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Genetic Info Leads to Arrest of Boston Lawyer Accused of Rape  

Matthew Nilo, an attorney accused of kidnapping and raping several individuals in Boston, has been arrested. So reports CBS News.

dna 718905 1920In order to do so, detectives collected existing genetic information to tie Nilo to the victims. “They will take the first cousin or aunt or profile they’ve got a close match to and they will build the family tree. There are folks out there that are sort of becoming unwitting informants to putting their relatives in prison because [they are] freely uploading DNA into databases,” said one forensic DNA expert.

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