mean, i'll, i mean, i'll tip them and then unless it's like, something outrageous, like, you know, there's still something like a huge mark or something, but but i'll, i, i fight that urge. i just let it go. i just wash my whole car. i'm gonna be okay with it. all right. well, thanks, guys. this was fun. really appreciate it. and thank you at home for watching. there is more of like it or not, you can follow us on social media. and don't forget to submit your questions. have a >> i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. the verdict is in. i can't believe it. sarah boone, the woman who left her boyfriend to die, zipped inside a suitcase, convicted of murder. the latest from her wild trial and the letter she sent directly to true crime news. plus rideshare nightmare. a college senior hops in a car. little

does she know, the driver is a predator searching for prey. >> he then jumps the curb to get to her really quickly. >> her body is found stabbed multiple times. >> they stopped counting after 120 times. >> can cops catch her killer before he strikes again? >> can't run. hey, i'm going to release the dog. >> your daily source for true crime starts right now. let's get right to our top story today. she went through nine attorneys, gave five hours of testimony, and on friday, four and a half years after zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and recording him as he suffocated to death, sarah boone was convicted of second degree murder. now she is facing the possibility of life in prison. >> we, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree as charged in the information murder. >> that was the unanimous verdict in the ten day trial of the so-called suitcase killer,

sarah boone. >> miss boone. the jury has spoken in this matter and has found you guilty of murder in the second degree. the court adjudicates you guilty of murder in the second degree. >> it took only 90 minutes for the jury to come to a unanimous decision friday night. the six member jury, five women and one man, were unswayed by the defense testimony that the killing of george torrez jr. was an act of self-defense. >> sarah. thank you. >> sarah. stupid. i can't believe, babe. oh, that's what i felt like when you chinker me. >> sarah gosuke number one. >> is this your true verdict? >> yes it is. juror number two. is this your true incorrect verdict? yes it is. juror number three. is this your true verdict? >> this entire trial, she had walked out every day kind of smiling, chitchatting with her lawyers. and then she was kind of laser focused on the case. she really didn't have much of a reaction when this guilty

verdict was read. but you can see that her cheeks were a little flushed. >> that included testimony earlier in the week from sarah herself, who sought to portray jorge torres jr as the aggressor in a game of hide and seek in a suitcase that went horribly wrong. >> he thought it would be funny to be put in the suitcase, so i was like, okay, well, i'm going to joke with you and i'll zip you up and make him, you know, squirm a little bit. whatever it is. but then i fell asleep. >> this was at the center of the case, this police body cam video. and then the highly charged video shot by sarah boone herself, that made national headlines and spiked social media views. you. sour. >> so you just, like, kill him. you left him there to teach him a lesson. >> i didn't mean to leave him there. >> but despite sarah clearly ignoring torres's pleas for oxygen, she told jurors what they don't see is an off camera

escape attempt where torres got one hand free. >> my fear was that he was going to break out of the suitcase, knowing that it was a broken suitcase, which she claimed required her to stuff him back inside the luggage with a baseball bat, knew the tone and we ended up, i guess, arguing back and forth with one another and the things that he was saying very much frightened me. >> when he was in the suitcase. he was threatening you. can you tell the jury what he was saying, that he was going to end me? >> but the jury didn't buy it. rejecting sarah's defense under oath that she suffered from battered spouse syndrome. despite a history of assault between the couple. it was a vindication for jorge torres surviving family, who spent every day of the trial in the front row of the court. gallery, leaving only when the video of jorge suffocating was played for jurors just hours before the

jury rendered its verdict. hey, sarah. >> yeah, you should probably shut up now, judge michael hronek will sentence sarah at a hearing scheduled for december 2nd, but state prosecutors believe justice has already been served. >> this is one of a very horrific homicide. nobody really should have to endure this type of, you know, struggle and fight for their lives and had to die alone, you know, begging for their last breath inside of a suitcase. >> sarah boone wrote to true crime news in august saying the world has been having fun with my case since day one. i am nothing more than an oddity to be jeered at and joked about. the surprise is that i keep walking out of the ring in one piece, and a smile on my face. she went on to say, it's not about winning the battles, it's about winning the war. people will remember me one way or the

other and hopefully the right way in the end. boone's ninth attorney, james owens, who took the case after boone put an ad on social media, is already off the case. boone is planning an appeal for disappointed. >> sara is disappointed, but we feel like she's got a couple of pretty good appellate issues and just, you know, sarah's plight is not over. >> when we come back, a college student accidentally hops in the wrong car and is driven away to her death. a ride share warning that everyone needs to see. >> the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like life was moving on without me. then i found a chance to let in the light, discover kapla. >> unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar one, caplyta is proven to deliver significant

