The Murder of Taylor Samson - 4 - Sandeson Gets a Retrial

Nighttime

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saturday, Aug 15, 2015 Taylor Samson, a local university student, tells his girlfriend he has to run out for a moment and that he wouldn’t be long. When she see’s him exiting the apartment carrying a large duffel bag, she assumes it contains marijuana. When he fails to return home that night.. or ever again, she, and many others in Taylor’s life, begin to suspect he was the victim in a drug deal gone very wrong. What will start as a missing persons investigation will become one of Nova Scotia’s highest profile murder trials. One that sees two students of Halifax’s Dalhousie University at center stage. The Victim, Taylor Samson and the accused William Sandeson who at the time of Taylor’s murder was only days away from beginning classes at the prominent medical school. In part four of this series I’ll again be joined by Kayla Hounsell (author of First Degree: From Med-school to Murder) and our topic will be the surprising legal updates that have made this story far from over. Credits: Music: Vox Somnia https://twitter.com/voxsomnia Links: CBC Article by Blair Rhodes: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/william-sandeson-new-trial-1.5615408 Kayla Hounsell: https://twitter.com/kaylahounsell Buy First Degree: https://www.amazon.ca/First-Degree-Medical-School-Murder/dp/1771086661 Contact: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/contact Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Podcast Recommendation: Southern Fried True Crime: https://www.facebook.com/southernfriedtruecrime/ Premium Feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello, Hello listeners at night time. In tonight's episode I'm going to provide a surprising
1:00.0	update to a past trilogy I did. Early in 2019 I told you the story of Taylor
1:06.2	Sampson. The young man said to be murdered in a drug deal gone wrong. In that
1:11.7	series we heard about the investigative discoveries that would cast
1:15.2	suspicions on a local medical student named William Sandison and the further
1:20.1	discoveries that would lead to Sandison being tried and convicted for the
1:24.5	murder of Taylor Sampson. This piece of reporting from Global News will provide
1:30.1	you with a reminder of where the story was at the time that that series was released.
1:37.0	Convicted killer William Sandison was officially handed a life sentence Tuesday for murdering fellow Dalhousie student Taylor Sampson.
1:48.7	Samson was last seen alive on video on the night of August 15th 2015 walking with Sandison
1:54.5	into his Halifax apartment. Samson has never seen leaving and his body has never
1:58.7	been recovered. Tuesday family and friends packed a Nova Scotia Supreme Court
2:02.8	to see the sentence handed down and to hear victim impact statements
2:06.5	from Sampson's loved ones.
2:08.2	All of them touched on how Taylor's death has left a lasting impact.
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