The skull of Sara Dylan has been found in Nevada County. Sara was the young Bob Dylan fan who went missing in San Francisco and it is thought that Joseph Naso was her killer. Sara does not have the same first and last name initials as the four victims that Naso is now on trial for have.

Here’s the story-

http://www.theunion.com/news/7580856-11 … dylan-rape

Alleged serial killer on trial linked to skull found in Nevada County

It might have been difficult to find a bigger Bob Dylan fan than Sara Dylan. Not his former wife, but a fan so devoted the woman legally changed her name and hitchhiked worldwide to follow his tours.

But for Dylan, born Renee Shapiro, her curtain call came early.

Through the help of her biological mother’s DNA, police in 1998 were able to match her DNA to a skull found in Nevada County. She was last seen alive at a Bob Dylan concert in Hawaii in 1992.

The startling revelations came to light at the first day of the trial of alleged serial killer Joseph Naso, which is currently under way in Marin County.

Naso, 79, was formally charged with the murders of Tracy Tafoya, 31, who was found in 1994 in Marysville in Yuba County, Carmen Colon, 22, who was discovered in Port Costa in Contra Costa County in 1978, Roxene Roggasch 18, of Oakland, who was found in Fairfax in 1977, and Pamela Parsons, 38, who was discovered in Yuba County in 1993.

On that first day of the trial, which began in mid-June, Marin County Deputy District Attorney Rosemary Slote mentioned Dylan during her opening statements while a “List of 10” flashed across a large screen for the court to see.

One by one, she underlined five descriptions with a red line and announced who they presumed each person to be.

While prosecutors presume Dylan is the No. 8 entry “girl in Woodland, Nevada County” from Naso’s “List of 10,” a hand-written note listing descriptions relating to victims, they did not formally charge him for her death.

The skull was discovered to be Dylan’s only around six months ago, and putting forth charges would mean enduring another preliminary hearing, which would push back the trial.

Dylan’s passport and driver’s license were also found in a safe deposit box in Reno, belonging to Naso, whose trial began June 17 at Marin County Superior Court.

Despite a quick gasp in the courtroom after the first post-mortem photo, silence hung in the air through photos of the victims, both before and after their deaths, half-naked women in nylons and lingerie and close-up entries of Naso’s “rape journal.”

Marin County Public Defender Pedro Oliveros is serving as Naso’s advisory counsel and occasionally turned and quickly glanced at the screen. But for Naso, in a dark suit and blue tie, his eyes rarely faltered from Slote and Deputy District Attorney Dori Ahana, with his hands crossed on the table.

He never once looked back.

Slote graphically detailed the accounts in each woman’s murder, all of which were cold cases until Naso’s arrest in 2010.

Defense opener

“This case is about me, my life,” Naso said, facing a jury of 21, attempting to tell his side of the story. “I am not the monster that killed these women. I don’t do that. I date . . . I dance . . . but I don’t kill people.”

Naso, who is representing himself, said he took a course in business law in college, “did well in previous civil proceedings” and “did his homework.”

He referred to the prosecution’s opening statements as a “character assassination,” saying, “I want to tell you about myself, who I really am.

“[The prosecution] doesn’t even have circumstantial evidence,” Naso added.

In regard to the four women being prostitutes, Naso said, “I have no issue with prostitutes. I have a high regard for prostitutes. There may be prostitutes in this courtroom.

“There is no evidence that I dated any of these prostitutes or evidence that I was with them the last time they were seen alive,” Naso said.

He also claimed that the DNA linking him to that found on Roggasch’s pantyhose is not his. “It’s a theory.”

“There is no evidence that I am familiar with Marin County or I was ever seen in Marin County,” he said. Roggasch’s body was found in Fairfax, Slote said.

Naso only admitted knowing Pamela Parsons, who modeled for him once. “I’m sorry about her demise, but I didn’t do it,” he said.

He said he picked her up on the side of the road and took her to his house. She offered sex, he said, but he only took “glamour pictures,” Naso said.

“She was alive when she came in and alive when she left,” Naso said.

Naso also admitted to two “sexual incidents” — one in 1958 in which he was charged with second-degree assault and sentenced to probation and another in 1961, which was dropped due to lack of evidence, he said.

