Imposter: The Man Who Came Back from the Dead review – bizarre true-crime tale of man who faked his own death
His chicken knowledge gap wasn’t the only fishy thing about Knight, as Channel 4 reveals in this grippingly bizarre documentary. Knight, it is claimed, was an alias for Rhode Island-born Nicholas Rossi, who faked his death and then moved across the Atlantic, where he persuaded future wife Miranda he was a well-to-do orphan from the old sod .
Miranda may believe him but many do not and the life he had built for himself in Scotland unravelled during the pandemic. Knight woke from a Covid coma surrounded by police, who arrested him on foot of rape allegations in the United States made by Rossi’s former wife, who says he was a violent domestic abuser.Mark Moriarty: two 15-minute meals made easy, with a few simple tricksRossi comes across as a cack-handed master of disguise who took on many aliases, few persuasive.