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Nicholas Alahverdian\\u2019s obituary appeared on a memorial site called Ever Loved. It detailed how the man, who grew up in foster care became a Harvard Graduate and a vocal critic of Rhode Island\\u2019s childcare system after suffering sexual abuse as a child. \\xa0It also detailed how Alahverdian died of Hodgin\\u2019s Lymphoma at 32 years old, leaving behind a wife and two young children who remained at his bedside as he died.

Alahverdian\\u2019s death was a lie, an elaborate scheme created by Nicholas Rossi, a man charged with sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in Orem, Utah as well as multiple complaints against him in Rhode Island for alleged domestic violence.\\xa0 David Rossi, the stepfather says at an early age Nicholas would hit his mother, grandmother, and siblings, and wouldn\'t listen in school. Alahverdian was placed in psychiatric care.

Nicholas Alahverdian, using the name Rossi, was accused of assaulting a young woman he met at Sinclair Community College in Ohio. The two had lunch together.\\xa0 Alahverdian offered to walk the co-ed to her next class. The coed claims Alahverdian then pinned her against a wall in a basement, groped her, and masturbated.

Alahverdian apologized and asked the girl not to tell anybody. She made a police report and Alahverdian, aka Rossi, was convicted of public indecency and sexual imposition, and was required to register as a sex offender.

Two years later, police are called to an apartment in Rhode Island.\\xa0 Officers can hear arguing and screaming. When a woman comes to the door, she has marks on her face neck, and left eye and her right eye is swelling.

The woman tells police she and Alahverdian were arguing and when she tried to leave he slapped her in the face. Police arrest Alahverdian who proclaims his innocence and begins banging his head on the bars in the back of the squad car. Officers have to use pepper spray to make him stop trying to hurt himself. Alahverdian pleads no-contest to domestic simple assault.

Testing reveals Alahverdian\'s DNA is present in a rape case, and other allegations have already been lodged. Fraud charges also land in Alahverdian\'s lap, and this is when he fakes his death and heads overseas.

The death of Nicholas Alahverdian is met with skepticism.\\xa0 Alahverdian\'s foster mother Sharon Lane said she was contacted by Alahverdian\'s biological mother.\\xa0 \\xa0The minute Sharon Lane read the obituary, she believed it was written by Alahverdian himself.

Utah authorities continued investigating the first rape allegation against Nicholas Alahverdian and issued a warrant for his arrest seven months after he supposedly died. An FBI search of Alahverdian\\u2019s iCloud account and cell phone records led investigators to Scotland.

As investigations were looking for Nicholas Alahverdian and Nichols Rossi in the United States, a man named Arthur Knight was being treated for Covid-19 at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. \\xa0He had been living a happy new life,\\xa0 married a woman named Miranda, and worked as a tutor, but then he suffered a serious case of pneumonitis, caused by Covid-19.

Someone recognized him through his distinctive tattoos. They were a match to those from a Pawtucket police booking photo of him.\\xa0 In December 2021,\\xa0 they arrested the convicted sex offender in the Glasgow hospital.

Authorities say Knight was just one of Alahverdian\\u2019s 16 known aliases, which include Nicholas Rossi, Nicholas Brown, Arthur Brown, and Arthur Knight-Brown.

Nicholas Alahverdian fought extradition back to the US. \\xa0For over two years, Alahverdian exhausted every legal avenue available in the UK. Ultimately the courts ruled he was a wanted fugitive and agreed to the United States\\u2019 request to send him home.\\xa0

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

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• Greg Ahlgren\\xa0 \\u2013 International Attorney-at-Law at the US-MX Law Group, Ltd. & DRT Alliance/Diaz Reus International Law Firm
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• Dr. Jeff Kieliszewski\\xa0 - Forensic Psychologist, Author: " Dark Sides;" YouTube: Dr. Jeff Kieliszewski,\\xa0
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• rv Brandt \\u2013 Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch; Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs, US Embassy Kingston, Jamaica; Author: \\u201cSOLO SHOT: CURSE OF THE BLUE STONE\\u201d \\u2013 AVAILABLE ON AMAZON IN JANUARY; ALSO \\u201cFLYING SOLO: Top of the World;\\u201d Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor
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• Brett Brown - Executive Director of SASS Go (Surviving Assault Standing Strong, a Nonprofit on a mission to eradicate abuse, trafficking, and violence against women and girls globally; @sassgoglobal on FB, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok\\xa0
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• Tim White - Investigative Reporter and Managing Editor for WPRI-TV (A CBS News affiliate), Co-Author: \\u201cThe Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast;" Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Roger Williams University in RI; X: @timwhiteRI, FB: Tim White-WPRI\\xa0\\xa0
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