{"id":304142,"date":"2021-07-21T05:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/co-ed-suffered-heinous-acts-by-accused-killer-prosecutors\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T05:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:16:25","slug":"co-ed-suffered-heinous-acts-by-accused-killer-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/co-ed-suffered-heinous-acts-by-accused-killer-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"#Co-ed suffered ‘heinous’ acts by accused killer: prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Co-ed suffered ‘heinous’ acts by accused killer: prosecutors<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The South Carolina college student who was allegedly kidnapp<\/a>ed and killed by a man she thought to be her Uber driver suffered \u201cheinous, cruel and malicious acts,\u201d prosecutors said during opening statements in her murder trial Tuesday.<\/p>\n

New Jersey native Samantha Josephson, 21, was killed by Nathaniel Rowland after she mistakenly got into his car after a night of drinking in Columbia in 2019, prosecutors told the jury, according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jurors will be shown security video, cellphone data and a murder weapon that connects Rowland, 27, to the death of the University of South Carolina senior, prosecutors said, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s those intentional deliberate, heinous, cruel and malicious acts that Nathaniel David Rowland has been indicted for kidnapping Samantha Josephson. He\u2019s been indicted for murdering Samantha Josephson,\u201d prosecutor Byron Gipson reportedly told the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he\u2019s been indicted for possession of a weapon from the commission of a violent crime. And at the appropriate time, we\u2019ll ask that you return verdicts on guilty on each one of those counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josephson was celebrating the end of her time in college with a number of friends, while her alleged killer waited to attack, Gipson alleged.<\/p>\n

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Samantha Josephson allegedly got into Nathaniel Rowland\u2019s car because she thought it was her Uber ride.<\/figcaption>
Columbia Police Department via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Surveillance footage of Samantha Josephson getting into the car before she was murdered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThey had their eyes firmly fixed on their futures and their eyes firmly fixed on their love for one another,\u201d Gibson said of Josephson and her friends, according to the network.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what they didn\u2019t realize, what they could never realize, is that the defendant, Nathaniel David Rowland, had his eyes firmly fixed on Samantha Josephson. He had his eyes on Ms. Josephson as she walked outside the Bird Dog Lounge in Five Points alone, as she walked outside, as she had ordered an Uber ride, alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defense lawyers said Rowland was not connected to the killing through DNA evidence after Josephson\u2019s body was found in a wooded area about 65 miles away from the alleged abduction, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cLadies and gentlemen, I want you to hear this number again, and that is zero,\u201d lawyer Tracy Pinnock said. \u201cThat\u2019s the amount of DNA on Samantha Josephson\u2019s body that matches Nathaniel Rowland. Zero. It\u2019s not on her clothing. It\u2019s not under her ripped and torn fingernails. It\u2019s not on her ankles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prosecutor Byron Gipson speaking at Nathaniel Rowland\u2019s murder trial in Columbia. South Carolina on July 20, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Tracy Glantz\/The State via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tuesday\u2019s statements come a day after Rowland asked for a new lawyer, claiming Pinnock, a public defender, was \u201cunprepared and disorderly,\u201d according to the Columbia Post and Courier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like she\u2019s not fighting for me as she would fight for her own,\u201d Rowland reportedly told Judge Clifton Newman during a break in jury selection.<\/p>\n

The judge refused to pause the proceedings, and later in the day Rowland said he was satisfied with his representation, according to the article.<\/p>\n

Rowland faces life in prison without parole if convicted.<\/p>\n

The case made national news<\/a> two years ago, and led Uber to require drivers to prominently display ID and say the names of passengers before they travel<\/a>.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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