Joseph Naso accused in Dylan fan's disappearance

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Joseph Naso accused in Dylan fan's disappearance

Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

San Francisco Chronicle January 13, 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

A man already accused of murdering four Northern California women may have been involved in two other killings, as well as the disappearance of a woman last seen on her way to a Bob Dylan concert in San Francisco, the lead investigator in the case testified Thursday.

Detective Richard Brown of the Nevada Department of Public Safety said at a preliminary hearing in San Rafael that investigators searching 78-year-old Joseph Naso's safe deposit box had found photographs of two unidentified women who appeared to be dead.

Brown said the photos, depicting the women from the waist down, showed that their skin was discolored in a manner characteristic of dead bodies. The women were dressed in underwear and high heels, Brown said.

Naso, a Reno resident who is acting as his own attorney, sat expressionless as prosecutors presented large poster boards in Marin County Superior Court lined with photographs of the women.

Naso has pleaded not guilty to the murders of four women in Northern California: Roxene Roggasch in 1977, Carmen Colon in 1978, Pamela Parsons in 1993 and Tracy Tafoya in 1994. The body of Roggasch was found near Lagunitas, and Colon was found near Port Costa, while Parsons and Tafoya were both found in Yuba County. (more...)