2026年6月26日 / 美国东部时间下午3:07 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
当局周五表示，一名被控伪造自己死亡并逃往欧洲以逃避美国强奸指控的男子在从犹他州监狱被送往医院后死亡。
38岁的尼古拉斯·罗西因2025年犹他州两起性侵案的审判结果，目前正在狱中服刑至少10年。此前警方耗时数年展开全球追缉，并最终将他从苏格兰引渡回国。一名法官曾称他是“一名连环虐待女性者”。
犹他州惩教署周五向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实，罗西于周四晚间因“在选择停止治疗后出现现有疾病并发症”去世。
该部门表示，已通知他的受害者及其家属。
该部门发言人理查德·皮亚特告诉美联社，他无法透露罗西的健康问题细节。但在法庭出庭期间，他一直坐着轮椅并使用氧气设备。
“罗西先生是一名试图逃避责任的性侵犯者，”盐湖县检察官西姆·吉尔表示。“他那些令人发指的行为的受害者可以得到一丝慰藉：他在狱中死去，且清楚自己所犯下的罪行。”
曾用名尼古拉斯·阿拉弗迪亚的罗西于2024年从苏格兰被引渡回犹他州。
2025年8月11日，尼古拉斯·罗西在盐湖城接受陪审团审判。图源：F irecrest Films/美联社
犹他州当局于2018年通过一份尘封十年的强奸案DNA试剂盒确认了他的身份，自此开始对其展开追捕。
在该案指控提出数月后，一份在线讣告声称罗西于2020年2月29日因非霍奇金淋巴瘤去世。但他的家乡罗德岛州警方、前律师以及前寄养家庭均对他的死讯表示怀疑。
次年，他在苏格兰因治疗新冠肺炎被捕。医院医护人员认出了他身上独特的纹身，包括纹在肩膀上的布朗大学校徽——尽管他从未在该校就读过。
罗西坚称自己是名为亚瑟·奈特的爱尔兰孤儿，遭人陷害。调查人员表示，他们已确认罗西多年来使用的至少十几个化名以逃避抓捕。
犹他州的两名女性指控他性侵。其中一名女子称，罗西在她前往公寓收取他偷来买电脑的钱时强奸了她。
另一名女子表示，她通过罗西在克雷格列表网站上发布的征友广告结识了他。两人开始约会，并在几周内订婚。她作证称，罗西让她为约会和汽车修理买单，借给他1000美元以免他被驱逐，还让她贷款购买他们的订婚戒指。
“我对此无罪。这些女人在撒谎，”罗西在去年10月的量刑听证会上说道。
Nicholas Rossi, rapist who faked death and fled to Scotland, dies in U.S. months after being convicted
June 26, 2026 / 3:07 PM EDT / CBS/AP
A man who was accused of faking his own death and fleeing to Europe to evade rape charges in the U.S. has died after he was taken to a hospital from a Utah prison, authorities said Friday.
Nicholas Rossi, 38, was serving at least 10 years in prison for two sexual assault cases that went to trial in Utah in 2025, following a yearslong global saga to find him and then extradite him from Scotland. A judge had described him as a “serial abuser of women.”
Rossi died Thursday night from “complications of an existing medical condition after choosing to discontinue medical treatment,” the Utah Department of Corrections confirmed in a statement to CBS News on Friday.
His victims and his family were notified, the department said.
Richard Piatt, a spokesperson at the department, told the Associated Press he couldn’t disclose details about Rossi’s health problems. But during court appearances, he had appeared in a wheelchair and used oxygen.
“Mr. Rossi was a sexual predator who tried to escape accountability,” Salt Lake County prosecutor Sim Gill said. “The survivors of his heinous acts have the consolation that he died in prison with the knowledge of the crimes he committed.”
Rossi, also known as Nicholas Alahverdian, was extradited to Utah from Scotland in 2024.
Nicholas Rossi appears at a jury trial in Salt Lake City, Aug. 11, 2025. Firecrest Films via AP
Utah authorities had been searching for him when he was identified in 2018 through a decade-old DNA rape kit.
Months after he was charged in that case, an online obituary claimed Rossi died on Feb. 29, 2020, of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. But police in his home state of Rhode Island, along with his former lawyer and a former foster family, cast doubt on whether he was dead.
He was arrested in Scotland the following year while receiving treatment for COVID-19. Hospital staff recognized his distinctive tattoos, including the crest of Brown University inked on his shoulder, although he never attended.
Rossi insisted he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who was being framed. Investigators say they identified at least a dozen aliases Rossi used over the years to evade capture.
Two women in Utah had accused him of sexual assault. One said Rossi raped her in an apartment after she had gone there to collect money that he had stolen from her to buy a computer.
Another woman said she met Rossi through a personal ad that he had posted on Craigslist. They began dating and were engaged within a couple weeks. She testified that Rossi asked her to pay for dates and car repairs, lend him $1,000 so he wouldn’t be evicted, and take on debt to buy their engagement rings.
“I am not guilty of this. These women are lying,” Rossi said at a sentencing hearing last October.
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