Exclusive | Fiance of accused serial Boston rapist Matthew Nilo still standing by him as he appears for key hearing 3 years after arrest
She’s still standing by her man.The fiancée of a New Jersey lawyer arrested in 2023 for eight rapes and sexual assaults in Boston nearly 20 years ago appeared in court yet again to support her betrothed for a crucial evidentiary hearing that could make or break the case against him.The case has dragged on for more than three years while Matthew Nilo, 35, remains free on bail.Since the beginning, he has fought the DNA evidence used to build the case against him.And fiancée Laura Griffin was at Monday’s hearing — as she has been throughout the legal battle.Griffin’s hair was in a no-nonsense updo and clad in dark pants and an unbuttoned blazer with a light blue blouse underneath, holding a gray purse and an umbrella — and a large rock on her finger, but no wedding ring yet.Nilo, in a dark blue suit and red tie, was in Suffolk County Superior Court Monday — his first scheduled court appearance since February — as his lawyers sought to suppress evidence gathered in an elaborate DNA collecting process that linked him to the attacks against eight women between 2007 and 2008.He was arrested in 2023 at his home in Weehawken, N.J., just two weeks after he got engaged to Griffin, who previously showed up at a hearing in a Hudson County courtroom for his extradition hearing.Nilo, who posted $500,000 bail and has been free with an ankle monitor since then, landed on cops’ radar as a suspect in three assaults in the affluent Charlestown neighborhood when the case was reopened in October 2022.At that time, the Boston police requested help from the FBI, which received approval to utilize investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) techniques, for which investigators upload partial samples of a person’s DNA to commercial genealogy services to help identify potential relatives, court documents show.Using a sample recovered from an August 2007 rape kit, the bureau began piecing together a family tree for Nilo limb by limb using information gathered from sites including...