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00:00:11Some stories are unforgettable. This is one of them.

00:00:17You tried to put me through hell, but I am still here.

00:00:21He was a fugitive with multiple identities and more than a dozen accusers.

00:00:27He seemed very sympathetic and reassuring. He said he graduated Harvard.

00:00:35He went from charming to a monster in a heartbeat.

00:00:38Stop ignoring me!

00:00:40That recording was raw and unfiltered. It unsettled me every time I heard it.

00:00:46I wondered if he was going to kill me in that basement.

00:00:48Nicholas has quite an alleged spree of assaults.

00:00:52He does. He was a devil spawn. He really was.

00:00:54I learned that Nick was being sought by the FBI for fraud.

00:00:58He just kind of disappeared.

00:00:59He said, we believe he's faked his own death, that he's in Europe.

00:01:03We wanted to track him down too. It took years and thousands of miles.

00:01:08When we finally found him, nothing could have prepared me for what he had to say.

00:01:13Did you sexually assault anyone? Did you defraud anyone?

00:01:22I felt like you kind of represented all the women in that moment.

00:01:28The judge needs to know this is not a man you can trust.

00:01:38This is Dateline Unforgettable. I'm Andrea Canning with a fresh look at The Man of Many Faces.

00:01:51Mary Grabinski arrived in Salt Lake City on a mission.

00:01:56One that began a long time ago. Does this feel a little bit like a full circle moment?

00:02:01It does.

00:02:02In 2008, she survived a sexual assault. On this day, she'll see her attacker once again.

00:02:09And this time, she'll watch him face charges from another accuser.

00:02:13He's a danger. He's a menace.

00:02:15Mary's battle for justice led investigators to more women and sparked an international manhunt.

00:02:22He thrives on hurting people.

00:02:24She's hoping he'll finally be stopped.

00:02:27It's heartbreaking because I should have been the last one. It should have ended with me.

00:02:32Now, a surprising revelation from her attacker. Someone Dateline has been tracking for years.

00:02:39I can't make your way now. I can't make your way.

00:02:41To authorities, he's Nicholas Alaverdian, a convicted sex offender,

00:02:46a con man with multiple identities. But he told us he's an innocent Irish orphan named Arthur Knight,

00:02:54wrongly accused of horrific crimes. So are you saying that they've got the wrong guy?

00:03:00Andrea, I am not Nicholas Alaverdian.

00:03:05Are you crying, Arthur?

00:03:06Forgive me. I'm sorry. I can't walk. People say that's not. Let me try to stand up. Let me try

00:03:13to stand up.

00:03:15That's just a glimpse of one of the wildest interviews I've ever done.

00:03:19We called this episode The Man of Many Faces, and it couldn't be more fitting.

00:03:25Nicholas Alaverdian reinvented himself so many times that it became nearly impossible to keep

00:03:31track of who he really was. There were moments I actually felt sorry for him, and others he sent

00:03:37chills down my spine. By the end of our conversation, I knew I'd just encountered one of the scariest

00:03:43people I've ever met. And a lot has happened since my interview with Nicholas Rossi.

00:03:49How does Mr. Rossi plead to the crimes charged in the information?

00:03:53I'm not guilty, Your Honor.

00:04:00To understand how we got here, we need to go back in time to Rhode Island,

00:04:04the place where Nicholas Alaverdian, the man with many faces and names, was born.

00:04:09It was 1987, just outside of Providence.

00:04:13Gentle soul, smiling face. He'd run into my arms, always happy to see me. He was just a happy child.

00:04:23Michael Alaverdian is Nicholas's uncle. He says behind his nephew's smile was a childhood that

00:04:29was anything but idyllic. What was the family dynamic like with Nicholas when he was a child?

00:04:35There was turmoil in the family. My brother had some issues, so there were quite a few fights,

00:04:41arguments, that type of thing. Nicholas's father was a felon, convicted of writing fraudulent checks,

00:04:48dealing drugs and domestic assault. The situation at home in Cranston, a suburb of Providence,

00:04:54became so dangerous, Michael says Nicholas's mother got a restraining order and went into hiding with

00:05:00Nicholas and his younger brother and sister. The couple eventually divorced.

00:05:04I'm sure that took its toll on Nicholas and his siblings.

00:05:10And things only got worse. By the time Nicholas turned 12, his mother was unable to care for him,

00:05:16so he ended up in foster care, floating between different families and group homes.

00:05:20According to Nick, he was treated poorly. He was raped, assaulted.

00:05:26Tom Mooney writes for the Providence Journal and has been reporting on Nicholas for years.

00:05:31He's a consultant on this story. He says despite living through one trauma after the next,

00:05:37Nicholas was determined to make something of his life. A family court judge gave him that chance.

00:05:42Nicholas Arrangements were made to give Nick a job at the state house as a state house page.

00:05:49Pages of teenage kids who do clerical work.

00:05:53It was the perfect fit for Nicholas and he became a fixture at Rhode Island's seat of power.

00:05:58I was a rep from 2000 to 2004. I first met Nick across from the Rotunda and he was about

00:06:0514 years old and he was a page.

00:06:08Former state representative Brian Coogan says the teenager impressed everyone with a tireless work ethic and a brilliant mind.

00:06:15He would read bills that most reps and senators wouldn't read. He'd read it from front to back.

00:06:19So he was like a lawyer by trade.

00:06:21Nicholas spent long days at the state house wowing legislators before returning home to his other life.

00:06:28Nick was actually pretty much a ward of the state.

00:06:31Coogan was so taken with Nicholas and everything he'd been through that he briefly considered adopting him.

00:06:36That didn't work out. By 19, Nicholas aged out of the system and later went to college.

00:06:42Five years after that, he was back at the state house, this time fighting to bring change to the foster

00:06:48care system.

00:06:49That's how he got attention from the media. That's how he got great support and sympathy from lawmakers.

00:06:56We found one state rep who remembers Nicholas as a young shining star on the hill.

00:07:01If you see people with compassion that really want to advocate for something, that's Nick.

00:07:07In 2011, Representative Raymond Hull was newly elected when he was approached by Nicholas.

00:07:12He describes him as a young man with a tenacious spirit determined to make a difference.

00:07:17I said, Nick, whatever I can do for you, how to help you.

00:07:20And I think I even sponsored a couple of bills for him to try to change the processes of DCYF.

00:07:27DCYF, the Department of Children, Youth and Families.

00:07:30The agency Nicholas claimed failed to protect him as a teenager.

00:07:34And I was subjected to torture, beatings, assault in various forms.

00:07:39Nicholas sued DCYF. They denied the allegations and the case was ultimately settled.

00:07:44The details of the settlement are sealed, but the stories Nicholas told people about his experience brought him sympathy and

00:07:51some powerful allies.

00:07:53Nick will have his rallies here and ask people to support him, come down.

00:07:57It's kids. And you know what? Kids are more important.

00:08:01Nicholas reconnected with his uncle, Michael Alaverdian.

00:08:04Michael says he was impressed at the man his nephew had become.

00:08:07I was amazed at his knowledge, his intelligence, what he was trying to do, which I thought was a great

00:08:13thing.

00:08:14He was trying to protect children.

00:08:16And he continued to do that for the next several years.

00:08:19But his crusade was about to be cut short.

00:08:22He contacted the press in Rhode Island with a tragic announcement.

00:08:25He had this terminal illness, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

00:08:29And less than two months later, the news was out.

00:08:32Nicholas Alaverdian was dead at the age of 32.

00:08:36Nicholas Alaverdian passed away from a long battle with cancer.

00:08:40But before long, new information about Nicholas would start making its way around Rhode Island,

00:08:46leaving everyone wondering how well they really knew him.

00:08:49Shortly afterwards, I got a call from the state police.

00:08:52Getting to the bottom of what happened to Nicholas would become a game of cat and mouse,

00:08:57spanning three countries, involving multiple law enforcement agencies.

00:09:01The FBI is investigating you.

00:09:03Me?

00:09:03You're being looked at for kidnapping, sexual assault, fraud.

00:09:07Incorrect.

00:09:08With a conclusion, stranger than fiction.

00:09:11Did this case just keep getting crazier and crazier?

00:09:14It seems to get crazier by the minute.

00:09:29Nicholas Alaverdian's obituary, sent out by the office of Nicholas Alaverdian,

00:09:33ran in local papers and the Boston Globe.

00:09:36The piece lauded Nicholas as a beloved community leader, peacemaker, warrior,

00:09:40and Rhode Island legislators paid tribute to him.

00:09:44It's a House resolution expressing the passing of Nicholas Alaverdian.

00:09:47Very, very sad.

00:09:49May you rest in peace, Nicholas.

00:09:51His uncle was also sad, but proud.

00:09:54He accomplished something.

00:09:57Father Bernard Healy of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church got a call from a woman who said she was

00:10:01Nicholas's widow, a woman named Louise.

00:10:05She said she was in Switzerland.

00:10:06He had died.

00:10:07She asked if she could have a memorial mass here at Our Lady of Mercy.

00:10:11Is this something that you were happy to do for her?

00:10:13Yeah, it's a memorial mass.

00:10:14I said, we have memorial masses for anybody.

00:10:17So she sent Nicholas's bio for the priest to reference at the mass.

00:10:21And after reading that biography, you would think that he was a cross between Mother

00:10:25Teresa and Nelson Mandela.

00:10:27At that point, Father Healy wasn't sure how to respond.

00:10:31Shortly afterwards, I got a call from the state police.

00:10:33We'd ask you not to have the mass because Nicholas is not dead.

00:10:36Oh, wow.

00:10:38They said, we believe he's faked his own death, that he's in Europe.

00:10:41Oh my gosh.

00:10:43He faked his own death?

00:10:45But why would a respected man who'd become such a positive force for change try to fool everyone?

00:10:52Turns out he had a darker side and it apparently emerged early in his life.

00:10:57I said, these kids need a father figure.

00:11:00David Rossi is Nicholas's adoptive father.

00:11:02Nicholas was eight when David married his mom in 1996.

