Anna Knutson
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38 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Anna Knutson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've been reliving this every single day for 18 years.
We're not forgetting about this. We weren't going to give up. She wouldn't have. We weren't going to.
Butte is a tiny little town. It's, I mean, eight streets. Eight streets. Eight streets, 50 people. Tiny, tiny. Tiny, yeah.
Quiet.
Yeah, I think that's kind of all I can say. It's so quiet. My dad was a mayor for 12 years in Butte. My friends would come over and have sleepovers, and my dad, the mayor, would wake us up to go hang up the holiday decorations on Main Street. It wasn't that fun.
She and my mom talked like every single day on the phone. Even when she went to college? Yeah, even when she went to college, she was always, yeah, calling my mom. She was such a hard worker, but she still made time for her friends and for her family.
It was scary, I mean, because anybody and everybody is a suspect to me.
Daniel comes to pick me up and I get in the car and I could tell he'd been crying. Like something was very wrong. And I was like, well, what's going on? And he's like, and I can't tell you.
This is, of course, my first time with any type of grief at this level. But I learned about myself in that moment. Like, I don't want people around. I don't want people coming in to ask me if I'm okay every five seconds, especially people that don't know me.
It was a fun little childhood, yeah.
Yeah, Southern California is such, it's obviously very different than North Central, North Dakota, for sure. For Anita, I think it was really hard. I mean, friendship was so important to her and leaving all of her friends behind. And I mean, it was a tough age too.
I mean, we went from being, you know, like being in a school where lots of kids look like us to being in a school where we're the only three black and brown kids there is pretty, jarring, to say the least. How did she overcome that? You know, I think for Anita, she was always good with challenges. Like, there was really nothing that she couldn't make it through.
She wanted to be a teacher and she loved kids. Kids loved her.
I felt like for a long time, and I still am, I'm like very hyper aware of like where I'm at, who's around.
I mean, it's such a close-knit community. It's really amazing. All over town, there's all these little pink ribbons tied up. You could drive by and it wouldn't be weird to see a pink bow tied to a light post type of thing.
I think just how many people were there to celebrate my sister. I mean, she truly was so well-loved. I mean, the whole church was full. They ended up having to open up the gym at the school for all of the overflow people. And they watched it like on a stream. Did you speak that day? I did, yeah.
I got up there and just said a few words about my sister and just talked about how just effervescent she was and beautiful and perfect, really. I think I wore one of Anita's dresses to her funeral.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, tons of whispers all the time. That's, you know, people never stop whispering. But yeah, constant, you know, Nicole's name, of course, has always been, never not been in the mix.
I, like, turned around, and, like, it was just wild. It was just wild behavior for an adult.
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