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Real Killer Arrested

posted 13 years ago by Moogle92
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"On April 11, 2011, 77 year old Joseph Naso, a New York native who lived in Rochester in the 1970's, was arrested in Reno, Nevada, for multiple murders in California dating back to 1977. His victims were named Roxene Roggash, Pamela Parsons, Tracy Tofoya, and Carmen Colon. He is being looked at as a "person of interest" in both the Double Initial Alphabet Murders in New York and the Zodiac killer murders in California. Naso was a professional photographer who traveled between New York and California extensively for decades. Paul Holes, Forensics Chief for Contra Costa County, was involved in the investigation that led to the arrest of Mr. Naso. Mr. Holes is one of the top forensics professionals in the country, played a key role in linking the EAR cases to the ONS cases through DNA, and is an active investigator on both the Zodiac and EAR/ONS murders."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_murders

i hope he's found guilty.

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[–] TonyC4444 11 years ago

According to this article I read they don't think Naso did it:

"In the mid-seventies in Rochester, N.Y., three pre-teens were killed. Like Naso's alleged victims, the three girls had first and last names that started with the same letter. One of them, Carmen Colon, even had the same name as one of Naso's alleged victims. When Naso's arrest was made public, the cold case detectives in New York cracked open their old files to see if anything squared up. But it was determined that though there was a similarity in the names of the victims, little else was the same. For one thing, the women connected to the Naso case, were much older and were mostly prostitutes. The victims in the original "double initial killings," were young. Colon, Michelle Maenza, Wanda Walcowicz were all between 10 and 12 years old. That they were from the same area where Naso had lived for a spell, and during that same time period he was back visiting relatives, seemed to be a coincidence. Police ruled Naso out when DNA from the California killings didn't match the DNA left on Walcowicz."

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/joseph-naso/victims.html

The double initial thing though is to *beep* weird to be a coincidence. Either Naso was a copy cat, or more likely he and the other killer knew each other. According to the same article I quoted you (if I'm remembering correctly) Naso either lived or grew up near Rochester. To many coincidences for them to not be linked somehow.

[–] denise1234 11 years ago

I have lost count of how many odd killers who are old enough to have been Zodiac have been tagged by folks as 'potentially also being the Zodiac Killer.'

Never seems to pan out.

As a child, I lived close to where Zodiac did his awful, awful killings at that time, I heard a survivor tell his story at a local church (the young man who survived a stabbing but unfortunately his girlfriend did not -- the couple by the lake portrayed in the movie), and I remember seeing the morning paper headline and picture when the taxi driver's brother called Zodiac out on the front page of the S.F. Chronicle.

Those were scary days as a child living in California, between the Manson thing and the Zodiac.

Personally, I think Zodiac is long dead.

"I'm here because I believe in a free Narnia."