North Dakota man pleads guilty in random killing of girl, 14

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man has pleaded guilty to killing a 14-year-old girl who authorities say was strangled and stabbed more than 20 times in a random attack outside a store in June. Arthur Kollie entered an Alford plea Monday in the death of Jupiter Paulsen. With the plea, the 22-year-old Fargo man maintains his innocence, but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction. Charging documents say a sanitation worker saw Kollie attack the girl June 4 outside a Party City store in Fargo. An autopsy said the cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation complicated by multiple sharp-force injuries. Investigators have found no evidence that Kollie and the girl knew each other.