Last Night Out Season 1 Episode 1

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00:00It felt like a special night in a way I felt like everyone was really excited to go out

00:07For 21 year old college senior Samantha Josephson life is just about to take off

00:14You were always laughing when you were hanging out with Sammy

00:18She was always the one that was ready to go she'd get ready quick, and she's ready to go out

00:30She called for an uber it would not have taken her very long to realize that this driver is going in the wrong direction

00:45We know that now the child locks were activated and she couldn't get out one of

00:50Sammy's biggest fears was being trapped somewhere. I

00:54Always told both my kids you know like fight for your life if something happens

01:00I

01:02Still see to this day the footprint on the back window. I still vision her kicking and screaming

01:14You always have those that stick with you forever, and this was absolutely the top of my list his blood all over his car

01:30Samantha Josephson and her friends are celebrating their senior year spring break trip to Florida

01:45Probably one of the best weeks of my life

01:47Probably one of the best weeks of my life

01:48We actually drove from South Carolina down to Miami for a few days we were celebrating because she had just gotten into law school

01:59But it was the end of March so we only had like a month month and a half left of school

02:12Samantha and her housemates are getting ready for a celebratory night out

02:16It's an early start to one of their final weekends together before graduating from the University of South Carolina

02:23She straightened her hair that day. She always straightened her hair even though it took her forever, but she had this new orange top on

02:29these black jeans and these

02:33platform sandals and I remember she borrowed like Tegan's

02:37Bralette to go underneath it because she couldn't find the right thing to go underneath it. She looks so cute

02:41I remember too that that night we were like Sammy you look really pretty like more than normal

02:47She had just gotten back from visiting Drexel where she was getting a full ride to law school and she had committed to going there

02:52So we were like, let's go out and celebrate Sammy on this Thursday night

02:57So we were all hanging out at our place getting ready hung out for a little bit and then that's when we went and walked down to the bars

03:03There was just always this like fun energetic atmosphere

03:13Um and being around her you couldn't help but smile or be happy

03:19And just honestly be in the best mood

03:21We're walking to the bar. She's like I just want to tell you that I love you and you're one of my best friends

03:26The group heads to the lively five points district of columbia a place popular with students

03:33The five points district in columbia is really a blast you can kind of bar hop

03:39You can go from one place to the next and it's filled with college students

03:44It's walkable for students. So it's where the kids would go at night to watch ball games or decompress from classes

03:52You would kind of just hop around and go from bar to bar

03:56Some were like country bars some were like clubs some had like live bands

04:03They settle in at one of their regular haunts the bird dog bar a familiar spot on a normal night

04:09Nothing feels out of place

04:19We walked in we all took shots to celebrate sammy getting to school and we all got drinks

04:24um they always played really good throwback musics and that was always some of our favorites especially sammy she always loved it

04:29i remember we got up on the booth and we danced we found some of our other friends we talked with them for a while

04:35um it was just overall a really good night

04:38sammy was always happy and bubbly and just wanted to make people laugh and be like the goofy one

04:46A bright beautiful smile the laugh that she had it was super infectious and she was really just that like light in a room that

04:55Wherever she went whoever she was with she made them better just by her being around

05:05This is no different than any other night in terms of a group of friends who go to college together

05:11Some who live together are going out to celebrate have a few drinks talk listen to music

05:16This is something they've done dozens if not hundreds of time in the past including being in this exact bar

05:24While those in the group are still enjoying themselves some decide to head home early

05:30We were having a great time it just felt like a normal night out

05:34And then i just think i was kind of ready to go i didn't feel well from drinking so that's kind of why i was like okay i'm gonna go home

05:41Sammy was down to go with me and then she wanted me to wait but i just felt really sick so i felt like i had to leave

05:50Meanwhile samantha is texting her boyfriend greg throughout the evening he's 115 miles away in charleston planning to drive up to see her the next day

06:00They're all having a good time but samantha's really kind of missing her boyfriend who's graduated in december of 2018

06:08And she's had tried to talk committed coming down and going out so i think she's having a good time

