A man who faked his own death to avoid allegations of abuse in the United States was found alive in December – hospitalized with corona infection at a hospital in Scotland.
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According to obituary Nicholas Rossi died of cancer in February 2020 – surrounded by his wife, their two children and several family members. (Admittedly, the name Nicholas Alahverdian is mentioned – it is one of eight he has used, according to the state attorney in Utah.)
– I will not lie, part of me thought it was suspicious, Rossi’s former defender says NBC about what he was thinking when he heard about the death.
– I found the circumstances suspicious. But at the same time, I accepted what his wife said to me. I mean, I do not want to offend anyone by saying that they are not dead.
Instead, the wanted Rossi – under the name Arthur Knight – lived in Scotland. Then he became infected with corona. He became so ill that he lay on respirator when police arrived, according to The Providence Journal.
The 34-year-old is wanted in connection with sexual assault charges in the US states of Utah and Ohio. During the investigation, the police found out that he is suspected of several similar crimes throughout the United States, the state attorney in Utah writes in a press release.
They are now working to get him extradited to the United States.
The Utah Attorney General admits to NBC that Rossi, if he had not been infected with corona and in need of health care, would still have lived freely, albeit on the fringes of society.
– He is smart, but dangerous, says the former state representative Brian G. Coogan.
He had sympathy with Rossi, who then went by the name Nicholas Alahverdian. Alahverdian said he had been abused as a young boy and placed in temporary foster care. Coogan and his wife gained so much sympathy that they started a process of adopting him.
However, the adoption did not take place after Coogan was warned by Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah.
– He said to us: There is something seriously wrong with that boy. He will oppose you and turn the family upside down.
Coogan admits he got goosebumps when the news broke that Alahverdian had been found in a hospital in Scotland.
In the court documents from Utah, his “method” as an abuser is described, writes Providence Journal.
Alahverdian met women online. He met them out in public and then took them alone where he then initiated inappropriate contact which caused the woman to leave him. Thus, he would threaten suicide or force himself to have sex with the women he met.
And when the police confronted him, his version was that it was “the woman who was the aggressor”, it is stated in the court documents according to the newspaper.
In 2019, he called local media in Rhode Island and told that he had advanced cancer and that he had weeks left to live.
His alleged death was reported by several media outlets in 2020. A woman who claimed she was the man’s wife was the one who told the story, but she would not say where they had lived, or to assist with a death certificate.
Coogan says Alahverdian knew how to manipulate people, and says he cheated several.
– He got several state representatives to give him money and sometimes he threatened them. He knew how to play the “you tampered with me” card. He could say, “I’ll tell people how you attacked me and raped me.”
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