Murder in Minot

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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College student Anita Knutson is found stabbed to death. The case took years and the unwavering commitment of loved ones and investigators to reach a resolution. Blayne Alexander reports. Blayne Alexander and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’   Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3EJjQgz Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xo5SlFMzFme4mG876Vbyh

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	She was so beautiful, inside and out.
0:05.0	So smart.
0:07.0	She might have said it more gently, but I just remember Anita's dead.
0:11.0	Everything kind of stopped.
0:13.0	Your mind just goes everywhere.
0:15.0	Like, who could do this?
0:17.0	Tyler Schmaltz was kind of infatuated with her.
0:20.0	Better cry on. She kind of infatuated with her.
0:24.2	She kind of friend zoned him pretty quickly.
0:24.9	Yes.
0:27.6	Nicole Rice's name came up.
0:32.4	I overheard Nicole's mom asking, how could you think my daughter did this?
0:33.7	It wasn't me.
0:38.3	We were dispatched to a call of someone entering an apartment. There was a male. He had a knife.
0:41.3	If there's a chance that you crawled in the window and killed this girl.
0:44.3	You know I guess, bro.
0:46.3	There were many possible suspects.
0:49.3	If someone told you were at a party, you said you killed him either.
0:53.3	They'd be lying.
0:55.7	We've been reliving this every single day for 18 years.
0:59.7	It's really scary not knowing how that's going to turn out.
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