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The Daily Crime

"A person without any remorse whatsoever"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A man has been convicted in the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year old college student in South Carolina. Kayland Hagwood from WLTX tells us about the case and the trial. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up.

0:02.5

She was an amazing person, an amazing human being.

0:09.5

And she obviously put up an amazing fight against you.

0:13.9

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.

0:15.7

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

0:23.1

A USC student reported missing yesterday evening has been found dead.

0:27.9

She's 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, who friends called Sammy.

0:31.7

Josephson was last seen by Friends Friday morning between 1.30 a.m. and 2 a.m. off Hardin Street.

0:38.4

Officials tell us she never arrived home and repeated calls to her phone went unanswered.

0:44.0

Columbia Police say surveillance video shows the 21-year-old getting into a dark car, possibly a Chevy Impala.

0:49.9

Our hearts are broken. They're broken. There is nothing tougher than to stand before a family

0:55.6

and explain how a loved one was murdered. She simply mistakenly got into this particular car

1:02.1

thinking it was an Uber ride. The man convicted for the March 2019 kidnapping and murder of a 21-year-old

1:07.5

University of South Carolina college student has been sentenced to life in prison.

1:12.2

I'm joined by Kalyn Hagwood at WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina.

1:15.6

Kalan, I know you attended the entire trial, and I want to talk to you about what you saw

1:21.2

and what you witnessed.

1:22.2

But let's start by going back to March of 2019 and what happened to Samantha Josephson.

1:27.1

Well, she was a political science major

1:28.9

and she was hoping to study law and she was about to graduate from USC. She wanted to go out and

1:34.7

celebrate with friends in the Five Points area. That's a popular entertainment district here in

1:40.1

Columbia. And so she was out with friends. They were at the bird dog bar. And during that time,

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