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It was very clear that he locked in on her.

The college experience is supposed to be fun,

it's not supposed to end this way.

[police] Get over here! Got one running! Hey!

Just keep going, he's gonna be on your left.

[sirens wail]

[chilling music]

[narrator] It's the morning of the 29th March 2019.

At the University of South Carolina,

students are waking after a night of celebration.

Samantha Josephson has just secured her future,

accepted into law school.

[Jacilyn] We woke up and we were all, you know,

just hanging out in her apartment,

and then Sammy's door was still open a little bit,

and we were like, that's weird, she always shuts it.

We went in and looked quick, and we were like,

why does it look like she hadn't been here?

And then we always used to track each other

on Find My Friends on our iPhone.

And Sammy's just said no location found.

We were like, that's really strange.

So then, we were kind of talking to her boyfriend, Greg.

We were like, have you heard from her?

And he's like, no, I'm getting really worried.

I haven't heard from her since last night.

He was supposed to come down from Charleston

that next morning.

He at the time had thought she like went home

with someone else or something

because he had taken a screenshot

of where her phone was last found,

which was the opposite direction of where we lived.

They couldn't find Samantha,

and I was just in my head...

I didn't think anything terrible.

I just thought maybe sheú went to a friend's house.

We all just kind of got that gut feeling

that something wasn't okay.

My thinking was,

what the hell's going on?

Where is she?

My kids spoke to Marci every single day by text.

That's not like her. She would always show up.

She would always be early.

And if she wasn't going to make it,

she would definitely give enough time notice.

So then we started to get worried.

We were like, is she in the hospital?

We just started calling, texting anyone that we could and knew

just asking if they had seen her since last night.

And we actually decided to all to get into my car

and drive to that location of where her phone was last found.

And it was just in this random neighbourhood,

like down the road from Five Points.

So we started looking around through like the leaves,

the trees, just anything. Didn't find anything.

So we started knocking on doors asking if anyone had seen...

We showed a picture of her. If they'd seen her.

A lot of people had said no.

And then that's when we really got worried.

So we went back to the apartment.

My roommate Carly made the 911 call.

[narrator] A USC senior Samantha

is just two months from graduation

when she disappears.

[Jacilyn] Me and Sammy met, I think it was sophomore year.

We actually started to work together.

She was one of the nicest, funniest, goofyist people

that you would meet.

We were celebrating because she had just gotten into law school

but it was the end of March, so we only had,

like, a month... month and a half left of school.

Sammy was always happy and bubbly

and just wanted to make people laugh

and be like the goofy one.

[Jessica] Bright, beautiful smile,

the laugh that she had, it was super infectious.

And she was really justú like that light in a room

that wherever she went, whoever she was with,

she made them better just by her being around.

She had just gotten back from visiting Drexel,

where she was gettingú a full ride to law school

and she had committed to going there.

So we were like, "Let's goú out and celebrate Sammy

on this Thursday night."

[Seymour] She just had that ball of energy

that you just wanted to be around.

You would know she's in the room,

if she's not coming in, saying, "hey, hi"

with her wacky voice, her loudness,

all the heads turned, that was Samantha.

[narrator] By March 2019,

Samantha has been a student atthe University of South Carolina

for four years.

[JR] I would call Columbia a typical American city.

You have good schools, good neighbourhoods.

[William] It's the state capital.

We're very dynamic, very diverse.

It's a true capital city whereú there's just a lot going on.

[all] USC! USC!

Go-o-o Cocks!

We're also home to our flagship university,

University of South Carolina.

[JR] Columbia is a college town.

Seriously, that's what we're known for.

Over 40,000 students attend USC right now.

But unfortunately, like most American cities,

we do have crime

in the capital city of South Carolina.

I just couldn't imagine something terrible happening

to someone that you loved.

[weatherman]ú So here's our forecast.

For tonight, another chilly one,

but not as cold as this morning.

Low temperatures willúbe in the upper 30s to low 40s,

41 degrees, here in Columbia.

[Jacilyn] She straightened her hair that day.

She always straight in her hair even though it took her forever.

She had this new orangeú top on, these black jeans

and these platform sandals.

So we were all hanging out in our place, getting ready,

hung out for a little bit,

and then that's when we went and walked down to the bars.

Five Points is on the college campus

of the University of South Carolina.

It is known as a college hangout.

Five Points was where we always went out.

It was a great time.

[William] It's walk-able for students.