00:11:07The two fell in love in a Rhode Island nightclub where David was an Engelbert Humperdinck impersonator

00:11:11who mingled with his idol and sang his hit songs.

00:11:15She was waitressing and she was absolutely beautiful.

00:11:18We got serious.

00:11:19We got married.

00:11:21That's when Nicholas Alaverdian became Nicholas Rossi.

00:11:24Even at a young age, David could tell he was a bright kid.

00:11:28Computer whiz, math whiz, just in general.

00:11:32Very high IQ, but he knew it and he took advantage of it.

00:11:36He would threaten people.

00:11:37I'll get out of my computer.

00:11:38I'll ruin your life in five minutes.

00:11:40Along with those threats came physical violence by Nicholas.

00:11:45David remembers one morning before school when Nicholas wouldn't stop hitting his mother.

00:11:49He was swinging at her, swinging at me.

00:11:51I picked him up, put him on the bus in his underwear.

00:11:53The bus drove away.

00:11:55The school called us.

00:11:56But you know, you're at a point where you don't know what to do with this kid.

00:11:59He ruined every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, every birthday for him and his siblings.

00:12:05He was wicked.

00:12:05He was a devil spawn.

00:12:07He really was.

00:12:08David says it got to the point where Nicholas's behavior was so bad they had to institutionalize

00:12:14him several times.

00:12:15But nothing seemed to work.

00:12:17They threw him out of there.

00:12:18Nobody could handle him.

00:12:20The David Rossi interview was a tricky one for me.

00:12:23The level of honesty was troubling at times.

00:12:26But it also gave us a transparent look into Nicholas's life as a kid.

00:12:31David told me that when Nicholas was just 10 years old, the family went to Disney World

00:12:35and Nicholas attacked his mother again.

00:12:38What he says happened next was heartbreaking to hear.

00:12:42He started hitting her.

00:12:44When I tell you I snapped like that, I couldn't take him on.

00:12:47I beat the hell out of him.

00:12:48I put him in the hospital.

00:12:50What?

00:12:50Yeah, I lost it.

00:12:52I'm ashamed of it.

00:12:53I always will be.

00:12:54She had to pull me off him.

00:12:56He's a child, though, and you're an adult, and that's child abuse.

00:12:59I snapped all the years, all the years of the problem and the trouble with him.

00:13:05David was arrested for assault in Florida, but Nicholas's mom asked to have the charges

00:13:09dropped and the case went nowhere.

00:13:12Shortly after, David walked out on the family.

00:13:14That was about the time Nicholas ended up in foster care.

00:13:18It was a few years later when state rep Brian Coogan considered adopting him.

00:13:23Did he straight up ask you, will you adopt me?

00:13:25Yes, he did.

00:13:27Nicholas was 14 when he called Brian one day from the courthouse crying.

00:13:30He said he was about to be shipped off to yet another group home if he wasn't adopted that

00:13:35very day.

00:13:36Brian raced over to the courthouse.

00:13:39The judge said, do you know what's going on with this kid?

00:13:41I said, judge, he's being abused.

00:13:43You know, he's got mocks on him, scratches, bruises.

00:13:46The judge says he had his whole file.

00:13:48He says, I can't show you this file, but trust me, everything he's telling you

00:13:53that's being done to him, he's actually doing to the other kids.

00:13:58Wow.

00:13:58So.

00:13:59Those are big allegations.

00:14:01Big, big.

00:14:03Since records involving children are sealed, the allegations made against

00:14:07Nicholas can't be verified.

00:14:09Coogan took the judge's advice and didn't adopt Nicholas and maybe dodged a bullet.

00:14:15Veteran reporter Tom Mooney thinks so.

00:14:17There are innumerable people who have come to his aid over the years, who have wanted

00:14:24to help him, who he ultimately turns on.

00:14:27That sort of gets to that other side of Nick Alvarian.

00:14:31When Nick was 18, he moved to Ohio. He was about to age out of the foster care system when

00:14:37a couple

00:14:37from Dayton agreed to take him in. In 2008, at age 21, he began attending Sinclair Community

00:14:43College in Dayton. That's when he first met Mary Grabinski.

00:14:47I was 19 years old. I was in my first quarter of college. I was just starting life.

00:14:52She says Nicholas reached out to her on MySpace.

00:14:55He told me that he was new to the area and he wanted to have friends in the area.

00:15:00She told Nicholas she had a boyfriend and wasn't interested in anything romantic.

00:15:04He assured her it was not a problem. Soon after, they agreed to meet for lunch at the

00:15:09school cafeteria and she brought along a friend.

00:15:12He was extremely friendly. We hit it off and he was charming. He was so easy to talk to. He

00:15:17was a good

00:15:18listener. We had a good time. Yeah.

00:15:20Afterward, Nick asked Mary if he could walk her to her next class. Since it was the middle of the

00:15:26day

00:15:26on a busy college campus, she thought, why not? Her classroom was in the basement.

00:15:31So when he took me into the basement, I didn't think anything weird of it.

00:15:35But in that basement, Mary encountered a terrifying version of Nicholas Alaverdian.

00:15:41There were a couple of times I wondered if he was going to kill me in that basement.

00:15:59In the winter of 2008, on an Ohio college campus, 21-year-old Nicholas Rossi walked Mary

00:16:05Grabinski to class. Once they reached the bottom of a stairwell, she says Nick suddenly turned on her.

00:16:11He pins me up against the wall and he starts both hands going up my shirt.

00:16:17And what are you saying to him?

00:16:19I'm saying, hey, can you please get off me? I need to go to my class.

00:16:22Did he stop?

00:16:23No. He had his hands up my shirt. I just couldn't push him off me.

00:16:27She saw another student coming down the stairs, but Mary was too paralyzed to scream.

00:16:33Probably just thought we were horny teenagers and ran right out.

00:16:37Nicholas was undeterred.

00:16:39He went from, you know, touching my shirt to, you know, taking my pants off and yeah.

00:16:46Oh, he's pulling your pants down.

00:16:47Yeah. He's touching himself.

00:16:49Oh my gosh. What is going through your mind as all of this is happening in front of you?

00:16:54I thought for sure he was going to rape me, but I did. There were a couple of times I

00:16:57wondered if,

00:16:58you know, he was going to kill me in that basement.

00:17:00What does he say when he is finished?

00:17:02Pretty much he finishes and I just went to my class.

00:17:06Too stunned to process what had happened. She says when her class was over, he was back.

00:17:12Nicholas was standing outside her classroom. When he saw her, he profusely apologized.

00:17:17He was begging me at that point not to press charges or to tell anybody what had happened.

00:17:23Mary ignored him and went straight to the campus police.

00:17:26After starting an investigation, they sent her to the local prosecutor's office.

00:17:30When I first talked to the prosecutors,

00:17:33they said that they didn't have enough evidence to pursue a case against him.

00:17:38They didn't want to do anything?

00:17:39No, not at first.

00:17:41It wasn't until they got a police report stating his version saying that I was the aggressor.

00:17:49Probably their gut feeling too was looking at you and saying, really?

00:17:52Yeah.

00:17:53She's the aggressor? You said you were 90 pounds?

00:17:55Yeah, I was very thin back then, yeah.

00:17:58There was something about the way Nicholas attacked her that made her feel like he'd done this before.

00:18:03It almost felt ritualistic. I knew I was not his first, but I wanted to make sure I was the

00:18:09last.

00:18:10In fact, Mary learned that another woman in Ohio just 15 days earlier reported to

00:18:16police that Nicholas Rossi had sexually assaulted her, but she decided not to pursue it further.

00:18:21In Mary's case, he was charged with public indecency and sexual imposition,

00:18:26which means sexual contact against a person's will.

00:18:29What did he take from you in that moment?

00:18:32Pretty much my will to live. But that was just the beginning for me.

00:18:38Yeah, it didn't end there.

00:18:39No.

00:18:43Nicholas pleaded not guilty and the case went to trial.

00:18:46Mary says that's when she was victimized yet again.

00:18:50The worst part was his defense coming at me and picking me and my story apart.

00:18:57Talking about what happened to me wasn't hard.

00:18:59Having someone, you know, question who I am as a person, question my integrity, that was hard.

00:19:05But the attack on Mary's credibility didn't work.

00:19:08The judge believed her and convicted Nicholas on both charges.

00:19:12Mary says he showed up to his sentencing wearing a three-piece suit

00:19:15and holding something she'd never seen him with before.

00:19:18He brought a cane and came in with a limp and neither of the other two hearings that we had

00:19:25did he pretend as if he was injured, you know, he walked fine.

00:19:30Did you think it was a show?

00:19:31I know, I know, I know for sure it was a show.

00:19:34This move by Nicholas, dressing to the nines and possibly faking an injury to get sympathy,

00:19:41foreshadows behavior I would witness myself during our interview you'll see later in the story.

00:19:46Whether his injury was real or not, Mary believed it worked.

00:19:51Nicholas walked away with no jail time.

00:19:54What did the judge sentence him to?

00:19:56He did sentence a fine.

00:19:58He had to attend a sex offender rehabilitation program.

00:20:04He had to register as a sex offender for 15 years.

00:20:09But that wasn't the last Mary would hear from Nicholas.

00:20:12A few months later, she got word that the judge was taking another look at the case.

00:20:17Nicholas claimed he had new evidence that would clear him.

00:20:20He has a fake MySpace blog that's supposed to be authored by me.

00:20:24It implied Mary lied and got Nick arrested because she didn't want her boyfriend

00:20:28to think she cheated on him with Nick.

00:20:30What did you say to the prosecutor?

00:20:32I said I didn't write that.

00:20:34The judge agreed the post was fake and closed the case.

00:20:37But Nicholas still wouldn't let it go.

00:20:40He tried to sue all the prosecutors involved.

00:20:43He ended up suing me.

00:20:44He was saying that because he had to register as a sex offender,

00:20:48it was hard for him to get dates and employment opportunities.

00:20:52So now, Mary had to defend herself again against the man who sexually assaulted her.