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if you've ever used a ride share service, you're going to want to pay close attention to this story. like most of us, sam tha josephson didn't think twice before she hopped into a car. she thought she'd ordered, but it was the last ride she'd ever take. it's 2 a.m. on a weekend bars in the five points neighborhood in downtown columbia, south carolina, are about to close, and college kids are pouring out onto the street. samantha josephson, a senior at the university of south carolina, has decided to call it

a night. >> samantha and her friends had decided to go out and kind of celebrate. the school year was ending. they were all going to graduate and go their separate ways, so they kind of wanted to go and hang out an uber is on the way to pick her p, but she's not sure which one is hers. she tries to get into one car and it's not her uber. you clearly see some other people come up to that car and she backs away. she continues to look at her phone. >> meanwhile, this chevy impala has been driving around in circles for several minutes. >> he goes through the parking lot and you can see the car. he kind of sits at this at the sidewalk and he can see her get a second time. try to get into the wrong car. he then jumps the curb to get to her. really quickly behind the wheel. >> a predator in search of ey. >> and it is a black sedan. what? she's looking for. and she gets into the back of the car and he drives away. >> tragically, this is the last ride samantha sammy josephson will ever take. the next morning, sammy's friends check her room. she isn't in bed. they

figure she may have crashed somewhere else, but when she doesn' show up at her job, they're alarmed. they track her iphone and they notice that during the night, it stopped pinging, so they immediately start calling law enforcement. >> they call her parents to see if they know where she is. they call her boyfriend to see if maybe he came in town and that's who has her, and no one knows where she is. >> that's when seymour and marcy josephson get the most nightmarish phone call imaginable for any parent from sammy's boyfriend, greg. >> so marcy immediately called me and she goes, did you speak to greg or any of the roommates? i said, no, why? what's up? and she said, samantha's missing. i said, get home now. we're going straight down. i don't know what made me. it was just something in my gut. it was a panic. >> samantha was there, baby. growing up in new jersey, she and her older sister played basketball, and sammy also loved acting. >> she always lit up the room. she had a great personality. she

she was a prankster and she was smart. >> planning to go to law sch l in the fall on a full scholarship. now, as her parents head south, her father has a bad feeling. >> i remember driving very, ver, very, very fast. at one point, south carolina police called me saying, all right, what's your eta? i hung up and i mumbled to myself, saying, this is not this is not good. this is not going to end well. >> but it wasn't police who immediately went to work looking for samantha. it was her friends. they initiated their own investigation, heading to the bar from the night before and asking to see their surveillance video. >> and that is when we start learning that she got into the black sedan. as you're a e to see her in the bird dog with her friends, you're able to see her standing outside, and then you're able to see her get into this black sedan. >> her friends showed the footage to police and they put out a bolo. be on the lookout for the black sedan. but before they even located a grisly discovery, then, more than an

hour away from columbia, two hunters find samantha's body in a field. as her parents arrive at the police station in columbia, they're ushered straight into a conference room. >> nothing felt right. everything felt way off and too cold. they had a table of a couple police officers, somebody from the university, and then the coroner. it was. it's the worst nightmare. >> the josephson's now learn the horrifying truth. once inside that vehicle, the night before, samantha couldn't get out the driver had activated the childproof locks. then at me point, he stabbed her over and over and over. >> the coroner said that they stopped counting after 120 ti s because it didn't matter. >> she is cut from head to toe. she has literally stab wounds

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wrong car, thinking that it was the one that she ordered police are searching for a killer on the loose, and they're about to get a lucky break. it's only been a few hours since two hunters found sammy's lifeless body in a rural area, an hour from where she got into a vehicle she believed was a rideshare. now, police are on the lookout for that black chevy impala seen on surveillance footage near the bar. turn left off the luoto elvenes kossila. it didn't take long. late saturday night. there it is. a black impala going the wrong way down a one way street in the same neighborhood where sammy was picked up the night before. police pulled the car over. behind the wheel is 25 year old nathaniel rowland. >> as the law enforcement officer steps out of his car, walks up towards nathaniel rowland's car, he smells marijuana. >> who's smoking the marijuana? >> i had smoked some earlier, sir, when i was at home.

