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're 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

00:53Always 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

01:13You always have those that stick with you forever and this was absolutely the top of my list

01:21There's blood all over his car, man

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

01:46Probably one of the best weeks of my life

01:48We actually drove from south carolina down to miami for a few days

01:56We were celebrating because she had just gotten into law school, but it was the end of march

02:00So we only had like a month month and a half left of school

02:04Samantha 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

02:22Carolina

02:24She straightened her hair that day. She always straightened her hair even though it took her forever

02:26But she had this new orange top on these black jeans and these

02:33platform sandals and I remember she borrowed like tegans

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

02:42I 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 sami 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

03:09There 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

03:21They'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

03:37You can kind of bar hop you can go from one place to the next and it's filled with college students

03:44It's walkable for students. So

03:46It'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

04:01They 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

04:24They 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 some who live together

05:12Are 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

05:22While 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

05:40I'm gonna go home

05:42Sammy was

05:44Down 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

05:48Meanwhile, Samantha is texting her boyfriend Greg throughout the evening

05:54He's a hundred and fifteen miles away in Charleston planning to drive up to see her the next day

06:00They're all having a good time

06:02But Samantha is 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

06:11So I think she's having a good time, but at the same time she is kind of missing him

06:15And so instead of saying let's all go home. She 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

06:35They use the find my friend app on each other's phones to track each other's movements

06:43I think she only left like 15 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

07:06people will use

07:08an app like uber or lyft

07:10and 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

07:23And 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 her credit card to go on

07:45use an uber

07:47And we had discussions about that because she was getting carried away with the uber rides and using my credit card

07:54And I said all right. I'm watching you. I got you I said last time

08:05This is any young woman who's outside of a bar ready to go home

08:09Who opens the door has some kind of conversation and gets in and closes the door?

08:16There would have been nothing that would have raised my alarm or raised my concern in any way

08:23I'm

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

08:36We were 20 months apart but one year in school so her birthday's in august mine's in december

08:44I'm definitely much more serious

08:47Much more like to the point sammy was always happy and bubbly

08:52You were always laughing when you're hanging out with sammy

08:58When she was little she always had these big curly hair

09:03She was never afraid to try anything. She loved participating in different sports and activities

09:11And it was more for her about the social aspect

09:15Samantha was

09:17bubbly energetic

09:20When she would come into the room

09:22You would know she's in the room with her

09:26Quacky voice just her loudness and saying hey hi and all the heads turn

09:32That was samantha

09:34Young 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

09:50But we were also close to new york and close to philly we were close to the beach

09:55All the kids say they feel like they grew up in a bubble because we all moved into the community at the same time

10:02So we all started having kids at the same time so everyone was always together outside playing

10:11Some of my earliest memories is just our families

10:15Being pretty much inseparable in that meaning me sid and sammy were pretty much inseparable our families did everything together

10:23Our families went on vacations growing up. So we rented houses in long beach island and would do that

10:29Our families and a couple of other families on our street everyone knew everyone the doors were pretty much always open

10:35And it was just a very close-knit community

10:38I 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 in the state capital

10:52of columbia

10:54i was surprised i never thought she would go that far away from us but she loved it

11:01she would come to visit me and i went to go visit her so it was nice always having that like built-in

11:06friend and that built-in person to go to

11:09i was always proud of her to me it didn't matter if she went to a county college or a four-year college

11:17We just wanted her to be happy and she chose south carolina

11:24columbia 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

11:32She had a lot of friends in south carolina she had friends on her freshman floor she had friends from classes

11:45she had friends from just like hanging out in the dorms or friends she ended up joining a sorority

11:51where she made friends i think she really found her home there

12:04in the spring of 2019 samantha and her college friends decide to head to florida

12:14one last girls trip together before graduation

12:19we 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

12:41we 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 at first they're puzzled

13:06then alarmed samantha hasn't come home

13:11we woke up and we're all you know just hanging out kind of and then sammy's door was still