00:20:57She had to borrow money from her parents to hire an attorney.

00:21:01What emotions are you feeling?

00:21:03It's pretty much fear the whole time.

00:21:04Fear?

00:21:06Fear that the litigation could go his way and I have to pay him millions of dollars.

00:21:11All the while, Nick cyberstalked her, carrying out an online smear campaign on a men's rights

00:21:17website called A Voice for Men, posting pictures of her and her personal information.

00:21:23Eventually, the case was thrown out and Nicholas was ordered to pay Mary's legal fees.

00:21:27But amazingly, it wasn't over.

00:21:30My husband called him crazy on a blog.

00:21:34He found out and not soon after litigation came.

00:21:40And what happens this time?

00:21:41He loses the case and I get all my lawyer fees paid back.

00:21:45It was then that Nicholas moved back to Rhode Island and returned to the state house,

00:21:50apparently without anyone there knowing he had a criminal record.

00:21:53Instead, at 23 years old, Nicholas had a new polished look and a new crusade to change the foster care

00:22:00system.

00:22:01And like a young Jekyll and Hyde, according to police reports, he was also terrorizing women.

00:22:07Nicholas has quite an alleged spree of assaults here in Rhode Island.

00:22:12He does.

00:22:13There are five or six women who alleged that he had assaulted them or threatened them or kept them sort

00:22:22of kidnapped.

00:22:23The incidents occurred between March of 2010 and May of 2011.

00:22:28One of them involved someone close to Nicholas, his new wife.

00:22:32Nicholas had gotten married.

00:22:34And soon after, police responded to a domestic disturbance call at their apartment.

00:22:38The police come in and they notice that Nick's wife has some abrasions on her face, a redness on her

00:22:45neck.

00:22:46And they decide to arrest him at that point.

00:22:49When he gets into the cruiser, he's banging his head against the bars that are protecting the glass.

00:22:56The police officers had to use pepper spray to get him to calm down.

00:23:03Nicholas pleaded no contest to domestic abuse and received probation.

00:23:08The couple later divorced.

00:23:10As for several of his other alleged victims, they told Mooney they dropped their complaints.

00:23:15Do you think they were just scared of Nicholas?

00:23:18Oh, absolutely.

00:23:19Some of them have told me that was the reason they chose not to pursue any kind of criminal action

00:23:26against Nick is because they were terrified of him.

00:23:31His time in Rhode Island seemed to have run its course.

00:23:33He left the state again.

00:23:36Another reinvention was in the making.

00:23:38By 2015, he was 28 years old.

00:23:41He had a new woman in his sights.

00:23:43And she had no idea what was coming.

00:23:46I didn't know how I could continue, honestly, to survive.

00:24:07After his legal troubles in Rhode Island, Nicholas moved back to Dayton, Ohio.

00:24:11And straight out of his playbook, he appeared to dazzle local lawmakers.

00:24:15Here he is speaking at a city council meeting.

00:24:18I think the most important thing to remember here is that he even started a non-profit to help revitalize

00:24:24downtown Dayton.

00:24:25This non-profit was called the Community Progress Institute.

00:24:29What was that about?

00:24:30Just to raise money to kind of bring back the life, the pizzazz, back to Dayton.

00:24:35Katherine Heckendorn had a front row seat to the new Nicholas, who had gone back to using his birth name,

00:24:41Aliverdian.

00:24:42She met him in 2015.

00:24:43He was 28 and had joined her church.

00:24:46He immediately piqued her interest.

00:24:48And I said, perfect, a church guy.

00:24:51Yeah.

00:24:52This is pretty safe.

00:24:53You can't get any safer than this.

00:24:55She found him to be kind and caring.

00:24:58Katherine had just been through a traumatic experience with another man and was feeling vulnerable.

00:25:03He seemed very sympathetic and reassuring that I should feel safe and comfortable and help take care of me.

00:25:12Did that make you feel good?

00:25:13It did.

00:25:14I think that's exactly what I was looking for.

00:25:17They started meeting for coffee and dinners.

00:25:19They talked about their lives.

00:25:21He said he'd been married once before, but it didn't work out.

00:25:24He told her he was a Harvard grad and shared his dreams about his nonprofit.

00:25:28She found herself falling for him.

00:25:30There was a mystery that I couldn't put my finger on, which kind of drew me to him.

00:25:38After dating for just a few months, to her surprise, he proposed.

00:25:43We're sitting on the couch watching some TV at his place, and he just turns to me and says,

00:25:49we should get married.

00:25:50I mean, were you shocked?

00:25:51I was very shocked.

00:25:53I knew everything in me was saying, no, no, no, no, too soon.

00:25:59Something's off about this.

00:26:01He doesn't even really know me.

00:26:03I don't know him.

00:26:05Katherine told him she wasn't ready, but Nicholas persisted.

00:26:08I started to get annoyed and frustrated, but at the same time, I always wanted to be a wife.

00:26:17I always wanted to be a mom.

00:26:19And I think that desire for those things outweighed the fishiness and common sense.

00:26:27She finally gave in, and they married the very next day at City Hall.

00:26:32For Katherine, it was far from the dream wedding she'd always hoped for.

00:26:36And the day after they were married, Nick showed a dark side she'd never seen before.

00:26:40I don't remember what the argument was about, but it was the very next day where he

00:26:48lays his hands on me for the first time.

00:26:50It hits you?

00:26:51Yeah, yes.

00:26:53What do you do?

00:26:54Do you run?

00:26:55Do you say something to him?

00:26:56Do you call the police?

00:26:57Um, try to run, try to call the police.

00:27:02He would always manage to get to my phone and take it, so I could never call for help.

00:27:09There was one incident at their house early in their marriage when she was able to call the police.

00:27:15So they showed up and arrested him for domestic violence.

00:27:19She says a detective told her something frightening, that her husband was a registered sex offender.

00:27:25And he had warned me that he's dangerous, that he does daily rounds on the house,

00:27:32and that he's afraid next time he drives by, I will be either chained up in the basement or dead.

00:27:39Despite that, she bailed him out and withdrew her complaint.

00:27:43She kept hoping things would get better.

00:27:45That was rough, because each time then I got this false hope that the stranger's going to go away,

00:27:51and Nick's going to come back.

00:27:53But he became more and more controlling.

00:27:56Catherine says he wouldn't allow her to have a job and forced her to cook and clean and wear skirts

00:28:00with pantyhose.

00:28:02You know, take care of the house, make sure he had food when he got home.

00:28:06She said image was everything to Nicholas.

00:28:09He always preferred, like, um, a bow tie.

00:28:13I think he was looking for something very, like, sophisticated and strong enough to make him stand out.

00:28:20Everything seemed to be a show, even Nick's non-profit.

00:28:23He told her he desperately needed an infusion of cash to keep it going.

00:28:28Catherine says she made the mistake of telling him she had a savings account,

00:28:31money her parents had put away for her from the time she was little.

00:28:35And he said that if I don't give him money, his business is going to collapse,

00:28:42and we won't be able to eat, and that'll be my fault.

00:28:45So I gave him about $10,000.

00:28:49And as time went on, he said, we need more.

00:28:52She says the non-profit accomplished nothing.

00:28:55And she discovered his business wasn't the only thing that was fake.

00:28:58So was his Harvard degree.

00:29:00He'd only taken a course at the Extension School.

00:29:03So he lied.

00:29:04He did.

00:29:05On top of that, he had a taste for the finer things.

00:29:08And Catherine says he was using her money to pay for his lifestyle.

00:29:11I see him spending it on lavish, expensive meals, clothes, like first-class flights,

00:29:19five-star hotels.

00:29:20How much did you end up giving him?

00:29:22Close to $55,000.

00:29:27The more he lived it up, the more she lived in constant fear of his explosive temper.

00:29:33Sometimes when they'd argue, she says he would lock her in the bathroom.

00:29:36How long would he leave you in there for?

00:29:38The longest time was about two days.

00:29:40He always made it my fault.

00:29:43And after a while, I think I started believing that.

00:29:48Yeah.

00:29:49She says the worst of it would come when she refused him in the bedroom.

00:29:53Even though we were married, he would rape me.

00:29:56Did you feel just like a prisoner?

00:29:59Yeah.

00:30:00Um, I'm sorry.

00:30:04I didn't know it was possible to be cell alone.

00:30:11I didn't know how I could continue, honestly, to survive.

00:30:17Catherine knew she had to get out of the marriage, but she also knew Nicholas wouldn't make it easy.

00:30:22She needed proof he was abusing her.

00:30:25This is your big moment.

00:30:27You've got your phone ready to go.

00:30:29You're going to secretly record him.

00:30:31Yeah.

00:30:32What are you hiding from me?

00:30:34Give me your phone.

00:30:36Stop ignoring me!

00:30:53After five months of marriage, Catherine Heckendorn made a decision.

00:30:57She had to leave her husband.

00:30:59The polished, church-going man was all an act, and she was going to prove it.

00:31:04You're going to secretly record him to try to show the world the hell that you've been living through.

00:31:10Yeah.

00:31:11Can you play some of that for us today?

00:31:15Yeah.

00:31:16Yeah.

00:31:16At Dateline, we're no strangers to secret recordings.

00:31:20This one was raw and unfiltered.

00:31:22Hearing it unfold in real time was terrifying.

00:31:26It was like I was right there in that room with Catherine.

00:31:29It was hard seeing her relive that nightmare.

00:31:32Watch closely and you'll see Catherine start to shake.

00:31:36Give me your phone.

00:31:38Give me your phone.

00:31:40Stop ignoring me!

00:31:43Oh my gosh.

00:31:45What are you doing?

00:31:47I'm getting out of this negative atmosphere.

00:31:50No!

00:31:51Stop it!

00:31:52No!

00:31:53No!

00:31:54No!

00:31:56Stop!

00:31:59I see you shaking right now.

00:32:02Did that take you back to that place?

00:32:04Yeah.

00:32:05Very much so.

