Nathaniel Rowland was condemned to life in jail after he was sentenced for hijacking and killing University of South Carolina senior Samantha Josephson, who erroneously got into a vehicle she thought was a Uber in Columbia's Five Points in 2019. 

A close even racially blended gathering of hearers pondered for somewhat more than an hour prior to tracking down the 27-year-old Clarendon County man blameworthy of killing Josephson, a 21-year-old New Jersey local who intended to go to graduate school on a full grant.

She was cut in excess of multiple times while secured in the rearward sitting arrangement of a vehicle, examiners said. 

Josephson's dad, Seymour, siphoned his clenched hand, admired the roof, and cleaned away tears prior to embracing his better half and girl in the court when the decision was reported. Rowland and his family showed no feeling. 

Josephson ventured into Rowland's vehicle soon after 2 a.m. one night in March 2019 and was subsequently found wounded to death in a country space of Clarendon County, 65 miles east of Columbia and not a long way from Rowland's youth home. 

The jury saw Rowland as liable for every one of his charges of homicide, capturing, and having a weapon during rough wrongdoing. His homicide conviction conveyed a sentence of 30 years to life in jail. 

Investigators didn't look for capital punishment against Rowland. Judge Clifton Newman advised the court prior to condemning Rowland to existence without any chance to appeal that the last time he directed a case including a cutting passing, it had been a capital punishment case.

Looking for capital punishment requires an irritating condition, which Newman noted was put forth in Rowland's perspective due to the capturing charge. 

Fifth Circuit Solicitor Byron Gipson told correspondents after the decision that he had counseled the Josephson family and that they supported his choice to not look for capital punishment.

Previous investigators said attendants in Richland County, with its high African American populace, are more outlandish than different spaces of the state to condemn an indicted killer to death. 

"We're fulfilled that Mr. Rowland will spend the remainder of his regular life in jail," Gipson said. 

Prior to condemning, Rowland disclosed to Newman that he was guiltless on the grounds that state and neighborhood agents didn't do what's a necessary exploration to track down the genuine offender and rather focused on demonstrating he carried out the wrongdoing.

Rowland attempted to fire his public protectors on the main day of the preliminary, however, the private lawyer he said he employed said she had not consented to deal with the case. 

Newman revealed to Rowland that in the wake of hearing the declaration and seeing the proof from the preliminary, "There's 1,000 paths and each trail prompted you." The adjudicator and Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook both said this was the most noticeably awful wrongdoing they had at any point experienced in their professions. 

In looking for lifelong incarceration, Josephson's mom, Marci, told the adjudicator how she can't eradicate the musings of her girl battling for endurance while being wounded over and again. 

"Her fantasies were my fantasies and her passing was my demise. I used to have dreams for her, presently the sum total of what I have are bad dreams," Marci Josephson said. "Her passing cut through my heart." 

She over and over considered Rowland a beast and said he "took my convictions." 

Seymour Josephson held up a fastener that he said held 90 proclamations from loved ones about the expense of losing his little girl prior to giving it to the adjudicator. Her family talked about how Samantha Josephson was a sort and cheerful lady with a brilliant future. 

"Clearly, she confided in such a large number of individuals," Seymour Josephson said. 

Her dad said he can't take a gander at photographs or recordings of Samantha Josephson on the grounds that it raises pictures to him of how she passed on.

Seymour Josephson told the court that he pondered self-destruction yet halted himself as a result of the torment it would cause his all-around damaged family. 

He was vexed about how Rowland had the option to talk with his family during breaks at the preliminary, a demonstration some lawful specialists called surprising. 

"It killed me to observe this," Seymour Josephson said. Newman said he permitted the visits since respondents are assumed guiltless. 

Rowland's mom, Lorett, attempted to tell the adjudicator her child was guiltless however she was stopped by Newman, who helped her to remember the proof prompting his conviction. Asked by Newman how she realized he didn't kill Josephson, Lorett Rowland said it was a result of how she brought up her child. 

