The FBI has confirmed Matthew Nilo was a student, living in Boston's North End at the time of the attacks.
A man who was arrested last week in New Jersey in a series of sexual assaults and kidnappings in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood that date back to 2007 will appear in a Massachusetts courtroom on Monday.
Officials have credited advancements in DNA and forensic genealogy as the reason they were able to identify Nilo more than 15 years after he allegedly terrorized four victims in the Terminal Street area. His DNA has been tied to cases from Aug. 18, 2007, Nov. 22, 2007, Aug. 5, 2008, and Dec. 23, 2008, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said.
“It is important from a public safely perspective because to the extent that we have cases that are uncharged we have people that have never been held accountable for what’s happened. And it is incredibly important for people who have been victimized, for families who have had someone go missing, people who just don’t have answers, that they know that we are doing everything possible to get to those answers,” Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said of Nilo's arrest.
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