In 1992, Matheson returned to Florida and moved in with her son, William. (Photo: Alan Dep, AP). But William asked his mother about it in the morning. 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. (AP) If anything, they were even more horrific with graphic descriptions of bondage, torture and murder. LaDonna Humphrey never met Melissa. While there is some repetition within this writing, List of 10 is a very readable book that is difficult to put down once started. The probable cause statement released Thursday states that Naso may have used his then-wife's panty hose to strangle Roggasch, a prostitute whose 1977 murder has been unsolved for decades. Authorities say she was also a prostitute, and that prior to her death she had told her sister she was having her photos taken. I saw numerous photographs of women in various unnatural positions, said Jacobs, who supervised Nasos probation for the Nevada Department of Public Safety. 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. Jacobs also. Naso was on probation in 2009 following a conviction for felony larceny in California. Colleen previously lived at 7109 Mount Holly Rd, Waynesville OH 45068 for 3 years, starting in . 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. Prosecutors have approached a 74-year-old woman who alleged that Naso was the man who raped her when she was a student in Berkeley, California, in 1961. Naso, dressed in a black suit with a royal blue tie, told the jury there is no evidence that proves hes familiar with Marin County and no evidence hes ever been in Marin County or Contra Coast County. 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. "This was her passion in life," said Brown. The first letters of the victims' first and last names gave rise to suspect's "Double Initial" nickname. [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. names that started with the same letter. Joseph Naso in court during closing arguments. Yet there are reasons for caution. Across the room the officer spotted a pair of mannequin legs turned upside down and fitted with nylon stockings. Photo: AP In time the winds of love blew. Court documents state that Naso had photographed Parsons. It was nothing more than a lined sheet of paper that read, List of 10, but shortly after its discovery, a task force was created, and a serial killer was nabbed. Jacobs found the photos while searching Naso's home after he violated his probation when officers found ammunition on Naso's 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 victims Naso is charged with killing: Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. She is currently undergoing testing by the DNA Doe Project. Naso said he wore women's pantyhose because of a skin condition on his leg. Naso Says Theres No Evidence Linking Him to the Murders. Another clutch was found in the living room. Wake up to the day's most important news. Swinney has used narrative to walk through each murder and provide an insight into these terrible events from the viewpoint of each victim. He leafed through it, increasingly shocked: the entries amounted to a journal of terror. Officials have said there's no hard evidence tying Naso to the. Photo: AP A jury has recommended the death sentence for Joseph Naso, the 79-year-old convicted of the "Alphabet Murders" of four California women who all had matching initials. had first and last He complains constantly about his treatment. Her body was found on the side of Highway 70 near Marysville Cemetery in 1994. 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. 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. A terrifying and absolutely nightmarish serial killer, Naso took pride in his gruesome work and kept a diary wherein he detailed the murders and other crimes he had committed. 10 on the list was "Girl from MRV Cemetery," Jacobs said. The police monitored the conversation as Naso told her to enlist the help of their eldest son. "Once Charlie gets into my house, tell him to go straight to my bedroom. I just wanted to tell you that story to show that people do hitchhike, he said. "There are probably more. Chelsi Williams of George Jenkins had a dominant day at the St. 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. 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. Working as a photographer, he obsessively documented his crimes. Matheson said she could not recall. As the investigation continued, Naso received a visit at the Washoe County jail from his former wife, Judith. No. In The policeman began with the bedrooms. The families of the dead children have endured one failed investigation after another. Others looked knocked out, or worse. Her body was found on the side of Highway 70 near Marysville Cemetery in 1994. the Murderpedia project stay alive. I've got things in there that are private," Naso said, according to court papers. "That was all she did.". 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. He was also found to be in possession of newspaper articles about the killings of two of the other women. 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. match the DNA left on Walcowicz. He shot back: "That was back in the 50s.". El cuarto asesinato se produjo en mayo de 1992 cuando Renee Shapiro, ms conocida como Sarah Dylan por ser groupie de Bob . 