06:13But at the same time she is kind of missing him and so instead of saying let's all go home

06:18She decides i'll go home

06:20So she called for an uber so that she could get a ride back to her apartment

06:25Her friends decided to stay and hang out and that was not necessarily uncommon for her and her friends

06:31Which is why they were careful to take care of one another they use the find my friend app on each other's phones to track each other's movements

06:43i think she only left like

06:4515 maybe 20 minutes after i did

06:51There's a lot of people a lot of police there's a lot of video cameras there

06:56it's what i consider to be a safe place

06:58if you don't have a car or you're out at a bar and you want a safe form of transportation people will use

07:08an app like uber or lyft and will utilize that to get from point a to point b

07:15and then with rideshare gaining popularity we actually had areas for rideshare you know pick up and drop off

07:22and a lot of the kids use rideshare and that's exactly what she did she orders an uber

07:28and you could see her standing in that area where the pickup and drop-offs occur pretty frequently

07:41she's texting the night before she goes can i use your credit card to go on

07:45use an uber and we had discussion the back because she was getting carried away with the uber rides

07:51and using my credit card and i said all right i'm watching you i got you i said last time

07:58this is any young woman who's outside of a bar ready to go home who opens the door has some kind

08:11of conversation and gets in and closes the door there would have been nothing that would have raised

08:18my alarm or raised my concern in any way

08:29samantha lee josephson was born in late summer 1997 in princeton new jersey the second of two girls

08:38we were 20 months apart but one year in school so her birthday's in august mine's in december

08:43i'm definitely much more serious much more like to the point sammy was always happy and bubbly

08:54you were always laughing when you were hanging out with sammy

08:58when she was little she always had these big curly hair she was never afraid to try anything she loved

09:07participating in different sports and activities and it was more for her about the social aspect

09:15samantha was bubbly energetic when she would come into the room you would know she's in the room with

09:24her wacky voice just her loudness then saying hey hi and all the heads turn that was samantha

09:33young sammy as she's known is raised in robbinsville a quiet town in new jersey

09:45originally robbinsville was a farming town so there were lots of trees farms open areas but we were

09:51also close to new york and close to philly we were close to the beach all the kids say they feel like

09:57they grew up in a bubble because we all moved into the community at the same time so we all started

10:03having kids at the same time so everyone was always together outside playing

10:11some of my earliest memories is just our families being pretty much inseparable in that meaning me sid

10:18and sammy were pretty much inseparable our families did everything together our families went on vacations

10:24growing up so we rented houses in long beach island and would do that our families and a couple of

10:30other families on our street everyone knew everyone the doors were pretty much always open and it was just

10:36a very close-knit community i think she just felt super super safe

10:43samantha excels academically and decides to attend the university of south carolina more than 660 miles away

10:51in the state capital of columbia i was surprised i never thought she would go that far away from us

10:59but she loved it she would come to visit me and i went to go visit her so it was nice always having

11:05that like built-in friend and that built-in person to go to i was always proud of her to me it didn't

11:12matter if she went to a county college or a four-year college we just wanted her to be happy

11:19and she chose south carolina columbia is really almost a melting pot it's the state capital

11:27we're very dynamic very diverse it's a true capital city where there's just a lot going on

11:38she had a lot of friends in south carolina she had friends on her freshman floor she had friends from

11:44classes she had friends from just like hanging out in the dorms her friends she ended up joining a

11:50sorority where she made friends i think she really found her home there

12:05in the spring of 2019 samantha and her college friends decide to head to florida

12:14one last girls trip together before graduation

12:17we had a great time we all became even closer than we were before and i didn't even think that was

12:24possible we were getting ready to celebrate her and getting ready to graduate and just so much

12:31so much excitement so many highs um to then have you know things taken away from us which was

12:38obviously not how we expected the end of the senior year to go

12:51we all just kind of got that gut feeling that something wasn't okay

12:57samantha's bed is untouched her phone goes straight to voicemail

13:02at first they're puzzled then alarmed samantha hasn't come home

13:12we woke up and we're all you know just hanging out kind of

13:15and then sammy's door was still open a little bit and we were like that's weird she always shuts it