It's where the kids would go at night,

to watch ball games orú decompress from classes.

There's a lot of people, a lot of police,

you know, a lot of video cameras there.

It's what I would consider to be a safe place.

[Jacilyn] You would kind of just hop around

and go from bar to bar.

Some were like country bars, some were like clubs,

some had like live bands.

We walked in, we all took shots,

and we all got drinks.

They always played really good throwback music,

and that was always some of our favourites,

especially Sammy, she always loved it.

And 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."

Sammy 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.

We felt safe on campus.

So we use to all Uber home, all the time, after drinking.

You know, it never felt like anything was wrong.

Like, if even though you're getting in the car

with a stranger,

it was just kind of the normal thing to do.

Samantha had been out with her friends that night

and at some point in the night,

I think that she just gotú tired and wanted to go home.

And so she eventually called for an Uber

so that she could get a ride back to her apartment.

Her friends decided to stay and hang out and that was

not necessarily uncommon for her and her friends,

which is why they were careful to take care of one another.

They used the Find My Friend app on each other's phones

to track each other's movements.

I think she only left like 15, maybe 20 minutes after I did.

[narrator] When friends report

Samantha's disappearance to police,

police quickly inform her parents.

It was a Friday afternoon before where I worked in a school.

We had spring break and I wasúat lunch with my girlfriends

when I got to my classroom, Greg called

and I thought it was really strange

because he neverúwould call me during the day.

And told me they couldn't find Samantha

and I was, I... just in my head

I didn't think anything terrible.

I just thought maybe she went to a friend's house,

fell sleep, her phone died, anything.

We then went back to Bird Dog

and since Sammy and Carly

knew like, like the manager there really well,

they actually let us look at footage.

You can see her leaving, on the phone.

That's where we got the footage

that we were able to turn into the police.

[eerie music]

[narrator] Security camera footage

from the early hours of the 29th of March

shows Samantha Josephson

waiting for a ride share car to arrive.

[JR] Shortly after two o'clock in the morning

and you see a huge crowd of college kids

on the security footage and they're standing outside.

You see another shot from another angle, more students.

And then you see Samantha.

[Seymour] She texted me the night before, she goes,

"Can I use your credit card to go on using Uber?"

And we had discussions about that

because she was getting carried away with it

with the Uber ridesú and using my credit card.

And I said, "All right, I'm watching you.

I got you.

I said, last time."

If you don't have a carú or you're out at a bar

and you want a safeú form of transportation,

people will use an app like Uber or Lyft,

and will utilize that to getú from point A to point B.

And then with ride share gaining popularity,

we actually had areas for ride share,

pick up and drop off

and a lot of the kids used ride share.

And that's exactly what she did.

She orders an Uber,

and you could see her standing in that area

where the pickup and drop-offs

occur pretty frequently.

You see her as this vehicle pulls up.

She opens the door and she gets in.

And that is the last time we see Samantha Josephson alive.

[narrator] Authorities review nearby camera footage,

revealing more about the cars' movements

before it picks Samantha up.

You can see the black Chevy Impala

numerous times drive by the Bird Dog

and on other streets around the Five Points area.

We don't know what he's doing,

but it certainly looks likeú he is looking for somebody,

or waiting for somebody.

It almost looks like some kind of stalking

or some kind of pacing.

Eventually, you see the Impala

turn around a couple blocks away...

come back towards where Miss Josephson was standing,

pull into a parking lot,

do a U-turn in the parking lot,

and then come to pull back out of that parking lot

all within about 20 feet of where she's standing.

You see Samantha approach the Impala,

and immediately go to the back passenger door.

[JR] She thinks it's her Uber ride.

She has no reason to believe otherwise.

She opens the door and she gets in.

The car door closes, and at that point, it seems

like everything's okay

in that the Impala waits for traffic to clear out.

Put it in reverse, backs up,

and then drives off down Hardin Street.

We were able to watch video quickly

to confirm that she did in fact get in a vehicle

and did not go home.

[Dan] So they then knew at that moment

that's where they needed to focus their search,

was that black Chevy Impala.

[narrator] When someone goes missing,

investigators want to know everything,

who she is, how she lives, who she trusts.

As the search for Samantha begins,

detective start piecing together a picture

of the All-American girl from New Jersey.

Samantha Lee Josephson is born in the late summer of 1997,

the second of two daughters.

[Sydney] We were 20 months apart,

but one year in school,

so her birthday's in August, mine's in December.

