A glowing obituary. Funeral plans. But investigators quickly became suspicious that Nicholas Alahaverdian faked his own death. They knew legal problems, including a rape allegation, were closing in on the man who made a name for himself as an advocate at Rhode Island’s State House. And two years later, on the other side of the Atlantic, international authorities claim they captured him. But the man going by the name Arthur Knight insists it’s a case of mistaken identity and that he is not the fugitive. NBC 10 talks to those who claim Alahverdian was a master manipulator … and the man in the middle of the mystery.
The body of 19-year-old Vernon Lomba was discovered in a snowbank on Elmwood Avenue in Cranston in January 1984. Forty years later, his killer has yet to be identified.
NBC 10's Tamara Sacharczyk goes inside the investigation, talking to police and members of Lomba's family who wait for answers.
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