His “rape journal” isn’t proof of his actions, Naso said.

“That’s the way I talk. I have brain sex,” he said. “When I say I picked up a nice broad and raped her, it had nothing to do with forcible rape. I’ve never had any complaints with any of my dates except for the two.

“There is nothing in my journal about killing,” he said. “The prosecution is based on opinions, theories and so-called experts’ testimony.”

Naso spent three hours talking about his passion and talent for photography, his years in the service and the thousands of subjects he’s photographed over the years, including the weddings for “three sisters of the same family.”

He attempted to relate his friendly nature to the jury by recalling an elderly woman he’d met at the Berkeley Flea Market, where he frequently sold various items, who asked him to drive her to Colusa.

He agreed and once brought his son along, always sleeping in the car while she stayed in a hotel during each of their multiple trips, he said.

“Her name was Marla, and she told me that Yuba City was where all the action is,” Naso said. “I bought a house there for $65,000.”

He also mentioned his disabled son, whom he described as having a “horrible affliction.”

Naso displayed more than 50 photographs, ranging from family portraits to “sexy” images of women in lingerie.

“I was always interested in girly magazines as a boy even,” Naso said.

The case

The Nevada Department of Public Safety charged Naso with four counts of murder, crimes of sexual assault, rape, violation of parole, possession of firearms and identification theft after two searches of his Nevada home in April and May of 2010.

“Naso lived alone … in Reno and was on felony probation for theft in El Dorado County,” Slote said.

Due to the California Nevada Interstate Compact Agreement, which allows officers to conduct spontaneous checks in both states, officer Wesley Jackson showed up at Naso’s house and conducted a random search.

“The house was cluttered and the bedrooms were locked from the outside,” Slote said.

Naso later claimed that only one bedroom was locked but that his master bedroom was open.

A plastic container of ammunition and knives were found. A bullet and a small advertisement for the sale of a gun were also found in his pocket. All violated his parole, Slote said.

Officer Robert Jacobs was called to the scene and discovered Naso’s “List of 10” and soon arrested Naso for probation violations. The list was believed to label places where women’s bodies were discarded and later discovered.

Police seized more than $152,000 in cash, weapons, women’s clothing, newspaper clippings, mannequin legs, dolls, bullets, a $30,000 coin collection, knives, 5,000 photographs — and what Richard Brown, lead investigator with the Nevada Department of Public Safety, called a “rape journal.”

Many of the photographs found in Naso’s possession are believed to be of unconscious or deceased women, according to Brown.

During the preliminary hearing in January 2012, he described the dark bruising and prominent veins on some victims as “marbling” — a part of the decomposition process.

The search warrant also led to the discovery of the “rape journal,” which contains graphic depictions of sexual assault.

One was labeled “Rochester 1958” and described “picking up a gorgeous chick at a bus stop,” where he “headed for the cemetery and started to kiss and molest her.”

He went on to write: “I had to force her down and hold her skirt up . . . her girdle down . . . it was hard work.”

Naso was arrested for the woman’s rape in 1958.

The journal entries are explicitly violent and graphic. He ends the note with: “To this day I love her. I wish I could have married her.”


Another entry described offering a young girl a ride home in 1961. It reads: “She fell for it . . . I forced her down on the back seat. . . . She was scared.”

He was also arrested for that incident, though the case never came to fruition.

Helen French’s name was also noted in the “rape journal.” Naso allegedly attempted to rape French during a photo session in the 1980s. French will be testifying in the Marin County trial.

Naso refers to his journal as a “dream diary,” detailing his fantasies. He also said the word rape was written loosely, “how guys talk.”

Police also located two safety deposit box keys in his upper dresser drawer.

Naso was recorded after his arrest asking his ex-wife to tell their son to break into his home and remove the keys before police found them, Slote said. The audio will be played for the jury, which is made up of more women than men.

The US Bank and Wells Fargo safety deposit boxes contained a small black purse, personal documentation of other women, passports, driver’s licenses, newspaper articles and more.

Naso lived in close proximity to all the victims at the time of their murder.

Though Naso will not be formally charged with Dylan’s murder, she is one of many cold cases that authorities across the country revisited after Naso’s arrest.

