Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old University of South Carolina student, was murdered in March 2019 after mistakenly getting into a car she believed was her Uber outside a Columbia bar. Nathaniel Rowland, the driver, activated childproof locks to trap her, then kidnapped and stabbed her more than 100 times, later dumping her body 65 miles away in rural South Carolina. Rowland was swiftly arrested and convicted of murder, kidnapping, and weapon possession, receiving a life sentence with the judge calling the attack one of the “most severe” he’d ever seen. The case spurred major safety reforms for rideshare apps nationwide, including the creation of “Sami’s Law”.

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