for the alleged attacks on four women in the city’s Terminal Street area between August 2007 and December 2008.
Prosecutors allege that when he was in college, Nilo drove three women to a remote, industrial part of Boston after offering them rides home. In all of the instances, he would allegedly tell them he had a weapon before he assaulted them. In a fourth case, Nilo allegedly tackled a woman who was jogging on Terminal Street in Charlestown, and sexually assaulted her with his hand. The woman was eventually able to fight Nilo off, even as he repeatedly screamed “I have a gun.”Nilo was about 19 or 20 years old at the time of the alleged assaults.Now over 15 years later, advances in genetic genealogy and DNA made solving the cases possible, investigators said.
Nilo was placed under surveillance in the New York Metropolitan area and FBI agents obtained utensils and drinking glasses that he used during a corporate event, a court filing said.“From one of the glasses, the Boston Police Crime Lab obtained a male DNA profile, which was found to match the suspect profile from the three Terminal Street rapes,” prosecutors said.