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.

A hearing in Marin County Superior Court to determine if Naso should stand trail for the murders resumes Tuesday morning.

Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Million testified the naked body of Pamela Parsons, 38, was found on Sept. 19, 1993, in a small pullout on Simpson-Dantoni Road west of Marysville by Victor Mowers, while he was walking his dog.

Mowers called the sheriff's office and met them at the scene near an orchard.

Sheriff's Capt. Alan Long said there were ligature marks on Parsons' neck, wrists and ankles and bruises on her body.

Parsons' common-law husband reported her missing on Sept. 14.

Authorities identified the body as Parsons based on a unicorn tattoo on her inner right thigh and from her booking photo, which contained the same date of birth listed in the missing person report her husband filed.

There were no signs of external traumas and Parsons' arms were crossed across her chest, Long said. The death was considered a homicide.

Tracy Tafoya's decomposing body was found on Aug. 14, 1994, by Randy Daum as he rode his bicycle on state Highway 70 near Marysville Cemetery, Million said.

Daum contacted his pastor in Marysville and both men reported the body to the sheriff's office, Million said.

Long said Tafoya's naked body was 20 to 25 feet off the road, down an embankment. No evidence was found at the scene, Long said.

Grass in front of the body had been trampled down before he arrived, Long said, and Tafoya's arms were stretched back behind her head.

Tafoya was identified through fingerprints after her hands were sent to a latent print lab in Sacramento.

The testimony today was the first this week directly related to the murders and crime scenes.

Yuba County investigators have testified they found a list of nine "girls" and one "lady" and geographic locations next to each in Naso's Reno home.

Number nine on the list is "girl from Linda, Yuba City" and number 10 is "girl from Mrv (cemetery)".

Investigators also have testified they found pictures of Parsons and Tafoya in Naso's home and in his safe deposit box in a Reno bank.

The women posed in hosiery, garters and red heels.

Million also testified Naso identified a photo of Parsons as a woman he picked up hitchhiking two times between 1990 and 1994 but said he did not know her name.

Naso said Parsons offered him sex but he refused and paid her $20 to take photos of her on two occasions, Million said.

On several occasions during the hearing this week, Naso has asserted he has not broken any laws by photographing nude or partially nude women with their consent in the privacy of his home.

Investigators have also testified the women appeared asleep, unconscious or incapacitated in the photos.

  Naso said Friday he deliberately produces sensual and erotic effects in his risqui photos that might give the impression the women are dead.

"I'm very good at that," Naso said.

"Ninety percent of this case is about me and my life and not about these four unsolved crimes," he said.

Deputy District Attorney Rosemary Slote said the prosecution is trying to establish "a common plan or scheme."

"We think he incapacitates these women and kills them," Slote said.

Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet said he will allow testimony and evidence about Naso's character but has not decided if he will consider it when ruling on the murder charges against Naso.

"You need to think through your theory carefully," Sweet told Slote.