Serial rape suspect Matthew Nilo is expected to post an additional $50,000 bail Thursday, after paying an initial $500,000 bail last month, after appearing in a Suffolk County, Massachusetts courtroom to face seven additional assault charges filed against him in late June.
Nilo, a 35-year-old Boston native, is accusing of sexually assaulting or raping eight woman — including one woman twice — between 2007 and 2008 in the Charlestown and North End areas of Boston.
The court ordered Nilo, who appeared beside his fiancée, held on additional $50,000 cash bail Thursday upon the condition that he does not contact any of the victims in the case and stays 1,000 feet from Charter Street in the North End of Boston, where several of the alleged assaults occurred.
He has not been ordered to stay in Boston and may return to his home in New Jersey with a GPS ankle monitor, but his passport has been revoked.
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“He does have the cash on him personally,” Nilo’s attorney, Joseph Cataldo, told the magistrate on Thursday.
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Cataldo also said his client plans on fighting the 14 charges filed against him “vigorously in court, both on a factual basis and on a legal basis.”
A Suffolk County grand jury in June indicted Nilo on seven charges, including one count of rape, one count of aggravated rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery stemming from attacks that took place in the North End between 2007 and 2008, when Nilo would have been 19 or 20.
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In May, authorities charged Nilo with three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one count of assault with intent to rape and one count of indecent assault and battery. The initial charges were filed in connection with attacks on four women between 2007 and 2008 in the Terminal Street area of Charlestown after DNA linked him to the four alleged crimes.
During Thursday’s press conference prosecutors read new details about the assaults Nilo was most recently charged in.
On Jan. 6, 2007, around 1:20 a.m., a 24-year-old woman was walking home to the North End while talking on the phone when a male grabbed her from behind on Charter Street.
“Don’t f—ing turn around,” the male stated before kicking her left thigh and pinning her to the ground with his foot, according to Assistant District Attorney Lynn Feigenbaum.
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The male restricted both of her arms so she could not fight back but fled toward Commercial Street when the victim screamed.
On July 13, 2007, around 4 a.m., a 33-year-old woman was walking home on Charter Street in the North End when a male restricted her arms from behind and sexually assaulted her. The victim screamed, and the suspect fled toward Commercial Street.
A blue Honda Accord was captured on nearby surveillance footage around the time of the attack, and prosecutors noted that a blue, 1994 Honda Accord was registered in Nilo’s name in 2007.
On Jan. 3, 2008, around 11 p.m., a 24-year-old victim was walking home on Charter Street while talking on the phone when a male restrained her from behind and pushed her onto the sidewalk.
“The attack was so violent that she fell right out of her shoes,” Feigenbaum said.
The suspect held the victim down and assaulted her, at which point she yelled, and he jogged away.
The same victim was attacked by a male whom she “100%” believes was the same suspect just 11 days later on Jan. 14 around 7 a.m., when she was walking to work and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said. The assault ended when a car drove by and the suspect fled toward Commercial Street.
“The victim was transported after the attack to the hospital and underwent a sexual assault evidence collection kit. This kit was sent to the crime lab in 2008, but no DNA profile could be obtained from any piece of evidence. However, in 2023, based on the similarities between attacks recently tied to the defendant, the victim’s pants were sent to a private lab, and a mixture of three DNA profiles was located on the interior waistband of her pants,” Feigenbaum said.
Only one of the three DNA profiles was male, and “testing reveals it was 43.3 billion times more likely that the mixture included the defendant, Matthew Nilo, than another contributor,” the prosecutor explained.
Nilo denied knowing or having any physical or sexual contact with the victim when police questioned him in 2023.
In the last case read aloud in court on Thursday, the suspect allegedly attacked another victim on the Fourth of July in 2008. A 23-year-old female took a cab home from Faneuil Hall to the North End. While walking down Foster Street, a male attacked her from behind and sexually assaulted her. The suspect threatened the victim with a gun, but she was able to fight him off, according to Feigenbaum.
The Boston Police Department and FBI said in May that they linked Nilo to the four sexual assault cases from Charlestown through forensic genealogy and DNA analysis. The attacks were DNA-linked, authorities said when they arrested the suspect at his residence in New Jersey.
Nilo will again appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on Jan. 16, 2024.