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14th January 2022
01:22pm GMT
Rossi may have avoided justice if he remained “off the grid”/Via Getty[/caption]
“It’s a lot more difficult than people imagine,” he said.
“People may not know where you are, but with social media, the world is small enough that if anyone sees a picture of you…if you’re going to be off the grid, you better stay in your house and never leave, because someone is going to see you.”
Back in 2008, Rossi was accused of raping a 21-year-old woman, who likely knew her attacker by one of his eight different aliases. The charges were not brought forth until almost a decade later, when hundreds of rape kits were tested thanks to the Utah Sex Assault Kit Initiative.
In 2018, Rossi was tied to sexual assault, harassment, and kidnapping cases in Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah. Lawyers believed that Rossi had “fled the country to avoid prosecution,” and he later faked his death by posting a fake obituary on EverLoved.com. It states that Nicholas Alahverdian, one of his aliases, died on February 29, 200, from non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Utah County Attorney’s Office is currently working with federal and international agencies to have Rossi extradited back to the US to be tried for his alleged crimes.
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