There are a further six references on the List of 10 not fully accounted for. Swinney has used narrative to walk through each murder and provide an insight into these terrible events from the viewpoint of each victim. Joseph Naso, left, talks with legal adviser Pedro Oliveros during "Do you agree that in magazines you see similar images as in movies of people posing to appear deceased?" At one point he denounced what he called Detective Brown's "obsession" with his photographs and lifestyle, professing outrage at the invasion of privacy of the women in the pictures. Sentencing Joseph Naso to death row in August 2016, Judge Sweet told him You being in the world Mr Naso, has made this world a worse place. In List of 10, C.L. plans and enthusiasm Brown suspects that among the other pictures in the box were those of at least two other dead women who have yet to be identified. Between 1977 and 1994 Naso murdered six young women around the San Francisco Bay and northern California area, however, he is suspected of a further four murders and possibly many more. The bespectacled Naso, who sat alone at the defense table in his red-and-white-striped jail clothes, struggled throughout his cross examination, often launching into long statements instead of asking questions. She was real pretty. While the exact thoughts and feelings may not be known as facts, it is known that each of these young girls would have realized at some point after going home with Joesph Naso that their lives were in grave danger. . The photographs showed many women unconscious or appearing dead, including two prostitutes Naso is charged with killing, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. Yeah. Some appeared to be asleep, some appeared to be unconscious and some non-responsive.. While he was speaking to the jury, Naso would at times digress, such as an instance when he told a story to the jury he said wasnt related to the case. The story, from decades ago, was about a female driving a car with two young children who picked Naso up on the East Coast at 1 a.m. in the morning when he was hitchhiking and drove him to Seattle in two days and two nights. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really The piles of photographs, notebooks and a string of other evidence discovered in Naso's house point to a serial rapist who attacked women across the United States for more than half a century and who, in time, graduated to serial murder. Jurors had recommended the death penalty. November 1968: 4: Japan : Mahanand NAIK. One of them picked up the aluminium clipboard on the dining room table. He said the pictures showed nude women posed in "unnatural positions" who appeared dead or unconscious. (AP Photo/Marin Independent Journal, Alan Dep, File) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT, Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. He'd focus his rage on prostitutes mostly. In the top drawer of the dresser, under my socks, is a blue two-by-four-inch pouch envelope containing my safe-deposit keys. He even took numerous photographs of his victims and kept them in his house as a macabre secret. "There are probably more. Added to the diaries and notebooks, the search of his house also turned up driving licences, passports and work identification cards belonging to women even a birth certificate for someone born in 1914. Naso blustered. Those killings are unusual in their own right as they appear to follow the plot of an Agatha Christie novel, The ABC Murders, in which the initial letter of the victims' first and last names were the same. To empathize with them, this is a part of the story that needs to be told, and C.L. Though the home has been vacant for one year, neighbors say . The police listed all four victims as prostitutes. He likened the photographs to a horror movie, saying the disturbing images were created for magazines that featured such work. Attached to the news articles were laminated photos of Parsons. (IJ. There are six men and six women on the jury panel and nine alternate jurors. the women connected to the Naso case, were much older and were She was working as a prostitute in the area at the time and had been strangled. But when the writings and photographs found in his house are referred to, the old man becomes agitated. Their marriage lasted for 18 years, but after the divorce Naso continued visiting his ex-wife who lived in the Bay Area. New York cracked open their old files to see Number seven reads: "Lady from 839 Leavenworth" the street address of a residence hotel in San Francisco managed by Naso in the 1980s. Their marriage lasted for 18 years, but after the divorce, Naso continued visiting his ex-wife, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. In reality, it was supposed to be ten women, of which four were unidentified. No one dares put a