


“I know I’m innocent, but I guess what I know and what I think really doesn’t matter,” Rowland said.

Rowland also spoke and maintained his innocence. “Words cannot express the anguish our family and friends have endured since you kidnapped and brutally murdered Samantha,” said Josephson’s mother, Marci Josephson. Rowland was arrested the following day after police spotted him in a car that matched the description seen in surveillance video.ĭuring the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Josephson’s family asked Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman to sentence Rowland to life in prison and expressed the pain they have had to endure. Her body was found with multiple sharp force injuries 14 hours later in a field about 90 miles away. The 21-year-old USC student had mistakenly gotten into a car Rowland was driving in Columbia, South Carolina, thinking it was an Uber ride she had requested on March 29, 2019, authorities said. Slain University of South Carolina student died from multiple sharp force injuries, authorities say Missing USC student Samantha Josephson was found dead after last being seen getting into a vehicle Friday morning in Columbia, SC Columbia, SC Police Department
