Thanks for keeping an eye on that Zam. I’ve been a little busy…. I’ve got Channel Two on and am waiting for the news to start.

That’s wonderful news! Not that I’d expect anything else, but you never know. I didn’t follow any of it. Was it televised at all? Would have been nice to see him dig his own grave.

A sixth victim of Naso has been identified.

Her name does not fit the double initial pattern of the murders that he was convicted of committing. I’m really not sure which woman she could be on Naso’s list. #2 was Carmen Colon #3 Roxene Roggasch #9 Pamela Parsons #10 Tracy Tafoya, the four he was convicted of murdering. #8 Sara Dylan who was identified as his victim too late to be included in his trial.

Here’s that list again-

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)

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Pro … 769695.php

Prosecutors in Marin County said Wednesday that that they had connected a sixth female homicide victim to Joseph Naso, the 79-year-old photographer who was convicted last week of murdering four Northern California women in the late 1970s and early 1990s.

Barry Borden, the chief deputy district attorney, said prosecutors wish to introduce the new evidence during the penalty phase of Naso’s trial, which is scheduled to start Sept. 4. Jurors must decide whether the onetime San Francisco resident should receive the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The alleged victim, Sharileea Patton, was a 56-year-old security guard from the North Lake Tahoe area whose body washed ashore in Tiburon on Jan. 14, 1981, according to published reports. She was last seen two weeks earlier as she drove to the Bay Area to look for work, and police reported she was strangled and stuffed inside two garbage bags.

During Naso’s trial, prosecutors presented photographs and writings removed from his Reno home, including a "List of 10" they said referred to Naso’s victims. Investigators said they had tried for two years to identify the victims and a fill out the list.

Prosecutors charged Naso with killing four women. They said they received evidence of a fifth victim – a woman named Sara Dylan who disappeared while following a Bob Dylan tour, and whose remains were found in 1992 in Nevada County – too late to include in the criminal trial.

Naso has said he is innocent of all of the killings.

Justin Berton is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: @sfchronicle.com.

So was Sara the new victim…"too late to include in his trial"…or the new evidence…"Sharileea"…? I’m a bit confused.

Doesn’t surprise me that there’s additional victims & some w/o the double initial that are victims. I would guess that there are more.
I called to report my group picture mentioned in my above post. I was called back after he was found guilty but told that he brought pictures of girls in uniforms to prove he was a photographer. Still gives me the creeps. But they don’t feel he was killing as early as 73.

So was Sara the new victim…"too late to include in his trial"…or the new evidence…"Sharileea"…? I’m a bit confused.

Sharileea is the newly named victim. I posted about Sara Dylan on page 2 of this thread. It is confusing, I thought I was helping by posting the list again, maybe not.

So was Sara the new victim…"too late to include in his trial"…or the new evidence…"Sharileea"…? I’m a bit confused.

Sharileea is the newly named victim. I posted about Sara Dylan on page 2 of this thread. It is confusing, I thought I was helping by posting the list again, maybe not.

I was confused by the article…your list is good.

The penalty phase of Naso’s trial got underway today. Naso was insulting to attorneys and the prosecutor, telling the prosecutor she needed to fix her hair and saying that attorneys were whores. He told the jury that he shouldn’t be given the death penalty because he wasn’t guilty. This is the same jury that convicted him.

The children of the victims spoke in court telling how their lives were altered by their mothers being killed. I think that Naso should be given life in prison, not because he doesn’t deserve the death penalty but because he is so old that there is no way the death penalty could be carried out. It takes way too long for the appeals process in California. He would be wasting taxpayers money.

This Marin Independent Journal article has pictures of all Naso’s victims which I do not think I’ve seen before.

http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_240 … th-penalty

A former model, and victim of Naso believes he should live:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law … pha/nZw8N/

The jury recommended the death penalty for Naso after less than five hours of deliberation.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Na … 14171.html

The jury recommended the death penalty for Naso after less than five hours of deliberation.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Na … 14171.html

YAY, lets hope it happens & soon! Why, why waste our tax payer money. Problem is, I’m sure there’s more victims he should confess to!
The guy gives me the creeps!

