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Bay Area serial killer trial set to begin
Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday at alleged serial killer Joseph Naso's murders trial. Naso, 79, of Reno, is charged with killing four women in Yuba, Marin and Contra Costa counties between 1997 and 1994. Naso, a self-employed modeling photographer, photographed nude and partially nude women in heels, lingerie ...
Accused serial killer Joseph Naso's trial off until April
The trial of accused killer Joseph Naso has been postponed until April 24. Naso, 78, initially was scheduled to be tried in Marin County Superior in October for killing four women between 1977 and 1994 in Marin, Contra Costa and Yuba counties. His trial was then re-scheduled for January when Naso said he needed ...
Joseph Naso serial murder trial delayed
A judge has delayed the serial murder trial of a former photographer charged with the decades-old slayings of four prostitutes, all of whom had matching initials, in Northern California. The Marin Independent Journal reported that a judge pushed jury selection in the 78-year-old Joseph Naso's trial back to Jan. 14 ...
Judge approves Naso's request to examine murder victim's pantyhose
A Marin County Superior Court judge Friday morning approved accused serial killer Joseph Naso's request to have an expert analyze the pantyhose of one of his alleged victims for DNA evidence. The forensic analysis of the pantyhose found on the body of 18-year-old Roxene Roggasch of Oakland will be conducted ...
Judge allows accused killer Joseph Naso to view pantyhose evidence
Joseph Naso may view four pairs of pantyhose that were found on one of the four women he is accused of killing between 1977 and 1994, a Marin County Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Judge Andrew Sweet approved Naso's request to visually, but not physically, examine pantyhose that are in ...
Judge sets November trial date for accused serial killer
A Marin County Superior Court judge set a trial date of Nov. 5 for accused serial killer Joseph Naso Wednesday morning. Deputy District Attorney Rosemary Slote estimated that the trial will take four to five months, and said twice as many prosecution witnesses were expected to testify in the trial ...
Naso retains advisory counsel, possible trial in July or August
Accused serial killer Joseph Naso retained an attorney Wednesday to advise, but not represent him during his quadruple murder trial. At a brief hearing that morning, Naso's advisory counsel Michael Marowitz, a San Rafael attorney admitted to the bar in 1978, sat next to him at the defense table. But ...
Prosecutors seek the death sentence for accused serial killer Joseph Naso
The Marin County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday it would seek the death penalty against accused serial killer Joseph Naso. Deputy District Attorney Dori Ahana made the announcement at Naso's arraignment in Marin County Superior Court. Naso, 78, of Reno, re-entered not-guilty pleas to charges that he murdered four Northern ...
Judge clears way for alleged serial killer Naso to represent himself
A Marin County Superior Court judge Wednesday approved Joseph Naso's waiver of his right to an attorney, clearing the way for the 78-year-old Reno man to represent himself in his trial for four Northern California murders that occurred between 1977 and 1994. Judge Andrew Sweet said he found Naso mentally ...
Naso insists on representing himself at trial
Joseph Naso, the Reno man accused of killing four women in Northern California between 1977 and 1994, this morning adamantly asserted his right to represent himself at his trial. Naso, 78, told Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet he does not want the county public defender's office involved in ...
Naso's re-entry of pleas to four murders off until next week
Accused serial killer Joseph Naso's re-entry of pleas to charges of murdering four Northern California women between 1977 and 1994 was delayed Friday until next week. Naso, 78, of Reno, was held to answer to the charges on Jan. 23 after a nine-day preliminary hearing in Marin County Superior Court ...
Naso ordered to stand trial on serial murder charges
A Marin County Superior Court judge Monday ordered accused serial killer Joseph Naso to stand trial on charges that he murdered four women between 1977 and 1994. Judge Andrew Sweet also held Naso, 78, to answer to enhancements on those charges for allegedly committing multiple murders. The charges made Naso ...
Prosecutors rest their case at Naso Serial Murder preliminary hearing
Prosecutors on Friday called suspected serial murderer Joseph Naso a "sexual deviant" who drugged his victims before he photographed them, strangled them to death and dumped their naked bodies in rural Northern California areas. In a short, concise closing argument following more than a week of testimony, Marin County prosecutor ...
Naso's ex-wife testifies in quadruple murder case
The ex-wife of Joseph Naso, who is accused of killing four women -- including an Oakland woman who was allegedly strangled with the ex-wife's pantyhose -- testified Thursday morning that Naso had asked her to claim she had lost her pantyhose. Judith Naso, 73, testified that her ex-husband had mailed ...
Naso's DNA 'likely' match to semen sample taken from murder victim's pantyhose
A criminalist testified Wednesday morning that DNA found on pantyhose worn by a murder victim whose body was found in Marin County in 1977 contained semen that is likely that of Joseph Naso. Contra Costa County sheriff's Deputy Tuan Nguyen, a criminalist who processed and examined the DNA, also said ...
Authorities exhume body seeking connection to alleged serial killer
Healdsburg police have exhumed the body of a woman found decades ago to see if there's a connection to serial killing suspect Joseph Naso, authorities confirmed Tuesday. Police Chief Kevin Burke told The Associated Press the department exhumed the unidentified woman's body to conduct a new autopsy and collect DNA. ...
Sheriff's officers testify about Yuba County murders
Yuba County sheriff's officers gave details Friday afternoon about the deaths of two women who were found in rural areas of the county in 1993 and 1994. Joseph Naso, 78, of Reno, is charged with their murders and with the murders of two Bay Area women in 1977 and 1978. ...
Former Naso girlfriend said she feared accused serial killer
A Florida woman testified Friday that accused serial killer Joseph Naso choked her so he could have sex with her while she was unconscious during their relationship. During the live transmission from a Pensacola, Fla., courtroom, Betty Matheson, 80, said she informed Reno, Nev. police about the incident in a ...
Weeping husband identifies slain wife as women from disturbing Naso photos
The husband of slain prostitute Tracy Tafoya identified her Thursday afternoon as the woman in several photos that were taken from Joseph Naso's safe deposit box at a Reno, Nev. bank. Richard Tafoya, 61, recognized the undergarments worn by the woman in several of the photo as those he bought ...
Probation officers found 'rape diary,' guns in Naso's home
A probation officer testified Wednesday that he found a diary documenting rapes and sexual assaults of underage girls while he searched the home of a man suspected of being a serial killer. Nevada Department of Public Safety probation officer David LeBaker made the disclosure during a preliminary hearing for Joseph ...
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