Nearly 12 years after the initial report, a Wisconsin man has been arrested for alleged sexual assault after a DNA sample matched in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the FBI’s powerful database used to solve crimes across the United States.
The 2013 Assault Case
According to the Madison Police Department, officers responded to a 911 call shortly after 2 a.m. on November 3, 2013. A woman reported she had been sexually assaulted in the 200 block of South Hancock Street after leaving a concert. She became separated from friends and was attacked in a parking lot by a man who initially appeared to be offering help.
Police collected DNA evidence from the assault kit and uploaded the profile to CODIS in December 2013. For years, the profile generated no matches. That changed in 2025, when investigators received a hit in the national database linking the case to 39-year-old Nathaniel Stabler.
Authorities drafted probable cause for second-degree sexual assault, and Stabler was arrested and booked into the Dane County Jail. His bond was set at $300,000 during a September 8 court hearing.
