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Jury Convicts Fugitive Nicholas Rossi of 2008 Utah Rape

Sentencing is scheduled for October 20 with a September trial on a separate Utah County rape charge.

In this image made from pool video footage, Nicholas Rossi accused of faking his death and fleeing to Europe to avoid rape charges, appears at a jury trial in Salt Lake City, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (Firecrest Films via AP, Pool)
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Overview

  • A Salt Lake County jury found Rossi guilty of one count of raping a former partner in 2008 after a three-day trial.
  • The verdict followed testimony from the victim and her parents while Rossi declined to testify and appeared in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank.
  • Prosecutors say Rossi used at least a dozen aliases, faked his death in 2020 and fled to the U.K. to evade charges.
  • He was identified by distinctive tattoos featured on an Interpol red notice while hospitalized in Glasgow and extradited to Utah in January 2024.
  • Rossi faces sentencing on October 20 and is due to stand trial next month on a separate rape allegation from 2008 in Utah County.