The four women all have both first and last names beginning with the same letter; Dylan is the only link so far that differs.

Nicole Baptista is editor of the Novato Advance.

Some additional ideas regarding Naso..quite sure I’d say is Jackie Kay Boyer as she disappeared from windsor, next to Healdsburg.

1. Girl near Heldsburg Mendocino Co. – Jackie Kay Boyer
2. Girl near Port Costa
3. Girl near Loganitas [likely Roggasch] – Patricia E. Gomez or Stacey Lee Lynch or Tracy Lynn Davenport or Linda Ann Miller
4. Girl on Mt. Tam – Isobel Watson or Patricia May Pat Tan
5. Girl from Miami near Down Peninsula
6. Girl from Berkeley – Cheryl Cathleen ‘Cathy’ Nolan or Lynn Ruth Connes
7. Lady from 839 Leavenworth – Rosa Vasquez (two blocks away)
8. Girl in Woodland (near Nevada County) [Likely Sara Dylan] – Dolores Wulff or Evelyn Joyce McDowell
9. Girl from Linda (Yuba County) [likely Pamela Parsons found in 1993]
10. Girl from MRSV (Cemetery) – MRSV could be a Costa Rican airport?

However the names have no double initials..

QT

Four of those on Naso’s list are the murders he is currently on trial for having committed.

2. The girl near Port Costa is Carmen Colon.
3. The girl from Lagunitas is Roggasch.
9. The girl from Linda (Yuba County) is Pamala Parsons
10. The girl from MRSV is Tracy Tafoya.

The list as posted in the articles gives Naso’s abbreviations , misspellings and bad geography.

I believe that MRSV is Naso’s abbreviation for Marysville.

The first one on the list should be spelled Healdsburg and it’s in Sonoma County not Mendocino. I know that Healdsburg police exhumed a Jane Doe that had been found in their city limits back in the ’80’s. Since LE doesn’t know the name of the person it is difficult to find the murderer.

Definitely seems more than likely or random that he chose those girls based on their double macthing initials

The prosecution has given their closing arguments. Today Naso began his closing arguments and will finish them up on Monday. The case should go to the jury sometime next week.

Naso’s quote of the day-

He then told the jury, "Evidence is like the weather it’s always changing."

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio … id=9208788

Guess he’s talking about dead bodies..electric chair.

QT

Today at the trial the list of 10 women/girls found among Naso’s things that Naso is thought to have murdered is revealed.

http://sfist.com/2013/06/18/prosecution … ential.php

Healdsburg is in Sonoma County, not Mendocino. The Port Costa likely refers to Carmen Colon.

Below, the full List of Ten as presented at Naso’s trial.

1. Girl near Heldsburg Mendocino Co.
2. Girl near Port Costa
3. Girl near Loganitas [likely Roggasch]
4. Girl on Mt. Tam
5. Girl from Miami near Down Peninsula
6. Girl from Berkeley
7. Lady from 839 Leavenworth
8. Girl in Woodland (near Nevada County) [Likely Sara Dylan]
9. Girl from Linda (Yuba County) [likely Pamela Parsons found in 1993]
10. Girl from MRSV (Cemetery)

I’d say the Woodland girl is rather from California, Yolo County, than one from Nevada..rather not Dolores Wulff (missing) but Evelyn Joyce McDowell. No double initals, but still missing until today, possibly Naso being the only one to know..

MRSV persumably is meant to be Marysville, California..guess that was Tracy Trafoya.

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

http://piedmont.patch.com/groups/police … ba0c0c45e2

1. Girl near Heldsburg Mendocino Co. – Jackie Kay Boyer
2. Girl near Port Costa – ???
3. Girl near Loganitas – Roxene Roggasch
4. Girl on Mt. Tam – Isobel Watson or Patricia May Pat Tan
5. Girl from Miami near Down Peninsula – ???
6. Girl from Berkeley – Cheryl Cathleen ‘Cathy’ Nolan or Lynn Ruth Connes
7. Lady from 839 Leavenworth – Rosa Vasquez (lived two blocks away)
8. Girl in Woodland – Dolores Wulff or Evelyn Joyce McDowell (or Sara Dylan if Woodland, Nevada)
9. Girl from Linda (Yuba County) – Pamela Parson
10. Girl from MRSV (Cemetery) – Tracey Tayofa

