The last eyewitness report given was of Carmen getting into a car, which appeared to be waiting for her after she left the chemist. Two days later the half-naked body of the little girl was found in Churchville by the side of the road. Carmen had been raped and strangled and her body was covered in scratches. The girls pants were found near the exit to the As police tend to start with looking at family members first, and due to the fact the last eyewitness report seemed to indicate Carmen was willing to get into a car with her killer, police looked long and hard at Miguel Colon.
Miguel Colon soon after fled to his native Puerto Rico where he would later go on to commit suicide after a domestic violence dispute. In this incident, he non-fatally shot both his wife and his brother in law before shooting himself. Despite fleeing making him look slightly guilty and the violence shown in the domestic incident prior to his death police never tried to indict or charge him with the murder of Carmen.
Police also had an interest in an individual by the name of James Barber. Barber was a known sex offender and was also questioned by police. Nothing became of Barber as a suspect however and he had left Rochester by the time the Double Initial Killer struck again. At roughly pm on April 2, , year-old redhead Wanda went to collect some groceries for her mother from the local store.
Unlike Carmen, Wanda was still fully clothed but it was clearly evident that she had been the victim of a sexual assault. Her cause of death was strangulation, with the use of a ligature. One strange detail was revealed during the autopsy.
Wanda had eaten custard shortly before her murder. Police were certainly given plenty of leads to follow up one. They received an anonymous call saying they had witnessed a young girl they could swear was Wanda being bundled into a Dodge Dart. Another caller said he had seen the body actually being dumped.
Yet another caller said he saw Wanda crying in a green Pinto driven by a tattoed man. Again though none of these calls led to anyone been arrested for the murder. After continuously finding themselves heading towards dead ends some optimism finally seemed to appear, in fact, police even went as far as to indicate that an arrest was imminent.
After interviewing an unknown individual, who had previously been arrested for child endangerment, for 12 hours police released there suspect after they passed a polygraph lie detector test. Police were back to square one. Seven months after the murder of Wanda Walkowicz on November 26, , year-old Michelle Maenza went missing on her way home from school.
Her battered and beaten body would tragically be discovered two days after her original disappearance in Macedon, New York. Michelle was again fully clothed but with obvious signs of sexual assault. Like Carmen Colon and Wanda Walkowicz, she had died from strangulation. As was the case with Wanda the autopsy again seemed to reveal that Maenza had been fed by her eventual killer. It was 5 p. Wanda was 11, Carmen was Wanda was running an errand and returning home just like Carmen, and most intriguingly, her surname began with the same letter as her first name.
It was April 2, , and the errand that Wanda was asked to run took her to a delicatessen in the east side of Rochester. She purchased the goods as she was asked and returned home down Conkey Avenue in some of the last sightings from witnesses. Some reported her struggling to carry her bag near Avenue B, and kids from her class also saw her resting her bag against a fence as she struggled to hold it. They also saw a brown car driving past her, and other witnesses say they saw her standing beside the car's open door, perhaps accepting a ride as the bag was heavy.
Even though the last sighting was just. The vanishing of Walkowicz was treated with urgency by Rochester police. More than 50 officers scoured every inch of the city around her home, the delicatessen and areas that she was known to play. They found nothing, but a police officer seven miles away found Wanda's body off State Route in Webster, New York.
The location suggested she's been killed and then tossed out of a moving vehicle, rolling to the bottom of an embankment. While Wanda was raped like Carmen, the method of killing was different, with the fresh victim being strangled from behind, possibly using a belt. Defensive wounds suggested she'd fought in vain against her attacker. Also, unlike Carmen, the body was redressed after death.
Forensic evidence was obtained, with semen samples recovered alongside strands of white cat fur, with the Walkowiczs not owning a cat and making them almost certainly from the killer's clothing or the interior of a vehicle. These differences led investigators to publicly rule out any connection to the murder the previous year. A tip line also produced results, with an exciting lead suggesting that a girl matching Walkowicz's description had in fact been bundled into a red car on Conkey Avenue around the time she was seen on the street.
Despite the lead and, over fresh tips following a televised reconstruction, the case quickly went cold. On Nov. Michelle Maenza was last seen at p. Another errand, and soon enough, another missing girl. Just ten minutes after arriving at the plaza, a witness saw her sitting inside a beige or tan car as they sped away toward Webster Avenue.
