{"id":659722,"date":"2026-06-26T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659722\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:41:09","slug":"nicholas-rossi-rapist-who-faked-death-and-fled-to-scotland-dies-in-us-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659722\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Rossi: Rapist who faked death and fled to Scotland dies in US prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicholas Rossi, the American rapist who faked his death and fled to Scotland in a bid to escape justice, has died in a US hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) said the 38-year-old had been suffering from &#8220;chronic, degenerative conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said Rossi died in a local hospital on Thursday after &#8220;he chose to remove himself from the care that was being provided&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rossi was found guilty of raping two women in Utah in 2008 after two separate trials in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A UDC spokesman said: &#8220;Rossi was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 20:32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rossi died from complications of an existing medical condition after choosing to discontinue medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This notification follows communication with Rossi&#8217;s family and his victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Rossi, the American rapist who faked his death and fled to Scotland in a bid to escape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}