00:32:07She immediately sent the recording to her father for safe keeping.

00:32:11It would take two more months before she finally had the courage to walk out the door.

00:32:16She got on her knees and she prayed.

00:32:19Lord, let me know in a clear, distinct manner that I may act upon it and immediately

00:32:28get out, go.

00:32:30So I grabbed my purse.

00:32:32She left everything else behind, even her beloved dogs.

00:32:37Catherine needed to move quickly.

00:32:39So I get in my car and start driving and through his GPS tracking, he discovers that and proceeds to

00:32:48pursue me.

00:32:49He catches up to you and is chasing you?

00:32:51Yeah.

00:32:53Are you terrified?

00:32:54Yeah.

00:32:55I had run through a red light and kind of like head on, kind of T-bone another car.

00:33:04He's there, he sees this happen?

00:33:06Yeah, so as soon as he sees that I get in a car crash, he leaves.

00:33:11He doesn't want to be around when the police show up.

00:33:15Luckily, no one was hurt.

00:33:17She went to her parents' house and the next day called a lawyer and filed for divorce.

00:33:22How was Nicholas handling all this?

00:33:25Not good, you know, making threats, being irate with either me or my parents.

00:33:31Getting a divorce finalized would be a challenge.

00:33:34Nicholas wouldn't show up to court.

00:33:36And when the court officers tried to serve him the divorce papers, it appeared he was playing tricks.

00:33:40One of the officers said, I'm pretty sure that was him wearing a disguise, you know,

00:33:46with the hat, head down low.

00:33:48He just kind of disappeared and they couldn't find him.

00:33:52They eventually tracked him down.

00:33:54The judge ordered Nicholas to hand over the dogs and leave their house so Catherine could get her stuff.

00:33:59I opened the door and there's a gun sitting on the sofa.

00:34:04A gun?

00:34:05Yeah.

00:34:05As if Nick put it there to say, I may not physically be here, but I will still make you

00:34:10miserable.

00:34:11Catherine says despite her claims that Nicholas abused and sexually assaulted her,

00:34:15she was too afraid of him to take legal action.

00:34:18But she soon learned powerful law enforcement agencies were investigating him for a different kind of crime.

00:34:24Less than a month after I had left him, the Treasury or the FBI, or I think it was both,

00:34:31came knocking on my door, wanting any information I could give them on Nick.

00:34:38Did they explain why they were there?

00:34:40For fraud. And they did not go in details, just for fraud.

00:34:46Catherine found out later the feds were accusing Nicholas of stealing from his Ohio foster parents,

00:34:51that couple who had taken him in when he was about to age out of the system.

00:34:56Catherine remembers them fondly.

00:34:57We attended the same church here in Dayton, Ohio. They were lovely people, great people.

00:35:04And they seemed, you know, so caring towards Nick.

00:35:09Nicholas's foster father told Dateline he reported the fraud to local authorities.

00:35:14According to one police report, 10 credit card accounts were opened fraudulently,

00:35:18with an estimated $200,000 in charges.

00:35:21I do believe he was starting to swindle them and take from them while we were still together.

00:35:30As the FBI was looking into Nicholas for fraud, his name popped up somewhere else.

00:35:36Turns out, after his failed marriage in Ohio, Nicholas had moved back to Rhode Island,

00:35:40which is where Detective Connor O'Donnell was doing a routine check on registered sex offenders.

00:35:45Nick's name came across my desk, just a regular compliance check.

00:35:50Nicholas was in the national system for that attack on Mary in the college basement.

00:35:55Something in Nicholas's file caught the detective's attention.

00:35:59Nick had a warrant for his arrest, a technical violation on a domestic violence charge.

00:36:03That was the incident involving his first wife.

00:36:06He went to his last known residence to ensure that he lived at that address,

00:36:11and we were going to arrest him on his outstanding warrant.

00:36:14Was he there?

00:36:15No.

00:36:15He had moved, but the detective didn't know where.

00:36:18And that was a problem.

00:36:20Because he was a registered sex offender, he was required to notify the state that he had a new address.

00:36:26He hadn't done that.

00:36:27So a Rhode Island judge issued a new warrant for his arrest.

00:36:31We put his picture and his warrant up on Rhode Island's Most Wanted.

00:36:34Did you get any leads once you put it up there?

00:36:36It didn't take too long. We got a phone call from Nick.

00:36:40From Nick?

00:36:41Yeah.

00:36:56Detective Connor O'Donnell says when Nicholas Rossi found out he was on Rhode Island's Most Wanted list for not alerting

00:37:02police that he'd moved, he was furious.

00:37:04Claimed he had moved out of the country and then proceeded to lecture me about how I didn't know the

00:37:11general laws in the state of Rhode Island and that by moving out of this country, he didn't have to

00:37:16notify of a change of address.

00:37:17What did you think of his tone that it seems like he knew better than you?

00:37:21He was arrogant, egotistical.

00:37:24The detective was now determined to find him. He contacted the U.S. Marshals who began a search. They checked

00:37:31his passport and confirmed Nicholas had left the country on a one-way ticket.

00:37:36He had in fact left on an outbound flight out of an airport in New York to Ireland.

00:37:42By 2018, Nicholas was 31 years old. He had two ex-wives with restraining orders against him, was a convicted

00:37:50sex offender, wanted by Rhode Island State Police, and the feds were apparently looking for him too.

00:37:56Even though he'd left the country, his past had followed him. While overseas, he hired attorney Jeff Pine to handle

00:38:02the failure to register as a sex offender charge.

00:38:05Which is a serious case, obviously. It's a felony.

00:38:10Nicholas had been right. He didn't have to register since he'd left the country.

00:38:14So Pine was able to get the case dismissed. But still, he was careful when dealing with his client.

00:38:20With Nicholas, you always have a shade of doubt about what he's telling you. So I had to be careful

00:38:27that I wasn't being manipulated.

00:38:30Nicholas asked him to do one more thing, to see if there were any federal warrants with his name on

00:38:35them.

00:38:35The attorney checked, found one, and called the FBI.

00:38:39I asked, what's the nature of the charge? And they told me it was a significant credit card fraud, misappropriation

00:38:46of funds, obtaining money under false pretenses, that kind of thing.

00:38:50It was the case involving Nicholas' foster parents.

00:38:53The agent did confirm that there was a warrant for him.

00:38:57A federal warrant.

00:38:58Yeah.

00:38:58But Nicholas was not about to turn himself in.

00:39:02This has become a game of cat and mouse between the alleged con man and federal law enforcement.

00:39:08Yeah. They're going to have to expend a lot of resources and man hours to bring him to justice.

00:39:15And Nicholas had no idea. Yet another law enforcement agency was joining the chase.

00:39:21He is someone that needs to be put on trial for rape.

00:39:24In Utah, a county attorney named David Levitt was looking into old rape cases that had never been investigated.

00:39:31We had sexual assault kits that had been sitting on police shelves for years.

00:39:36It infuriated David Levitt that women filed complaints, endured rape exams, and yet their rape kits were never tested.

00:39:45It's a national epidemic with some estimates suggesting hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits across the country.

00:39:52The crisis caught the attention of Law & Order SVU star Mariska Hargitay, who used her platform to help get

00:40:00tens of thousands of kits tested across the country.

00:40:03Like Mariska, David Levitt made helping rape victims his mission when he took office in 2018.

00:40:11So we engaged in a partnership between the United States Department of Justice and the state of Utah to test

00:40:18all of these old rape kits.

00:40:20Did you start getting hits?

00:40:22We got a hit, and that hit was a hit for a registered sex offender in the state of Ohio.

00:40:30That sex offender was none other than Nicholas Rossi.

00:40:35His DNA was in the system from that assault on fellow college student Mary Grabinski.

00:40:40A detective from Utah reached out to Mary.

00:40:43And he just said, you know, we could potentially use your input on a case.

00:40:48I said, by all means, you know, anything I can do to help.

00:40:51Mary was frustrated to learn the rape case in Utah happened just months after Nicholas attacked her.

00:40:56But that case was never investigated.

00:40:59In 2008, the victim in this case said that she had been raped, and she voluntarily went through the rape

00:41:07exam, and the police were called.

00:41:09The case died at the police station and was never sent to the county attorney's office.

00:41:14So 11 years later, in 2019, an investigator reached out to the woman.

00:41:18Her story was eerily familiar.

00:41:21She said she met Nicholas Rossi on MySpace.

00:41:23And that two weeks later, they met in person, and they began a sexual relationship that lasted for a brief

00:41:31period of time.

00:41:32At the same time, Nicholas Rossi was taking money from her with the promise that he would pay it back

00:41:38and never did.

00:41:39So she said she went over to his apartment.

00:41:41She wanted her money back, and she wanted to end the relationship.

00:41:44He shut the door and began to just kind of put pressure on her to have sex.

00:41:51He took her clothes off and raped her.

00:41:54David Levitt had heard enough.

00:41:56He charged Nicholas with rape.

00:41:58Now his investigators had to find him.

00:42:01But arresting Nicholas Rossi wouldn't be so easy.

00:42:05No, it wouldn't be easy at all.

00:42:07While trying to track him down, one of his investigators found Nicholas' obituary, announcing he'd died of cancer.

00:42:14Is that the end of the case?

00:42:16Well, we didn't believe he was dead.

00:42:19But how would investigators prove that?

00:42:21That's when we began following Rossi's trail, which would lead us to a hotel in Scotland,

00:42:27and that bizarre interview with the man who insisted he wasn't Nicholas.

00:42:31What do you say to people who say this is all an act?

00:42:35Oh, Eka.

00:42:36Andrea, that's a right, no, no.

00:42:39That's a right, no, no.

00:42:55Detectives from Utah and Rhode Island, along with the FBI, were closing in on Nicholas Rossi.

00:43:00And then came the stunning news.

00:43:03He was dead at the age of 32.

00:43:05House resolution.

00:43:07Expressing condolences on the passing of Nicholas Aliverdian.

