Mar 26, 2025 · The prosecution argues Nichole Rice stabbed her roommate, Anita Knutson, to death on June 3, 2007. The defense points to other possible suspects, arguing the charges against Rice over a decade later are a miscarriage of justice driven by media sensationalism.

Mar 27, 2025 · GRAND FORKS – A Grand Forks jury found Nichole Rice not guilty for the murder of her roommate Anita Knutson in 2007. The jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon, and were sent home for...

Mar 25, 2025 · The case went cold for nearly 15 years, until March 2022, when police arrested Knutson’s roommate at the time, Nichole Rice, formerly Nichole Thomas, and charged her with the teenager’s murder,...

Mar 26, 2025 · GRAND FORKS — Eighteen years after the murder of Anita Knutson in a Minot apartment in 2007, a Grand Forks jury heard closing arguments in the trial of Nichole Rice.

Mar 26, 2025 · The verdict, delivered today by a Grand Forks County jury, brings a dramatic conclusion to a case that remained unsolved for nearly 15 years before Rice’s 2022 arrest. Rice, 36, had been charged with Class AA felony murder, accused of killing her then-roommate Knutson in their northwest Minot apartment in June 2007.

Mar 26, 2025 · Rice was charged in the June 4, 2007 murder of Anita Knutson in a Minot apartment both Rice and Knutson shared. Knutson was stabbed twice in the chest.

2 days ago · On March 26, Rice was found not guilty. Doug Kouns, former FBI agent and founder of Veracity IIR, spent two days testifying as an expert witness in a highly publicized cold case murder trial of Nichole Rice from 2007 in Minot, North Dakota. Doug joins Kendall and Casey for True Crime Tuesday to discuss the trial.

Mar 20, 2025 · Nichole Rice, formally Nichole Thomas, is charged with felony murder in the death of her roommate, Anita Knutson. (Photo by: Court TV) At the time of the murder, the two women shared an apartment in Minot, N.D., though friends told police the two had a strained relationship.

Mar 26, 2025 · The Minot Daily News reports the jury returned the verdict Wednesday morning after deliberations began Tuesday, March 25, and acquitted Nichole Rice in connection with the death of Anita Knutson. Nineteen-year-old Knutson lived in a home in Minot with Rice.

The jury in the Grand Forks trial deliberated for more than five hours before finding Nichole Rice not guilty in the death of Anita Knutson, the Minot Daily News reported. As the court clerk read the verdict aloud, Rice’s family and friends embraced, and Rice was in tears as the judge restored order to the courtroom.