New York victims: Michelle Maenza, Wanda Walkowicz, Carmen Colon

Carmen Colon can’t be the Port Costa girl…she was found in Riga, New York, Port Costa is in the SF Bay area..imo TruTV is wrong, Wikipedia right with its information as there is a picture of a huge megaboard in the internet with Carmen Colon and ‘Rochester’ on it. However there is a 1993 Jane Doe in Port Costa which might be Joseph Naso’s..

http://www.fugitive.com/2012/04/28/1992 … ta-county/

No idea who she was, in namus it’s written that she had two beige socks.

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10758

QT

QT, Carmen Colon is one of the women that Naso is on trial for right now. It is a different Carmen Colon than the one in New York, she was 22 years old when she was killed and was found near Port Costa CA.

1. Girl near Heldsburg Mendocino Co. – Jackie Kay Boyer
2. Girl near Port Costa – ???
3. Girl near Loganitas – Roxene Roggasch
4. Girl on Mt. Tam – Isobel Watson or Patricia May Pat Tan
5. Girl from Miami near Down Peninsula – ???
6. Girl from Berkeley – Cheryl Cathleen ‘Cathy’ Nolan or Lynn Ruth Connes
7. Lady from 839 Leavenworth – Rosa Vasquez (lived two blocks away)
8. Girl in Woodland – Dolores Wulff or Evelyn Joyce McDowell (or Sara Dylan if Woodland, Nevada)
9. Girl from Linda (Yuba County) – Pamela Parson
10. Girl from MRSV (Cemetery) – Tracey Tayofa

New York victims: Michelle Maenza, Wanda Walkowicz, Carmen Colon

QT

I believe Pat Tan had been visiting friends in Berkeley.

I would also say that a few people believe that some of the Mt. Tam slayings linked to David Carpenter (the "Trailside Killer") were not him but another assailant.

Is there a standard MO the characterizes how Naso met his victims? Lynn Ruth Connes, a model ("from Berkeley"). was meeting a photographer, which I think was Naso’s alleged hobby/profession:

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I have an old photo taken by Joesph Naso. I was in it, along with other classmates. He took our classes graduation picture for school along with our teacher. We went to school in Oakland. It’s a little creepy to think he told us were to sit and pose for the photo. He sent the pictures himself to our home address’s, which means he knew were each of us lived. The writing on the envelope matches his writing on line. His return address was Oakland at the time.

I have an old photo taken by Joesph Naso. I was in it, along with other classmates. He took our classes graduation picture for school along with our teacher. We went to school in Oakland. It’s a little creepy to think he told us were to sit and pose for the photo. He sent the pictures himself to our home address’s, which means he knew were each of us lived. The writing on the envelope matches his writing on line. His return address was Oakland at the time.

Wow that’s pretty creepy. So schools handed out address information to photographers? There’s something about that though that seems familiar, as in I think that happened here when I was in school although I’m not sure if the school posted the photos or if they came from the photographers direct. Either way I’ve decided that neither Yourself or Sandy are safe to be let out alone, at any age, it would seem.

1. Girl near Heldsburg Mendocino Co. – Cheryl Lynn Carter ? Jackie Kay Boyer
2. Girl near Port Costa – Carmen Colon
3. Girl near Loganitas – Roxene Roggasch
4. Girl on Mt. Tam – Isobel Watson or Patricia May Pat Tan
5. Girl from Miami near Down Peninsula – ???
6. Girl from Berkeley – Cheryl Cathleen ‘Cathy’ Nolan or Lynn Ruth Connes
7. Lady from 839 Leavenworth – Rosa Vasquez (lived two blocks away)
8. Girl in Woodland – Dolores Wulff or Evelyn Joyce McDowell (or Sara Dylan if Woodland, Nevada)
9. Girl from Linda (Yuba County) – Pamela Parson
10. Girl from MRSV (Cemetery) – Tracey Tayofa

New York victims: Michelle Maenza, Wanda Walkowicz, possibly Carmen Colon #2?

QT

Jury found Joseph Naso guilty!
http://sananselmofairfax.patch.com/grou … ur-murders

Good stuff. Thanks for posting Zam.