get her work shirt cleaned and Nate said don’t worry about it that he’d take it to his sister’s house that night and have it for her in the morning she and Nate spent the evening at her house watching TV until she went to bed around
12: or 1 that morning at that time Nate was downstairs watching watchingg TV and investigators asked her what he was wearing she says he was wearing a gray Nike hoodie shirt and navy blue sweatpants that were the windbreaker type she expected him to come to bed when he was finished watching TV but
When she woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom she could tell he wasn’t there he had gone out she didn’t know where Maria gets up early for work around 5:00 a.m. she notices Nate did not come home the night before
She knew because the bed was the same exact way she left it he never got into it and he wasn’t in the house and his car wasn’t outside so she texted him at 5:31 saying where you at and there was no answer she was pretty upset as time
Went on because he had promised to come pick her up and had he not done that she would have found another ride she did not like to be late and she didn’t appreciate his inconsiderate Behavior she was stressing over the eviction with her cousin not having enough money for
Rent and she needed to get that shift she was even texting a friend telling them that she was crying thinking think about how she was going to come up with her rent money in just a couple days so 7:00 rolls around Maria’s now late for
Work it’s at least a 25 to 30 minute drive and Nate hadn’t shown up yet so she text him again at 7:01 saying bae I’m late as f for work still no response and she’s pissed she calls her mom letting her know that she may need a
Ride and that she was mad and that’s when she sees Nate’s car pull in around 7:45 or so she runs out there upset asking him where have you been where’s my shirt and he doesn’t even answer instead he drives off saying I got to go to my sisters to take my nephew to
School I’ll be right back but Maria’s confused cuz at this point she’s upset she knows his sister’s house is like 30 minutes away and then he would need to bring the nephew to school and then come all the way back to her it made no sense then about 10 minutes later not enough
Time for him to do what he said he needed to get done he pulls back into Maria’s driveway with her shirt and it’s still wet almost like it doesn’t even seem clean almost like it was rinsed what the hell is going on she doesn’t know she doesn’t care she just wants to
Get to work so she gets in this car she puts the envelope containing the eviction letter into his glove compartment for safekeeping until he could take her to the bank tocket notorized Maria then text her mom with an update it’s at 8:03 in the morning she says baby tried LOL my shirt still
Wet AF he will not be washing clothes ever have a good day ma love you to which her mom responds at 821 LOL girl you could have done that at home why didn’t you go to laundromat and Maria responds at 8:48 a.m. saying that Nate didn’t want to Maria had also put her
McDonald’s uniform visor in the back window of the car the day before so that she could just grab it and put it on as they drove to work but she looks back there and she doesn’t see it so she asked Nate where’s my visor and this is
When things got weird he tells her that it’s in the country and she said what why and he said it had blood on it and when she asked him why would my visor have blood on it he told her to mind her business she again asked him the same
Question and again he told her to mind her business now luckily Maria calls her boss told her she’s going to be late due to her outfit and the boss said you know what I can provide you with another hat so then they stopped get gas and that’s
When Maria was actually able to get a minute to look at the car she hadn’t really been paying much attention to it but she turns around and looks at the back seat and it was odd there was a white fitted sheet with like a blue design on it that was hanging over the
Driver’s headrest and then draped across the back seat her daughter’s baby seat was sitting on top of the sheet kind of holding it down on the right passenger’s backseat side but what was even more shocking was that she saw what she thought looked like blood on the sheet
That it was actually seeping through from underneath and she looked around and saw what appeared to be dry blood on the dashboard on the side of the seats of the car and as she’s taking a better look and back she realizes that despite the sheet being there she sees a ton of
Dried blood on the seats that were not covered with the sheet she’s so confused and she’s worried but maybe there’s an explanation and then when Nate gets back in the car she immediately confronts him asking why is there blood all over your car did you hit a dog or something and
Again he tells her to mind her business okay this is odd it did not make sense but Maria’s main goal was to get to work and he finally drops her off and promises that he will be back to pick her up later he said that he needed to
Go clean his car and take a nap so Maria had noticed that he did look really tired so she gives him her keys and she tells him to go to sleep and come get me later but he never showed back up after her shift ended around 400 p.m. when the
Investigators asked her why she didn’t call 911 Maria told them she was scared she was fearful of what might happen to her or her child if she didn’t mind her business and she didn’t exactly know what was going on it wasn’t uncommon to hit deers in that area as a matter of