Originally Robinsville was a farming town,

so there were lots ofú trees, farms, open areas,

but we were also close toúNew York and close to Philly.

We were close to the beach.

I'm definitely much more serious,

much more like to the point

Sammy was always happy and bubbly.

When she was little she always had these big curly hair.

She was never afraid to try anything.

She loved participating in different sports and activities.

And it was more for her about the social aspect.

Some of my earliest memories

is just our families being pretty much inseparable.

Our families did everything together.

Our families went on vacations growing up.

[Marci] I was always proud of her.

To me, it didn't matter if she went to

a county college or a four-year college,

we just wanted her to be happy and she chose South Carolina.

[Sydney] She had a lot of friends in South Carolina.

She had friends on her freshman floor.

She had friends from classes.

She had friends from just like hanging out in the dorms.

She ended up joining a sorority

where she made friends.

I think she really found her home there.

[narrator] It's around 3pm on the 29th of March 2019,

when Samantha has been missing for nearly 12 hours.

The police first spot the Black Chevy Impala on camera.

The camera footage of Samantha

getting into the back of the Black Impala

is the last time that anyone saw her alive.

[JR] In the newsroom we thought there's not a lot of details

being released right now.

They were actively searching for Samantha at that time.

We knew that a black Chevrolet Impala, I believe,

had pulled up, picked Samantha up,

and drove off.

[Dan] Unfortunately, the windows on the car were tinted,

so you were unable to see inside the vehicle.

And the nature of the video footage

was grainy enough that it was impossible to make out

any sort of licence tag on the back of the car as well.

It was hard to see it, especially I think for me,

because I was supposed to leave with her.

[narrator] As police mobilize a citywide search,

Samantha's family departs New Jersey

for the 10-hour drive down to Columbia.

Driving there, I think I was just in a daze.

I don't even think Seymour and I

spoke to one another, most of the trip.

We were very anxious, butú I just felt like in my heart

if something bad happened as mom,

I felt like I would have felt something

that I would have had some kind of intuition

and I really did not.

I was just, you know, praying that everything was okay.

The car was completely silent.

The radio wasn't on.

We weren't talking, we were just head down

and just driving like an idiot.

I was constantly on the phone with the police.

I do remember...

driving, and I was driving very, very, very, very fast.

It didn't take me 12 hours,

it only took me 10 and a half hours to get down there.

That's how fast I was driving.

We were getting little bits of information

at the time as my parents were driving.

[Jessica] I went on to Instagram or Facebook

and saw that there were posts.

I called my momú immediately and I said,

"This can't be real, is this real."

[narrator] Columbia Police putout a "be on the lookout alert"

or BOLO for the Impala.

Once she was reported as missingú and the investigation began,

it was very clear that he locked in on her

and targeted her specifically for the abduction.

We had notifications

and Marci was checking her bank account.

Like you can see how many times

that somebody's trying to use her card.

We called and said somebody's trying to use her card.

And they're like, "Well, do you want us to,

you know, should we cancel?"

"No."

And the police where like, "No, don't cancel anything."

You know, this is, we're gonna, we can track her this way.

About 14 hours after she was reported as missing,

hunters found a badly bloody body

in a field in New Zion, South Carolina.

[Anders] I guess I was justú looking through the woods

and something caught my eye to the left.

And I saw something I wasn't sure it was.

So I stopped and I kept looking.

And then, I guess the more I looked at it,

the more it started looking like a body.

That's when we decided we need to call somebody.

We just sat and waited on the law enforcement to get there.

But that new Zion area,

you don't wanna be out there at dark.

It's creepy, creepy, creepy out there at dark.

It really is.

We maintain constant contact with the family

as they were travelling to Columbia.

I was driving,

I remember just looking at mumbling to myself going...

Fuck, this is not going to end well.

And I said that, and I remember Marci going,

"What, what'd you say?" "You say something?"

I said, "no, nothing, I'm just..."

[Marci] There was a long table, and there were police there.

And I just remember there was a gentleman

at the table, and I just saw "coroner" on his jacket.

And at that point, it just was like, no way, no way.

And then they told us that they had found...

99% sure that it was Samantha because of her clothing.

And I think I just lost it.

[Seymour] At that point, we really had no idea

how they found her where she was.

How severe it actually was.

[JR] But authorities were able to put two and two together

because of the clothing she was wearing.

So using that,

they were able to start putting the pieces together

that this was Samantha Josephson.

