Suspect in Calif. serial killings to stand trial
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) – A judge ruled Monday that a man accused in the decades-old “Double Initial” serial killings case must stand trial for the murders of four Northern California women whose first and last names began with the same letter.
Joseph Naso, 78, was ordered to trial after a preliminary hearing before Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet.
Naso is charged with the murders of Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya, in the 1970s and 1990s. Police said all the victims were working prostitutes who had contact with Naso.
Prosecutors said they discovered DNA matching the profile of Naso on the stockings of Roggasch and under the fingernail of Colon.
Naso was arrested last year, after a probation search of his Reno, Nev., home unearthed photographs, journals and other evidence that authorities said linked him to the slayings.

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