Fact Nate’s car had just been serviced for the exact reason just a few weeks before he started dating Maria his ex Destiny actually hit a deer while she was driving Nate around in his car and it destroyed the front bumper which needed to be replaced a coworker ends up
Bringing Maria home that Thursday evening and once again she’s mad she banged on the door of her own house hard like it was the police and Nate comes down he opens the door and he looked like he just saw a ghost he definitely had been sleeping she could tell so she
Goes inside she starts getting ready to take a shower and she notices that Nate still had on the same clothes he did from Wednesday and she thought that was pretty nasty so she said quote why haven’t you washed your ass in a couple days end quote to which he didn’t
Respond and this was being playful but she was also pretty serious because it was obvious to Maria that Nate’s clothing had blood on it so when she gets out of the shower she sees him outside cleaning his car scrubbing it when she gets closer she notic it smells
Like chemicals like chlorine but then she sees bleach bleach bottles are in the backseat of the car and Nate had gathered up all of her cleaning supplies and he was using them to wash the inside of the vehicle she tells Nate that she needs to get to an ATM because she needs
To get money out for her rent and stop at her mom’s and she drives she drives his car while he’s in it still cleaning the car he’s wiping it down with wipes while he’s wearing blue surgical gloves as she’s driving and he’s sitting there throwing these dirty rags into a grocery
Bag she looks over and she doesn’t want to but she’s kind of curious about why so she asks him why are you cleaning and again he tells her to what mind her own business she looks over a few minutes later and he’s cleaning a knife like
Item and she’s seen this item before but she never saw it open like that so it kind of looks like one of those retractable knives or something like that as her eyes are kind of scanning everything in the car she saw a rose gold iPhone in this little phone
Compartment on the center console so she questioned him about it because it looks like a female’s phone it’s in pristine condition even though he insisted he found it somewhere on the ground then he says you know what I’m actually going to give it to you but she didn’t want it
She already had a phone and she liked Androids not iPhones so she goes nah I’m good I don’t need it they head back to her house to pay her rent her mom was supposed to pick up her daughter but she couldn’t so she tells Nate they’re going
To have to go drive to go pick up her daughter they had the booster seed in the back seat like I had said and Nate said he really didn’t want her daughter in the car because there was blood but they had no choice they pick up Maria’s
Daughter they take her back to the house and when she takes her out of the car car there is blood on her shoes so Maria takes them off and she throws them into a closet and that just shows you how much blood was inside this vehicle he
Had already been cleaning it and there’s still blood on it later that evening two of Nate’s friends show up and they’re all going to go out to Five Points around 12: in the morning as they’re leaving to get into his car Maria literally asked him why would you drive
In a car with blood in it he never responded Maria told investigator she finally put it all together after Samantha had gone missing she did see her picture on the news it was about a day later and then they showed a clip of the black andala and
She was stunned it all made sense to her now the blood Samantha being missing it was Nate’s car she still didn’t call the police she was scared she couldn’t even go to work she called in and pretended her daughter was Ill just so that that she could pull herself together the
Police came to speak with her and that was the day that she pulled that devil shift over 12 hours and she told them please I’ve got to get some sleep so that is where we are right now this was the second interview and she told them everything and this time she let them
Know every detail she could remember and let them look at her phone and they took it for a while to have it analyzed finally they gave it back to her and she gave them a sample of her DNA but according to Maria because Nathaniel used tons of cleaning supplies to clean
The car Maria said she thought it would blow up if she lit a cigarette Maria also tells them that there’s a trash bin in the back of her duplex and Nathaniel had been throwing things in there from his car the investigators were very interested in this information so when
Investigator Blackman asked Maria where the garbage bin was she said it’s still there the sanitation workers had not picked it up yet so Maria was informed that a search warrant had been issued for her home and a crime scene unit was going to be sent out there to gather
Evidence they located a dumpster in the back of the duplex that anyone can access just by walking around the building inside this dumpster investigators found cleaning supplies bloody sheets towels gloves and the worst thing is that they find a multi-purpose tool it had blood and hair on it we’re
Going to talk about that in a moment they also find clothing like a beige dress shirt and Maria’s trash bin and in one of the garbage bags was a leather jacket with marks on the arms scratch marks investigators are convinced that Nathaniel had that coat on when he was
