A Rhode Island fugitive faked his death and fled the country to go to Scotland to avoid rape charges.
However, the Daily Mail reports that the story only continues to get more bizarre from there.
Nicholas Alahverdian - aka Nicholas Rossi, 35- is a fugitive. The Daily Mail reports that he performed a dramatic performance to convince Dateline that he could not walk. He put on this performance while speaking with Dateline host Andrea Canning.
He also insisted that he was not Alahverdian. He said: I am not Nicholas Alahverdian. I do not know how to clarify this while speaking with NBC. He also put on a strange accent while saying this, and his voice was muffled by an oxygen mask that he strapped on over his face while speaking with Canning.
Rossi was interviewed in April 2022 for the show. That was seven months before a judge in Scotland ruled that Rossis claims that he is not Rossi were false. He is sitting in a Scottish jail while he awaits extradition to the United States to face his charges.
The Daily Mail reports that Rossi failed to appear at a scheduled court hearing after an altercation on Thursday.
The United States is seeking to extradite him on several sexual assault charges. This stemmed from an investigation into the alleged 2008 rape of a Utah woman. Investigators say he faked his death and fled to Scotland in 2017. Rossi has seemingly decided to keep up the ruse he has been working on this whole time. He got so angry at one point while speaking with Dateline that he fogged up his glasses.
He appeared beside his British wife, Miranda Knight, and said: "We were once a normal family, but thanks to the media our lives have been interrupted."
Speaking with what he was attempting to pass for a British accent, he said: And wed like privacy and I would like to go back to being a normal husband, but I cant because I cant breathe, I cant walk. Then, to show that he could not walk, Rossi attempted to stand up and dramatically fell back into his chair. It was dramatic, but few are likely to fall for this bid to seem helpless and unable to do anything for themselves.
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