Arrests made in Boston serial rape cases using DNA and quick-thinking police tactics.
TL;DR
Matthew Nilo, a New Jersey lawyer, was arrested in connection with a 15-year-old Boston rape spree after being lured to the scene of his arrest with his fiancée by a bogus package report. Nilo pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping, assault with attempt to rape, and indecent assault and battery. Investigators identified the attorney using genetic genealogy to link him to the unsolved spree. Nilo allegedly drove three women to a remote part of Boston after offering them rides home and sexually assaulted them. In the fourth case, he allegedly tackled a woman who was jogging on Terminal Street and sexually assaulted her with his hand.
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