Stabbing Samantha in the backseat of his car and that those marks were from Samantha’s fingernails investigators noticed that this multi-purpose tool which my boyfriend is calling a Leatherman I’m going to show you what a Leatherman is first and then I’m going to get into into this tool well this
Tool had a unique double blade they believed they had just found the murder weapon and tests were conducted on all the items that were discovered Samantha’s DNA matched the blood found on these items and this weapon is actually the scariest weapon I have seen in all of the cases that I’ve
Talked about and I’m not kidding maybe since it’s smaller and and you may disagree but if someone were to swing that around it’s such a tiny weapon can you imagine how fast it could be jabed into your skin how many times this was used on Samantha it terrifies me it’s so
Portable it folds up it’s just this little hidden multi-use tool that can turn into a murder weapon in a second look at it it just looks scary the blades they’re bent at the ends which signified that it had been used with a great amount of force they notice it can
Also be opened up like this that’s how it made the single blade wounds and when closed it makes double without a doubt this was the murder weapon during an analysis of Samantha’s phone on March 29th an analyst found that it was powered on at a business that bought and sold used
Cell phones it’s called cellular City investigators drive out to Cellular City in Columbia and they ask the manager if they could look at the CCTV footage from that day Nathaniel’s black Chevy imp Paula is spotted pulling into a parking space outside around 11:00 a.m. on the 29th and as investigators watch the
Footage like Maria had said there was that white sheet draped over the back seat and they could see blood stains on it the CCTV footage from inside cellular City showed Nathaniel holding Samantha’s rose gold cell phone when he’s entering the clerk then examines the phone he
Plugs it in he sees a white woman on the lock screen suspicious to him and let me be clear it’s because he’s not a dummy he’s seen people come in with stolen phones Nate doesn’t seem to to know much about the phone he just says he found it
Or it was given to him and the clerk decides uh-uh I’m not buying it upon viewing this video investigators are able to identify Nathaniel as the same man who tried to use Samantha’s bank card at those ATMs he was wearing the same clothes and they were the same
Clothing found in Maria Howard’s trash can his girlfriend’s trash can in light of all the evidence that investigators had they were able to charge Nathaniel Roland with kidnapping and the murder of Samantha Josephson Nathaniel denied being involved in Samantha’s murder one of his cousins Trey elore spoke to the
State and said Nathaniel passed out at a party the night before the murder he didn’t believe his cousin had anything to do with this crime he doesn’t think that his cousin was the one driving the Chevy and Paula that picked Samantha up in Five Points Trey felt that the police
Only thought it was Nathaniel because he ran from the cops when he was pulled over also speaking up in Nathaniel’s defense was his own father Nathaniel’s father said that his son woke up without his keys so someone else must have driven his car in a statement to the
News his dad said that Nathaniel found the keys to his car in the parking lot and that the vehicle was covered in blood but the assertion of Nathaniel’s innocence didn’t matter much because he was charged at the end of April with possessing a weapon during a violent
Crime and there were way too many connections between Samantha and Nate for this to have been anyone else in the investigator’s Minds not to mention they found a connection between where the body was discovered and where he grew up it turns out Samantha was left in that
Desolate wooded area and it was only 2 miles from Nate’s parents home in New Zion Nate’s ex Destiny told investigators that he had taken her out there at least three or four times that year to meet his family he knew that area and remember what the DNR worker
Said the area where Samantha was found was like a needle and a hay stack only only a local would know their way around there Nate was a local and speaking of Mr Morris the DNR worker that was called out by the turkey hunters well Mr Morris knows the role in family because he
Lived right across the road from them on Renegade Trail and this is in close proximity to where the body was found look Mr Morris has lived there his whole life for 60 years and Nate’s family only lives two houses away he had many chances to speak with the Roland family
There are only a few houses nearby it’s mostly Fields so make no mistake about it Nate knew this area Samantha’s parents Seymour and Marcy attended the University of South Carolina’s commencement ceremony in May of 2019 they accepted Samantha’s degree on her behalf she was honored during the graduation ceremony by the USC president
Harris Pas tiddes he said quote I’d like to take a moment to recognize and honor the life and the legacy of Samantha Josephson our cherished 21-year-old senior political science major whose life was taken tragically from us Samantha’s family is here with us today and she’ll receive her college degree
Directly after this ceremony in memory of Samantha a seat was also reserved in the first row draped in robes and one of Samantha’s favorite instructors Daniela James said it’s definitely very hard not to see her there with the other thousands of graduates she should be here her spot is there there following