13:19open 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 why does it look like she hadn't been

13:29here we always used to track each other and find my friends on our iphones sammy's just said no location found

13:37we were like that's really strange so then we were kind of talking to greg and we were like have you

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

13:52and he at the time had thought she went home with someone else or something because he had taken a

13:57screenshot 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

14:15that'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

14:34if they 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 of

15:01people 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

15:23lunch with my girlfriends and um when i got to my classroom greg called and i thought it was really

15:31strange because he never would call me during the day um and told me they couldn't find samantha

15:38and i was i just in my head i didn't think anything terrible i just thought

15:46maybe she went to a friend's house fell asleep her phone died anything my thinking was

15:54what the hell is going on where is she my kids spoke to marcy every single day by text

16:04as 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

16:52and unbeknownst to samantha instead of going right where the uber driver was planning to meet her she

17:00takes a left it was just a mistake

17:03so she's out there and she's waiting some cars come by at one point she tries to get in a car and

17:10realizes that's not her ride and so she had talked to her boyfriend while she's waiting

17:17he knows where she's going that she's headed home

17:21outside the bar samantha scans the street for her uber a dark colored dodge

17:27she knows she's looking for a dark car this black chevy impala pulls up he kind of pulls up pretty

17:36close to her you see samantha approach the impala and immediately go to the back passenger door

17:46like most people i would assume that she says something like are you here for samantha

17:50she opens the door gets in the vehicle with little to no hesitation the corridor closes and at that

18:00point it seems like everything's okay and paul puts it in reverse backs up and then drives off down harden street

18:14there was no record of a rideshare pickup there so we knew that it was very very

18:20likely that we had had a legitimate abduction they then knew at that moment that's where they needed

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

18:35the police immediately searched through security camera footage from the area while samantha is waiting

18:43outside 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

18:56numerous times drive by the bird dog and on other streets around the five points area

19:03we don't know what he's doing but it certainly looks like he is looking for somebody

19:11passes 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

19:30turn around a couple blocks away come back towards where miss josherson was standing pull into a parking

19:37lot do a u-turn in the parking lot

19:44and then come to pull back out of that parking lot all within about 20 feet of where she's standing

19:50it was very clear that he locked in on her and targeted her specifically for the abduction

20:07it's been over 12 hours since samantha josephson vanished her friends are desperate for answers

20:18her parents are halfway through their 12-hour drive to south carolina security camera footage shows

20:25samantha getting into a dark colored car outside a bar it looks like an uber but the driver hasn't come

20:32forward in a bid for answers police released the footage to the press hoping someone somewhere

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

20:46supposed 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

21:01i just felt like in my heart if something bad happened as mom i felt like i would have felt something

21:10that i would have had some kind of intuition um and i really did not i was just you know praying that

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

21:27spoke to one another most of the trip we were very anxious the car was completely silent the radio wasn't on

21:36we weren't talking we weren't talking we were just head down and just driving like an idiot

21:50columbia police put out a be 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

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

22:09sort of a license tag on the back of the car as well back in robbinsville new jersey

22:15sydney is amongst those gathered at a family friends waiting for news my two aunts drove up from south

22:23jersey to 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

22:50i was constantly on the phone with the police

22:52and um i do remember driving and i was i was driving very very very very fast um it didn't

23:03take me 12 hours it only took me 10 and a half hours to get down there of how fast i was driving

23:10we had notifications and marcia was when we were checking her bank account

23:15like you could see how many times that somebody's trying to use her card

23:19they're like well do you want us you know should we cancel like no

23:28and 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

24:05one of the hunters sees something that really catches his eye and he has no idea what it is initially

24:10the injuries were so severe that it was difficult for them to identify her by her facial features or just by looking at her

24:21but the fact that her clothes were similar that she has this long dark hair made them very very sure that this was samantha

24:29police 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 you know based on again her body conditions and

24:53some of her nails being broke and just it it was very evident that there was a very um

