CA CA - JOSEPH NASO, once a suspect in NY Alphabet Murders, now on trial in California

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Sacramento checking in:

No Sacramento homicides tied to Double Initial killing suspect
April 13, 2011
sacbee
By Sam Stanton

"Before authorities released word that they had arrested a 77-year-old Reno man in four slayings going back to 1977, they alerted law enforcement officials in Sacramento and elsewhere months ago to review cold case homicides for possible connections.

Piquing their interest was the fact that all four of Joseph Naso's alleged victims had first and last names starting with the same initials, and detectives went to work checking their files.

"They went through homicides as well as female missing person's reports and got no matches with the name alliteration," Sacramento sheriff's spokesman Jason Ramos said today."

and

"Naso, a photographer, is shown in public records as having lived on Brunswick Way in Sacramento starting in 1999 and is shown in Bee archives as having been arrested in a 2003 shoplifting case at a Northgate Boulevard grocery store. Sacramento Superior Court records indicate Naso faced four other misdemeanor theft charges dating back to 1993."

and

"All four cases are being handled by the Marin County District Attorney. Naso was arraigned there today but did not enter a plea."
 
Accused serial killer, 77, arraigned in Marin Superior Court


By Gary Klien
Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 04/13/2011 05:16:51 PM PDT

"A 77-year-old accused serial killer has nearly $1 million in liquid assets and should not be eligible for free legal counsel by Marin County public defenders, the district attorney said Wednesday.

Joseph Naso appeared with a public defender for his arraignment on four counts of murder, a potential death penalty case. Naso, a retiree in Reno, ....

District Attorney Ed Berberian, without elaborating, said prosecutors suspect Naso has "considerable assets, approaching $1 million," and therefore should hire a private attorney.

and

"Berberian's statement contradicts federal court documents filed by Naso in 2005, in which he described himself as a $510-a-month Social Security recipient with a $175,000 home in Reno and a disabled son to care for.

Judge Paul Haakenson gave Naso and the public defender's office two weeks to figure out who would be representing him. David Brown, the chief public defender who handled the initial arraignment, argued unsuccessfully for more time because of the enormity of the case."

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If a serial killer kills over several decades, perhaps the age of his targeted victims increases. In this case, he starts out killing 10 - 11 year -ld girs, then young women, then to women in their 30s. It sort of sounds logical.
 
I'm curious to watch this one unfold. Was he trying or did he complete the whole alphabet? Where else has he been and how do we go about finding other cases with double initials? It must be somewhat rare?
 
Cold case in Salt Lake has similarities to Calif. serial killer case
April 13th, 2011 @ 8:23pm
By Pat Reavy

"One case detectives might look at is a cold case from Salt Lake City. A young girl, whose first and last name begin with the same letters, was killed about the same time as the slayings in California started.

On May 12, 1977, 16-year-old Sharon Schollmeyers was found dead in her Salt Lake apartment, 125 1st Avenue. Her naked and bound body was discovered in a partially filled bathtub, according to the state's cold case website. A Utah medical examiner determined the manner of death was homicide."

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I'm curious to watch this unfold as well, sarx. This is one of those local unsolved mysteries that we all wonder about. I vividly remember it because I was the same age as the girls when it was going on. My name wasn't a double initial, but my best friend's was and I remember being scared at the time. The other interesting thing is that the bodies of each girl was dumped in a nearby town whose name had the same initial (Carmen dumped in Churchville, Wanda in Webster, and Michelle in Macedon). I haven't read up on this suspect, but was it the same case with those murders?

I hope this local mystery is on the verge of being solved. But the DNA not being a match is a wrench. But the similarities are just too eerie, not to mention 2 Carmen Colons? idk Very interesting to watch this unfold.
 
RocNYchick said:
I'm curious to watch this unfold as well, sarx. This is one of those local unsolved mysteries that we all wonder about. I vividly remember it because I was the same age as the girls when it was going on. My name wasn't a double initial, but my best friend's was and I remember being scared at the time. The other interesting thing is that the bodies of each girl was dumped in a nearby town whose name had the same initial (Carmen dumped in Churchville, Wanda in Webster, and Michelle in Macedon). I haven't read up on this suspect, but was it the same case with those murders?

I hope this local mystery is on the verge of being solved. But the DNA not being a match is a wrench. But the similarities are just too eerie, not to mention 2 Carmen Colons? idk Very interesting to watch this unfold.
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I was only a year older than Carmen at the time. I took Carmen as my Confirmation name in her memory. It really changed the lives of us girls, making us fearful and distrusting. It would be wonderful to have these decades-old murders solved at last.

As far as the DNA not matching -- there was a theory that one of the girls (Carmen, I think) wasn't killed by the same person as the other two. I don't know which victim the DNA is associated with.
 
I was wondering how a perp would even know the names of his victims before-hand. I read that Naso was a photographer. Could he have worked for a photography company that comes into the schools to take the annual school photo of each of the children? They were all Catholic school girls, weren't they? Maybe the same company was used? Just a thought.
 
Here is my list of possible CA crimes with double initials:

Antonia Araiza:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/a/araiza_antonia.html

Cheryl Lynn Carter:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/carter_cheryl.html

Denise Dorfman
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dorfman_denise.html

Deborah Dubs:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dubs_deborah.html

Diane Dye:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dye_diane.html

Kimberlie Kantonen
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k/kantonen_kimberlie.html

London Lawler:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/lawler_london.html

Lynn Luray(southern CA 1964, Naso lived down in that area in the 60’s):
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/luray_lynn.html

Lara Lykiardopoulos:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/lykiardopoulos_lara.html

Maria Monrean:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/monrean_maria.html

Rachel Rhodes:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/rhodes_rachel.html

Sally Ann Schneider:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/schneider_sally.html

Marlene Mello (Yuba County):
http://sheriff.co.yuba.ca.us/missingperson.htm

Add a couple more names to this list, both are Solano County murder victims, both appear to have died from blunt force:
Heather Hibbs (2002) & Danna Dever(1996)...forgive me if Naso was in prison at this time, I dont think I have read a full list of details as to when he was in jail.

Also, the 1976 blunt force trauma murder in South Tahoe, of Kathleen Keohane.
 
morf13
In your list, Deborah Dubs (and her husband and her son) were killed by Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.
 
Here is an article about Joseph Naso, living in an apartment building in the Mission District of San Francisco in the early 80s:

Joseph Naso, murder suspect, haunts old neighbors
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, April 16, 2011

snip

"According to Prisco and her husband, the couple received a phone call from a Nevada state police detective last year about the downstairs neighbor in the apartment building in San Francisco's Mission District where the couple lived in 1981. The detective said the man they had known as "Crazy Joe" had filled three notebooks with descriptions of how he wished to torment Prisco, then 23 years old."

and

"Iorizzo said he'd forgotten about the tenant he'd nicknamed "Crazy Joe" until last April, when Detective William Thurston of the Nevada Department of Public Safety called to ask if Prisco was still alive.

"I told him, 'I think so,' " said Iorizzo, 53. " 'I saw her go off to work this morning, and she seemed OK.' "

Iorizzo said the Nevada detective then told him investigators were sifting through stacks of boxes filled with composition notebooks, and that three notebooks were dedicated to Prisco. The details of her intended torture were so horrific, Iorizzo said, that the detective declined to repeat them over the phone.

According to Iorizzo, Thurston told him the author's name was Joseph Naso and that among his writings was a "to-do" list of women he wanted to kill - and Prisco's name was No. 10 on the list."

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