‘We want justice.’ Nancy Grace talks USC student Samantha Josephson’s death on podcast
TV personality Nancy Grace has taken notice of the recent death of University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson, talking about the case on her radio show, according to a statement from TransMedia Group.
Grace’s show — “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” — will premied at noon Monday on SiriusXM 111, and was available in podcast form at 1 p.m., according to the statement.
Along with a panel of guests, Grace discussed the murder and kidnapping of Josephson, who went missing from Columbia’s Five Points area early Friday morning. Josephson’s body was found at about 3:30 p.m. Friday in rural Clarendon County.
Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, was arrested at about 3 a.m. Saturday, and is considered the prime suspect in the case. He was charged in Josephson’s death.
“We want justice,” Grace said at the beginning of the show.
Guests on the show included family and divorce lawyer Kathleen Murphy, forensics expert Karen Smith, medical examiner Michelle Dupre, forensic psychiatrist Daniel Bober and reporter Robyn Walensky of Crime Stories, according to the statement.
Grace started the show by discussing the fact that police suspect Josephson was waiting for an Uber when she allegedly got into Rowland’s car.
“He knew that. He had to know,” Grace said.
Both Grace and her guests discussed potential safety issues with using ride share companies.
“You don’t believe that could happen to you,” Bober said. “You’re thinking that the night is over and you just want a ride home. ... You get into the car and you don’t really think twice of it.”
Grace and Murphy said they believed Rowland was prowling for students in the Five Points area, adding that when police found him, he was still in the neighborhood. The host also discussed the child locks on cars, which may have kept Josephson from escaping.
“She was a prisoner, an actual prisoner, in a killers car,” Walensky said. “And it makes me sick to my stomach when I think about it, that she had no way out. Had those locks, those child safety locks, hadn’t been locked, she could have jumped out.”
This story was originally published April 1, 2019 at 12:02 PM.
