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Nicholas Rossi, 38, was found guilty of raping a woman in Utah County.

The rape occurred in 2008, and DNA linked Rossi to the crime in 2018.

Rossi was extradited from the UK, where he lived under a false identity.

PROVO — A man convicted of raping a woman in Salt Lake County in 2008 was found guilty in Utah County of raping a different woman that same year.

Nicholas Rossi, 38, was charged in September 2020 with rape of a 21-year-old woman in Orem in 2008. He was found guilty of rape by a jury in the 4th District Court on Wednesday.

Rossi's Utah County trial started last week , when the defense gave an opening statement arguing that "money, sex and lies" were at the heart of the situation. The woman and Rossi met on MySpace in 2008 and dated for a short time before bre

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