By Caren Lissner, Patch Staff
HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — A Hudson County attorney arrested at his waterfront home Tuesday stands accused of a series of Boston rapes committed more than a decade ago.
Matthew Nilo, 35, waived his right to extradition proceedings in a Hudson County courtroom on Thursday, and will be transported back to Massachusetts, a source said.
Nilo, who lives on the Weehawken waterfront, was charged with aggravated rape, kidnapping, and other charges linked to the 2007 and 2008 attacks, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
Nilo was a student at the time, living in Boston’s North End, and the crimes were committed in the Charlestown neighborhood, The Globe story states.
A LinkedIn profile for Nilo shows that he graduated from law school in San Francisco. At the time of the alleged crimes, he was a psychology major at the University of Wisconsin.
Investigators tracked the crimes to Nilo using complex DNA technology that was not available at the time of the rapes, multiple news outlets reported.
Now, they are looking for a connection to other unsolved crimes.
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