Dalhousie killer; The murder of Taylor Samson and time line of events
22 yr old Taylor Samson and 24 yr old William Sandeson were both students at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the year of 2015. Samson was studying physics and Sandeson was a med student. Somewhere along the line their paths met and unfortunately it would cost Taylor Samson his life.
on August 14th 2015, the two had been setting up a drug deal through some text messages and the two had agreed to meet up. At the meeting location Taylor gave William a sample of his marijuana to try.
Sandeson didn’t care for the sample Taylor gave him and texted him saying he wanted more because of the poor quality. Taylor agreed to address the issues Sandeson was complaining about and made plans to meet up again the following night at Sandeson’s apartment.
The next day, August 15th 2015, Sandeson told his girlfriend that he wanted her out of his apartment that evening. She wanted him to stop dealing drugs and when he asked her to leave his apartment she was under the impression he just wanted to do one last deal.
Around 10pm Taylor Samson left his Halifax apartment with a large black Dalhousie duffel bag containing the marijuana to meet up with William Sandeson. He left his keys and wallet at home and told his girlfriend that he wouldn’t be long.
William Sandeson had set up his own security cameras in and outside of the building and him and Taylor, still carrying the duffel bag, were caught on camera together that night.
About half an hour later, William Sandeson’s neighbor and his friend who was with him at the time both heard a loud gunshot. Very shortly after the gunshot, Sandeson knocked on his neighbor’s door, stood there for a moment, said nothing and walked back to his apartment. The two men followed behind him and said they saw a man sitting at a kitchen table with blood running down his back, but could not see his face because his back was towards them. They claim they also saw some marijuana and money on the table and that Sandeson started to panic while trying to gather up the bloody money.
At some point, the two men walked back to the other apartment but decided to check back and looked into Sandeson’s apartment a second time. This time the body was gone but the blood and and money was still inside and this is when they decided to leave the building and attend a party they had planned on going to.
Concerned about her boyfriend because he is taking much longer than expected, Taylor’s girlfriend sends him texts and tries calling but never receives a reply.
Sandeson’s girlfriend, who left his apartment for the night, returned home not long after midnight. She noticed that there was a strong smell of cleaning solutions and when she asked about it Sandeson told her there had been a fight and he had used it to clean up some blood.
In an attempt to make it look like Taylor was a no show that night, Sandeson sent a couple of texts to Taylor’s phone, suggesting he had failed to show up to their meeting.
The next day while Sandeson’s girlfriend was on Facebook she saw a missing persons post about Taylor and asked him if he was the one that was hurt in the apartment last night, to which he replied no.
The security system was cut off for some time but when it was hooked back up, it showed Sandeson making several trips up the hall, carrying different items. The camera he set up outside showed him placing the items in the trunk of a small black car. And early the next morning the cameras also showed him cleaning the trunk of his car before heading to work.
The next day Taylor was supposed to travel to Amherst, NS, to visit his mother for dinner but he never showed up. She tried to contact him many times without success, before she decided to call the police. The following day, August 16th 2015, an investigation started in the disappearance of Taylor Samson.
Also that day Sandeson sent a text to his younger brother, Adam, stating he’d be coming over to do some laundry because “there’s stuff in his basement and it smells funny.” While his bother was there, Adam noticed a black Dalhousie duffel bag containing marijuana.
After some investigating, the police brought William Sandeson into the station for questioning. At first they looked at him as a possible witness but his story kept changing and he was put on surveillance after he left that day.
The police saw this case as a large marijuana deal and feared Samson was a target of a drug rip and could be captive somewhere. When police showed up at Sandeson’s apartment looking for Taylor, there was no one home. Thinking that he could be inside, they busted the door down. There was no sign of Taylor but they did see evidence of foul play and filed for a search warrant.
Police finally find Sandeson at the home of his girlfriend’s grandmother in Dartmouth, NS, and place him under arrest for charges of kidnapping, trafficking and misleading police. He is taken to headquarters where he is interrogated. After Sandeson told the police that two masked men entered his apartment and killed Taylor and took his body out through the window he then changed his story that he knew the two men were in his apartment but only thought they were going to scare Taylor.
After so many inconsistencies during the interrogation the police finally told Sandeson they collected evidence from his apartment, including the security videos and saw what appeared to be blood stains and charged him with murder.
William Sandeson’s brother, Adam, and his roommates decided to look more in the basement as well. In addition to the Dalhousie duffel bag full of marijuana they found the day before, they also found two other containers full of drugs; one small appliance box filled with marijuana and some in a grocery bag. They then contacted a lawyer to take the evidence to the police.
Police gathered evidence, including the duffel bag, a shower curtain, a tarp, a bullet that was lodged in Sandeson’s window frame, and a handgun. There was also evidence of blood on the table and chair set along with blood spatter in the bathroom. All of these items contained the blood and DNA of Taylor Samson. The items were seized from Sandeson’s apartment in Halifax and from his family’s farm in Truro, NS.
The police believe William Sandeson lured Taylor Samson to his apartment with what he thought was a going to be a drug deal - 20 pounds of marijuana for $40,000. Sandeson was receiving pressure from his family about his spending habits and he had owed more than $70,000 to a credit company plus $10,000 in student loans. They believe he took Taylor to his apartment and shot him in the back of the head so he could take his money and then also sell the marijuana as a way to help ease his debt.
To this day, Taylor Samson’s body has not been found but despite that, in July of 2017, William Sandeson was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison before he can be eligible for parole. During his sentencing, Samson’s family yelled at William Sandeson demanding he tell them where Taylor’s body is located. Sandeson has remained quiet and never revealed that information but the family vows to never stop looking for their loved one so they can bring him home for a proper burial.
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