A Scottish judge ruled that a man arrested last year in a Glasgow hospital — and who claimed to be an Irish orphan living in Scotland — is in fact a fugitive who faked his own death nearly three years ago to flee criminal charges in the United States.
For the past 11 months, Rossi, who attended court in a wheelchair, has dragged out the legal proceedings, firing multiple lawyers, changing his accent and accusing law enforcement of torture. He also claimed that authorities tried to frame him by giving him tattoos similar to those of the wanted man while he was in a coma, as well as by taking and sending his fingerprints to Interpol.
Before fleeing to the United Kingdom, Rossi faked his own death. In February 2020, just weeks after the FBI questioned him regarding a fraud case in Ohio, Rossi, who was living in Rhode Island, posted an“His last words were ‘fear not and run toward the bliss of the sun,’” the obituary said, adding that his hospital room was “filled with the sounds of the end credits for the 1997 film ‘Contact’ by composer Alan Silvestri.
of Providence, the state capital, issued a statement lamenting the loss of a “beloved community leader.”that state police did not believe he was dead. Now, he is wanted in Rhode Island, accused of failing to register as a sex offender. In Utah, authorities had retested DNA from a 2008 sexual assault kit, and results showed it matched Rossi’s profile from a similar charge at a community college in Ohio. The State Bureau of Investigations now says it has identified Rossi as a suspect in similar cases throughout Utah and elsewhere in the United States.
On Wednesday, court officers told Rossi that two more women came forward with accusations of sexual offenses in Utah in 2008, according to
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