00:00Nicholas Rossi thought he committed the ultimate escape.
00:03Facing brutal rape charges in Utah, he fled the country, moved to Scotland,
00:08and published his own obituary claiming he died of cancer.
00:12But the universe has a twisted sense of irony,
00:15because less than a year after finally being convicted, he actually died behind bars.
00:21It all started back in 2008, when authorities say Rossi assaulted two different women in Utah.
00:26By 2017, as the law closed in, Rossi vanished.
00:31He fled to Europe, constantly changing his name, trying to stay one step ahead of Interpol.
00:37And in 2020, he pulled his wildest stunt yet, faking his own death from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
00:43But you cannot run your own skin.
00:46In 2021, Rossi caught a severe case of COVID-19 and ended up in a Glasgow hospital.
00:53That's where medical staff noticed something off.
00:55His tattoos perfectly matched an Interpol most wanted notice.
01:00The game was up.
01:01Even after being extradited back to the U.S., Rossi refused to drop the act.
01:06He showed up to court in a wheelchair, wearing an oxygen mask and speaking in a fake British accent.
01:13He claimed he wasn't Nicholas Rossi at all,
01:15but an innocent Irish man named Arthur Knight who was being framed.
01:19The judge wasn't buying it, calling him a serial abuser of women and sentenced him to 10 years to life.
01:26But the final chapter of this bizarre story just closed.
01:30At age 38, Rossi passed away at a Utah hospital.
01:34The cause?
01:36Complications from an existing medical condition,
01:39after he actively chose to stop receiving medical treatment.
01:42The man who spent a decade fabricating lies finally ran out of time.
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