Nicholas Rossi, a 38-year-old man convicted of rape in the United States and accused of faking his own death to evade prosecution, dies in a Utah hospital after being taken from prison, authorities say. Prosecutors had said Rossi raped two girlfriends in 2008 and that, after facing charges, he fled to Scotland. Reports from multiple outlets describe Rossi as having staged or faked his own death in 2020, which helped him avoid arrest at the time.
Details reported by U.S. authorities and described across the outlets include that Rossi is identified while in Scotland and was later returned to the U.S. In 2021, a nurse treating him for COVID-19 recognized his identity, according to one account. After the identification, he was held by authorities and later incarcerated in Utah. In the most recent development, prison officials say he was transported to a hospital and died there, though the reporting does not uniformly specify a medical cause of death.