13:25and so i think we went in and like looked quick and we were like

13:28why does it look like she hadn't been here we always used to track each other and find my friends

13:34on our iphones sammy's just said no location found

13:40we were like that's really strange so then we were kind of talking to greg and we were like have

13:46you heard from her and he's like no i'm getting really worried i haven't heard from her since last

13:50night and he at the time had thought she went home with someone else or something because he had

13:57taken a screenshot of where her phone was last found which was the opposite direction of where we lived

14:08when samantha doesn't show up for her 8am shift at a nearby delhi her friends decide to raise the alarm

14:18that's not like her she would always show up she would always be early and if she wasn't going to

14:22make it she would definitely give enough time notice and we started to get worried we were like

14:28is she in the hospital we just started calling any texting anyone that we could and knew just asking if

14:34they had seen her since last night we actually decided all to get into my car and drive to that

14:41location it was just in this random neighborhood like down the road from five points um so we started

14:49looking around through like the leaves the trees just anything didn't find anything so we started

14:56knocking on doors asking if anyone had seen we showed a picture of her if they'd seen her a lot

15:01of people had said no and then that's when we really got worried so we went back to the apartment um

15:08um my roommate carly made the 911 call

15:16it was a friday afternoon before where i work and worked in a school we had spring break and i was at lunch

15:24with my girlfriends and um when i got to my classroom greg called and i thought it was really strange because

15:32he never would call me during the day um and told me they couldn't find samantha and i was i just in my

15:41head i didn't think anything terrible i just thought maybe she went to a friend's house fell asleep her phone

15:49died anything my thinking was what the hell is going on where is she my kids spoke to to marcy

16:01every single day by tax

16:07as marcy and seymour josephson drive 700 miles to reach columbia samantha's friends and boyfriend

16:14continues scouring the area checking bars and hoping she's simply misplaced her phone or that maybe

16:22she's asleep somewhere we then went back to bird dog um and since sammy and carly knew like the manager

16:29there really well they actually let us look at footage that's where we got the footage that we were

16:36able to turn into the police that you can see her we were able to watch video quickly to confirm that

16:45she did in fact get in a vehicle and did not go home she walks outside

16:54and unbeknownst to samantha instead of going right where the uber driver was planning to meet her

17:00she takes a left it was just a mistake so she's out there and she's waiting some cars come by at one

17:09point she tries to get in a car and realizes that's not her ride and so she had talked to her boyfriend

17:15while she's waiting he knows where she's going that she's headed home outside the bar samantha scans

17:23the street for her uber a dark colored dodge she knows she's looking for a dark car this black chevy

17:33impala pulls up he kind of pulls up pretty close to her you see samantha approach the impala and

17:41immediately go to the back passenger door like most people i would assume that she says something like

17:49are you here for samantha she opens the door gets in the vehicle with little to no hesitation the car

17:58door closes and at that point it seems like everything's okay and paul puts it in reverse backs

18:06up and then drives off down harden street there was no record of a rideshare pickup there so we knew that

18:19it was very very likely that we had had a legitimate abduction they then knew at that moment that's

18:27where they needed to focus their search was that black chevy impala

18:35the police immediately searched through security camera footage from the area

18:41while samantha is waiting outside there is a video that shows this person in this black chevy impala

18:50is circling the block you can see the black chevy impala numerous times drive by the bird dog

18:58and on other streets around the five points area we don't know what he's doing but it certainly looks

19:07like he is looking for somebody passes by the bird dog on multiple occasions

19:14it almost looks like some kind of stalking or some kind of pacing

19:27eventually you see the impala turn around a couple blocks away come back towards where

19:34miss josherson was standing pull into a parking lot do a u-turn in the parking lot

19:44and then come to pull back out of that parking lot

19:46all within about 20 feet of where she's standing

19:55it was very clear that he locked in on her and targeted her specifically for the abduction

20:00it's been over 12 hours since samantha josephson vanished her friends are desperate

20:17for answers her parents are halfway through their 12-hour drive to south carolina security camera