00:43:10If you look at the timeline, Nicholas Rossi or Nicholas Aliverdian's death occurred

00:43:17while we were in the midst of this investigation.

00:43:20To prosecutor David Levitt, that was no coincidence.

00:43:23So his team started digging.

00:43:25They subpoenaed Nicholas's financial records and noticed transactions after the day Nick

00:43:30had supposedly died.

00:43:32And they discovered activity on his social media accounts.

00:43:35Our investigators knew that he was not dead.

00:43:39When Detective Connor O'Donnell heard of Nicholas's untimely death, his BS radar also went off.

00:43:45He'd been searching for Nicholas for two years.

00:43:48O'Donnell immediately started making calls.

00:43:51We made numerous attempts through Interpol.

00:43:54Numerous countries for any proof of death.

00:43:58All were negative.

00:44:00Nothing came back.

00:44:02Then a Utah investigator reached out and told him Nicholas was still alive.

00:44:06That was when the detective contacted Father Healy and told him to stop planning the memorial mass.

00:44:12Nicholas wasn't dead.

00:44:13That he's a fugitive, wanted on financial and violent crimes.

00:44:18Detective O'Donnell asked Father Healy to cancel the service, but keep the reason a secret.

00:44:24I said, okay, I'll come up with some convenient excuse, which I did.

00:44:28You had to be a little untruthful to her.

00:44:32Correct.

00:44:32I had to go to confession after all that, yes.

00:44:35Father Healy was an absolute delight to interview.

00:44:39He had a great sense of humor about what must have been a surreal experience.

00:44:43Talking to him got me thinking about the lengths Nicholas was going to for a con like this.

00:44:49I mean, trying to trick a priest?

00:44:51Come on.

00:44:52Father Healy told me that when Louise, the woman claiming to be Nicholas' widow, heard the mass was off, she

00:45:00did not take it well.

00:45:01I've got a lot of emails that were kind of full of rage, upset, and anger at me.

00:45:07It was clear it was somebody who was very angry.

00:45:09You were bamboozled, Father.

00:45:11In a sense, yes.

00:45:13It's the first time in my life, in my priesthood, that somebody has tried to have a funeral for somebody

00:45:19who's not dead.

00:45:20The detective says he contacted other churches and learned Louise had been fishing for funerals all over town,

00:45:27asking priests to hold a memorial mass for Nicholas.

00:45:31You had managed to shut them all down.

00:45:33Yes.

00:45:33Wasn't easy, but yes.

00:45:36Remarkably, O'Donnell says Louise was also reaching out to the Rhode Island State Police, trying to get Nick off their

00:45:41most wanted list.

00:45:42You would think that the communication with Nicholas or, you know, his world would stop once he died, but that

00:45:50wasn't the case.

00:45:51It was not.

00:45:52We received numerous emails from the same email address that Nick had corresponded with me prior to his death from

00:45:59that same email address.

00:46:00But this time, the signature was his widow.

00:46:05Did you feel like these emails might actually be coming from Nick?

00:46:10100%.

00:46:11Meanwhile, the FBI was apparently reaching out to anyone who might know Nicholas's whereabouts.

00:46:17Brian Coogan was in his truck when his phone rang.

00:46:20It says, FBI, Utah.

00:46:22I was rattled.

00:46:24I pulled over in the parking lot and he said, this is special agent so-and-so from Utah, FBI.

00:46:30He said, do you know Nicholas Aliverdian, Nicholas Rossi?

00:46:34I said, yeah, I actually know him very well.

00:46:36He goes, well, we're looking for him.

00:46:37Do you know where he is?

00:46:39I said, well, didn't you know he died?

00:46:42And he said, he's not dead.

00:46:45And I sent him all the emails that I had, all the phone numbers, the pictures before I hung up.

00:46:50I said, you know, agent, you're the FBI.

00:46:53How come you can't catch him?

00:46:56The agent said they'd been trying to locate Nicholas through the internet with no luck.

00:47:00He says, we would track him through an email to his IP address.

00:47:06But he says the agent told him Nicholas, the computer whiz, sent them in circles, never in the location that

00:47:13matched the IP address.

00:47:14He says, let me tell you, this kid is so good.

00:47:17One of the best I've ever seen.

00:47:19But in December 2021, about two years after Nicholas supposedly died, they finally caught a break.

00:47:28Law enforcement sources say the computer genius had made a mistake.

00:47:32He'd given up his overseas address while online.

00:47:35The trail led authorities to the intensive care unit at this Glasgow hospital.

00:47:40If they had the right man, of all things, it was a severe case of COVID that now had him

00:47:46trapped.

00:47:46And that resulted in the Scottish authorities arresting him.

00:47:51That is a crazy twist.

00:47:53It is. It's fortunate.

00:47:57Interpol shared mug shots.

00:48:00Photos of his tattoos and fingerprints with local police so they could make an on-the-spot ID.

00:48:06When the Scottish authorities looked at him in a hospital room in Scotland, they were satisfied that Nicholas Rossi was,

00:48:13in fact, the same person that is wanted in the state of Utah.

00:48:18But not so fast.

00:48:21The man in the hospital insisted he was not Nicholas.

00:48:25He said his name was Arthur Knight, a law-abiding British businessman.

00:48:29I am not a fugitive, nor am I a gone man.

00:48:34Could it be?

00:48:35Was he actually telling the truth?

00:48:38I thought this man in front of me was Arthur Knight.

00:48:41And the authorities had made a mistake.

00:48:44And I was like, good God.

00:48:58The man calling himself Arthur Knight was determined to prove he was not American fugitive Nicholas Rossi.

00:49:05He insisted he was an Irish orphan and claimed to have an Irish driver's license.

00:49:09To be accused of rape, it could happen to anyone.

00:49:13While out on bail, Arthur, with his wife Miranda by his side, organized a press tour from his flat in

00:49:19Glasgow.

00:49:20He used a wheelchair and wore an oxygen mask, he said, because of the effects of COVID.

00:49:25Are you that man?

00:49:26Are you Nicholas Rossi?

00:49:28I can veritably say that I have not ever once done any of the acts that we just described.

00:49:37We came to Scotland to get to the bottom of this mystery.

00:49:40Was Arthur Knight the victim of a colossal case of mistaken identity?

00:49:45Or was he trying to pull off his biggest con yet?

00:49:50We caught up with investigative reporter Jane McSorley.

00:49:54I've been a journalist over 30 years and I have never met a man like him.

00:50:00For her audible podcast called I Am Not Nicholas, she got up close and personal with Arthur when he and

00:50:06his wife Miranda invited her over for dinner.

00:50:09What is it like walking into their flat?

00:50:12It's a fairly small flat.

00:50:14I was welcomed very, very warmly by Miranda.

00:50:16Arthur's there in a wheelchair, you know, with the mask and the oxygen tank and everything.

00:50:21But he's dressed up to the nines.

00:50:23Are you the whole time looking at him, her, scanning the room for clues?

00:50:27I was just engrossed by him, really, because, I mean, everybody's talking about this man.

00:50:33And here I am, as close as I am now to you.

00:50:36You know, he was such a nice guy.

00:50:37I thought, how can he potentially be this Nicholas Rossi that alleged to be, you know, a rapist?

00:50:45Jane knew there was one sure way to find out.

00:50:48After dining on Miranda's champagne chicken dinner, she asked Arthur to roll up his sleeves to see if he had

00:50:54the same tattoos as Nicholas Rossi.

00:50:56And it was, after I'd been there, at least a couple of hours.

00:51:00And straight away he agreed.

00:51:02So I said, would you pull back your sleeves?

00:51:05Not only that, he pulled up mug shots that had Nicholas Rossi's tattooed arms on his big screen TV.

00:51:11Is your heart kind of just pounding, you know, as you're waiting for this moment?

00:51:17It felt like it was, it just felt like it was slow-mo.

00:51:21He rolled up his left sleeve as far as his elbow.

00:51:24She couldn't believe what she was seeing or not seeing.

00:51:28I had my glasses on as well.

00:51:30I mean, I was completely in awe of this left forearm.

00:51:44She even checked to make sure he hadn't covered them with makeup.

00:51:47It was quite a moment.

00:51:49So I thought, this man in front of me was Arthur Knight.

00:51:52And the authorities had made a mistake.

00:51:55And I was like, good God.

00:51:57You know, because he's so adamant...

00:51:59That was just the beginning of Jane's reporting.

00:52:01There was so much more to uncover.

00:52:04This was a rollercoaster for you.

00:52:06It was.

00:52:07The story's stranger than fiction, but that's what's great about it.

00:52:10It was a rollercoaster for us, too.

00:52:13Our reporting led us to a TV personality named Nafsika Antipas.

00:52:17She'd done business with Arthur Knight.

00:52:20I was in shock, and actually I was kind of embarrassed that I went through that.

00:52:25Although he used the name Nicholas Brown, he said his full name was...

00:52:29Timothy Arthur Nicholas Knight Brown.

00:52:31In 2020, Nafsika was looking for help marketing her vegan cheese company called Nafsika's Garden

00:52:37and promoting the fourth season of her A&E television show, Plant-Based by Nafsika.

00:52:43She scanned through resumes on Upwork, an online marketplace for freelancers, and found Nicholas Brown.

00:52:50She says he was highly rated on the site.

00:52:52Tell us about his resume.

00:52:53What was on it?

00:52:54Harvard graduate, experience with PR, marketing, everything I was looking for, he had it on there,

00:53:02and he was an international lawyer, apparently.

00:53:04I kind of thought he was the whole package.

00:53:06And I spoke to him, and I hired him the same day.

00:53:11Nafsika agreed to pay him a fee of around $7,000 a month.

00:53:15She was based in Montreal.

00:53:16He claimed to be in Ireland, so they never met in person.

00:53:19Every time I would tell him, Nicholas, where is the work?

00:53:24Show me what you've done so far.

00:53:25He would either come up with an excuse, or he would, like, send me a picture of something like his

00:53:32dog.

00:53:33It quickly became obvious.

00:53:34The man she hired from Upwork was more like no work.