If anyone deserves the death penalty, it’s him.

This is an article about how California’s death penalty is relatively ineffective. It was written because of Naso’s upcoming pronouncement by the judge of the death penalty sentence the jurors voted on for Naso. I would have put this article in the Capital Punishment thread but it was locked because it got a bit too political. So, lets keep it in context. I think what’s at issue here is, is the death penalty for Naso is appropriate because of his age and the length of time and the amount of money it takes to work its way though the system California now has for implementing the DP?

http://www.contracostatimes.com/contrac … ent-debate

Serial killer’s death sentence revives capital punishment debate
By Malaika Fraley Contra Costa Times
POSTED: 10/06/2013 12:00:00 AM PDT

In 1977, 19-year-old Larry Roggasch cracked open a six-pack of beer, pouring three on his little sister’s freshly covered grave in their native San Jose, and made a promise: He would see that the man who raped, strangled and dumped her on a Marin County hillside be punished.

Thirty-six years later, judgment day looms for serial killer Joseph Naso, who at age 79 will become the oldest person ever sentenced to death in California when a judge next month pronounces his penalty for the murders of 18-year-old Roxene Roggasch and three other Northern California prostitutes.

But Larry Roggasch doesn’t know whether he can bear to watch Naso receive what seems to him a hollow sentence. With an ongoing moratorium on

Joseph Naso appears in Marin County Superior Court during his arraignment on murder charges in San Rafael on April 13, 2011. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal file)
executions in California and hundreds of convicted murderers awaiting capital punishment, there is virtually no chance the state will ever put Naso to death.
"It’s a joke; he’s never going to be executed," said Roggasch, a 56-year-old commercial fisherman. "He’s going to live out the rest of his life safe and comfortable in his own cell on death row.

"That’s why I want him to go to mainline prison," Roggasch continued. "He needs to suffer, like them — not just my sister, all of them."

In California, the death penalty appeals process takes so long that men half Naso’s age on death row are more likely to die of natural causes or kill themselves than be executed by the state. And while they wait on San Quentin State Prison’s death row, they lead a relatively comfortable existence, with single cells and access to the best attorneys fighting for prisoners’ rights.

But on the heels of voters narrowly choosing to preserve the death penalty last year, California’s district attorneys and peace officers are readying a proposition for the 2014 ballot that they say would expedite executions once the state lifts its moratorium on lethal injection drugs.

Among those spearheading the effort are District Attorneys Steve Wagstaffe of San Mateo County, Jeff Rosen of Santa Clara County and Mark Peterson, whose Contra Costa County territory has been the scene of death penalty defendants mocking the threat of capital punishment in recent years.

"Some individuals facing murder charges would prefer the death penalty to life without parole because they believe the conditions on death row are better than among the general population," said Larry Barnes, a private defense attorney and death penalty expert. "They harbor the opinion that with some 720 men on death row, unless they are very young, they don’t stand a chance of being executed."

Such was the case with Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza killer Nathan Burris, who practically begged Contra Costa County jurors to give him the death penalty at his trial last year for the jealousy-fueled ambush killing of his ex-girlfriend and her friend.

"If I was in Texas, I’d be terrified," Burris said from the witness stand in 2012. "California is not real. The death penalty means nothing to me but time to hang out and do what I’m going to do."

In the same courtroom three years earlier, Edward Wycoff received the death penalty for the ambush slayings of his sister and brother-in-law in El Cerrito. He told jurors that he deserved an award, not the death penalty, but still wanted the one-to-a-cell status that death row provides.