His speech the University president counted to three and then asked what’s my name and everyone responded Samantha Josephson Samantha was not the only University of South Carolina Student to receive a posist degree in 2019 in fact Samantha wasn’t even the only murdered student who was supposed to graduate
From the University of South Carolina that year on March 26 2019 Evan Gaines was shot and killed less than a mile from the University Upstate campus he passed away later that evening in November 2019 five people were charged with evans’s murder he was a good person with a desire to work in business
Management and he had not been forgotten even though that arrest can’t bring Evan back it will help his family get Justice that they deserve within weeks of Samantha’s murder Columbia mayor Steve Benjamin called for stronger regulation of ride sharing companies he proposed policies such as City inspections of ride share Vehicles designated pickup
Points and adequate lighting at those locations Additionally the proposal stipulated that ride sharing cars should not use child locks unless a child was in the vehicle and the child’s parents approved Seymour and Marcy appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America in April of 2019 and they endorsed a proposal passed
By South Carolina House requiring Uber and lift drivers to display illuminated signs to make it easier for them to be identified however Seymour and Marcy said there were other safety measures that they would like to see added Uber and Lyft provide customer customers with the description of the car picking them
Up and their tag number which we know they do now however a few states do not require front license plates including South Carolina so he wasn’t advocating making it a law across the board but anyone working in the ride share industry should have a license plate on their car on Good Morning America
Seymour said he would like to also see a QR code in the windshield of vehicles he said the rider should be able to scan the code and confirm that it was their car in June of 2019 the South Carolina legislature passed a law that required all drivers for ride share services to
Display their license plates on the front and back of their vehicles while waiting on their Uber in Hilton Head Island South Carolina two tourists got into the wrong vehicle 3 months after Samantha’s murder after they realized the driver was heading in the wrong direction they told him they were going
To call 911 and the driver grabbed their phone he suddenly stopped the car and both of the tourists were able to escape however the driver exited the vehicle and tried to approach them the tourist was able able to grab the phone and call 911 and the driver fled in his car in
January of 2020 Uber introduced a new safety feature that enabled users on the app to give a PIN to the driver before starting the ride Seymour thought Uber’s new features was a great start but a bill named Samy’s law was passed in honor of Samantha 6 months later upon
Approval the bill would ban vendors other than rid sharing companies from selling vehicle signs to prevent driver impersonation furthermore the government accountability office would be required to investigate how background checks were being conducted on the ride share drivers unfortunately at that time Samy’s law failed to advance the Senate
By the deadline so it was filed again this past December after passing the house again the bill was sent to the Senate and just this month on January 6 2023 President Biden signed Samy’s law into effect going back to May 2021 it was announced that Nathaniel Roland
Murder trial would take place in July the date kept getting postponed because of the pandemic Seymour and Marcy promised to always be at the trial as a family unit to ensure that they got the justice that their daughter deserved Marcy was nervous she didn’t know what
To expect she didn’t want to hear the details about Samantha’s murder it was going to be tiring and stressful for them to relive everything the state Circuit Judge Clifton Newton presided over the case and on July 20th 2021 solic Byron Gibson began the prosecution’s case by stating that March
28th 2019 was supposed to be a celebration for Samantha and her friends however they were unaware that the defendant Nathan David Roland had his sight set on her according to Byron Gibson all the evidence presented to the jury pointed to Nathaniel Roland as a person that kidnapped and murdered
Samantha therefore he urged the jury to convict him Alicia good from the public defender office said that there was no evidence that Nathaniel kidnapped and killed Samantha DNA from Nathaniel was not found on Samantha’s clothes or her fingernails or her ankles and he had no
Marks on him at all so how could he have done such a brutal crime in order to secure a guilty verdict in Nathaniel’s case the prosecution knew that they needed Maria Howard’s testimony and despite her fears for her child’s safety and her own Maria chose to testify for the prosecution and against Nathaniel
She told the jury everything we know how she did not find Nathaniel the next morning and there were 7 hours unaccounted for as the prosecutor showed Maria the multi-purpose tool containing Samantha’s blood as well as Nathan’s DNA Maria said she recognized it as something that he had carried before it
Had been in his possession but she had never seen it open she explained to the jury that she did not call the police due to her fears however once she spoke with investigators she started to receive death threats and she ultimately lost her JW because of this later both