20:24footage shows samantha getting into a dark colored car outside a bar it looks like an uber but the

20:31driver hasn't come forward in a bid for answers police release the footage to the press hoping someone

20:38somewhere recognizes the vehicle or who's inside it was hard to see it especially i think for me because

20:46i was supposed to leave with her the camera footage of samantha getting into the back of the black impala

20:54is the last time that anyone saw her alive

20:58i just felt like in my heart if something bad happened as mom i felt like i would have felt

21:09something that i would have had some kind of intuition um and i really did not i was just you know praying

21:17that everything was okay driving there i think i was just in a daze i don't even think seymour and i

21:26spoke to one another most of the trip we were very anxious the car was completely silent the radio wasn't on

21:38we weren't talking we were just head down and just driving like an idiot

21:45columbia police put out a bee on the lookout alert or bolo for the impala

21:57unfortunately the windows on the car were tinted so you were unable to see inside the vehicle and the

22:04nature of the video footage was grainy enough that it was impossible to make out any sort of a license

22:10tag on the back of the car as well back in robbinsville new jersey sydney is amongst those

22:16gathered at a family friends waiting for news my two aunts drove up from south jersey

22:25to also just be together while we waited we were getting little bits of information

22:31in at the time as my parents were driving i went on to instagram or facebook and saw that there were

22:40posts i called my mom immediately i called her and i said this can't be real um is this real

22:48i was constantly on the phone with the police and um i do remember driving and i was i was driving very

23:00very very very very fast um it didn't take me 12 hours it only took me 10 and a half hours to get down

23:06there of how fast i was driving we had notifications and marcy was when we were checking her bank account

23:14like you could see how many times that somebody's trying to use her card those type of things like

23:21we called and said somebody's trying to use her card they're like well do you want us you know should

23:26we cancel like no and the police were like no don't cancel anything you know this is we're gonna

23:32we can track her this way

23:49off the quiet back roads of new zion a small rural community 65 miles from colombia

23:56two men out hunting turkeys come across a scene that will change the course of the investigation

24:02one of the hunters sees something that really catches his eye and he has no idea what it is

24:10initially

24:14the injuries were so severe that it was difficult for them to identify her

24:18by her facial features or just by looking at her but the fact that her clothes were similar

24:23that she has this long dark hair made them very very sure that this was samantha

24:32police make a formal identification the body found is that of 21 year old samantha josephson

24:41she has suffered more than 100 stab wounds

24:45well i think it it's it shows that there's rage um and probably a you know based on again her body

24:52conditions and some of her nails being broke and just it it was very evident that there was a very

24:58um vicious fight that she um that she fought hard for her life and it was uh it was just a it was brutal

25:10i was driving i remember just looking out mumbling to myself going

25:25this is not gonna end well and i said that and i remember marcy going what what did you say you say

25:33something i said no nothing there was a long table and there were police there and i just remember there

25:42was a gentleman at the table and i just saw a coroner on his jacket and at that point it just was like no

25:53no way no way no way and then they told us 99 sure that it was samantha because of her clothing

26:03and i think i just lost it and i remember just hitting the table i don't know if i i don't break the table

26:13but i i mean i hit it hard and they jumped back and i just remember marcy's

26:26marcy crying screaming

26:34i think they left out a lot of details when they first told us for a good reason um but i just remember

26:41we were all just in this blank room um at the jail and her parents walked in and we thought by them

26:47walking in that it was going to be good news like they found her but once they started talking i think

26:54we knew and i still remember just not even be able to wrap my head around it

27:02the absolutely the hardest call that i've ever had to make in my entire life

27:05i think all of us were so hysterical that i remember just not even being able to breathe

27:27and i got to the point where tears just wouldn't even come out because there was just nothing left

27:35and at that point we really had no idea how they found her where she was

27:43how severe it actually was

27:45police across colombia and the surrounding counties are on saturation patrols urgently trying to locate

28:01the black impala linked to samantha's disappearance clues start emerging video of a possible suspect

28:09covering his face trying to use samantha's bank card at multiple locations and workers at a fast food

