Man accused of faking death and fleeing US to avoid rape charges will stand trial, Utah judge rules

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Man accused of faking ****** and fleeing US to avoid ***** charges will stand trial, Utah judge rules

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of faking his own ****** and fleeing the U.S. to avoid ***** charges will stand trial, a judge in Utah ruled Thursday.

District Judge Barry Lawrence ruled during

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preliminary hearing that prosecutors had presented enough evidence to warrant a jury trial, KTVX-TV

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Prosecutors say Rossi, 37, ****** a 26-year-old former girlfriend after an argument in Salt Lake County in 2008. In a separate case, he is accused of ******* a 21-year-old woman in Orem, Utah, that same year and was not identified as a suspect for about a decade due to

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at the Utah State ****** Lab.

His attorneys at the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Associated Press on Thursday evening.

Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, has used several aliases and has said he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who had never set foot on ********* soil and was being framed.

The ********* fugitive grew up in foster homes in Rhode Island and had returned to the state before allegedly faking his ****** and fleeing the country. An obituary published online claimed Rossi ***** on Feb. 29, 2020, of late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Authorities and his former foster family doubted his ******.

Rossi was

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in 2021 after being recognized at a Glasgow hospital during treatment for COVID-19. He lost an extradition appeal in the country in December.

Utah County court documents show that Rossi is also accused of ******* ********, harassment and possible kidnapping in Rhode Island, Ohio and Massachusetts, KTVX-TV reported.

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