College Student Found Dead After Getting Into Car Mistaken For Uber, Police Say

A 21-year-old University of South Carolina student is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered after entering a vehicle she mistook for her Uber ride early Friday, authorities said.

“What we know now is that she had, in fact, summoned an Uber ride and was waiting for that Uber ride to come,” Columbia Police Department Chief Skip Holbrook said at a press conference. “We believe that she simply mistakenly got into this car thinking it was her Uber ride.”Nathan Rowland, 24, has been charged with kidnapping and murder after authorities said they tracked down the vehicle that picked up Samantha Josephs late last week. Police say Josephs mistook the car for her Uber ride.

When officers looked into his vehicle, they could see what appeared to be blood. After a search warrant was acquired, blood found inside the trunk and passenger seat tested positive for Josephson’s blood, Holbrook said.Josephson, 21, is seen on the right talking on her phone before going missing early Friday morning.

Authorities have not released a possible motive or say how Josephson died. Rowland was only described as having previously lived in the area where the woman’s body was found, roughly 40 feet off of a dirt road.

Why post American crime on a Canadian channel? Why this specific case? Hmmm.

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