David Levitt
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
We had sexual assault kits that had been sitting on police shelves for years.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
So we engaged in a partnership between the United States Department of Justice and the state of Utah to test all of these old rape kits.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
We got a hit, and that hit was a hit for a registered sex offender in the state of Ohio.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
In 2008, the victim in this case said that she had been raped and she voluntarily went through the rape exam and the police were called. The case died at the police station and was never sent to the county attorney's office.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
And that two weeks later, they met in person and they began a sexual relationship that lasted for a brief period of time. At the same time, Nicholas Rossi was taking money from her with the promise that he would pay it back and never did.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
He shut the door and began to just kind of put pressure on her to have sex. He took her clothes off and raped her.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
If you look at the timeline, Nicholas Rossi or Nicholas Oliverdian's death occurred while we were in the midst of this investigation.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
When the Scottish authorities looked at him in a hospital room in Scotland, they were satisfied that Nicholas Rossi was, in fact, the same person that is wanted in the state of Utah.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
No, Nicholas Rossi, I'll give him that. He took it to a new level.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
He accused my wife and I of being human traffickers, of being cannibals, of being murderers.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
That this all occurs less than one week before ballots drop. in an election in which I am participating, causes me tremendous concern.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
He did cost me my job, but the reality is how many women will never be raped because of what we did?
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
Well, I mean, I give the same... I'm out of credence to that story as I do the allegation that I hired someone to put a tattoo on his arm in Scotland.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
If I'm claiming not to be the person I am, then that paints me as a flight risk, so I'm not going to get bail.
Dateline NBC
The Man of Many Faces
I had a choice to make. The choice was simple. Do I save my political career or do I do my job? And take the man down.