Anita Canuteson was a bubbly college student who was studying to be an elementary school teacher when she was killed in 2007.

She was stabbed to death in her apartment in a North Dakota college town.

Plenty of potential suspects soon emerged. The maintenance man at Anita's complex was the one who discovered her broken window

screen. Was he the killer who broke the window and then pretended to find it? Or what about the two

young men, friends from out west, who were in town right around the time of Anita's death?

One of them raped a woman right in Anita's neighborhood.

The other was caught breaking into a home. Could their crimes have escalated to murder?

Another person in Anita's social circle appeared to be fascinated by her and wanted something romantic,

although Anita had reportedly friend zoned him.

And Anita was at war with her roommate. Both of them wanted out, but they were stuck in Elise.

Could any of these people be responsible for murdering Anita? For 18 years, the crime remained unsolved. Journalist Rob Port described

Minot, North Dakota as a typical Midwestern city. You know, pretty basic Midwestern community.

I love it. It's home for me. You know, good people for the most part. We're all American city. You know,

we have an Air Force base. I don't know that that makes us all that unique, you know, but that brings in some people, but we're a college town.

But just a nice community, pretty quiet place to live. Whenever a, you know, sort of a national media organization, whether it's a news show

or entertainment or something like a true crime show, you know, comes in and pays attention

to something like that, of course, it's going to, it's going to create a lot of local buzz.

My name is Rob Port.

I am a columnist and podcaster with the forum communications company.

We published the Fargo Forum, the Grand Forks Herald, James Townsend, Dickinson Press in North Dakota,

and then a number of other publications and media platforms across the Upper Midwest. And I am a columnist.

I cover mostly government and politics. And really kind of any other story that interests me.

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