USC Student Brutally Murdered
Written by wdkxwp on April 1, 2019
A University of South Carolina student was brutally murdered over the weekend. 21-year-old Samantha Josephson of Robbinsville, New Jersey was out with friends on Friday night at Columbia’s Five Points entertainment district. Around 1:30 a.m. she got separated from her group and got into a car she mistook for an Uber.
The driver was 25-year-old Nathaniel Rowland, who had employed use of the car’s child safety locks so the doors could only be opened from the outside and kidnapped Josephson. Her body was found by a group of hunters in the woods off a dirt road in Clarendon County, about 65 miles away from where she was originally picked up.
According to arrest warrants issued by the State Law Enforcement Division, Josephson sustained multiple wounds to to her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot. Police have not yet released the cause of death.
As for the suspect, Nathaniel Rowland, he was later arrested and charged with kidnapping and murder and is now in custody at Richland County jail. Police found Josephson’s blood inside Rowland’s black Chevrolet Impala along with her cellphone, bleach, window cleaner and cleaning wipes. There is no word yet on what transpired between the time Josephson was picked up and when her body was found.
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