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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Gorgeous SC co-ed gets into wrong car, her dismembered body just found by turkey hunters

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Samantha Josephson was just weeks away from graduating from University of South Carolina and headng to law school when she made a fatal mistake. The 21-year-old student stepped into a car she thought was her Uber ride after a night out with friends. Josephson was found dead in a rural field the next day. Nancy Grace explores this murder case with forensics expert Karen Smith, South Carolina medical examiner Dr. Michelle Dupre --author of "Homicide Investigation Field Guide," forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, North Carolina family and divorce lawyer Kathleen Murphy, and Crime Stories reporter Robyn Walensky.

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:21.3

chemicals. Go to azurestandard.com. Membership is always free and it's so easy to get started.

0:29.5

Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner.

0:38.7

Crime stories with Nancy Grace. She had in fact some of the newer.

0:45.2

Was waiting for that Uber ride to come. You hear about all these horrible things happening on

0:49.7

the news and you just don't expect it to be one of the kids growing up with children. Her family

0:55.8

rushing from New Jersey down to South Carolina as soon as they learned that she was missing.

1:00.8

We believe she simply mistakenly got into this particular car thinking it was an Uber ride.

1:08.0

It's just sickening. I am just heart sick, heart sick over what we believe has happened in South

1:18.3

Carolina. South Carolina co-ed seemingly gets into a car. She thinks is her Uber and then hours later,

1:27.3

this beautiful 21-year-old girl Samantha Josephson is found dead. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime

1:36.3

Stories. Thank you for being with us. We want justice. First to Robin Walensky joining me crime

1:44.1

online.com. Investigate a reporter and author of beautiful life CSI behind the KC Anthony trial

1:50.4

on Amazon. Robin when I first saw the photo and it shows her there's a video. It shows her walking

2:00.8

out probably from a bar restaurant. She's out with all of her friends. They're all co-eds.

2:06.8

She walks up to a car. She seemingly as she opens the door says something. I'm looking at it right

2:14.1

now. It looks like she speaks or says something and she gets in an interesting. It's not just her.

2:24.2

The car stops. The car sees her on the corner and it stops and it lets her get in. It's not like

2:32.6

she went up to a car zooming past and waved it down. This car comes up to her and stops and I mean

2:40.8

Robin you know when you get off the plane and you go out to your car or your cab or whatever you're

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