Bonus Episode With REDRUM Podcast: 'Faking His Own Death'

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

I was delighted to join one of my favourite podcasters, Grace from the excellent REDRUM True Crime Podcast, as she shared a true crime story which if you didn't know was true, you would be sure it was fiction. A story that stretches from the US to a hospital bed in Glasgow.

REDRUM is written and presented by Grace Cordell. Listen to other episodes of the REDRUM podcast, by following these links:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1FCoeRZQeDkEJ5i8bGuFpy

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/redrum-true-crime/id1515905584

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0:00.0	Imagine this. You're lying in a hospital bed, struggling to breathe. Your wife is by your side. You've just
0:22.6	woken up from a three-month coma after being admitted with really severe COVID, and out of nowhere,
0:28.9	police storm the room. They say you're not who you say you are. They say you're a fugitive,
0:35.8	a rapist, a con man.
0:38.7	But you insist they've got the wrong man.
0:41.2	You're not a criminal, you're a victim, this gentle, soft-spoken academic.
0:46.5	You've never even been to America and yet somehow your face is all over the news.
0:53.8	Okay, so this is the story of a man who claims that the system failed him.
0:59.6	A man who says he was targeted by corrupt officials.
1:02.4	He was framed by these powerful enemies and hounded across continents for crimes that he didn't commit.
1:09.8	He says his name is Arthur Knight,
1:13.0	but the world knows him as Nicholas Aller Verdeen, a convicted sex offender who faked his death
1:21.7	and vanished. So today, guys, I'm joined by someone who's been doing this way longer than me, and together
1:29.9	we're following this story from Rhode Island Courtrooms to a hospital ward in Glasgow and
1:35.9	far beyond. Welcome. Thank you for joining me, Adam, host of UK True Crime. Hey, Grace, nice to be
1:43.9	here. Hello, everybody. Thanks so much for coming on.
1:47.2	I know that we spoke really briefly about like what kind of case we're going to do. And I was so
1:52.0	excited to talk to you about this case because I feel like it really encapsulates the kind of
1:57.2	the two tone of the UK side of the crime and then also the global aspects of coming over from America
2:03.3	and just the bizarness.
2:04.9	It's just a really weird case.
2:07.1	I love for sheer strangers.
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