Andrea Canning and Dateline producer Lynn Keller go behind the scenes of their latest episode, “The Man of Many Faces." In 2020, American fugitive Nicholas Rossi tried to evade law enforcement and a slew of criminal charges by faking his own death, fleeing the country, and taking on a new persona. Andrea and Lynn talk about their determination to track him down and what it was like interviewing him. They discuss meeting one of Nick’s accusers and share their reaction to Rossi’s latest explanation for his changing identities. Plus, Andrea shares a clip from her interview with a Glasgow pub owner who thought it was strange the man claiming to be an Irish orphan didn’t know of a famous British dish. Later, they’ll answer your questions from social media. Listen to the full episode of “The Man of Many Faces” on Apple: https://apple.co/3VDNusvListen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/62eCH9V6wsnQZqlnV6A2H7
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Hey, everyone. It's Andrea Canning, and we are talking Dateline. Today is a special treat. I'm joined by Dateline producer Lynn Keller, who worked with me on the episode we're going to be talking about. Hey, Lynn. Hey, Andrea. So this episode is called The Man of Many Faces. If you haven't seen it, it's the episode right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed.
So go there and listen to it or stream it on Peacock and then come back here. For this Talking Dateline, we have an extra clip from an interview with a pub owner in Scotland who came face-to-face with the man of many faces. But to recap, hoping to evade law enforcement and a slew of criminal charges against him, an American man, Nicholas Aliverdian, faked his own death and fled the country.
Investigators and our Dateline team tracked down the elusive fugitive to Scotland before he was extradited back to the United States to face justice. and to tell one more surprising story about who he really is. Okay, let's talk Dateline. Linda, big question is, and because it's going back now, is how did we get, you and I both just became very interested in this story together.
I feel like you emailed me a link to the story. Okay. And we just kept talking about how crazy it was. And then our affiliate in Rhode Island, in Providence, interviewed him. And we're like, oh, we want to do that too. And so I reached out to that reporter. He gave us Nicholas's contact or Arthur's contact. Arthur, yeah. And then I set up a call for the three of us. It was you, me, and Arthur.
Yeah. And then do you remember, too? I remember we were on a story, a completely different story, and my phone rang and it was him. And so we had we had him on speaker and we just let him talk and talk.
He does talk. He talks and talks and talks a lot. Yeah. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but he does talk a lot. This story, the con man stories, you and I really enjoy doing them. Not to say like we feel obviously very bad for the victims of these stories. Yeah. Because it's awful what people are put through by con men. But at the same time, they are fascinating to look into them.
We don't do them as much on Dateline. We usually stick to traditional murder investigations.
Well, I think what happened is we got what we would consider a yellow light investigation. Yes, that's what you always say. And so they basically said, well, you know, just go see what more you can find. And so then once we booked the interview and you did that amazing, bizarre, crazy interview, that got our bosses hooked on like, let's see what else we can do. Yeah.
And one of the things I wanted to say also about the victims is that it turns out usually that they want to have a voice. They want to have an opportunity to talk about it.
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