00:53:38She says he always had an excuse for why nothing was getting done.

00:53:42So one time he was in the hospital, and then another month his wife was in the hospital.

00:53:46I think she had appendicitis.

00:53:48Then his dog was in the hospital.

00:53:51At one point, he pitched an idea about creating a new company with Nafsika.

00:53:55He and his wife Miranda would be on the board.

00:53:58So I asked him, I said, are you trying to take over all my companies, what's happening here?

00:54:03He goes, no, no, no, no, I just want to oversee what's happening.

00:54:07So she agreed, but she never gave him access to her bank accounts or credit cards.

00:54:12She did, however, give him a copy of her passport.

00:54:15He said he needed it for the paperwork.

00:54:17At first, I was going along with it because I said, OK, I'm going to see what he does, see

00:54:23if he'll actually start working.

00:54:24But again, nothing.

00:54:26So after paying him nearly $30,000 over four months with no work completed, Nafsika cut him off.

00:54:33I terminated his access to my website, to my, his emails and his wife emails.

00:54:40You didn't give him any warning.

00:54:41That's it, no warning.

00:54:43He didn't take this well.

00:54:44He got very aggressive, started sending a lot of messages, phoning.

00:54:50I wasn't answering my phone.

00:54:53When she didn't respond, she says he sent threatening texts about a contract that she says never existed.

00:54:59If she didn't pay him about $40,000 or a reasonable counteroffer, he would ruin her reputation.

00:55:06He had created a fraud alert website using her passport photo like a mugshot and was planning to tell the

00:55:12world her company was a sham.

00:55:14I was very, very nervous because I didn't know how this would affect my brand that I was just launched,

00:55:21had just recently launched at the time.

00:55:23And my family and, you know, how crazy is he? He's going to go after my kids.

00:55:30The threatening texts kept coming and coming.

00:55:34Nafsika didn't give in to his scare tactics and told him he was officially fired.

00:55:38As soon as I told him he's terminated, that's when everything went live.

00:55:42All of his smear tactics went live.

00:55:45Yes, he had fake social media accounts where he was tweeting about me that my vegan cheese is fake, that

00:55:50it's not really vegan.

00:55:51I started calling the police in every country.

00:55:55I filed all those fraud reports.

00:55:59I hired a private investigator in Dublin to track him down.

00:56:04But the private investigator found nothing.

00:56:07Two years later, Nafsika found out why.

00:56:09She learned the man she'd been dealing with wasn't in Ireland, and he wasn't Nicholas Brown, the name she knew

00:56:16him by.

00:56:16He was living in Scotland, claiming to be Arthur Knight.

00:56:20He's finally been arrested.

00:56:21Then she got another call.

00:56:23It said Utah FBI on her caller ID.

00:56:26The agent asked for her help finding Nicholas.

00:56:29They tell me, tell me what you got, and I'll tell you what I have.

00:56:33And we swapped, you know, information.

00:56:35How badly do you want to bring this man down?

00:56:38I want him behind bars, big time.

00:56:41Because not only of what he's done to me, but what he's done to so many people.

00:56:45But justice was a long way off.

00:56:47After his arrest in the hospital, he appeared before a judge and continued to insist he was Arthur Knight.

00:56:53Not Nicholas Rossi, the American fugitive.

00:56:57So now, the judge had to rule first on his identity before deciding if he should be extradited.

00:57:02Are you losing confidence, sir?

00:57:03Months went by with hearing after hearing, but no ruling from the judge.

00:57:07How can you possibly claim not to be Nicholas Rossi now?

00:57:10Are you Arthur Knight or Nicholas Rossi?

00:57:13That's when Dateline got the chance to sit down with him.

00:57:16Did you sexually assault anyone?

00:57:18Did you kidnap anyone?

00:57:19Did you defraud anyone?

00:57:21In one of our most memorable interviews.

00:57:24I can't breathe.

00:57:24I can't walk.

00:57:25People say, that's not.

00:57:27Let me try to stand up.

00:57:28Let me try to stand up.

00:57:43More than four months had passed since Arthur Knight's arrest in a Scottish hospital.

00:57:47He was still out on bail, waiting for a judge to decide if he was telling the truth about his

00:57:52identity.

00:57:53It was April 2022.

00:57:55Arthur, along with his wife Miranda, agreed to speak to us remotely.

00:57:58I know you have a lot to say, which is great.

00:58:02I want to be as honest and truthful as possible.

00:58:06It's very important that our story is heard.

00:58:10People ask me if covering cases for Dateline gives me nightmares.

00:58:14I've always said no.

00:58:16That changed the day I sat down with the man calling himself Arthur Knight.

00:58:21Something about him got to me.

00:58:23Our interview was an emotional rollercoaster.

00:58:26Tears one moment, anger the next, sometimes aimed at me.

00:58:31We started with Arthur's backstory.

00:58:34He told me he grew up as an orphan in Ireland who was later adopted.

00:58:38Sound familiar?

00:58:40Like a ball over there.

00:58:41Dublin, Belfast.

00:58:43He said he later moved to London and through grit and determination worked his way up the corporate ladder in

00:58:48communications.

00:58:55He and Miranda said they met at a London art museum in 2011.

00:58:59We just struck up a conversation.

00:59:02You know, exchanged kind of contact detail, but I was not, you know...

00:59:05With flip phones at the time.

00:59:08That's it.

00:59:09They said they were friends at first.

00:59:10She was in a relationship and busy with her career.

00:59:13So previously I was, you know, an executive and I've worked in account management.

00:59:19But several years later they said they met up again.

00:59:22Romance blossomed.

00:59:23We fell in love.

00:59:26We love each other very much.

00:59:28Deeply in love.

00:59:30And in February of 2020, the same month that Nicholas Aliverdian supposedly died, Arthur and Miranda got married.

00:59:36Nicholas, Rosie or Aliverdian or whatever had died.

00:59:41We were on our honeymoon.

00:59:43Less than two years later, their world fell apart.

00:59:47It was December of 2021 when Arthur was hospitalized with COVID.

00:59:52Miranda said a nurse told her he probably wouldn't make it.

00:59:55And I was literally in tears.

00:59:58I was in shock.

00:59:59And the world just caving in for me.

01:00:01She said Arthur was in a medically induced coma and put on a ventilator.

01:00:05After three months, though, he woke up.

01:00:08So Arthur makes it through this.

01:00:11But your whole world has been turned upside down.

01:00:14I was with him in his room and two police constables came into the room and I looked up and

01:00:21I thought they had walked into the wrong room.

01:00:24Would they tell you?

01:00:25They said that it would be sensible for me to actually leave the room because of what was going to

01:00:30be said.

01:00:31And Arthur said, no, you know, my wife knows everything.

01:00:36There's no secrets between us.

01:00:38Can you also tell us what happened in that room and why they told you they were there?

01:00:43I just, you know, remember words of 2008, Utah, rape, America, and it all didn't make sense.

01:00:53She heard police calling Arthur Nicholas Rossi.

01:00:56They said that international law enforcement agencies were trying to bring him back to the United States.

01:01:02I made it clear I'm not Nicholas Rossi, but people choose to believe what they want.

01:01:07Were you read your rights?

01:01:08Were you handcuffed?

01:01:09I was told I was under arrest for rape in Utah, and that's all I was told.

01:01:15To try to clear up the question of his identity, is he Arthur or is he Nicholas?

01:01:20I asked if I could get a better look at him.

01:01:23Would you take your mask off for one second just to show us your face?

01:01:26I can.

01:01:27When I catch my breath, yes.

01:01:29But can you just show us now?

01:01:31Well, I'm hypoxic, so I'm telling you, yes, I will.

01:01:37But must I do it now?

01:01:39He never took it off.

01:01:40And he didn't have answers to a lot of our questions either.

01:01:43Did you say you were adopted?

01:01:45I was, yes.

01:01:46At what age?

01:01:47I am not certain.

01:01:49He was also evasive when we asked him if we could see his birth certificate.

01:01:53I'm just looking for ways, you know, that you can back up some of your, what you're saying, just to

01:01:58put people's minds at ease.

01:01:59Well, which minds?

01:02:01We moved on to more pressing matters.

01:02:03The FBI is investigating you.

01:02:05You're being looked at for kidnapping, sexual assault, fraud in multiple states.

01:02:11Incorrect.

01:02:11David Leavitt has said those things.

01:02:14The FBI have said nothing.

01:02:16The FBI is investigating you, though.

01:02:18Me?

01:02:19Yes, they're looking into you and how you might fit into all of this.

01:02:24No, they're not.

01:02:25The FBI rarely comments on active investigations.

01:02:29But remember, several people we interviewed told us the FBI contacted and questioned them, including Nafzika Intipas.

01:02:36Nafzika, she was my client.

01:02:39When we asked Arthur about Nafzika, he seemed rattled and denied her claims that he stole from her and failed

01:02:44to do any work.

01:02:46Nafzika says that you scammed her out of tens of thousands of dollars.

01:02:50Correction.

01:02:51Nafzika paid me for work that was performed.

01:02:56I did not scam her out of money.

01:02:59Nafzika says that you are a con man.

01:03:02I'm sorry she feels that way, but her text messages say the opposite.

01:03:09She called us Jules.

01:03:10Despite his denials, our questions seemed to hit a nerve.

01:03:14What do you say to someone who believes that you are Nicholas Oliverdian?

01:03:20I am not Andrea.

01:03:22I am not Nicholas Oliverdian.

01:03:26I do not know how to make this clear.

01:03:30What do you say to people who say these are crocodile tears, he's putting on a show, this is all

01:03:34an act.

01:03:36Oh, Eka.

01:03:37Andrea, that's a low blow.

01:03:40That's a right low blow.

01:03:42Crocodile tears?

01:03:43Do you think I can, I don't believe that.

01:03:46Did you sexually assault anyone?

01:03:48Did you kidnap anyone?

01:03:49Did you defraud anyone?

01:03:50What?

01:03:53What?

01:03:54No, no, no.

