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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Joseph_Naso_%28criminal%29.png/180px-Joseph_Naso_%28criminal%29.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Joseph_Naso_%28criminal%29.png/270px-Joseph_Naso_%28criminal%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Joseph_Naso_%28criminal%29.png 2x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="360" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Naso in 2013</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1934-01-07</span>) </span>January 7, 1934<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 90)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester, New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Crazy Joe<br />The Double Initial Killer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Judith Naso (divorced)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Conviction" title="Conviction">Conviction(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Murder (United States law)">First degree murder</a> with <a href="/wiki/Special_circumstances_(criminal_law)" title="Special circumstances (criminal law)">special circumstances</a> (4 counts)<br /><a href="/wiki/Theft" title="Theft">Theft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal penalty</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California" title="Capital punishment in California">Death Penalty</a> (<a href="/wiki/De_jure" title="De jure">de jure</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Victims</th><td class="infobox-data">6–10+</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Span of crimes</div></th><td class="infobox-data">January 10, 1977 – August 14, 1994</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">State(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Date apprehended</div></th><td class="infobox-data">April 11, 2011</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Joseph Naso</b> (born January 7, 1934), also known as <b>Crazy Joe</b> or the <b>Double Initial Killer</b>, is an American <a href="/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serial_rapist" title="Serial rapist">serial rapist</a> sentenced to death for the murders of at least four women. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Naso&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Naso was born on January 7, 1934,<sup id="cite_ref-victim81_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victim81-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester, New York</a>. After serving in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a>. The couple had a son who later developed <a href="/wiki/Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>, and Naso spent his later years caring for him.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Naso took classes in various San Francisco colleges in the 1970s and lived in the <a href="/wiki/Mission_District,_San_Francisco" title="Mission District, San Francisco">Mission District of San Francisco</a> and then in <a href="/wiki/Piedmont,_California" title="Piedmont, California">Piedmont, California</a>, in the 1980s. He lived in <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a> between 1999 and 2003 and finally settled in <a href="/wiki/Reno,_Nevada" title="Reno, Nevada">Reno, Nevada</a> in 2004, where he was arrested in 2011. He worked as a freelance photographer and had a long history of petty crimes such as <a href="/wiki/Shoplifting" title="Shoplifting">shoplifting</a>, which he committed even in his mid-seventies.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His acquaintances nicknamed him <b>Crazy Joe</b> for his behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victims">Victims</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Naso&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Victims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Confirmed">Confirmed</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Naso&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Confirmed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>18-year-old <b>Roxene Roggasch Ashby</b> was found dead on January 10, 1977, her body dumped near <a href="/wiki/Fairfax,_California" title="Fairfax, California">Fairfax, California</a>. She had been strangled.<sup id="cite_ref-Lee_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lee-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-victims_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victims-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Carmen Lorraine Colon</b>, 22, 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.<sup id="cite_ref-victims_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victims-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The body of <b>Sharileea Patton</b>, 56, washed ashore near the Naval Net Depot in <a href="/wiki/Tiburon,_California" title="Tiburon, California">Tiburon, California</a> in January 1981. At the time of her death, she was a resident of the Bay Area looking for a job. Naso managed the residence where the woman used to live. He also took a photograph of the victim. He was considered the prime suspect by police in 1981 but gave the investigators only elusive answers and was not charged for the next thirty years.<sup id="cite_ref-victim81_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victim81-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Sara Dylan</b>, a <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> <a href="/wiki/Groupie" title="Groupie">groupie</a> (born <b>Renee Shapiro</b>, she later changed her name to that of <a href="/wiki/Sara_Dylan" title="Sara Dylan">the singer's former wife</a>), was last seen on her way to a Dylan concert at <a href="/wiki/The_Warfield" class="mw-redirect" title="The Warfield">the Warfield</a> theater in San Francisco in May 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was killed in or near <a href="/wiki/Nevada_County,_California" title="Nevada County, California">Nevada County, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mnews_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mnews-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1993, the body of 38-year-old <b>Pamela Ruth Parsons</b>, a waitress, was found in <a href="/wiki/Yuba_County,_California" title="Yuba County, California">Yuba County, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mnews_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mnews-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Parsons worked near Cooper Avenue in <a href="/wiki/Yuba_City,_California" title="Yuba City, California">Yuba City</a>, where Naso lived at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-victims_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victims-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>31-year-old <b>Tracy Lynn Tafoya</b> was found dead on August 14, 1994,<sup id="cite_ref-mnews_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mnews-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also in Yuba County. The killer drugged, raped, and strangled her and left the body near Marysville Cemetery.<sup id="cite_ref-Lee_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lee-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been estimated that a week passed before the body was found.<sup id="cite_ref-victims_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-victims-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Suspected">Suspected</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Naso&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Suspected"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On January 24, 1983, a gardener found a headless and partly decomposed body of an adult woman in Foss Creek behind Simi Winery in <a href="/wiki/Healdsburg,_California" title="Healdsburg, California">Healdsburg, California</a>. Investigators later found a head during a search of the area. On April 28, 2011, her remains were exhumed to extract DNA. However, an identification has not been made and she is known only as the <b>Sonoma County Jane Doe</b>. Links between the victim and Naso were investigated because authorities found a "rape diary" belonging to Naso and one of the entries mentioned a "girl in Healdsburg."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Naso was also a <a href="/wiki/Person_of_interest" title="Person of interest">person of interest</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester</a> <a href="/wiki/Alphabet_murders" title="Alphabet murders">Alphabet murders</a> case as four of his victims bore double initials, just as the Rochester murder victims, and Naso was a New York native who had lived in Rochester during the early 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the Rochester victims was named Carmen Colon.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Genetic_testing" title="Genetic testing">DNA testing</a> has confirmed Naso's DNA is not a match to the semen samples recovered from the body of victim Wanda Walkowicz.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arrest,_trial_and_conviction"><span id="Arrest.2C_trial_and_conviction"></span>Arrest, trial and conviction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Naso&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Arrest, trial and conviction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, prosecutors Dori Ahana and Rosemary Sloat introduced evidence identifying Patton and Dylan. On August 20, 2013, Naso was convicted by a <a href="/wiki/Marin_County,_California" title="Marin County, California">Marin County</a> jury of the murders. On November 22, 2013, a Marin County judge sentenced him to death for the murders.<sup id="cite_ref-mnews_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mnews-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Naso&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States" title="List of serial killers in the United States">List of serial killers in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims" title="List of serial killers by number of victims">List of serial killers by number of victims</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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