[narrator] On March 30, 2019,

police confirmed the bodyfound in woodland near New Zion

is Samantha's.

The fact that Samantha's body was located

was truly a stroke of luck.

You had to go down two dirt roads or gravel roads

and then through some brush

into a heavily-wooded area until her body was seen.

[JR] At first, the body could not be identified

because there was so much blood.

But it matched the description of the clothes

that Samantha had on

at the time of her disappearance a few hours earlier.

[William] Her manner of death was horrific.

It demonstrated, you know, overkill, violent struggle.

The pathologist opined that Samantha had suffered

over 100 different stab wounds,

it made it clear that this was a gruesome event.

[William] I don't know what would possess anyone

to react that way to commit such a heinous act.

So we knew that we were looking for some type of edged weapon.

This shows that there's rage.

Based on her body conditions and some of her nails being broken.

It was very evident that there was a very,

vicious fight, that she fought hard for a life.

And...

it was, it was just a... It was brutal.

[Seymour] I remember just hitting the table.

I hit it hard.

I just remember Marci...

Marci crying, screaming.

[Jacilyn] Yeah, I think they left out a lot of details

when they first told us for a good reason.

But I just remember we wereú all just in this blank room

at the jail and her parents walked in.

And I don't think we knewú that they were there yet.

And we thought by them walking in

that it was gonna be good news, like they found her.

But once they started talking, I think we knew.

And I still remember

just not even being able to wrap my head around it.

The absolutely the hardest call

that I've ever had to make in my entire life.

To tell...

To tell Sydney that Samantha's gone.

It's the hardest thing to ever do,

is to say that... your daughter's dead.

[gasping]

A USC student reportedú missing yesterday evening

has been found dead.

She's 21-year-old Samantha Josephson,

who friends called Sammy.

This was perhaps one of the most heinous crimes

that Columbia, South Carolina

has seen in a number of years.

[reporter] This is a community in mourning,

many waiting to findú answers on what happened

to Samantha Josephson.

Samantha Josephson got into a car

and was not seen again.

I think all of us were so hysterical

that I remember just not even being able to breathe.

And I got to the point where tears

just wouldn't even come out

because there was just nothing left.

How someone could just come in,

pick up this young girl, drive off with her,

stab her over 100 times,

and then dump her body in the middle of nowhere.

The community was just upended by this.

They were outraged by it.

It's pretty scary that that can happen

to someone's just so close to all of us.

Yeah, definitely took me by surprise.

That could happen to anybody.

Every time you saw that video,

you knew she was getting in the car,

and she was never going to be alive again.

[narrator]ú Not long after the killing,

surveillance camerasú in Sumter, South Carolina,

capture a potential suspect,

trying to use Samantha's bankú card at multiple locations.

And workers at a fast food drive-thru

report seeing an impala with a white sheet

covering the back seat.

[William] Everybody's looking for that car.

We had a vehicle.

One of our K-9 officers was in the Five Points area.

And a car meeting that description

literally pulled in front of that officer.

Law enforcement starts following this vehicle

through Five Points.

When the driver makes a left turn on a one-way street,

that's when he is pulled over.

[police radio chatter]

[officer] All right man, you got step on out, man.

All right here's the deal man.

I pulled your car over, 'cause it matches a suspect...

Get your hands out of your pocket.

What are you crazy? Get over here.

Hey, get over here!

Hey, got one running. I'm gonna release the dog.

He just bolts and a chase ensues.

Bravo, Mike, wearing grey sweat pants,

grey sweatshirt.

Newlyn, keep going, he's gonna be on your left.

[sirens wail]

[officer] I got him. I got him.

He was chased by Columbia police officers

before he was eventually detained.

[officer] Hey, we got one, 6-7

The suspect, when he ran away,

he ran right into some other officers

that were coming from another direction.

[officer] Stand up.

You got anything else on you?

Where's your ID?

[officer 2] What's his name?

- Nate. [officer 2] Nate?

Hey, do you know what kind of cell phone our 81 has?

A further examination revealed

that one of those cell phones sitting

right up by the driver's seat

was Samantha's cell phone.

[officer 2] Yeah, that's a pink iPhone.

Pink keys with a USB drive, good for students.

[officer] Right, yeah.

[officer 2] And the key's labelled "room". Kind of weird.

[William] There's a lot of, what we call trace

and biological evidence.

What we did was we held that car right there.

[officer] It's all over the floor board, if you look.

