The friend of an American student stabbed to death in the Netherlands said she texted him about her roommate's desire to kill just a week before she died.
Sarah Papenheim, 21, from Minnesota, died Wednesday afternoon after she was attacked at her apartment in Rotterdam where she had been studying.
A 23-year-old Dutch man and Sarah's roommate, Joel Schelling, was arrested after being located at the Eindhoven train station about 60 miles from Rotterdam, shortly after the body of the 21-year-old was discovered.
Sarah Papenheim (left) was allegedly killed by her roommate Joel Schelling (right) and had told her he was going to 'kill three people' a week before her death
Adam Pryor (right) said Pappenheim had text him expressing concerns about Schelling's behavior
Adam Pryor met Papenheim in Minneapolis' music scene and the two quickly became friends.
They continued to be close friends after she decided to move to the Netherlands in 2016 to live with her boyfriend Nico Karsemeijer and study music.
Pryor told ABC News that Papenheim text her to say he was 'gonna kill 3 people. So I'm gonna have to go to the police.'
'I could tell she wasn't doing right because she was just being weird over text and then I asked her what's wrong and she said she never talks to anyone anymore,' Pryor told Good Morning America.
'[She said], 'I work full time and I have school full time and everything is just so f****d up right now.
'My roommate told me is going to kill three people so I'm gonna to have to go to the police'.
Pryor said she never gave any indication that she was in danger, or that her roommate was threatening her.
Papenheim had been due to return to Minnesota for the holidays and her mother had put the tree up in preparation
The apartment complex (pictured) in Rotterdam where Pappenheim lived with Schelling
'After she told me that I thought he got mad at some people. I didn't feel like she was in any danger,' he said.
'I never could've guessed it was her. Just the way she made it seem like, it was some other people he was mad at or something happened. I had trust in her.
'She was very responsible, that she would go to the police and take care of everything. I didn't ever think something like this was going to happen'.
Pryor said he is in shock about his friend's murder, calling her 'the best friend anyone could ask for'.
He last spoke to Papenheim on Monday and talked about concerts she was planning to go see in Europe, saying she 'was just so excited'.
Friends left touching tributes to murdered US student inside the building where she lived.
A number of messages were left on the walls expressing their grief over Pappenheim's death
Flowers were also left inside the 'De Snor' student accommodation complex where she lived
Sarah's mother Donee Odegard arrived in Holland from Minnesota on Saturday to ensure police carried out a full investigation into her death.
The anguished mom is demanding to know whether police were alerted to threats that he was 'gonna kill three people'.
Odegard said she had been growing increasingly worried about Schelling's 'strange' behavior after conversations with her daughter.
She said she told her daughter to get out, but she would say that she was 'his only friend. He would get angry, but I can always talk him down and change his mind.'
The grieving mother, whose arm is in a sling after a shoulder injury, said her daughter could 'make friends with anybody.'
Donee Odegard told how sheriffs asked her a few questions about her daughter, Sarah Papenheim, who was studying in Rotterdam, before telling her she'd been found stabbed
'Nothing concerned me until the last time I talked to her when she told me this story.
'She said: 'Mommy he did this. He is acting strange'.
One student said Schelling, a talented orchestra musician, would cut a curious figure around the student campus as he would ‘march up and down the path with his double bass.’
He added: 'I saw the picture of his arrest and he was still with his double bass. If he was in his right mind, he would have realised that being on the run with his double bass would have easily marked him out'.
A shrine in memory of Papenheim, who traveled to Europe to study psychology and focused on mental health, was set up inside De Snor building where she and Schelling shared an apartment.
Under a blue poster which had three pictures of Sarah, one in a love heart, friends said it with flowers as they placed their tributes in the main reception.
One message revealed the sadness that her warnings had been ignored.
It read: 'Dear Sarah, even though we were neighbors, we hardly knew each other.
'I’m so sorry I have not clearly recognized your cry for help.
Donee Odegard's son Josh took his own life three years ago aged 21. Sarah Papenheim was studying psychology with an emphasis on suicide
'My heart is broken, but hopefully yours is playing the music you loved in heaven.’
Another friend wrote: 'Thank you for your beautiful smile Sarah. You will be greatly missed. Rest in peace angel.’
A third tribute which came with a heart drawn on to it said: ‘Dear Sarah. I didn’t know you, but it feels like I did. This is so incredibly sad.
'I hope you’re in a better place now. May you rest in peace. Prayers and my deepest condolences for your family'.
Sarah had been committed to helping people with mental problems, said to be in the wake of her brother's suicide. She was studying psychology with an emphasis on suicide.
The Papenheim family lost their son, Josh, in 2015. He took his own life just days after their mother remarried.
'I've been through this before,' Mrs Odegard told Fox 9. 'I've cried so much my ducts are dry. I am in the angry stage now.'
Mrs Odegard praised Sarah’s boyfriend, Nico, for the support he'd provided, both emotionally and as a native Dutch speaker.
'He has been a rock for her,' Mrs Odegard said. 'He was there when my son committed suicide; he has been there for her so much. I don't know what would have happened for both of us if he wasn't there. He helped us so much.'
Odegard said her daughter had complained about the suspect, who she was friends with, having a bad temper
'I know that everyone says that their daughter or son is the sunshine in everybody's life, but my daughter lights up the world,' she added.
The murdered student had been due to return to Minnesota for the holidays and her mother had put the Christmas tree up in preparation.
The family wanted to raise $40,000 to help cover expensive travel costs to bring Papenheim home.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help with the costs of bringing Sarah’s body home along with funeral expenses. As of Saturday the account has exceeded $44,000.
'Sarah was a beautiful, vibrant young woman and a talented musician with a smile that could light up a room,' the GoFundMe read.
'She played with some of the best musicians on the scene in the Twin Cities and had many close relationships with them. Her presence is irreplaceable. We love you, drummer girl.'
A court has agreed that Schelling be held in custody for 14 days while police try and establish whether Sarah had been sexually attacked before being killed or if her alleged attacker had suffered mental health issues.
The suspect and victim were both residents of De Snor, a building that largely housed students studying at Erasmus University.
Sarah, who had been studying in Rotterdam since 2016, occupied a studio apartment on the third floor of the building.
Schelling, 23, was arrested after being located at the Eindhoven train station about 60 miles from Rotterdam and was believed to have been heading to his family home.
His former tutor Ruud van der Meulen, who taught him weekly for eight years, said he was a bright musician, but was short of friends.
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