01:03:56And no.

01:03:57His wife Miranda said he was 100% telling the truth.

01:04:01And if he was a serial rapist, she would know.

01:04:04What would you say to anyone who says you're naive or how do you know this?

01:04:07Are you not concerned?

01:04:08What do you say to those people?

01:04:10So what I would say that what I've read about Nicholas Rossi, allegedly he'd done all of these crimes, assaulted

01:04:19women, etc.

01:04:20But you can't change a tendency of a person that rapes, that consistently rapes or sexual assaults.

01:04:29My husband has never, ever done anything which has hurt me.

01:04:34You know, he hasn't, you know, assaulted me.

01:04:37I do know the truth.

01:04:39I know he's innocent.

01:04:40I know he's not a rapist.

01:04:43100%.

01:04:43Where does this go from here?

01:04:45For Arthur, for the both of you, what's next?

01:04:49I believe that, you know, we will fight this together.

01:04:52And there will be a time where we will crack open a bottle of champagne and we will go back

01:04:58to our normal lives as a normal couple with our beautiful dogs and restart our lives.

01:05:04What's the most important thing today that you want people to know, both of you?

01:05:09We were once a normal family, but thanks to the media, our lives have been interrupted.

01:05:16And we'd like privacy and I would like to go back to being a normal husband.

01:05:21But I can't because I can't breathe.

01:05:24I can't walk.

01:05:25People say that's an act.

01:05:27Let me try to stand up.

01:05:28Let me try to stand up.

01:05:31Exactly.

01:05:31Please.

01:05:32Exactly.

01:05:32So let's, let's, let's, let's, you're laughing now.

01:05:36This is what people do to me.

01:05:38They call me a liar.

01:05:39They say this oxygen is, is a prop.

01:05:42He told us this whole misunderstanding was the handiwork of David Leavitt.

01:05:46David Leavitt is a con man.

01:05:49David Leavitt is a monster.

01:05:52And he was about to go after Leavitt with a vengeance.

01:05:56You've never been attacked like this, to this level.

01:05:59No.

01:06:00I'll give him that.

01:06:00He, he, he took it to a new level.

01:06:14In the spring of 2022, Arthur continued to seek media attention.

01:06:18He called another press conference, this time to introduce his new defense attorney, Craig

01:06:23Johnson, who'd flown all the way from Utah to Scotland.

01:06:27Do you believe Arthur Knight is Arthur Knight and that he is innocent of all the allegations

01:06:33that are being leveled against him?

01:06:38Johnson said Arthur reached out to him, probably not by coincidence, since Johnson once worked

01:06:43for Utah County attorney David Leavitt.

01:06:46Johnson told us he left the prosecutor's office after a dispute with Leavitt, but said that

01:06:51had nothing to do with him taking on Arthur Knight as a client.

01:06:54Still, he was quick to criticize his former boss.

01:06:57There's been such a rush to judgment by Mr. Leavitt in his office, coordinating with other

01:07:03authorities.

01:07:04That is our concern.

01:07:05Johnson said David Leavitt crossed the line, speaking so openly about the allegations of

01:07:09rape and fake identity against his client.

01:07:12It's very concerning to me when the head law enforcement official in Utah County, my former

01:07:17boss, David Leavitt, has been making a lot of interviews and statements about my client,

01:07:22which, frankly, poisoned the jury pool.

01:07:25Leavitt disagrees, saying he's been careful not to discuss specifics of the case.

01:07:29We pressed Johnson on why he was so sure Arthur Knight was telling the truth about his identity.

01:07:34Has he shown you his face?

01:07:35Yes, I've seen his face without his mask.

01:07:38He said he'd also seen what Nicholas Rossi looked like.

01:07:42And you believe when you see his face that that is not the same man?

01:07:46I don't believe it's the same man.

01:07:47We decided to check with someone who knows Nicholas well.

01:07:50We asked Mary Grabinski if she thought Arthur was Nicholas.

01:07:54Have you watched the videos, the interviews with him?

01:07:57I've seen a couple.

01:07:58He's bloated and grotesque, but that's him.

01:08:01That's him.

01:08:02Do you believe that there's any possibility that that man is Arthur, really Arthur Knight?

01:08:08No.

01:08:09And what is it when you look at it that you think, nope, that's Nicholas?

01:08:13The hair, the teeth, and especially like the fingers, the hands.

01:08:18I remember those hands.

01:08:20I love the little quirky details we hear in our datelines, and this one was full of them.

01:08:26While in Scotland, I spoke with a pub owner named Kenny who said Arthur used to frequent his bar.

01:08:32One day, Kenny said they were serving Coronation chicken wraps, a UK staple most locals would instantly recognize.

01:08:39Arthur had no idea what it was.

01:08:42And after a few drinks, Kenny noticed something else.

01:08:46Arthur's American accent would sometimes slip out.

01:08:49Kenny wasn't fooled.

01:08:51Neither was the British press.

01:08:54Nicholas, you've completely failed to pull the wheel over the right.

01:09:01But he continued to make his case, and he even tried a new tactic, sabotaging the reputation of the man

01:09:07who was responsible for his arrest, Utah prosecutor David Levitt.

01:09:11We saw the press release.

01:09:13There's some breaking news.

01:09:15Yes.

01:09:16We learned is an ongoing federal investigation into David Levitt involving everything from money laundering to embezzlement to abuse to

01:09:30corruption.

01:09:31Miranda, do you have any comments on that?

01:09:33Yes, I think it will be interesting to see how things play out with that.

01:09:38Levitt says none of that is true.

01:09:40You've never been attacked like this, to this level.

01:09:44No.

01:09:44Nicholas Rossi, I'll give him that.

01:09:46He took it to a new level.

01:09:48Levitt was not only working to extradite Rossi, he was also running for re-election.

01:09:53And just days before the polls opened, he says his campaign was sabotaged by the man calling himself Arthur Knight.

01:09:59He accused my wife and I of being human traffickers, of being cannibals, of being murderers.

01:10:06Arthur posted this on his website.

01:10:08Breaking news, David Levitt is confirmed to be head of a criminal Utah cult.

01:10:13This goes deep.

01:10:15This is like a thriller.

01:10:16We didn't think it was too thrilling for us.

01:10:19Levitt had had enough and called his own press conference.

01:10:22That this all occurs less than one week before ballots drop, in an election in which I am participating, causes

01:10:38me tremendous concern.

01:10:41Arthur cited the Utah County Sheriff's Office as the source of his allegations.

01:10:45The sheriff was a vocal critic of Levitt's and backed his opponent in the prosecutor's race.

01:10:51The sheriff denied that he had been Arthur's source.

01:10:55Regardless, the story was out there.

01:10:58How do you defend yourself against allegations like that when someone is, you know, putting them out there like they're

01:11:05fact?

01:11:06Well, there's no way to defend yourself in this culture.

01:11:08Levitt lost his election and believes Nicholas Rossi was partly to blame.

01:11:12He did cost me my job, but the reality is how many women will never be raped because of what

01:11:18we did?

01:11:20Although Levitt was out of office, the case against Arthur Knight slash Nicholas Rossi kept going, and he would continue

01:11:27to grab headlines.

01:11:29He said the tattoos were put on him when he was in a coma.

01:11:33This was a jaw dropper.

01:11:34Totally.

01:11:36And a Scottish judge would finally make a ruling on his identity.

01:11:55Arthur Knight was back in the headlines.

01:11:57Instead of going to a court hearing, he checked himself into the hospital again for COVID complications.

01:12:02Not long after, police were called to his room.

01:12:05He assaulted a doctor and a nurse.

01:12:07Yeah, and they said at that point he actually got up off the gurney that he was on and came

01:12:14at them, which raised some questions about his physical capacity.

01:12:19Arthur had flown into a rage when he was told he would be discharged.

01:12:23Several articles quoted the female doctor who said,

01:12:32And that was a good reason at that point to restrict his bail.

01:12:38He was sent to jail, and after a quick trial, he was convicted of assault.

01:12:43But Arthur's biggest day in court was right around the corner.

01:12:46Almost a year after he was first arrested, a judge was hearing arguments about Arthur's identity.

01:12:52Was he a British businessman or an American fugitive?

01:12:57Reporter Jane McSorley was in the courtroom.

01:13:00The advocate deputy was asking him the questions, and he asked him about the tattoos.

01:13:05The Scottish prosecutor presented evidence showing that while Arthur's forearms were free of tattoos,

01:13:11his upper arms did have them, and they were identical to Nicholas Rossi's.

01:13:17When Arthur took the stand, he had an explanation.

01:13:20Well, he said in court that the tattoos were put on him when he was in a coma in the

01:13:28hospital in Glasgow.

01:13:30Jaws dropped in the courtroom as he told the judge they were inked on his arms while he was unconscious.

01:13:36The advocate deputy was just like about three meters away.

01:13:39And he turned around, and his face was like, it was like an emoji with a big open mouth.

01:13:43It was like, he couldn't believe what he'd heard, and neither could all of us.

01:13:48In the old police photos, Nicholas Rossi had tattoos on his entire left arm.

01:13:53Remember, Jane didn't see the upper part of his arm when she interviewed him, only his forearm, and it was

01:13:59free of tattoos.

01:14:01Shortly after that visit, she learned why.

01:14:04One of his ex-wives had said that when they were together in 2015, that he was going through the

01:14:10process of getting his tattoos removed.

01:14:13And what about a more traditional way of making an ID? Fingerprints?

01:14:18They were also a match, but Arthur tried to explain that away, too.

01:14:22He said they were taken by a hospital worker without his knowledge and sent to Utah so Prosecutor Levitt could

01:14:28claim they were Rossi's.

01:14:30I mean, it was just, it was just some moment, you know.

01:14:33The judge wasn't buying any of it, and announced his decision.

01:14:37I am ultimately satisfied on the balance of probabilities, by the evidence of fingerprint, photographic, and tattoo evidence, that Mr.

01:14:46Knight is indeed Nicholas Rossi.

01:14:48Is it the end of the road, sir?

