The suspect charged in the 2007 killing of Minot college student Anita Knutson likely won’t be back in court until next year.The courts have rescheduled the pretrial conference for 35-year-old Nichole Rice for March 1, 2023, at 11 a.m. in district court in Minot.
The case of the 2007 killing of Minot college student Anita Knutson has drawn national attention of late, including a special two-part investigation on the show “Cold Justice.”
The pretrial conference for 35-year-old Nichole Rice has been pushed back month to Dec. 21, 2022, at 11 a.m. in Minot, according to online court records.
A Minot Police detective testified for more than an hour Thursday morning at Nichole Rice's preliminary hearing, from DNA testing of the murder weapon, to Nichole's actions in the days around Knutson's death, to other possible suspects who were considered in the investigation. Rice will be back in court in November.
The woman charged with murder in the 2007 killing of Anita Knutson in Minot has had her next court appearance pushed back due to the amount of evidence in the case.
The woman charged with murder in the 15-year-old case of the killing of Anita Knutson made her first initial appearance by video at the Ward County courthouse Thursday afternoon.
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