28:17drive-through report seeing an impala with a white sheet covering the back seat but before police can

28:23find it the black impala finds them

28:27and everybody's looking for that car we had a vehicle one of our canine officers was

28:41in the five points area and a car meeting that that description literally pulled in front of that

28:48officer and he initiated a traffic stop very short distance from the the where the abduction occurred

29:02i've often said that you know what would possess someone to come back to the you know scene of the crime

29:09but to come back and and have that intersection with um with a police officer uh you know that's

29:17that was divine intervention in my opinion

29:24what's going on sir how you doing you got your license

29:28you got your license on you i'm also crack at colombia police former canine

29:30oh no sir i don't have no license on you

29:36who's smoking the marijuana i had smoked some earlier sir all right man you got to step on out man

29:47all right here's the deal man i pulled your car over to the matches the suspect get your hand

29:54in your pocket what are you crazy get over here hey get over here go and run hey i'm gonna release

30:00the dog i can't i'll just in civil style bravo mike wearing a great sweat pants gray sweatshirt

30:12while officers pursue the driver a female passenger is questioned location what's his name

30:19what's your name nate

30:32yeah that's a pink iphone pink keys with a usb drive they just good for students right yeah and the

30:38keys labeled room yeah it's kind of weird where huh look at the back seat right here there's blood

30:53all over his car man yeah we're not going to touch anything else when police find samantha's cell phone

30:59house keys and copious amounts of blood in the impala they declare a major crime scene and call in

31:06forensic teams there's a lot of um what we call trace and biological evidence um you know ultimately

31:16what we um what we did was we held that car right there

31:24i got him i got him

31:25the suspect um when he ran away he ran right into some other officers that were coming from another

31:39direction

31:46stand up

31:50you got anything else on you it's your id what's your name

31:55you don't have id the driver of the black impala is identified as 24 year old nathaniel roland

32:01you've right talked to a lawyer and have him represent with you while you're being questioned

32:05if you wish you can decide at any time to exercise these rights nathaniel roland is taken into custody

32:24he denies being in the five points area the night that samantha was taken

32:28it's about murder

32:33that thing it's about the murder

32:38no i didn't do that

32:41so you think i didn't do it all i asked you while ago was i read your rights you said you didn't do

32:47it i was gonna ask you to prove prove to me you didn't do it because there's a whole lot of damn evidence

32:53but what's inside his car tells a different story the amount of blood that was found in the vehicle

33:02made it clear that this is where the crime occurred this is where the stabbing took place

33:10one of sammy's biggest fears was being trapped somewhere so i think just thinking of how she felt

33:18when she realized that something was wrong and she couldn't get out is really hard to think about

33:36the disappearance of 21 year old college student samantha josephson is no longer a mystery

33:42she's been found murdered and left in rural south carolina the man behind the wheel of a black impala

33:50nathaniel roland is in custody now police and prosecutors must prove what happened and why

33:58there was blood literally soaked all the way through everything that makes up a seat in the back of one's

34:05vehicle all the way down to the metal underneath the seat padding

34:09forensic teams examining the impala make a chilling discovery the child locks were activated and she

34:19she couldn't get out we don't know at what point she realized that we assume that once he deviated from

34:26the direction that she would realize she needed to be going to to be taken home um that that i'm sure

34:35there was um you know a panic and a and a reaction from her that that probably led to a confrontation

34:45she was literally trapped in the back of the car so at some point after she had gotten in the vehicle

34:54obviously a struggle ensued no one knows how why or anything like that but it was clear that it

35:01happened the amount of blood quite frankly that was found in the vehicle was astonishing and you could

35:10you knew that samantha was in there fighting for her life because among other things on one of the

35:16windows in the back seat was samantha's footprint which would suggest combined with the child lock being

35:23activated that she was literally trying to kick her way out of the back of the car

35:33attack is really too mild of a word he brutalizes her he stabs her 120 times it's almost like he was

35:41trying to just erase her the level of violence is incomprehensible you typically when you see that

35:53kind of rage or that kind of violence it's between people who know each other who have some kind of a