Seymour and Marcy thanked Maria for testifying video surveillance of the black Chevy Impala recorded on the night that Samantha was abducted was shown to the jury but the driver couldn’t be identified oshar Williams the owner of cellular City though he was called To The Stand by the state and several
Cameras inside and outside of the store captured this man with the cell phone that entered the shop on the day that Samantha disappear appeared when the prosecutor showed that footage to him and asked him if he recognized the person who tried to sell that cell phone
To him and if he was in the courtroom that day he said yes and he pointed to Nathaniel Roland that is an eyewitness that puts Nate in possession of Samantha’s phone Kimberly mirors a latent fingerprint analyst determined that Samantha’s footprint was the match to the one investigators found inside
The right window of Nathaniel’s black shoving Paula in the back seat CNA experts testified that the blood in the back seat was also that of Samantha Josephson and the blood that was found on the back of Nathaniel’s shoes and sock was also Samantha’s blood however on cross-examination the defense attorney
Did get this Blood analyst to admit that there were several items in the vehicle that contained DNA from unknown individuals which wouldn’t have been unusual considering there could have been other passengers in that vehicle over the last few months however did that raise Reasonable Doubt a former cell phone location expert with sled
Testified that Samantha’s phone traveled with NES after 2 a.m. on March 29th 2019 he said that Samantha’s phone stopped moving at some point and Nathaniel’s phone continued to the area of New Zion where the hunters found Samantha’s body what’s more damning is that Nathaniel’s cell phone was also traced to where the
ATM cards were being used at those Banks if this isn’t enough I don’t know what is he’s wearing a money bandana though in this picture which which was seen on him again 24 hours later when he was pulled over and his fingerprints were on that list remember that list on the
Envelope they found that also had Samantha’s DNA on it her blood was on it a handwriting analyst came in with examples of Nathan’s actual handwriting and it matched the letters that were found on the envelope it matched the words not to mention they found a black beanie in Nathaniel’s trunk with the
Words coldblooded on it he was wearing this in the video footage at the Cellular store it’s like The Scarlet Letter or letters spelling out who the Killer is coldblooded Nathaniel Roland that hat was tested and it was positive for Samantha’s DNA the defense rested without calling any Witnesses of their
Own and as I was reading some of the comments while watching this trial there were a lot of them that said they wanted to make sure they wanted to check to see if the defense attorneys actually had law degrees and licenses to practice because some of their questions made
Them look like they were working for the prosecution and I have to say I did notice some very interesting tactics to say the least like when they cross-examined the investigator Todd shank the crime scene investigator that examined Samantha’s body and testified to very graphic details about what he
Found normally a defense attorney would avoid a witness retelling this graphic testimony so that the jury would soon forget it instead she had him rehash it all over again and nothing he said was helping Nate’s defense I can tell you that much however the defense did argue that these unidentified DNA samples that
Were taken from the car were significant and that there were mixtures of DNA that didn’t include Nathaniel that he didn’t have any marks or Cuts nothing however I want to remind you that his jacket did have scratch marks on it the defense also argued that just because Samantha’s
Blood is in his car and he tried to sell her phone and tried to use her ATM card and that his clothing had blood on it and his phone was tracking with hers and his phone was being used near where the body was found doesn’t mean he was the
Killer huh please make it make sense and they really couldn’t jurors were sent home and asked to return the next morning for closing arguments it took less than 2 hours for Seven women and five men to decide Nathaniel Roland had murdered Samantha he was found guilty of all three charges and during the
Sentencing phase Samantha’s parents and sister expressed their anguish Sydney said that nothing could bring her sister back nothing she says will ease her family’s pain and heartbreak Marcy said she didn’t have time to tell Samantha everything she wanted to there wasn’t time to kiss her goodbye she called
Nathan Pure Evil and hoped that he felt Samantha’s pain in the end the prosecution decided not to seek the death penalty and Samantha’s family reluctantly accepted their decision see more definitely fought them on it up until the last month he wanted Nathaniel Roland to be executed in his victim
Impact statement Seymour explained that he had contemplated taking his own life several times in those 28 months that he was waiting for the trial Seymour told his daughter’s murderer that he had taken his baby and he wished that he could inflict the same pain that Nathaniel inflicted on Samantha on him zour begged
The judge to please give Nathaniel a life sentence he never wanted him to see the light of day again what was sad to me and you might feel differently but Nate’s mom spoke on his behalf in his defense she claimed that her son did not commit the crime but the judge stopped
