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photographed them in sexual poses alongside mannequin parts. On April 11, 2011, he was charged with the murders of
Roggasch Ashby, Colon, Parsons, and Tafoya. The police listed all four victims as prostitutes. Later, prosecutors Dori Ahana and Rosemary Sloat introduced evidence identifying Patton and Dylan. On August 20, 2013, Naso was convicted by a
281:, 22, was found on August 13, 1978, along Carquinez Scenic Highway, a road between Crockett and Port Costa, just thirty miles from the first victim's body. A Highway Patrol officer investigating reports of a cattle shooting found a decomposing nude body that had been dumped. The body was later identified as Colon's.
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79:Judith Naso (divorced)
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