[officer 2] Well, let's not touch anything else.

[narrator] When police find copious amounts of blood

in the Impala,

they declare a major crime scene

and call in forensic teams.

[police radio]

[narrator] The driver of the Black Impala

is identified as 24-year-old Nathaniel Rowland.

[officer] Come on, man. Sit up.

I'm gonna read you your rights, sir, alright.

You've right to talk to a lawyer

and have him present with you...

[narrator] Nathaniel Rowland is taken into custody,

he denies being in the Five Points area

the night Samantha was taken.

The amount of blood thatú was found in the vehicle

made it clear that this isú where the crime occurred.

This is where the stabbing took place.

[news]... regularly scheduled programming

to bring you an update on the case

of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson.

[JR] Nathaniel Rowland was not a known name to us

in the newsroom until this incident

until he kidnapped Samantha.

I did a little computer search, trying to find out

if he could be connected with anything else out there.

One more shocking detailú we're learning this morning

is that Samantha may haveútried to escape out of the car

she thought was an Uber.

Only to find out that it was locked.

Also, the child safety locks were on

and she had no way of getting out of the window.

[William] The child locks were activated

and she couldn't get out.

She was literally trapped in the back of the car.

The amount of blood

quite frankly that was found inúthe vehicle was astonishing.

You knew that Samantha was in there fighting for her life

because among other things,

on one of the windows in the back seat,

was Samantha's footprint,

which would suggest combined

with the child lock being activated

that she was literally trying to kick her way out

of the back of the car.

[Sydney] One of Sammy's biggest fears

was being trapped somewhere.

So I think just thinking of how she felt

when she realized that something was wrong

and she couldn't get out

is really hard to think about.

[JR] Nathaniel Rowland liked to hang out in Five Points,

at least that's what we learned.

He liked a party at Five Points a good bit.

Apparently he had never been inúany major trouble in Five Points

with anyone at all,

but in testimony that came out during the trial,

we learned that he liked to slip out at night,

head to Five Points andú party with the college kids.

And as the investigation later revealed,

Mr. Rowland's parents, his familial home

was literally about one mile, as the crow flies,

from where her body was located.

[William] Once he disposed of her body,

he came back to Columbia.

He did try to sell her phone, use her ATM card.

He also took steps to try to clean up the car.

He had some cleaning materials in the trunk.

He also had the materials

that someone that was

you know, like, looking toú abduct someone might have.

So this was not only, you know, it was horrific,

but it was pre-meditated.

He planned to do what he did to somebody.

Additional important pieces of evidence

that were located

were found at Mr. Rowland's girlfriend's house.

Once a search warrant was executed at her house,

law enforcement found a number of key items

in the trash can behind her house

to include clothing that he was known to be wearing

on the night this happened and the morning after.

Clothing that had Samantha's blood on it.

There was also found to be cleaning supplies

that later we learned he used to try to clean

the inside of the Impala.

And perhaps most importantly, the murder weapon itself

was found in the dumpster behind her house,

which was this very unique, two-bladed knife.

It was referred to as a multi-tool.

[narrator] Nathaniel Rowland is charged

with the kidnapping and murder of Samantha Josephson.

He is denied bail.

Now to our top story this morning,

a trial is set to begin this week

for the man charged with killingúUSC student Samantha Josephson.

Jury selection in the trial of Nathaniel Rowland

starts tomorrow at the Richland County Judicial Center.

There was a lot of interest in this trial,

a lot of interest to see if Nathaniel Rowland

would put up a defence.

Some sort of defence to say he didn't do this.

We're proceeding now to opening statements.

My initial impression aboutú the evidence in the case

was that it was going to beú challenging in the sense

that there was no directú evidence linking Mr. Rowland

to this crime.

And what I mean by that is,

there's no one that could identify him

as being the driver of the vehicle

at the moment that Samantha got into the car.

But we felt pretty confident

about the evidence that we had.

It was a circumstantial case, but the circumstances added up

and pointed to Mr. Rowland.

There was a lot of evidenceú that her DNA was on him.

And also, there was evidence suggesting

that Mr. Rowland's DNA could be included as part

of the DNA samples found on the handle of the knife as well.

We believe that the evidence will show

that Nathaniel Rowland's phone

and Samantha Josephson's phone's tracked together,

meaning they were together in that car.

Law enforcement was able to put together

the pieces of where Mr. Rowland's phone

had been travelling throughout that night.