25:00vicious 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

25:26this is not going to end well and i said that and i remember marcy going what what did you say

25:32you say something i said no nothing there was a long table and there were police there and i just

25:41remember there was a gentleman at the table and i just saw a coroner on his jacket and at that point it

25:52just was like no way no way and then they told us 99 sure that it was samantha because of her

26:01clothing and i think i just lost it and i remember just hitting the table i don't know if i i don't break

26:12the table but i i mean i hit it hard and they jumped back and i just remember marcy's

26:22i think they left out a lot of details when they first told us for a good reason um but i just

26:40remember we were all just in this blank room um at the jail and her parents walked in and we thought by

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

26:53i think we 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

27:32and at that point we really had no idea how they found her where she was

27:43how severe it actually was

27:53police across colombia and the surrounding counties are on saturation patrols urgently trying to locate the

28:01black impala linked to samantha's disappearance

28:05clues start emerging video of a possible suspect covering his face trying to use samantha's bank

28:12card at multiple locations and workers at a fast food drive-through reports seeing an impala with a

28:19white sheet covering the back seat but before police can find it the black impala finds them

28:31her

28:34everybody's looking for that car

28:36we had a vehicle one of our canine officers was um in the five points area and a car meeting that

28:46that description literally pulled in front of that officer and he initiated a traffic stop

28:51very 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

29:08crime but to come back and and have that intersection with um with a police officer

29:16you know that's that was divine intervention in my opinion

29:21what's going on sir you got your license

29:28you got your license on you i'm also correct columbia police former k-9

29:30oh no sir i don't have a license with me no 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

29:41man all right here's the deal man i pulled your car over to the matches the suspect get your hand

29:54of 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 was just in civil style

30:07bravo mike wearing a great sweatpants gray sweatshirt

30:10while officers pursue the driver a female passenger is questioned what's his name nate

30:22yeah 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

30:51look at the back seat right here there's blood all over his car man yeah we're not going to touch

30:55anything else when police find samantha's cell phone house keys and copious amounts of blood in the impala

31:03they declare a major crime scene and call in forensic teams

31:10there'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

31:33the 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

32:01is taken into custody

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

32:31it's about murder it's about murder

32:37you know i didn't do that

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

32:46you said you didn't do it i was going to ask you to prove prove to me you didn't do it because there's

32:51a whole lot of damn evidence

32:53what'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

33:07one of sammy's biggest fears was being trapped somewhere so i think just thinking of how she

33:17felt when she realized that something was wrong and she couldn't get out

33:21the 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

33:57there was blood literally soaked all the way through everything that makes up a seat in the back of

34:05one's vehicle 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 i mean 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

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

36:51uh try to clean up the car um he um he had some you know cleaning materials in the trunk he also had

37:01you know materials 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

37:16to somebody 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

37:39alongside it the clothes roland was seen wearing the day before

37:44also soaked in samantha's blood

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

38:00i don't know what would motivate anybody to take part in such a you know horrific um violent act

38:07um you 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

38:24it 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

39:06so we really left the trial several times you know and then came back after because

39:14i still to this day i haven't seen certain things and i never can see them

39:20i visualize in my head what happened and to hear it it was worse

39:28it takes the jury one hour to find nathaniel roland guilty of murder

39:35it's the most severe murder that has occurred that i have been a witness to as far as presiding in court

39:46he 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

39:59a 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

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

40:24baby away 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

40:44it is really one of the most senseless murders that i've ever come across

40:51in 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

41:03and he ends up you know being incarcerated for the rest of his life

41:11in the wake of samantha's murder the josephsons refused to let her death be in vain

41:16they channel their grief into action raising awareness about ride share safety campaigning

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

41:31new 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 the

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

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

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

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

42:11for some 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

42:21friends i think it changed how people approach ride share um across the country and i think people

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

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

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

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

42:56of her coming through the door through the garage door the door slamming because she could not close

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

43:14i'm home

43:20to this day

43:23i wait for that

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