Overview
- The Utah Department of Corrections said Rossi was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 8:32 p.m. after he stopped medical treatment.
- Rossi was serving a cumulative sentence of 10 years to life after 2025 convictions for two separate 2008 rapes in northern Utah.
- Authorities first linked Rossi to the assaults when a decade-old DNA rape kit was retested in 2018, a development that reopened the long-dormant investigation.
- He was arrested in Glasgow in December 2021 after hospital staff recognized his tattoos from a wanted notice, a Scottish court later ruled he was Rossi, and he was extradited to the U.S. in January 2024.
- Officials informed Rossi’s family and his victims before making the death public, a development that closes a high-profile transnational case and underscores questions about forensic backlogs and medical care in custody.