Joseph naso biography

Joseph Naso (born January 7, 1934), also known as Crazy Joe or the Double Initial Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist sentenced to death.
Joseph Naso, also known as Crazy Joe or the Double Initial Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist sentenced to death for the murders of at least four women.
A California judge sentenced a man to death Friday following his conviction for the decades-old killings of four women with matching initials.

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Joseph Naso

American serial killer on death row

Joseph Naso (born January 7, 1934), also known as Crazy Joe or the Double Initial Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist sentenced to death for the murders of at least four women.

Biography

Naso was born on January 7, 1934,^[1] 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.^[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. 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

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(AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- A former photographer was convicted Tuesday of murdering four young California women decades ago after a two-month trial in which prosecutors called him a remorseless serial killer who preyed on young prostitutes.

Jurors deliberated for about eight hours over two days in Marin County Superior Court before finding Joseph Naso, 79, guilty of slaying the four women with alliterative names: Roxene Roggasch in 1977, Carmen Colon in 1978, Pamela Parsons in 1993 and Tracy Tafoya in 1994.

The jury of six men and six women will reconvene Sept. 4 to determine if Naso gets the death penalty.

Even if Naso is sentenced to death, it is unlikely he will be executed. There are 725 inmates already on California's Death Row and executions have been on hold since 2006, when a federal judge ordered an overhaul of California's execution protocol. It will take at least another year for prison officials to properly adopt the state's new single-drug execution method and have it cleared by the judge.

All the victims were found dumped in rural Northern California locations. Rogg

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Joseph Naso, a convicted serial killer, gets death

Four women slain had matching initials

A California judge sentenced a man to death Friday following his conviction for the decades-old killings of four women with matching initials.Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet called 79-year-old Joseph Naso an "evil and disturbed man" as he issued the sentence, the Marin Independent Journal reported. Jurors had recommended the death penalty.The former photographer was convicted of strangling four prostitutes in Northern California with matching initials: Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya.Naso represented himself at trial, often coming off as confused and ornery. He called five witnesses, but did not testify himself.In his closing argument, he told the jury he was no monster and did not kill the women.But prosecutors presented a trove of evidence collected from Naso's Reno, Nev., home, including photographs of partially nude women appearing dead or knocked out, and a journal describing