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Serialously with Annie Elise

254: The Cringy and UNHINGED Case of Nicholas Rossi: From Most Wanted to Most Embarrassing

Serialously with Annie Elise

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

He faked his own death, fled the country, and tried to reinvent himself—complete with an over-the-top British accent and a fake coma. But when authorities caught up with Nicholas Rossi, his elaborate lies unraveled in the most embarrassing way possible. How did a once-wanted fugitive become the star of one of the cringiest true crime sagas ever? Buckle up—this case is wilder than fiction

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0:00.0

Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. In January of 2022, 34-year-old Arthur Knight woke up after being in a three-month-long coma.

0:32.3

He was initially placed into this medically induced coma in Glasgow, Scotland, three months earlier because he had a

0:38.6

very severe case of COVID-19. Because he was having such a struggle with this, they wanted to make

0:43.9

sure that he could recover, therefore placing him in this coma. So when he woke up, he was just so

0:49.5

excited to be awake to see his wife Miranda to be healthy, hoping he's now on the road to recovery. But what he wasn't expecting was to be awake to see his wife Miranda, to be healthy, hoping he's now on the road to recovery.

0:55.7

But what he wasn't expecting was to be surrounded by police officers around his hospital bed.

1:01.4

Now, Arthur had absolutely no idea why the police were there to see him.

1:05.6

He hadn't done anything wrong. He was a normal guy.

1:08.0

I mean, yes, he had a bit of a rough upbringing. He was from Dublin, Ireland,

1:12.0

and he was orphaned at a very young age. But other than that, he didn't have much of a past. I mean,

1:17.7

a speeding ticket here and there, but nothing that would warrant the police coming into his hospital room

1:23.0

and surrounding his bed when he just woke up from this three-month-long coma. He looked at his wife

1:28.7

Miranda, who he initially started dating back in 2011. They got married in 2020, and he had a look

1:34.9

of confusion on his face. What was going on? Why were they here? Did they have the wrong person?

1:39.8

I mean, surely, he had to have done something terrible to warrant the police officers coming

1:43.8

bedside at his hospital. But he hadn't done anything. And you know what? Maybe Arthur Knight

1:49.3

really hadn't done anything wrong. But the police insisted that this person lying there in that

1:55.0

hospital bed, it wasn't Arthur at all. They said he was somebody else, someone who had been born in the United

2:01.4

States and was wanted for rape and sexual assault. Now, if what the police were saying was true,

2:06.9

then how did this person, whoever they were, become Arthur Knight? And also, how did he get into the

2:12.4

UK? And how did he escape the police and go unnoticed for nearly five years? Hey guys, welcome back to an

2:19.2

all new episode of Serialessly with me, Annie Elise. Now, the reason I chose this case and wanted to

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