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. True crime author and San Francisco Bay police officer C.L. It is an intense and gripping read which keeps the attention on the innocent victims of Joseph Naso and the tragedy of their lives being cut short and ending in such violence. They show the victims from the waist down with the discoloured skin characteristic of corpses. Attached to the news articles were laminated photos of Parsons. The Marin Independent Journal has reported that Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet called 79-year-old Joseph Naso an "evil and disturbed man" as he issued the sentence on Friday. But the prosecutions appear to have gone nowhere and, in some cases, the police barely took the accusations seriously. "We think there are others out there we haven't discovered yet," said Chris Perry, director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. She was No. new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help They were found strangled and dumped in locations around California over a span of 17 years between the 1970s and 1990s. Detectives have been mum on details in this ongoing investigation of the 77-year-old photographer, charged with the murders of four Northern California women with matching initials in the 1970s and 1990s: Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. What Should We Do With Teenage Psychopaths? He likened the photographs to a horror movie, saying the disturbing images were created for magazines that featured such work. Naso listened as Marin County prosecutor Dori Ahana and Brown detailed dozens of sexual and violent photographs of women seized from his home, objecting at times to the relevance. Other women on the list included mentions of Healdsburg, a town in Northern California; Berkeley; and what appeared to be an address in San Francisco. 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. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s, he met his first wife, Judith. Front seat of my car. They are also very different kinds of victims: schoolgirls in New York, prostitutes in California. Jackson noted that the old man was wearing socks. Joseph Naso, 78, is on trial in Marin County for the killings of four women in Northern. By Jessica Mullins, Editor, San Rafael Patch. . Tafoya was killed in Yuba City when Naso lived there. 79-year-old convicted of killing Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya in the . There are six men and six women on the jury panel and nine alternate jurors. 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. No. When Naso's arrest was made public, the cold case detectives in He has included the possible thoughts of Joseph Naso and the verbal interactions between Naso and his victims, all of which build to provide a startling account of the experiences these women faced in the hours and minutes before their deaths. Convicted of the murder of four young women in 2016 he now sits on death row as a man in his 80's who will no doubt die alone and despised in the same solitary space. Snow storm." Everything was done by consent, Naso insisted. At the time Naso began logging his sex attacks in the "rape diary" in the 1950s, he was living in New York. AP. 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. She was gorgeous. The so-called Double Initial Murderer, so named because his victims . Joseph Naso who is now 78 was found with detailed notes and photographs of the woman he brutally raped and killed during the 1960s and 70s. "I can probably get half the women in this room to disrobe voluntarily," he said. The documents state that Naso had photographed at least one of the victims he is charged with killing: Parsons. You still look good to me," he said. Joseph Naso, 77, was arrested Monday by Marin County, California, detectives following his release from the El Dorado County jail, also in California, where he had been in custody over the past . One said: "Girl in north Buffalo woods. Certainly the police missed several opportunities to curb his attacks. The women have been violated. 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. in Marin County Superior Court in San Rafael, Calif. on Wednesday, Six other women referred to on the list have not yet been identified, but prosecutors say the investigation is ongoing. Each time he got away with petty theft or another attack on a woman, he became more confident and as his confidence grew his desires increased requiring more violence and more depravity to fulfill them. Naso also once lived in the Rochester area and traveled there as a freelance photographer in the early 1970s, authorities said. William told investigators that he woke in the middle of the night to hear what he thought was the sound of someone being strangled. When Nevada authorities arrested Naso on unrelated charges in April 2010, they "found photographs. Colon's decomposed body was found near Port Costa 1978 by a California Highway Patrol officer in Contra Costa County. Some of the women appeared to be posing willingly. Ohios Most Enduring Murder Mystery [Part One], The JFK Assassination Case Still Closed, Strangled: A Courageous Fight Against The Darkest Corners of Humanity, The Girl I Never Knew: Melissa Ann Witt Deserves Justice, Befriending A Serial Killer: An Interview With Mark Austin, The Husband Poisoner: Lethal Ladies and Dangerously Tasty Recipes, Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Caf Society Murder, Operation Jacknap: A True Story of Kidnapping, Extortion, Ransom and Rescue. Joseph Naso (born January 7, 1934) is an American serial killer and serial rapist sentenced to death for the murders of four women. The police made little progress in investigating the murder. There will be so-called experts testifying, he told the jury. He is also charged with two Yuba County murders for the deaths of Pamela Parsons, 38, and Tracey Tafoya, 31. [4], Nevada parole and probation authorities arrested Naso in April 2010.