Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. This is not just another crime story today, folks. This is a, how do I say it? This is a labyrinth of deceit and falsified identities and absolute obsession. This is a man who committed multiple crimes and then faked his own death, fled halfway

across the globe, and hid behind multiple phony aliases. This was a guy who pushed his lies

as far as humanly possible, all the way into a court of law. Multiple courts, in fact.

His name is Nicholas Rossi, but he goes by a whole lot of aliases like Nicholas Alverdean,

and get this Arthur Knight in the UK. Bizarre. I know. It's almost like King Arthur,

but Arthur Knight was apparently an Irish

orphan that he'd concocted, who appeared in a Scottish courtroom, in a wheelchair, strapped to an

oxygen tank, insisting that he was the victim of mistaken identity. You cannot make this shit up. It is brazen gall.

But just before that little stunt, Arthur, aka Nicholas, faked his own death, complete with an obituary,

and a tragic story of cancer that took his life. But prosecutors say, none of this was real. Behind the disguises

of the lies was just a man, a con artist, a criminal, a criminal who escaped prosecution

for decades, a criminal named Nicholas Rossi. And behind Nicholas was a very dark crime from 2008 that left

behind a survivor who never, ever forgot what happened to her. And thank God for this survivor.

Truly, she is the hero of this story who brought down Nicholas's web of lies and deceit and his worldwide crime spree.

And I'm going to get to all of that.

I want to start at the beginning of this story because everything sort of began innocently enough on Craigslist.

I know.

That sounds weird to say innocently enough on Craigslist,

but it did. A 21-year-old woman from Utah recovering from a traumatic brain injury answered a

personal ad. She was vulnerable and she was looking for a connection and entered Nicholas Rossi.

He charmed her. He wooed her, and within just two weeks,

somehow he was able to convince her to marry him, and poof, they were engaged. But the fairy tale

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