figure on the total number of victims, but Naso is under suspicion for a series of killings from California to New York and Florida as the police believe they have stumbled on a killer who operated so far and wide and over so many years that they didn't know he existed. A suspected serial killer who may be New York's infamous "Double Initial" murderer kept a gruesome rape diary and posed photos of dead prostitutes, California authorities said Wednesday. in Marin County Superior Court in San Rafael, Calif. on Wednesday, Detective Richard Brown, who heads the Nevada investigation, said that the photo appears to be of a woman who is already dead. The other six women mentioned in the diary remained unidentified. Chelsi Williams of George Jenkins had a dominant day at the St. He said the photos demonstrated the variety of professional photography he has done. Heres why. Perhaps that left Naso with a sense of invincibility as the seriousness of his crimes escalated. Jacobs found the photos while searching Nasos home after he violated his probation when officers found ammunition on Nasos property in Reno, Nev. Jacobs said the photographs were near a list Naso had scrawled with descriptions of 10 women, including four references prosecutors believe describe slaying victims Naso is charged with slaying: Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. Photos of two Yuba County women who were murdered in the 1990s were found in a safe deposit box belonging to Joseph Naso, the man accused of killing them and two Bay . Former photographer Joseph Naso, a 79-year-old former photographer, was convicted of killing Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons, and Tracy Tafoya. Joseph Naso stands accused of a string of particularly vicious murders spanning half acentury, many with abizarre twist , Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 'In my culture rape is just a term for making out': Joseph Naso in court earlier this year, shackled and wearing a prison uniform. "In Ice Cold Blood" is releasing remaining episodes from Season 3, with Grammy and NAACP Image Award Winner Ice-T returning as host and executive producer, lending his distinct voice to mind-blowing true stories involving sex, money, obsession - or even a fatal cocktail of all three. The jury of six men and six women in Marin County Superior Court deliberated for about eight hours over two days before finding Joseph Naso, 79, guilty of killing the women with alliterative names . Naso will face a possible death sentence when Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet delivers his order as jurors voted for the death penalty. A diary documenting the rapes and sexual assaults of underage girls and women was found alongside posed photographs of two murder victims in the home of a suspected serial killer, a court has heard. His high opinion of himself, his belief he was above everyone else and the lengths he went to in order to obtain control and power over the women he killed are a testament to this man's personality. An elderly man, Joseph Naso Joe to everyone but the justice system knew as much as he unlocked the gate and let the officer in. I didnt care for porno, but sexy pictures I thought were OK.. Joseph Naso was born on January 7, 1934[1] in Rochester, New York. Naso Says Theres No Evidence Linking Him to the Murders. The photos and the list led to Naso's arrest for the murders of the four prostitutes in April and his extradition to California from Nevada. Jackson spotted boxes of bullets near adresser, which was enough to arrest Naso for breach of probation while he continued the search for what he assumed was a weapon hidden somewhere in the house. Papers everywhere. Joseph Naso is suspected of killing Pamela Ruth Parsons in 1993 and Tracy Tafoya in 1994. Cloud Invitational on Saturday winning the 100 meter hurdles in a US #2 wind-legal personal best time of 13.54, while leaping for a US #2 all-conditions personal best mark of 41'0.50" in the triple jump. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) A probation officer who searched the Nevada home of an alleged serial killer testified Tuesday that he found photographs of nude women posed in "unnatural positions" who appeared dead or unconscious. On August 20, 2013, Naso was convicted by a Marin County jury of the murders. But the authorities in several US states suspect that's not the half of it. Graphic nude images of his victims in weird poses Naso had worked as a photographer were also found in the search of his home. If I say I picked up a nice broad and raped her it has nothing to do with forensical rape.. The last home of serial-killing suspect Joseph Naso in Black Springs, Nevada, a small community north of Reno, Tuesday April 19, 2011. Ohios Most Enduring Murder Mystery [Part Two], Who Killed Marilyn Sheppard? Joseph Naso