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| Joseph Naso, who has been charged with four murders, allegedly wrote about how he wanted to torture his neighbour in graphic detail |
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A potential serial killer, charged last week with four murders, kept boxes of grisly notes on how he wanted to torture and kill women, it has emerged.
Joseph Naso, 77, a professional photographer, has gained international attention for the alleged killings after the victims all had similar double initials.
Margaret Prisco, who lived upstairs from Naso in San Francisco with her then boyfriend, Thaddeus Iorizzo, in the 1980s was number 10 on a hit list found in the suspect's home, according to a detective who contacted the couple last year.
He said the man had written in graphic detail about torturing the then 23-year-old Prisco.
'It's disconcerting. When you're that age, living in San Francisco, you don't have your guard up and thinking that someone is after you,' Prisco, 53, said from her home in New York.
'It never occurred that someone was stalking me,' she added.
Iorizzo, also, 53, said: 'Well, I knew he was a whack job, but imagine someone wanting to kill your soul mate?'
The couple said Detective William Thurston of the Nevada State Police told them Naso - whom they called 'Crazy Joe' - had apparently filled three notebooks describing how he wanted to torment Prisco.
Iorizzo said the details were so graphic that Thurston didn't want to repeat them on the phone.
He said the documents included a 'to-do' list of women Naso wanted to kill. Prisco's name was Number 10.
Iorizzo said Thurston also told him a copy of the couple's rental agreement was among Naso's documents.
The evidence was among writings and photographs found in Naso's home in Reno, Nevada after he violated his probation for a theft conviction last April.
It sparked a year-long investigation leading authorities to charge Naso this week with murdering four women in Northern California from 1977 to 1994.
Naso, 77, did not enter a plea last Wednesday as a Marin County judge postponed his arraignment until April 27 while the court determines who will represent him.
Prosecutors noted that Naso has up to $1million in assets, which could allow him to hire a private lawyer.
The four victims - Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya - had identical first and last initials.
Authorities have released few details about the cases, which all involve women whose bodies were found in Northern California with little trace of their assailant.
But their names alone already bear an eerie resemblance to the notorious 'double initial murders' in the Rochester, New York area in the 1970s.
The victims there were three young girls with alliterative names. Wanda Walkowicz, Michell Maenza and another Carmen Colon were all killed between 1971 and 1973.
The girls – aged 10 and 11 - were all abducted, raped and strangled in the city of Rochester, New York state.
Bob Hetzke, chief deputy of Wayne County Sherriff’s Department, said they were trying to work out if there was a connection.
Prisco said that she has always gone by Margaret and was sometimes called Maggie and Margo, but not Peggy.
The couple, now married with two teenage sons, have been following Naso's case on the internet.
Prisco, now a computer programmer, said she didn't have much interaction with Naso, but that Iorizzo remembers him clearly.
'Each time I crossed paths with him the hair on the back of my neck would stand up,' Iorizzo said. 'You'd get a real creepy feeling. He was pure evil.
'I'd say to myself: "Stay away from this guy. He's nuts."'
Iorizzo recalls one day at the trash bin when Naso was dumping two stacks of pornographic magazines featuring photos of women in bondage and being tortured.
'He kept saying: "This isn't mine, this isn't mine,"' Iorizzo said. 'So, after he left, I untied the bundles, looked at the photos and said: "This is disgusting! Who would look at stuff like that?"'
Iorizzo also recalled practising his bass guitar one afternoon. Iorizzo said Naso came out of the building dressed in his underwear, holding a bottle of tequila and screaming for whoever was playing to stop.
Iorizzo said he opened up his window and told him it was the middle of the day.
'He yelled: "I'll kill you!' I'll kill you!"' Iorizzo said. 'I told him: "Yeah, bring it on Joe! You'll be seeing stars!" I had a Louisville Slugger with Harmon Killebrew's autograph on it waiting for him.
'How can you forget a guy who's threatened your life?' Iorizzo added. 'That's something that stays with you.'
Prisco said she's curious to see the notebooks written by Naso and whether she can bear to read the alleged graphic details.
'It would set my mind more at ease to see if there was a threat,' Prisco said. 'Maybe it will offer some closure. You don't know the darkness of the human heart until you hear something like this.'
Investigators say Naso was a professional photographer who often traveled the country for work and may have killed in other states.
'We think there are others out there we haven't discovered yet,' Chris Perry, acting director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety, told reporters Tuesday.
'Typically when you are talking about a person who has killed more than once, this doesn't stop.'
Naso was being held without bail Tuesday in Marin County. He may be facing the death penalty.
Naso's criminal history dates back to 1955 and his convictions are mostly related to petty thefts, authorities said.
Public records show Naso, a New York native, has listed California addresses in Sacramento, Piedmont, Oakland, San Francisco and Yuba City, as well as a Minneapolis address in the past.
Investigators believe he moved to Reno in the mid-1990
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