1/ Attn screenwriters & true crime podcasters: the further down this rabbit hole you go, the more insane this story gets. Top line is that this guy, a rape suspect, fakes his own death, flees to Scotland, where he's found on a ventilator for Covid. But... nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/…
2/ a few minutes of Googling unearths so much more. he claimed that he was abused in RI's child welfare system. Became a state legislative page at 14. There a state rep felt so bad he offered to adopt him. He was waived off by a family judge (!!) 
3/ Do you know how sus you have to be for a family court judge to warn a state rep not to adopt you? I mean... (also, the judge's name is Jeremiah Jeremiah? That's just insanely on the nose, writers.)
4/ At one point Nicholas Alahverdian was sent to Boys Town. ALLEGEDLY. He said it was to shut him up. RI officials say there's no indication he was actually ever abused.
5/ No matter, after the whole Boys Town maybe-maybe-not bit, he convinces another state rep about his abuse claims, a big investigation is launched. But ⏩ yeah, now they all think more along these lines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_…
6/ "In 2008 Alahverdian, under the name Nicholas Rossi, was charged with sexually assaulting a Sinclair Community College student in a stairwell and subsequently convicted of public indecency and sexual imposition."
7/ There are other accusations and charges of sexual assault, not until a BACKLOGGED RAPE KIT is finally processed that authorities start closing in.
So, he fakes his own death, natch.
So, he fakes his own death, natch.
8/ And he would have gotten away with it, had HIS FOSTER MOTHER AND BIRTH MOTHER NOT TEAMED UP TO BUST HIM.
9/ I'M SORRY WHAT?!??????
10/ Among his more minor crimes, wikipedia abuse:
11/ In addition to the excessively flattering memorial statements that sicced his moms on him, his "death" also found his "widow" sending a lot of accusations off to the Providence Journal:
12/ anyway, think the local media should stop referring to him as a "long time child welfare advocate"
14/ Interlocking webpages list him as a Harvard sociologist, or sometimes as an expert in comparative literature. ACTUALLY: wikipediocracy.com/2020/12/15/the…
15/ A Medium post cites him as heading the Nicholas Alahverdian Center. Not sure that ever existed but looking for it led me to this YouTube channel, in which somebody has created and/or collected "obituaries" for him:
16/ Some of the local news obits list him as leaving behind a wife and two kids. He was married, twice, both women have accused him of various things. But the "widow" who pushed things out after his death was apparently an invention.
Were there two kids? I...am betting not?
Were there two kids? I...am betting not?
17/ At this point, dear reader, I confess to not being that surprised that he apparently allied himself with the men's rights movement:
18/ No comment
19/ Ah, would you like a list of his writings, including "Solemn Affairs: The Harvard Essays of Nicholas Alahverdian"? scholar.google.com/citations?view…
21/ Right now I'd like nothing more than to be in a bar with a few grizzled @projo reporters and Frank Abagnale Jr...
22/ His "widow" set up a memorial twitter account: twitter.com/nalahverdian
23/ And a Facebook page. What was the long con here I wonder? Did he plan to come back to life?
25/ Guy fakes his own death. Creates "memorial" social media accounts. Gets his "widow" (presumably) to lobby for celebratory comments from every RI pol and they oblige. That's like Vulcan chess narcissism.
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