>> all right, all right, man, you got to step on out, man. and he starts to try to tell him why he stopped him. >> and nathaniel rowland takes off. hey, get over here! >> come on. run! hey, i'm gonna release your dog. >> i got him, i got him, i got him! get on! get on the ground! stop moving! >> police! search rowland's car, but abruptly stop when they find some suspicious items, including a phone that turns out to belong to sammy. even more incriminating, the back seat was covered in blood. >> there was blood in the floor mats. and on the seat there was blood on the ceiling. there was blood everywhere in that car. >> and crime scene investigators find suspicious items needed to dispose of a body, including rope and clorox. in the glove compartment, an envelope with an address and the name maria on it. maria turns out to be rowland's girlfriend. she cooperates, and as they are searching her house, they find

what we called a multi-tool. >> but it was essentially is a two pronged knife that was covered with blood. they found his clothing, which had blood on it as well, and she started talking about things. he had done all day that were indicators to her that something was going wrong. >> investigators arrest nathaniel rowland and charged him with kidnaping, murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime. for the next two plus years, prosecutors build their case, laying it all out for a jury. images of rowland hunting for a victim nathaniel rowland's impala comes driving by as she's standing by herself, circling, lurking like a shark. surveillance photos of rowland in the hours after he murdered samantha. cell phone records showing rowland in new zion, his hometown, where he disposed of samantha's body. >> this was a straight body dump and dna evidence under rowland's

fingernails in his car, on his clothes. >> but one piece of evidence will forever haunt prosecutor april sampson. >> samantha fought. she fought for her life. and one of the things she did, and it will always be chilling to me, is she kicked the window and left her footprint on the window, and it just showed how hard she fought in that car, and we were able to match that footprint. >> we, the jury, find the defendant guilty after the jury found nathaniel rowland guilty on all counts, judge clifton newman offered rowland a chance to speak. >> i know i'm innocent. but i guess what i know and what i think really doesn't matter. >> and i'm at a small guy. i'm six two, 240 and i'm just thinking, how can i get to this son of a? >> after calling rowland heartless, the judge rendered his verdict. >> sentence in this case is easy. the sentence of the court

for murder is that you be committed to the state department of corrections for life. >> sammy's parents are on a mission to turn their tragedy into something positive. their foundation. what's my name? educates people about rideshare safety and holds annual fundraisers and events, including a five k race to honor samantha's memory. one, two, three. samantha's family has been working closely with their congressman to create a federal sammy's law, which would make it mandatory for rideshare companies to issue a four digit pin when a ride is ordered, the passenger tells the driver the pin and the driver can only start the ride once they enter that same pin into the app on their phone, the passenger's phone vibrates when they match. >> so does three things one. it

confirms that you're in the right car. b a confirms that you're not getting into the wrong car, and it confirms that you're not getting into a car that's fake. >> they've even enlisted celebrities to help get the word out. >> hi, i'm jason alexander. >> i'm darius rucker. before you get into the car, stop a is for ask. match the car and the license plate before you get in. >> the i stands for inform. >> it will never make things better, but the josephson's hope it will make things safer. >> what happened to sammy should never happen again. >> the josephson's have managed to create a federal rideshare safety bill. sammy's law requires rideshare vehicles to have placards in the front of the car, not just on the sides. and remember, before you get into a rideshare car, be sure to ask the driver, what's my name? if they don't have the answer, don't get in. for more inform ioion , go to what's my name.org.

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it's an officer chasing suspects, calls for backup 7-4 . minutes later, he's dead. his family in grief. >> and then the nightmare began. and all i want to do is wake up from it. >> the city in mournin then police started asking questions. >> and that's when all the rumors spread and cops start digging. >> was this heroic cop really killed in the line of duty or was it a staged coverup on the next true crime news? for the latest breaking crime news, go to true crime news.com. watch more exclusive content on our youtube channel, listen to our podcast and follow us at my true crime news. now, some unbelievable new video you have to see sheriff's deputies and firefighters in ohio dramatically rescue a woman trapped in a fire. the woman is stuck in her basement as flames and smoke fill the air. rescuers

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