01:14:49Finally, Nicholas Rossi could be extradited to the U.S.

01:14:53But he filed appeal after appeal, and despite the judge's ruling, he never stopped claiming they had the wrong man.

01:15:00Some suggesting Rossi has made a mockery of the justice system and created an international spectacle in the process.

01:15:08All the while, Nicholas's wife Miranda stood by his side, even after the judge's decision.

01:15:14Was she lying?

01:15:16Jane believes so, and says she has proof.

01:15:18While reporting for her podcast, Jane uncovered a recording of Louise, the woman who claimed to be Nicholas's widow.

01:15:26Louise was the one trying to arrange his funeral.

01:15:29Basically, the priest was explaining that he had done his first funeral on Monday.

01:15:35It was just an automatic, oh my God, that's Miranda.

01:15:38I mean, you know what, I know my British accents.

01:15:41No doubt in your mind?

01:15:42No doubt whatsoever.

01:15:44So you think Miranda's in on this?

01:15:46Oh yeah.

01:15:47Miranda, she's in on it, up to her neck.

01:15:51Miranda hasn't been charged with anything.

01:15:53She was a lot less chatty than during our interview, when we caught up with her at one of Nicholas's

01:15:58extradition hearings in Edinburgh.

01:16:00Do you have anything to say today about the hearing?

01:16:04The legal battle to extradite Rossi continued for more than a year.

01:16:08It finally ended in December 2023, when he lost his last appeal.

01:16:12Now it's over, removed from this prison and put in a plane back to the States.

01:16:18In the U.S., his legal troubles were just beginning, and his behavior would be no less dramatic.

01:16:25It feels like a circus almost at this point, because it's just weird drama turn after weird drama turn.

01:16:32And things were about to get even weirder.

01:16:35The con man had another revelation.

01:16:39Big, big twist in this case.

01:16:42Well, huge.

01:16:43Yeah, I mean, it's a game changer.

01:16:57Nicholas Rossi is facing two rape charges in Utah, one here in Salt Lake County and one in Utah County.

01:17:04On January 5th, 2024, deputies booked Nicholas Rossi into a Utah County jail.

01:17:10The long saga to bring him to justice in the U.S. seemed to be entering its final phase for

01:17:16everyone but him.

01:17:17From the moment Nicholas Rossi stepped foot here in Utah, he continued to insist he was Arthur Knight.

01:17:24He even asked a judge to require that all county jail staff address him by that name.

01:17:29The judge denied that request.

01:17:32Then, months later, in a stunning turn of events, Nicholas had a revelation.

01:17:37It all went down in a Utah courtroom.

01:17:40All rise.

01:17:41In a hearing about one of the 2008 rape charges, Rossi asked the judge to be let out on bail.

01:17:47The prosecutor argued that was a bad idea.

01:17:50That we were going to ask the court to hold him without bail.

01:17:52And read a letter from the alleged rape victim in the case.

01:17:55He has a history of harassing and threatening his victims in the past, so this would be a legitimate fear.

01:18:02I do have young children at home, and this would cause me and my husband to worry for their safety

01:18:06while causing our family unnecessary stress.

01:18:09The lead detective took the stand and backed up the victim's fears.

01:18:13He testified about Nicholas Rossi's history of terrorizing women.

01:18:17One in particular is Mary Grubinski.

01:18:19And about Nicholas' attempt to evade the law by faking his death, escaping to England, and assuming a new identity.

01:18:26And to the best of your knowledge, when Mr. Rossi was returned to the United States, did additional DNA testing

01:18:32confirm that he was, in fact, Mr. Nicholas Rossi?

01:18:35Yes, sir.

01:18:36Then, the moment we'd all been waiting for, the defense called Nicholas to the stand.

01:18:41Mr. Knight, can you please say your name for the record?

01:18:44Arthur Knight.

01:18:45Okay.

01:18:45Mr. Knight, can you also tell us other names that you've gone by previously?

01:18:50I was born with the name Nicholas Aliverdian in 1996.

01:18:56I had that surname changed by my stepfather when I became Rossi, and I reverted to using it in 2007.

01:19:07After more than three years of deceiving the world about his identity, he admitted it was a big lie.

01:19:13Not only that, he told the court he had a compelling reason.

01:19:18I was informed by two reliable sources that there were two credible threats against my life.

01:19:26He said the death threats were due to his work in Rhode Island trying to reform the Department of Children,

01:19:31Youth, and Families.

01:19:32But when asked the names of the people allegedly threatening him?

01:19:35I don't want to give a mouse cheese.

01:19:38What would giving their names, how would that give a mouse cheese?

01:19:44Meaning it would stoke the fire that they've had to continue with their actions against me.

01:19:51The judge cleared the courtroom so Rossi could reveal in secret who was after him.

01:19:56When the proceedings reopened, the prosecutor countered,

01:19:59if Nicholas was so concerned about hiding his identity, why did he create a media circus?

01:20:03Did you think that going on public television was a good way to keep your identity quiet?

01:20:08Well, I...

01:20:09Objection.

01:20:10Judge.

01:20:11We asked former prosecutor Levitt to weigh in on Nicholas's revelation.

01:20:16Big, big twist in this case.

01:20:18Well, huge.

01:20:19Yeah, I mean, it's a game changer.

01:20:21What do you make of this argument that he had to go by Arthur Knight because his life was in

01:20:26danger?

01:20:26Well, I mean, I give the same amount of credence to that story as I do the allegation that I

01:20:35hired someone to put a tattoo on his arm in Scotland.

01:20:40Levitt believes Rossi's admission is more legal strategy than change of heart.

01:20:44He says Nicholas had no chance of getting bail if he didn't admit his real identity.

01:20:48If I'm claiming not to be the person I am, then that paints me as a flight risk, so I'm

01:20:54not going to get bail.

01:20:55Regardless of his admission, the prosecutor argued Rossi should stay behind bars.

01:21:00He is a flight risk, and so the state would ask that the court move his bail to no bond

01:21:06you on it.

01:21:08The judge quickly made his ruling.

01:21:10The court finds that the state has met its burden of proof.

01:21:13I will order that Mr. Rossi be held without bail.

01:21:17Ball rise.

01:21:17Rossi's legal proceedings continued.

01:21:20Two months later, he was back in a different Utah courtroom for the other rape charge.

01:21:24That's when Mary came to Salt Lake City to see her attacker right where she thinks he belongs.

01:21:31He's in custody.

01:21:32I've waited years to see him in custody, so it's going to be very sweet for me.

01:21:36And she knows she's the reason he's there.

01:21:39Because had you not pushed and then him ending up on the registry, that connection would not have been made

01:21:46to Utah.

01:21:47Right.

01:21:48It shows you how you have the power to change things.

01:21:51For me, it's heartbreaking because I should have been the last one.

01:21:54There shouldn't have been Utah women.

01:21:57It should have ended with me.

01:21:59Instead of Utah versus Nicholas, Rossi...

01:22:01When it came time for the hearing to begin, instead of appearing in person, Rossi was on video from jail.

01:22:07Not what Mary expected, but an experience she calls a win.

01:22:10Seeing him behind bars with the Utah County emblem back behind was extremely satisfying, and it made me happy to

01:22:18see him there.

01:22:19Because he can't hurt anybody while he's there.

01:22:22Nicholas Rossi pleaded not guilty to both rape charges.

01:22:26In August 2025, the first case went to trial.

01:22:30Why is he lying to the judge about who he is?

01:22:34Why is he pretending to be Arthur Knight?

01:22:37Sometimes people do lie.

01:22:39And you get to consider their motivation for telling that lie.

01:22:43And after a three-day trial, it took the jury just a matter of hours to come back with its

01:22:48verdict.

01:22:48We, the jurors, in the above case, unanimously find the defendant as follows.

01:22:54To count one, rape, guilty.

01:22:57One month later, he stood trial for the second rape case.

01:23:00And once again, guilty.

01:23:03Nicholas was sentenced to five years to life in each case to be served consecutively.

01:23:08He is appealing both convictions.

01:23:11As for David Levitt, even though the journey to prosecute Nicholas Rossi turned his life upside down,

01:23:16the former prosecutor says he has no regrets.

01:23:19And now he has something else to occupy his time.

01:23:22What did David Levitt do after leaving office?

01:23:25He bought this fixer-upper Scottish castle called Noctary.

01:23:28And it just happens to be 50 miles from where Nicholas Rossi was caught.

01:23:33Some people here in Scotland are calling this castle your F.U. castle.

01:23:41Did you know that?

01:23:42No, I didn't know that.

01:23:45I had a choice to make.

01:23:47The choice was simple.

01:23:48Do I save my political career or do I do my job and take the man down?

01:23:55Others in this story faced life-changing choices, too, like Mary and Nick's ex-wife Catherine.

01:24:02I'm grateful they trusted us with their stories.

01:24:05Even now, I'm moved by their courage.

01:24:07They both told me they're relieved Rossi is now behind bars and hope he'll stay locked up for a very

01:24:13long time.

01:24:14That the man of many faces will now be forever known by one identity.

01:24:20Convicted rapist.

01:24:23I've worked very hard to try and fight to feel safe and secure again.

01:24:28And remember, not everybody is him.

01:24:32Not everybody is a monster.

01:24:34I mean, we're all different, but we all have a common thread between us, right?

01:24:38That Nick changed our lives.

01:24:40It's been years.

01:24:41I still won't go to a restaurant with my back to the door.

01:24:44You know, I'm always just kind of vigilant.

01:24:46Who's around me?

01:24:47But at the end of the day, I'm stronger than him.

01:24:51I am better than him.

01:24:54Both Mary and Catherine are now married with children, working to put Nicholas in their rearview mirror.

01:25:00What do you want to get across?

01:25:02What's the most important part of all of this?

01:25:06I want the courts to know that if he ever gets out, he will do it again.

01:25:14And he will find more victims.

01:25:17That is his way of life, and that's all he knows.

01:25:20And it's not okay for a person like that to be free.

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