Accused Serial Killer’s Diary Admitted Into Evidence Without Objection
Details harrowing rapes and sexual assaults. Be careful out there, ladies. Read more at PacficSun.com…
Diary of an accused serial killer
by Ronnie Cohen
A skilled lawyer might have been able to keep out of evidence a diary detailing rapes and sexual assaults found on serial murder suspect Joseph Naso’s dining room table.
But, although he has no legal training, the 78-year-old jailed defendant is acting as his own attorney. He faces the death penalty on charges he murdered four women, two in the 1970s and two in the 1990s, all with the initials of their first and last names matching.
The body of one, Roxene Roggasch, was found in Lagunitas in 1977. The 18-year-old prostitute was strangled with pantyhose containing DNA reportedly matching Naso’s then wife. Carmen Colon, 22, was found dead in Contra Costa in 1978. Pamela Parsons, 38, was found in 1993, and Tracy Tafoya, 31, in 1994, both in Yuba County. All four cases are being tried in Marin County.
On Wednesday, during a preliminary hearing, it did not occur to Naso to object to the diary being presented into evidence until after Probation Officer David LeBaker revealed some of the contents of the 23 pages of handwritten notes he found affixed to an aluminum clipboard.
He said he spotted the clipboard on the dining room table in Naso’s Nevada home in April 2010 during a search for possible probation violations from a theft conviction. In one entry, the writer described digitally penetrating a 14-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus in Kansas, LeBaker said. He said another entry described a woman who refused to listen to the writer, who took her into the woods, LeBaker said.
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