Area North detectives were led to Phillips through the DNA evidence, which had been found at the crime scene, and learned Phillips had been locked up in the Cook County Jail since August on unrelated charges.



In that case, Phillips tried to sexually assault a woman with multiple sclerosis last summer in Evanston, the charges alleged. He knew she was physically disabled, authorities said.



According to the charges, he tried to embrace the woman, telling her, "No means yes to me," and then bit her on the buttocks, Cook County court records allege.



Phillips also stalked the woman by twice going to her residence, pounding on her door and demanding to be let in, the records show.



He was being held on $100,000 bail on charges of aggravated battery to a disabled person, stalking and attempted criminal sexual assault, all felonies.



Phillips has an extensive criminal record dating to the late 1980s that includes felony convictions for narcotics, aggravated battery and attempted burglary, records show.