in court during closing arguments. His high opinion of himself, his belief he was above everyone else and the lengths he went to in order to obtain control and power over the women he killed are a testament to this mans personality. The police made little progress in investigating the murder. In the midst of the clutter lay a single sheet of paper with a handwritten list of numbers up to 10. Many of these girls were prostitutes, women Naso saw as easy prey. Another Yuba City prostitute that prosecutors believe Naso killed was Tafoya, whose body was found on the side of Highway 70 near Marysville Cemetery in 1994. At a preliminary court hearing earlier this year, Naso, representing himself again, tried to remind Matheson of what he called "the good times". Brown replied: "I call it a rape journal because, in it, you write things such as: 'I had to rape her. Colons decomposed body was found near Port Costa 1978 by a California Highway Patrol officer in Contra Costa County. Some were apparently accounts of past crimes. Some were bound with cord. But even without a warrant, Jackson was free to rifle through the house on the outer reaches of Reno at any time he chose. Naso later said the photos were taken at a time when "men were men, and women were women". "I can probably get half the women in this room to disrobe voluntarily," he said. Naso has said all of the prosecution's evidence at that hearing was circumstantial. 10 on the list was Girl from MRV Cemetery, Jacobs said. Among the piles of notebooks seized at Naso's house were three that went into graphic detail about his intent to torture and murder a woman who lived in the flat above him on Leavenworth, Margaret Prisco. home in connection with an unrelated gun conviction discovered numerous photographs of nude women posed in unnatural positions . But Naso defended the photographs, saying they only served as evidence that he derived pleasure from looking at posed or fabricated photographs of women who were acting dead or asleep. At the front door the policeman confronted a metal security gate and a black and red sign: Keep Out. In a preliminary court appearance earlier this year, shackled and wearing a red and white striped prison uniform, he described the pictures of naked women scattered around his house as his "romancing" and accused prosecutors of misunderstanding his use of the word "rape". There will be so-called experts testifying, he told the jury. 3 on Naso's macabre list of 10 women, the documents state, referred to as "Girl near Loganitas," whose body was found about four miles east of Lagunitas, a small town in Marin County. Matheson said that Naso wanted to have sex with her while she was unconscious. Can A Crime Turn Into A Personal Injury Lawsuit? The other victims were also prostitutes found naked and strangled. Asked how it was that so many women went along with his requests to strip naked and be bound and photographed, he was boastful. She and her partner called their downstairs neighbour "Crazy Joe" and on one occasion spotted Naso dumping piles of graphic bondage magazines in the rubbish. In 1980, a 22-year-old woman named Sheila Shepherd from Saratoga Springs in New York state was found strangled and naked in her bed. Eventually they moved to New York and largely forgot about him. She awoke to find two strange men in her bed who quickly "scurried away". The only DNA evidence from the New York murders does not match Naso's. None were named on the list, but all were tied to it by the places at which they died. "I wish Icould remember better," she said. The Linked Data Service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the Library of Congress. Inside Naso's safety deposit box at a bank in Reno, investigators also found news articles about Parsons' death, Slote said. She was gorgeous. They were found strangled and dumped in locations around California over a span of 17 years between the 1970s and 1990s. Joseph Naso (born January 7, 1934) is an American serial killer, sentenced to death for the murder of six women. Naso's home in Reno, Nevada, where police say they found a diary It means making out and having great sex. C.L. Attached to the cuttings was a picture of one of the victims in nylons and a garter belt. A serial rapist before he progressed to murder, Joseph Naso had been stalking and attacking women for up to five decades before he was finally stopped. The Double Initial Murders Pt. In the 1990s he moved on to Nevada, where he was finally captured. Oxygen is back with a series of high-quality true crime shows. The probable cause statement, used to hold Naso in jail after a warrantless arrest, was unsealed after a coalition of media groups led by The Associated Press challenged a judge's decision to seal them at his arraignment. area where Naso had lived for a spell, and 9 on the list, called "Girl from Linda," for the town in Yuba County where she was born. From the old man's notebooks, detectives believe he drugged, bound and held some of his victims prisoner at his house. Once this list was discovered the task of police investigators was to identify the women on it and find out who they were and what happened to them. out when DNA from the California killings didn't He searched through dresser drawers packed with women's clothing, which seemed odd as there were no signs of anyone else living in the house. Now the question has arisen: was Shepherd's murder Naso's transition from killing girls to killing women? To Jackson, some of the women looked to be unconscious, perhaps dead. I've got things in there that are private," Naso said, according to court papers. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - A former photographer accused of killing four Northern California women with matching initials in the 1970s and 1990s defended disturbing pictures of women that were found in his Nevada home, saying they were created for magazines that featured such work. But it was determined that though there was a similarity in She showed jurors photographs of the victims' bodies, all of which were found along rural roads. The Jewish nose, or Jew's nose, [1] is an ethnic stereotype [2] that refers to a hooked nose with a convex nasal bridge and a downward turn of the tip of the nose. By 76-years-old Joseph Naso had amassed scores of photographs he had taken of women in various states of undress and consciousness. [10], Later, prosecutors Dori Ahana and Rosemary Sloat introduced evidence identifying Patton and Dylan. Joseph Naso, el "asesino del alfabeto": el depredador sexual obsesionado con el nombre de sus vctimas Fotos, lencera y una misteriosa lista llevaron al cruel criminal al corredor de la muerte . killings," were young. A second bedroom turned up scores of pictures of women naked or dressed only in stockings and high heels. He also possessed a detailed diary of stalking and rape and a handwritten list serving as a reminder of his murders, all kept in a filthy apartment to bolster his ego and reinforce his own sense of power, and they are items that became his downfall. The more he tried to defend himself, laugh at witnesses and display abusive outbursts at the prosecution attorneys and the judge, the further he sank in the opinion of everyone around him highlighting more than anything else, that he was guilty of these crimes. Authorities say the DNA of Naso's ex-wife was found on the hose. On one of the occasions she was at a San Francisco hotel after an evening at a nightclub with her husband. Joseph Naso listens to proceedings during his arraignment in Marin County Superior Court in San Rafael, Calif. on Wednesday, Apr. His use of photography gave him a ruse to lure women, mainly prostitutes, back to his home where he could indulge in his fantasies by dressing them up in lingerie and taking photographs he could keep for his collection. "Once Charlie gets into my house, tell him to go straight to my bedroom. It contained 66 photographs of women naked or in various states of undress, alongside various identification documents belonging to several women. I raped her in an alley. Marin County Deputy District Attorney Rosemary Slote told jurors this morning that Naso's DNA was detected on the pantyhose Roggasch was wearing when she was found on the side of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard on the eastern slope of White's Hill in Fairfax. [8], Naso was also a person of interest in the Rochester Alphabet murders of 197173 case since four of his victims bore double initials, just as the Rochester murder victims and Naso had lived there for a long time. The prosecution is alleging that Naso met the women while he was working as a self-employed photographer. The women have been violated. Authorities say the DNA of Nasos ex-wife was found on the hose. Naso, dressed in a black suit and blue tie, sat expressionless as photographs of the victims were shown on large screens for the jury. Mark Austin took his curiosity about notorious serial killer Dennis Nilsen further than most. Authorities have said DNA evidence collected from her fingernails could tie Naso to her slaying. Joseph E. Ibberson Conservation Area | Flickr. Naso was standing there, watching. No. Naso's habit of diligently recording every attack has given detectives a bewilderingly large source of leads as they attempt to piece together the picture of his suspected crimes. "This was her passion in life," said Brown. Her body was found on the side of Highway 70 near Marysville Cemetery in 1994. Joseph Naso, 79, killed four women between the 1970s and 1990s . The DNA of Naso's wife Judy was found on another pair of pantyhose that was wrapped around Roggasch's neck, she said. He was