Joseph Nasso, 77. 'Double initial' serial killer suspect 'had boxes of notes detailing grisly plans to torture and kill women' - 18th Apr 2011

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. Read More