Some friends and family of the late Sam Nordquist, 24, from Oakdale, say they saw warning signs in his girlfriend’s controlling behavior. Still, they were mostly supportive of his plans to visit her in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
He had quickly fallen in love, over the phone and on TikTok, with a woman 14 years older than him and the mother of three children.
Nordquist, a transgender man, left Minnesota in September 2024 to visit Precious Arzuaga, then 38, at her Hopewell, N.Y. apartment. He had a ticket to return home the next month, but he never got to use it…