Nilo, a Boston native, proposed just weeks before he was arrested in connection to attacks on four women in Boston between August 2007 and December 2008, according to now-deleted social media posts…
Matthew Nilo, 35, appeared in Hudson County for an extradition hearing as his new fiancée Laura Griffin sat in the courtroom.
About two weeks later, on Tuesday, Nilo was arrested at his Weehawken home after Boston investigators used genetic genealogy — which combines DNA technology with historical record searches to generate new suspects in cold cases — to link him to the unsolved assaults.Robert MillerNilo, a Boston native, was between 19 and 20 years old at the time of the rapes.
At his hearing Thursday, Nilo — wearing a navy prison shirt over a T-shirt — waived his rights to an extradition hearing in New Jersey. He will instead be extradited to Boston for his arraignment without a local hearing beforehand.Matthew J. Nilo/Linkedin
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