India, June 26 -- Nicholas Rossi, the convicted rapist and fugitive who infamously faked his own death to evade US justice, has died in a Utah hospital at age 38. According to an official statement by the Utah Department of Corrections, Rossi passed away on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 8:32 PM from complications of an existing, chronic degenerative medical condition after intentionally choosing to discontinue his medical care. At the time of his death, he was serving a cumulative sentence of 10 years to life following two separate rape convictions.

Criminal Convictions & Sentencing

Nicholas Rossi was linked via a decade-old DNA rape kit to two separate sexual assaults that took place in northern Utah in 2008.

Following his extradition b...