resident in the city, but later shifted upstate. In the middle of the door was a small flap, of the kind typically found on prison cells so food and other items can be passed through. Naso photographed nude and partially nude women in heels, lingerie and garters in poses that made them appear dead, incapacitated or unconscious, according to evidence presented at Naso's. More than once women went to the police to accuse him of sexual assault on them or their daughters. Six women were identified and Naso went on trial for the murder of four of them; 18-year-old Roxene Roggasch found in January 1977, 22-year-old Carmen Colon found in August 1978, 38-year-old Pamela Parsons found in September 1993, and 31-year-old Tracy Tafoya found in August 1994. His crimes spanned between 1977 to 1994 and the California man is now sentenced to death. "DNA testing was done during which the DNA of Judith Naso was found on the panty hose around her neck," wrote Ryan Petersen, a Marin County sheriff's investigator. While there is some repetition within this writing, List of 10 is a very readable book that is difficult to put down once started. 3 on Naso's list was "Girl from Loganitas," who prosecutors believe is Roggasch, whose body was found near Lagunitas, a small town near the coast in Marin County. According to Naso's own diary, when the mother of one under-age girl he had sex with went to New York police, the officer's response was to warn him to leave town. Colon's decomposed body was found near Port Costa 1978 by a California Highway Patrol officer in Contra Costa County. He shot back: "That was back in the 50s.". Joseph Naso, 78, owned journals that contained dozens of sexual and violent images of women. The 79-year-old former commercial photographer, who was living in Reno when he was arrested in 2011, said the prosecution's evidence about two other murders that he is suspected of committing and. He worked as a freelance photographer and had a long history of petty crimes such as shoplifting, which he committed even in his mid-seventies. were I saw numerous photographs of women in various unnatural positions, said Jacobs, who supervised Nasos probation for the Nevada Department of Public Safety. For one thing, The photographer's credential of Joseph Naso, the alphabet killer. Matheson said she could not recall. The whole thing is disgusting and I don't see any relevance at all," he said. Convicted serial killer Joseph Naso appears for sentencing in Marin Superior Court in November 2013, in San Rafael. At the time Naso began logging his sex attacks in the "rape diary" in the 1950s, he was living in New York. Before he gave his opening statements, he expressed displeasure to Judge Andrew Sweet with the courtroom projector he would use to show his photography. In 1993, Parson's body was found in Yuba City near where Naso was living at the time, the documents show. new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help Others read more as instruction manuals for the carefully planned and prolonged deaths of individually named women yet to be captured. In addition to the murder charges, Naso faces a special-circumstance allegation of committing multiple murders that would make him eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted. Dirty dishes piled high in the kitchen. Serial killing suspect Joseph Naso kept a numbered list of 10 women, including four prostitutes he is charged with killing, plus photos and news clippings, court documents reveal. Naso was indeed charged with rape more than once in the 1950s, and reported on other occasions. Shapiro had followed Dylan to performances across the US and abroad for years. Jacobs said he did, but noted that the women in Nasos pictures appeared in unnatural, uncomfortable or unsustainable positions. Joseph Naso (born January 7, 1934) is an American serial killer and serial rapist sentenced to death for the murders of four women. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. period he was back visiting relatives, seemed to be a coincidence. Another clutch was found in the living room. How the courts decide, We might not be able to understand free will with science. Probation officer Roger Jacobs, who found the photos in a search of Naso's home, was the first witness called at the hearing. The couple had a . Four of the entries appeared to be references to killings that became known as the "Alphabet Murders" or the "Double Initial Killings" from the late-70s to the early-90s. (Ktvu.com), Joseph Naso makes his closing statements. But by then detectives weren't talking about Naso's probation violations any more. Court documents state that Naso had photographed Parsons. One of them, Carmen FILE - In this April 13, 2011 file photo, Joseph Naso appears in Marin County Superior Court during his arraignment on murder charges in San