Rowland's dad, Henry, said he was upset for the Josephsons' misfortune yet rehashed his better half's requests that their child was guiltless. 

"He's a caring kid, extremely deferential," Lorett Rowland told the appointed authority. 

Rowland was captured 24 hours after Josephson's vanishing after police pulled over his 2017 Chevrolet Impala as coordinating with the vehicle found in the observation video.

Rowland ran from the traffic stop in the midtown Columbia area almost Five Points and was snatched a couple of squares away. 

Investigators utilized cellphone information, observation video, DNA proof, and witness declaration to demonstrate Rowland orbited Five Points before deliberately singling out Josephson as she hung tight for a ride, secured her in the secondary lounge of the vehicle, cut her to death with the blade cutting edges of a multitool, headed to the opposite side of Sumter and unloaded her body in some far off woods off of a back road. 

During his end contention, investigator Daniel Goldberg asked members of the jury not to be diverted from "a torrential slide" of proof as they thought about whether Rowland killed Josephson. 

"He took her from Five Points; he ended her life," Goldberg told the jury. "Furthermore, he set aside the effort to attempt to delete all the proof, to attempt to eradicate her." 

Public safeguard Tracy Pinnock told hearers in her end proclamation that unidentified individuals whose DNA was found on different things and Josephson's body cast question on the state's case. 

Pinnock attempted to punch holes in the declaration of the state's star observer, Rowland's previous sweetheart Maria Howard, and that sacks of wicked things, including a multitool blade, specialists found in the rubbish at her home had her DNA in it.

An arraignment's master observer said the multitool was the homicide weapon, and police agents affirmed they discovered Josephson's blood in a Chevrolet Impala that Rowland was found driving when he was captured the night after her vanishing. 

Pinnock noted again that Rowland's DNA was not found on Josephson's body. Examiners can't contend that Rowland's DNA was not found on Josephson in light of the fact that he was wearing long sleeves and gloves, and furthermore that Rowland's DNA was found on the homicide weapon, Pinnock contended. 

Gipson's case in his initial explanation that the straightforward answer is the right answer isn't correct for this situation, Pinnock said. 

"There is not all that much or simple about what occurred," Pinnock said. "He's the simple answer; he's the straightforward answer. For this situation, it's some unacceptable answer." 

In any case, every one of the bits of proof presented by in excess of 30 observers painted a sufficient picture to persuade hearers. 

Josephson was getting ready to move on from USC that spring and wanted to go to graduate school at Drexel University in Philadelphia. 

The day she vanished, she had been on the telephone and messaging with her beau for the duration of the day, begging him to visit her in Columbia from where he resided in Charleston.

However, the couple previously wanted to rejoin in Charleston that the end of the week, and her sweetheart, Greg Corbishley, advised her to partake in a night out liberated from agonizing over a relative's ailment. 

Josephson left with companions from her Main Street condo the evening of March 29, 2019, and went to a companion's home in the Shandon area almost Five Points. From that point, the gathering went to The Bird Dog, the solitary foundation they visited in the nightlife area that evening, as per declaration. 

Eventually, Josephson was isolated from her companions and she called a Uber for the ride-hailing administration to take her home. Her future Uber driver affirmed that he circumnavigated the region and dropped the ride when he didn't see Josephson. 

Observation video from outside the bar and displayed in court shows Josephson remaining solitary external the bar on her telephone soon after 2 a.m. She first attempts to get into a dark vehicle that pulls up leisurely prior to heading out. 

Following, a dark Chevrolet Impala can be seen on video arising out of an adjoining parking garage, jumping a check and pulling in an impairment spot adjacent to Josephson. She starts opening the entryway before the vehicle has arrived at a stand-still. 

Her companions became stressed after she didn't get back to her condo and her sweetheart said he hadn't heard from her. They watched from an application on their telephones as she moved away from Five Points, gone forever.