They were able to get information

that showed his phone hitting off cell phone towers

throughout the Sumter Highway

towards a nearby town of Sumter and beyond.

One of the areas in which his phone hit was near

an ATM in Sumter, South Carolina.

Video was obtained from that ATM

which showed a person matching his description

and wearing the same clothes that he was seen wearing

the next day as well,

trying to access Samantha's bank account from that ATM.

Mr. Rowland was seen on video going into Cellular City,

attempting to sell Samantha's phone.

The owner of the store actually refused

to buy the phone from him.

It's hard to see him every day for the trial

because he just showed no remorse

and he looked like he could not care less

to be there.

[Marci] I was really nervous about going.

And the prosecution was incredible.

And they told us that

they would let us know if thingsú were going to be graphic.

So we really left the trial several times, you know,

and then came back after because I... still to this day,

I haven't seen certain things, and I never can see them.

I've visualized in my head what happened,

and to hear it, it was worse.

We're going to continue ourúteam coverage in Five Points,

with News 19's, Eleanor Tabone.

Nathaniel Rowland's has been found guilty of murder

in the killing of University of South Carolina student

Samantha Josephson.

After deliberating for less than two hours,

the jury came back with a guilty verdict.

Things they found in his car,

the cleaning supplies, the bleach,

the disinfectant, the blood,

any reasonable person could hear that evidence

and know Nathaniel Rowland was guilty as hell.

[narrator] During the sentencing phase,

Samantha's family speaks.

[Judge] Samantha's father, Seymour.

[Seymour] Judge...

I had no idea I would get through this.

I wear my emotions on my sleeve, so I apologize.

In here are over 90 impact statements

of friends and family of how they've been devastated

for the last 28 months.

I will never see her graduate from college, law school.

Walk her down the aisle, get married.

Nothing will replace her,

nothing I can say, will bring her back.

[narrator] The now convicted killer Rowland

also requests to address the court.

I just wish the state would have,

would have done more in finding out

who the actual person was.

Instead of being satisfied

with detaining me

and proving my guilt.

I felt like they would have done further research

in certain areas.

I wish he would have taken some accountability,

but he's dead to me.

And I don't think there's any way of justifying what happened.

So even if he said he was sorry, I could care less

because he took my baby away from us.

All of the evidence, ú every speck of the evidence,

not simply beyond a reasonable doubt,

but as high as standard as a law requires

all points to your guilt.

A person without any remorse whatsoever.

A person who was totally emotionless

and the law would call it a depraved heart.

Nathaniel Rowland got life in prison

without the possibility of parole.

[Dan] While there's no way to know exactly

why Mr. Rowland did what he did.

When you look at the video, it's pretty clear

that he is driving around Five Points circling,

looking for something or someone.

One of the most popular theories

is that he was looking for an easy target,

not necessarily for someone to kill or assault,

but perhaps a robbery.

The U.S. House hasú now passed "Sammy's Law"

that would require a number

of enhanced safety and security measures

for ride share passengers.

[JR] Obviously Samantha got into the wrong car.

She thought this was her Uber ride.

It was a mistake

and a mistake that apparently was being made

by other people across the country.

[news] The law would requireú every ride share company

to have a digital system

that enables passengers and drivers

to identify each other.

[JR] You have to have a driver's licence number

on the front of the vehicle.

And the Uber driver or the Lyft driver

have to properly identify themselves

that they are there to pick them up.

Josephson's death, though, ú attracted national attention

and even sparkedú ridesharing apps like Uber

to create more rules toú make sure you are safe.

[William] I think it changed how people

approach ride share across the country.

I think it brought immediate attention to that industry

and the vulnerability and the checks and balances

that needed to be in place.

When I see that footage now

and I see her getting ready to get in the car,

I want to say, "Don't open the door, don't get in the car."

Stop, don't get in, don't get in

because you know what's going to happen there.

And I think of my kids and my grand-kids

and their college experiences.

And I'm like, my gosh, my gosh,

I just can't believe something like this happened.

I've been a police officer for 34 years.

I've been a police chief for 17 of those years.

You always have thoseúparticular cases or incidents

that stick with you forever.

And this was absolutely the top of my list.

[Jessica] There's always gonna just be the missing piece

from all of our hearts.

Whoever she was with, she made them better

just by her being around and

how great of a person she was.

[Seymour] I miss that laughter, that energy.

But the one particular thing that I miss the most

is her coming through that door.

I can go home tomorrow and sit on the couch

and wait for that.