The child was said to be crying. An hour later, a girl matching Maenza's description was seen at a fast-food restaurant in the town of Penfield, New York, accompanied by a white man somewhere between the ages of 25 and He was around 6-feet tall and suggested to be around lbs.
The third entry on Naso's handwritten list of 10 says, "Girl near Loganitas. Roggasch was found with a pair of nylon stockings wrapped around her neck, another pair wrapped around her mouth and a third stuffed into her mouth, Slote said.
The coroner said she was strangled with nylons containing DNA from Naso's ex-wife. Colon's naked, decomposed body was discovered in rural Contra Costa County in Investigators clipped and saved the young woman's fingernails. Investigators discovered obituaries for Parsons and Tafoya, along with sexually suggestive photographs of them, in Naso's safety-deposit box. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
One man suspected of the killings committed suicide only to be cleared long after his death by DNA testing. Another suspect, an uncle of one of the murdered girls, also committed suicide and is now thought unlikely to be the murderer. A third suspect — a former ice-cream vendor in Rochester who later moved to Los Angeles and was convicted of another series of rapes and killings called the Hillside Strangler murders — officially remains a suspect in the Alphabet Killings, but there is only fragmentary circumstantial evidence to connect him to the crimes.
Now Naso has swung into view. He lived in the Rochester area at the time of the girls' deaths and the New York state police describe him as a "person of interest" in a renewed investigation into which they are putting considerable resources. Yet there are reasons for caution.
They are also very different kinds of victims: schoolgirls in New York, prostitutes in California. Still, a connection does exist, albeit tenuous. In , a year-old woman named Sheila Shepherd from Saratoga Springs in New York state was found strangled and naked in her bed. Another double-initial killing. The police made little progress in investigating the murder. There was no suspect and it fell to Shepherd's mother, Marsha Van Ness, to keep the memory of the crime alive, marking it each anniversary.
Now the question has arisen: was Shepherd's murder Naso's transition from killing girls to killing women? He was regularly travelling to New York state from California at the time of the murder. Another investigation added to the growing list of Naso's possible crimes. From the old man's notebooks, detectives believe he drugged, bound and held some of his victims prisoner at his house. Prosecutors have called Naso's former wife, Judith, who is 73, to give evidence.
She told a preliminary hearing earlier this year that her former husband once told her he had given her something to knock her out and that twice in the summer of she believed she was drugged and sexually assaulted. On one of the occasions she was at a San Francisco hotel after an evening at a nightclub with her husband. She awoke to find two strange men in her bed who quickly "scurried away".
Naso was standing there, watching. At another time, she came round in her own bed to find one of her husband's friends lying on top of her.
Naso was defending himself at a preliminary hearing earlier this year, so he was allowed to cross-examine witnesses. He asked his former wife if he had ever physically abused or threatened her, or if she had ever heard of him harming another person. He shot back: "That was back in the 50s. Naso was indeed charged with rape more than once in the s, and reported on other occasions. But the prosecutions appear to have gone nowhere and, in some cases, the police barely took the accusations seriously.
Prosecutors have approached a year-old woman who alleged that Naso was the man who raped her when she was a student in Berkeley, California, in She reported the attack to the police at the time, but said they suggested she was trying to make her boyfriend jealous.
According to Naso's own diary, when the mother of one under-age girl he had sex with went to New York police, the officer's response was to warn him to leave town. Perhaps that left Naso with a sense of invincibility as the seriousness of his crimes escalated. Certainly the police missed several opportunities to curb his attacks. In court, Naso is mostly plodding and matter of fact with detailed handwritten submissions seeking to have evidence suppressed or dismissed.
He complains constantly about his treatment. But when the writings and photographs found in his house are referred to, the old man becomes agitated. At one point he denounced what he called Detective Brown's "obsession" with his photographs and lifestyle, professing outrage at the invasion of privacy of the women in the pictures.
The women have been violated. What happens in a home is sacred and private. The whole thing is disgusting and I don't see any relevance at all," he said. During a testy exchange, Naso demanded to know why Brown referred to one of his diaries as a "rape journal". Brown replied: "I call it a rape journal because, in it, you write things such as: 'I had to rape her. I raped her in an alley. I raped her in the front seat of my car. Prosecutors asked to videotape the testimony of one witness at the preliminary hearing because she may not live long enough to testify at the full trial.
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