Her he told Nathaniel’s mother there would be no claims of Innocence the jury convicted Nathaniel and that was that but once again his mom spoke and described her son as caring and then Nathaniel’s mother said I know my son didn’t do this and the judge stopped her
Again he said this is not the time to express any claims of Innocence he told Nathaniel’s mother that she was not a witness and he’d had enough of the claims about what Nathaniel hadn’t done Nathaniel’s mom just looked defeated and she returned to her seat after saying
Her son was a good and respectful child it pains me that parents have to go through this I don’t blame Killers family members in cases like this it’s devastating for them too they do lose their child as well you don’t just stop loving your child you may hate what they
Did and you may despise them but you can still love them it’s a very hard situation to go through and I feel for that poor woman judge Clifton Newman asked Nathaniel to stand in front of the court for sentencing and he was asked if he had anything to say and he said quote
What I know and what I think really doesn’t matter I just wish the state would have done more in finding out who the actual person was instead of being satisfied with detaining me and proving my guilt if they would have done research in certain areas and then the
Judge cut him off the judge believed Nathaniel had no remorse at all for what he had done in response to whoever asked him for leniency on behalf of the defendant judge Newman said that’s not in his DNA he sentenced Nathaniel Roland to the State Department of Corrections
For the remainder of his life without the possibility of parole since Samantha was murdered Seymour quit his job and now works fulltime time at the what’s my name Foundation that they founded to commemorate Samantha’s life it’s named this way because you should always ask the ride share driver what your name is
Before getting inside they should know and if they don’t don’t get inside I’m guilty of kind of asking as I’m getting in don’t don’t step foot inside a vehicle without the driver saying your full name if that door closes it could be too late the mission at what’s my
Name is to raise awareness of ride sharing safety using the acronym Sammy s m i they urge Riders to stop ask match and inform according to what’s my name stop and plan before you request a ride think about where you’re headed and review the safety features in the app so
You know how to use them ask your driver what’s my name to confirm they have booked a trip with you through the ride sharing app match the cars make model and license plate with the one displayed in the app inform and share share the details of your trip with a friend
Utilize the share my status function in the ride sharing app this case changed my life or at the very least my actions I I just took an Uber from the airport from my trip to Florida and I remembered Sammy I asked what’s my name it was
Raining and I really just wanted to get inside but I waited and I confirmed that they had the right name before I closed that door behind me in that moment I thought about Samy’s last night on earth it made my ride almost unbearable especially as a mom because I kept
Asking why why was she taken the way that she was did Nate plan this all along I had so many questions that’ll never be answered so many things were going through my head I know in my heart and from all the evidence that Nate is guilty 100% without a doubt in my mind
But I can’t help but Wonder was this his plan from the minute he left Maria’s or was this his plan when he saw Samantha standing all alone at the Curve or was it the minute that she tried to get into that other car before he pulled
Up when was this murderous plan set in motion was it the minute Samantha mistakenly got into his car that Nate began to think evil thoughts was his plan really to kill Samantha or was it sexual in nature at first because right after he dropped her at that location
Out in New Zion he literally took his phone and went to an adult website if you know what I mean and he watched videos so you tell me and were the child locks already engaged due to Maria’s little four-year-old that was always driven around in the back of that car or
Did Nate hit that button when Samantha closed that door does it even matter no it doesn’t but the questions still remain in my mind when did Samantha realized Nate wasn’t her Uber driver the app shows you everything she had to have known did she begin to scream or try to
Escape and that’s when Nate decided to grab this weapon how did he manage to get her phone away away from her and turn it off I imagine being in such Close Quarters and Nate welding a knife and Samantha being forced to turn over her phone it was in that moment he shut
It off when they were in the Rosewood area when it stopped tracking and he drove to a place he knew he could go undetected somewhere in the middle of nowhere is that where the altercation really took place I just can’t imagine Samantha sitting there sitting there and
Letting him drive for an hour without putting up a fight what do you think I’d really like your thoughts please as usual be kind and compassionate we can have a mature and valuable conversation in the comments without hatred or being too judgmental that’s always a good
Thing and once again thank you so much for giving Samantha your time today and listening to her story and remember her anytime you’re using a ride share app thank you so much for watching I will see you in my next video bye
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