Rafael, Calif. Authorities say she was also a prostitute, and that prior to her death she had told her sister she was having her photos taken. He asked his former wife if he had ever physically abused or threatened her, or if she had ever heard of him harming another person. This large block of nearly unbroken forest is a haven for wildlife like forest warblers and other deep woods animals. "The last entry on the list made reference to a girl from Marysville, with (cemetery) written next to it," the documents state. Swinney has used his knowledge of Nasos attitudes, his personality, and known behaviors to provide a worked example of what happened with each young woman in each of the murders. AP. Jason is a national investigative reporter. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. The old man knew that if he didn't he'd be off to prison. Tracy Lynn McKinney Tafoya was found dead in 1994, This page was last edited on 18 December 2022, at 20:11. Working as a photographer, he obsessively documented his crimes. No. The police on at least one occasion warned Naso to get out of town to avoid arrest. 2 - Joseph Naso: With Greg Polcyn, Vanessa Richardson. During his remarks, Naso, who is acting as his own attorney . Her body was found on the side of Highway 70 near Marysville Cemetery in 1994. A list which contained ten items, all specifying a girl and a geographical location but giving no further details. Naso. Curiously all four womens names began with the same initials leading many to suspect Naso of the three similar Alphabet Murders in Rochester, New York between 1971 and 1973 however, no evidence linking Joseph Naso to these murders has been found. Visit our, List of 10: The True Story of Serial Killer Joseph Naso. He leafed through it, increasingly shocked: the entries amounted to a journal of terror. The photos and the list led to Nasos arrest for the murders of the four prostitutes in April and his extradition to California from Nevada. A Criminal Disorder? [2], Naso took classes in various San Francisco colleges in the 1970s and lived in the Mission District of San Francisco and then in Piedmont, California, in the 1980s. name as one of Naso's alleged victims. He also dismissed some of the people who will testify during the trial, which is expected to last until mid-November. His presentation of the facts in this case supported by the narratives surrounding the murder of each of Nasos victims provides an insightful look at the real damage that this man has done, not only to his victims but to their families and everyone who loved them. A main attraction to the conservation area is the elaborate trail . She offered sex but I said I wasnt interested in sex, he said. Hunting down an elusive killer led two women into a dark layer of the internet where anonymity allows for threats and intimidation to be unleashed. Across the room the officer spotted a pair of mannequin legs turned upside down and fitted with nylon stockings. The couple had a son named Charles who later developed schizophrenia, and Naso spent his later years caring for him. But even without a warrant, Jackson was free to rifle through the house on the outer reaches of Reno at any time he chose. Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Naso, however, was ruled out of that case when DNA found on Californian victims was not matched to the DNA found on a Rochester victim's body.[6]. [3] The Jewish nose was singled out as a hostile caricature of Jews in mid . Snow storm." Prosecutors have also said Naso kept news clippings of the slayings in a safety deposit box. Six other women referred to on the list have not yet been identified, but prosecutors say the investigation is ongoing. Joseph Naso listens to Chief Deputy Public Defender David Brown Let's talk about the not so picture perfect life of Joseph Naso. Betty Matheson is 81 now, living in Florida and very sick. Court documents show Naso might have used his then-wife's panty hose to strangle Roggasch, a prostitute whose 1977 murder went unsolved for decades. If anything, they were even more horrific with graphic descriptions of bondage, torture and murder. We will pull up every cold case," he said. "At the end of this case, it will be sufficient evidence that the defendant is a serial murderer and serial rapist," Slote said. Some of the place names were tracked to an area north of San Francisco. Naso's house held another secret. Serial killing suspect Joseph Naso kept a numbered list of 10 women including the four prostitutes he is charged with killing and kept news clippings of the killings in a safety deposit box, authorities said in documents released Thursday that shed new light on the bizarre case. But William asked his mother about it in the morning. In the 1970s he moved across the country to California, settling in the San Francisco area.