The victim, Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man originally from Minnesota, was reported missing on Feb. 9. Police said he arrived in New York in September and had lost contact with loved ones.
Major Kevin Sucher, commander of the state police troop that includes the Finger Lakes region, said the facts and circumstances of the case were “beyond depraved” and “by far the worst” homicide investigation the office has ever been part of.
“No human being should have to endure what Sam endured,” he said, during televised news conference. Police did not share many details of the case, noting it remained under active investigation.
This is a local story for me. Only one media outlet mentioned that he was trans. This was a hate crime.
Just a heads up, the killer is literally a convicted pedophile who raped a 7-year old and a 9-year old
What do you mean by the killer? 5 people have been charged for his death including someone convicted of selling pornography to a minor (and 4th degree grand larceny) and Sam’s online girlfriend who he was visiting.
I’m really only bringing this up because the way I interpreted your comment is that it’s putting Goodwin is more responsible for Sam’s death. If the accusations I’ve seen are true, probably none of them deserve to be free ever again imo.
If all you’re doing is pointing out how big of a piece of shit Goodwin is, I agree entirely and would just like to add 2 more giant pieces of shit and I’d imagine if 3 or Out of the 5 are that shitty I’m skeptical at best of the other 2
If there is some reason to point more of the blame at 1 individual I’d be interested to hear it
Sorry I didn’t say “ringleader”
Regardless what happens we can put up a fight. Arm yourselves. Show them what happens when they pick a fight with us.
Entire news story aside, does the picture look a little AI generated? The background is pretty weird and the necklace kinda ends.
After doing a little search, I found this https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/slain-transgender-man-sam-nordquist-was-tortured-for-weeks-police-say-5-people-arrested/ar-AA1z8gCb
It’s the same image but pretty blurry. It looks like AP News used some AI upscaling or deblurring to filter it into something resembling a higher res picture.
Thanks! That explains it! Here’s the image you linked for people who don’t want to visit MSN
I really dislike it when people slather AI upscalers onto images for no reason. Very rarely does it improve the perceived quality of the image, most of the time it just changes your reaction from “wow, this is a low-res photo” to “wow, someone tried upscaling this low-res photo”. Here it somehow made the image even worse
Thanks for the inline image! I agree, AI upscalers are iffy at best and really should not be used for this kind of reporting.
Yeah, what’s up with that? At first I thought it was a weird camera/filter, but the more I look the worse it gets. What are those… powerlines? in the background on the right? Why are they next to a building/tree hybrid? What is the flamingo looking thing behind him? What logo is on his cap? Am I paranoid!?
Tortured how?
You might wonder why people are down voting, so I’ll clarify. Usually horrific details about sensitive topics are only shared with the police, courts, and family initially. They will come out at trial eventually. The primary reason is to not force it in the face of survivors as well as to protect the dignity of the deceased.
Appreciate the clarification. My curiosity certainly isn’t more important than surviving loved ones. Theirs no acceptable torture obviously, I was trying to figure out, at least generally, the context to go with the cops statement. I can’t imagine the kinds of things a homicide detective sees throughout their career, not really anyway. I’m guessing my question probably came off insensitive etc. I just spoke my curiosity after reading the article and searching online a bit to find an answer and came back and asked without thinking about it.
Local news staffer here, usually we’re not given any of the circumstances in case like this, but even if we find out the “how” we don’t report it. It’s the same with suicides and murder/suicides… if we have to (celebrity, politicians, person’s of note) we report that it happened once and that’s it.
It is definitely to shield victims and families but it’s also to prevent copycats.
I was curious about the details as well. Don’t feel bad
This is why I support the death penalty. It should almost never be used, but for cases as extreme as this. The evidence also has to be rock-solid.
Unfortunately, it’s been used far too liberally and on a racial basis in the past, so a lot of people are against it.
I simply don’t think some criminals deserve to live out the rest of their lives, in a maximum security prison or otherwise.
I’d be willing to allow public hangings again for crimes such as this.
