level, right? absolutely. that s a good point as well. flight risk as well. they have taken away his passport from what i ve heard, and shraoully absolutely that is one factor the judge considered. you were talking about the defense, the utensils and the defense will argue that. what is interesting the way they were able to obtain his dna. they followed him to a dinner and they took his drinking glass and his utensils and they got the dna that way. his attorney says that is unconstitutional. what do you think? that s an interesting argument. we have to look at how this first started. allegedly a family member did a 23 and me and did some dna testing as well. because of that dna testing he became a person of interest and they started surveillancing him, and allege allegedly he put some aou 10 utensils he didn t use, and he got rid of it.
reporter: lori says she tried to escape. he caught up to me, and he hit me with a gun repeatedly, and that s when he raped me. reporter: police had tied lori s attack to three other sexual assaults, but the cases went cold for years until just weeks ago, when fbi agents arrested 35-year-old matthew nilo. prosecutors say they used a public genealogy database to zero in on nilo, tracking him to a corporate event where they say they recovered dna from his drinking glass, then linking that dna to the victims. when you looked at a picture of the suspect, what did you notice? his eyes. i just remember them, because they were, like, black. reporter: nilo has pleaded not guilty to all charges. his fiancee there in court, clutching rosary beads. i pray for his fiancee. reporter: what would you say to her? i would just tell her what happened and what he did. i think she deserves to know who
go back to his life and walk around for a year and, you know, he could get away or, you know, he could do it to somebody else, it just it s just sad. prosecutors say he lured several victims into a vehicle, threatened them with a gun or knife and took them to an isolated area in the city. the cases went unsolved for 15 years until the f.b.i. linked cases using dna 0ing in as the defendant and snagging a drinking glass during a corporate event hoping to confirm a link. the attorney says investigators illegally obtained the dna releasing a statement it does appear the government obtained dna evidence from my client without a search warrant. it will most vigorously be challenged in court. he has also lived in wisconsin,
matthew kneel low, a 35-year-old attorney who now lives in new jersey is back in boston where he pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges stemming from the alleged attacks on four women, including three counts of aggravated rape and two counts of kidnapping. his attorney says his family expects to pull together the $500,000 cash bail needed to secure his release soon he will have to wear a monitoring bracelet one of the women lo says she was violent a attacked is speaking out. i wait sod long to have my day in court. the fact that he is able to go back to his life and walk around for a year, you know, he could get away or, you know he can do it to somebody else. a break in the case finally came when fbi investigators combined d.n.a. analysis and genetic genealogy research zeroing in on him as a person of interest. after snagging his drinking glass at a corporate event
stories. we re going to hear the results of both those judgments later on this year. but between these three cases, really, you ve got the entire tabloid media. harry s taking them on. he wants them reformed. he wants to make sure these techniques are known about and never allowed again. max foster, appreciate it. thank you. here at home up next how a drinking glass, utensils and genetic genealogy is connected to a case against an attorney accused of four sexual assaults more than a decade ago. this electric feels different. because it s powered by the most potent source of energy there is ... you. this is the lexus variety of electrification . inspired by, created for and powered by you.