Nicholas Rossi, found guilty of raping a former girlfriend in a 2008 case during a trial in Salt Lake County, will be sentenced on October 20. He faces additional rape charges in Utah County in September. Authorities identified him through a DNA rape kit, leading to his arrest after he faked his death to avoid charges. Investigators uncovered multiple aliases used by Rossi to evade capture, including being recognized in a Scottish hospital in 2021 while he was receiving treatment for COVID-19.
An eight-person jury in Salt Lake County found Nicholas Rossi guilty of a 2008 rape after a three-day trial in which his accuser and her parents took the stand.
Rossi, 38, declined to testify on his own behalf. He will be sentenced on Oct. 20 and is set to stand trial in September on another rape charge in Utah County.
Utah authorities began searching for Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, when he was identified through a decade-old DNA rape kit in 2018.
He was arrested in Scotland the following year while receiving treatment for COVID-19 after hospital staff recognized his distinctive tattoos from an Interpol notice.
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