Joseph Naso

Naso was born on January 7, 1934, in Rochester, New York. After serving in the United States Air Force in the 1950s, he met his first wife. Their marriage lasted for eighteen years, but after the divorce, Naso continued visiting his ex-wife, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. The couple had a son who later developed schizophrenia, and Naso spent his later years caring for him. 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. He lived in Sacramento between 1999 and 2003 and finally settled in Reno, Nevada in 2004, where he was arrested in 2011. 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. His acquaintances nicknamed him Crazy Joe for his behavior. == Victims ==

Confirmed • 19-year-old Charlotte Cook was murdered in January 1974. * On May 20, 1976, 20-year-old Lynn Ruth Connes was last seen alive in Berkeley, California. Naso strangled her, but did not rape her, and late at night he threw her body under a bridge in another city. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JApMQxls-3U&pp=2AbUAQ%3D%3D • 18-year-old Roxene Roggasch Ashby was found dead on January 10, 1977, her body dumped near Fairfax, California. She had been strangled. Police estimated she was killed less than a day before. Police suspected that Roggasch had worked as a sex worker, but her family denied this. • October 9, 1977, murder of 19-year-old Pamela Jean "Pam" Lambson, who disappeared after making a trip to Fisherman's Wharf to meet a man who had offered to photograph her.* Carmen Lorraine Colon, 22-year-old, was found on August 13, 1978, along Carquinez Scenic Highway, a road between Crockett and Port Costa, just thirty miles from the first victim's body. A Highway Patrol officer investigating reports of a cattle shooting found a decomposing nude body that had been dumped. The body was later identified as Colon's. She was killed in or near Nevada County, California. also in Yuba County. The killer drugged, raped, and strangled her and left the body near Marysville Cemetery. • The police suspect Joseph Naso of a murder that occurred in 1987 and they are trying to close the case.[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5G50e5omyEM • Naso was also a person of interest in the unsolved Rochester, New York Alphabet murders case as four of his victims bore double initials, just as four of his California murder victims, and Naso was a New York native who had lived in Rochester during the early 1970s. One of the Rochester victims was named Carmen Colon, the same name as one of Naso's California victims. DNA testing has confirmed Naso's DNA is not a match to the semen samples recovered from the body of victim Wanda Walkowicz. == Arrest, trial and conviction ==

Nevada parole and probation authorities arrested Naso in April 2010. While searching his home, authorities discovered a handwritten diary in which Naso listed ten unnamed women with geographical locations. The diary excerpts showed how Naso stalked and sexually assaulted his victims and then photographed them in sexual poses alongside mannequin parts. On April 11, 2011, he was charged with the murders of Roggasch Ashby, Colon, Parsons, and Tafoya. The police listed all four victims as prostitutes. Later, prosecutors Dori Ahana and Rosemary Sloat introduced evidence identifying Patton and Dylan. On August 20, 2013, Naso was convicted by a Marin County jury of the murders. On November 22, 2013, a Marin County judge sentenced him to death for the murders. == See also ==