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Thursday, June 16, 2022

"No no, you've got the wrong guy"

Is he Arthur Knight — a modest-living Scottish man caught up in a most unfortunate case of mistaken identity? Or, is he Nicholas Alahverdian — a registered sex offender accused of brutally raping a woman in 2008, then faking his own death to avoid consequences.

That is the question facing Utah authorities who believe they have found Alahverdian, a man once believed to be dead, hiding out in Britain under the name Arthur Knight. Knight, or at least the man who claims to be Knight, says this is all a big misunderstanding and he is absolutely not Nicholas Alahverdian.

So what is the truth? Did the police indeed find a vicious rapist hiding in Scotland after faking his own death? Or have they instead tabbed an average Scottish man as being someone he is not?

The unfolding of the story itself however is far from average. It is a narrative that includes possibly faked cancer deaths, a eulogy for a convicted sex offender at a state capitol, a COVID-19 hospitalization and accusations of cannibalism and murder.

NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” explored all of the twists, turns and intricacies of this baffling and bizarre happening.