Between California resuming executions in 1992 and the beginning of the state’s judicially imposed moratorium in 2006, just 13 men who exhausted their appeals have been executed. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation counts 722 men and 20 women currently on death row, nearly 300 of whom have had their sentences affirmed by the Supreme Court. Experts say it takes 12 years on average for condemned inmates in California to exhaust their appeals, more than twice the national average for death penalty states.

Meanwhile, the costs mount; by one estimate, the state has spent more than $4 billion on death penalty trials, appeals and incarceration since 1978.

"The death penalty process is broken, there is no dispute about that," said Peterson, who is part of Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings, a coalition of district attorneys, law enforcement professionals and victims’ rights advocates in the process of raising $1.7 million to get on the November 2014 ballot an initiative they believe would cut the appeal process in half and save the state hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Among the initiative’s proposals is a plan for appeals to be handled first by the state’s appellate courts, alleviating the severe backlog in the state Supreme Court. It calls for a revamping of the defense attorney program to shrink the five-year delay for condemned inmates to get representation. It would give the state freedom to double up condemned inmates in cells, and house them in prisons other than San Quentin.

"This would be more fair to everyone involved, more fair to the victims, and more fair to the defendants because their legal issues would be expedited in a timely manner," Peterson said.

But Ana Zamora, senior policy advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said Peterson and his coalition face "a serious uphill battle."

"The death penalty system is so broken beyond repair, there is no fixing the system that won’t cost millions and millions and won’t put at risk executing innocent people," she said.

In the meantime, San Quentin’s death row more and more resembles a geriatric ward.

Killer and serial rapist Darryl Kemp currently holds the distinction as the oldest person to be sentenced to death in advance of Naso’s Nov. 8 sentencing. Kemp was 73 when he slept through his 2009 trial and sentencing for the rape and murder of a Lafayette mother three decades earlier.

It was the second death sentence for Kemp, who killed just four months after he was released from San Quentin in 1978 after a California Supreme Court ruling that made capital punishment unconstitutional and commuted all death sentences to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Today, at age 77, Kemp is in the preliminary stage of his appeal that will stretch for years.

Naso, acting as his own attorney, fought for an acquittal and then life without parole at his trials for four murders in the 1970s and 1990s. He had escaped prosecution until 2010, when a search of his Reno home produced a diary documenting a half-century of rapes, a kill list and incriminating photographs of women. Prosecutors linked him to two other uncharged murders during the penalty phase of his trial.

Still, the notion of sentencing a 79-year-old to death provoked some controversy.

"Regardless of where one stands on the death penalty, with regard to Mr. Naso, it is clear before his appeals are exhausted, he will be long gone," said retired Santa Clara County judge and death penalty foe LaDoris Cordell. "People want to kill him before he dies. There are those of us who think this is ludicrous, that we are going to rush to kill people before they die."

Marin County District Attorney Edward Berberian does not back the proposed ballot initiative to revamp the death penalty because he doesn’t believe the appeals process should be sped up. Nevertheless, he defends his prosecution of Naso, the first time his office had sought capital punishment in more than 20 years.

He said Naso’s advanced age was considered in reaching his decision, but it was outweighed by the lives Naso had destroyed over his lifetime.

"This is a serial killer," Berberian said, "and with regard to use of the death penalty, if it’s a law in this state, which it is, this is a case where a jury needed to make a decision."

Contact Malaika Fraley at 925-234-1684. Follow her at Twitter.com/malaikafraley.

Naso asks the judge for more time to prepare for his sentencing and is denied, The court sets a date to go over Naso’s finances to attempt to recoup $138,000 in advisory services the public defenders office provided him.

http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_243 … arin-seeks

Naso asks the judge for more time to prepare for his sentencing and is denied, The court sets a date to go over Naso’s finances to attempt to recoup $138,000 in advisory services the public defenders office provided him.

http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_243 … arin-seeks

Thanks Seagull,
Joesph’s tenacity, really bugs me.
Do you know what happened to his son, that needs special help?