Man who faked his death

Nicholas Rossi, a 37-year-old man accused of faking his own death to evade rape charges, is set to stand trial in Utah after being extradited from Scotland in January. Rossi is charged with raping a former girlfriend and another woman in 2008, with his identity as a suspect concealed for nearly a decade due to a backlog of DNA tests. Despite claiming to be an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight, authorities allege he is actually Nicholas Alahverdian, who grew up in Rhode Island and fled the US after fabricating an obituary stating he died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in February 2020. His death claim was met with skepticism from both officials and his foster family. Rossi was arrested in Scotland in 2021 while hospitalized for Covid-19 and lost an extradition appeal in December. He faces additional accusations of sexual assault and harassment in multiple states, including Rhode Island and Ohio.