35:58history and yet the two of them had never met each other before this night

36:02you had to go down two dirt roads or gravel roads and then threw some brush into a heavily wooded area

36:11until her body was seen it was not the type of place that a body would have been placed if someone

36:20had never been there before so it was evident that whoever put her there was somewhat familiar with the

36:26area and as the investigation later revealed mr roland's parents his familial home was literally

36:34about one mile as the crow flies from where her body was located once he disposed her body he came back

36:43to columbia he did try to sell her phone use her use her atm card he also took steps to try to clean up

36:53the car um he um he had some you know cleaning materials in the trunk um he also had you know

37:01materials that that um someone that was you know like looking to abduct someone might have

37:08so this was not only you know was it horrific but it was premeditated he planned to uh to do what he did to

37:16somebody inside the impala police find an eviction notice it leads them to the home of nathaniel roland's

37:27girlfriend outside in a trash can they make a crucial discovery a double-bladed multi-tool stained with blood

37:36blood alongside it the clothes roland was seen wearing the day before also soaked in samantha's blood

37:50nathaniel roland is charged with the kidnapping and murder of samantha josephson he is denied bail

37:56i don't know what would motivate anybody to take part in such a you know horrific um violent act um

38:08you know her manner of death was horrific it um it demonstrated you know overkill violent struggle

38:17i don't know what would possess anyone to commit such a heinous act

38:22it was hard to watch um and it was hard to see him every day for the trial because

38:32he just showed no remorse and he looked like he could not care less to be there

38:44nathaniel roland's trial begins samantha josephson family attends every day

38:49i was really nervous about going and the prosecution was incredible and they told us that um they would

39:03let us know if things were going to be graphic so we really left the trial several times you know and then

39:12came back after because i still to this day i haven't seen certain things and i never can see them i

39:21visualize in my head what happened and to hear it it was worse

39:29it takes the jury one hour to find nathaniel roland guilty of murder it's the most severe murder

39:38that has occurred that has occurred that i have been a witness to as far as presiding in court

39:48he is ultimately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

39:54i have dealt with the heartless and you fall into that category a person without any remorse whatsoever

40:03i wish he would have taken some accountability but he's dead to me um and i don't think there's any

40:16way of justifying what happened so even if he said he was sorry i could care less because he took my baby

40:25away from us my ultimate goal at the trial was to get my hands on him i think everybody knew that

40:37i didn't do the stuff that i wanted to do and go after him because of marcy said

40:43it is really one of the most senseless murders that i've ever come across

40:53in terms of the victim that he chose in terms of what his potential motives were

40:58he gets no money he's not able to sexually assault his victim and he ends up you know being incarcerated

41:07for the rest of his life in the wake of samantha's murder the josephsons refuse to let her death be

41:15in vain they channel their grief into action raising awareness about rideshare safety campaigning for

41:23stricter laws and launching the what's my name foundation in samantha's memory

41:28new jersey does have a law called sammy's law and that um ride share vehicles have to have a placard

41:39on their car and it has a qr code that you would scan with a picture of the driver to make sure it's

41:45the right car and we were trying to do something similar to that with the federal law um making it

41:52some kind of technology we felt safe on campus so we used to all uber home all the time after drinking

42:00you know and it never felt like anything was wrong or like if even though you're getting in the car

42:05with a stranger it was just kind of the normal thing to do um and it still is the normal thing for

42:11some people but i just think it's hard because now it really makes you look at it differently as

42:16like you don't really know who's driving you and unfortunately it took the life of one of my best friends

42:23i think it changed how people approach rideshare um across the country and i think people you know

42:30they want to know the names of the driver they look at the license plate they walk around the car

42:35sometimes i think it brought immediate attention to the um you know to that industry and and and the

42:44vulnerability and the checks and balances that needed to be in place

42:50i always am waiting for especially when we're at home

42:58of her coming through the door through the garage door the door slamming because she could not close the

43:05door softly she didn't know what that meant the door slamming going here and hey

43:14i'm home

43:14to this day

43:23i'd wait for that

43:25so

43:36so

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