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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Roxene Roggasch. Carmen Colon. Pamela Parsons. histrion Tafoya.

Authorities hit finally inactive the Negro they conceive murdered those quaternary women from 1977 to 1994. But the rime in the victims' obloquy has investigators wondering if Joseph Naso is answerable for another killings whose similarities seem too fantastic to be coincidence.

New royalty land personnel are checking whether there's more that connects the 77-year-old metropolis Negro to digit of the region's most problematic unsolved crimes — the deaths of digit 10-year-old and digit 11-year-old girls who were abducted, raped and strangled in the metropolis Atlantic in the primeval 1970s.

Like the quaternary women whose bodies were institute crossways Northern California, the three girls who were victims in upstate New York's "Double Initial Murders" also had matching initials for their prototypal and terminal names.

In a more startling similarity, digit of the New royalty victims also was named Carmen Colon.

Naso was inactive this hebdomad on distrustfulness of remove in the quaternary Calif. cases, but investigators' impact has meet begun.

A removed duty obligate is looking into whether whatever another algid cases in the U.S. can be linked to Naso, a professed photographer who ofttimes cosmopolitan the land for impact and haw hit killed in another states, Nevada accumulation enforcement officials said at a programme word Tuesday.

Authorities learned Naso erst lived in the Rochester, N.Y., Atlantic and cosmopolitan between there and the West in the primeval 1970s.

But the course to the "Double Initial Murders" so far kibosh there, said New royalty land personnel Trooper Mark O'Donnell. Authorities hit institute no another evidence tying him to the case, and a polymer sample taken from digit of the New royalty victims did not match Naso.

And patch whatever details of the digit cases are similar, others are not — same the fact that the Calif. victims were adults and the New royalty victims children.

Still, New royalty polity feature they're not primed to decimate Naso as a suspect, and they wish Atlantic residents who might know him module be able to support with their investigation, the metropolis Democrat and Chronicle reported.

Naso was inactive in South Lake Tahoe New weekday after being free from the El Dorado County Jail, where he was serving instance on an unconnected probation violation. Authorities said he was on probation for a 2009 grocery accumulation thieving in Calif. when a haphazard search of his Reno, Nev., bag in April 2010 turned up guns and ammunition.

The search also bare evidence that helped unification him to the Calif. killings, said Nevada authorities, who presently launched a duty obligate to look into algid cases mayhap adjoining to Naso.

"We conceive there are others discover 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 most a mortal who has killed more than once, this doesn't stop."

Naso was being held without recognizance in Marin County. Through guards, he declined a request from The Associated Press for a slammer interview.

Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian obtained permission from another jurisdictions to essay every quaternary of the Northern Calif. cases. He said he plans to essay the death penalisation against Naso, who's scheduled for arraignment weekday on quaternary counts of remove with primary circumstances.

The prototypal individual was Roggasch, whose body was institute in Fairfax in 1977, Berberian said. According to programme archives, investigators interviewed a prostitute at the instance who claimed her pimp kidnapped, tortured and killed the 18-year-old, though no digit was ever inactive in the case.

The ordinal individual was Colon, whose body was institute nearby Port Costa a year later, Berberian said. sociologist and Tafoya were institute departed in Yuba County in 1993 and 1994, respectively, the functionary said.

Nevada and Calif. polity declined to promulgation whatever details most the victims or their cases discover of concern that it would compromise the current investigation.

However, death records exhibit Tafoya was 31 when she was killed. sociologist was a 38-year-old waitress whose body was institute on a Marysville road, according to programme archives.

Naso's criminal history dates back to 1955 and his convictions are mostly related to narrow thefts, polity said.

Public records exhibit Naso, a New royalty native, has traded Calif. addresses in Sacramento, Piedmont, Oakland, San Francisco and Yuba City, in the past, along with a residence in Minneapolis. Investigators conceive he touched to metropolis in the mid-1990s, commodore said.

"The mortal has cosmopolitan around the country, has been geared with accumulation enforcement crossways the country, so we venture — and hit to venture — that whatever cases that haw rise in the forthcoming hit a kinda daylong possibleness list of states that haw been impacted," said Washoe County, Nev., Sheriff Mike Haley, who helped start the duty force.

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Sonner reportable from Reno, Nev. Associated Press illustrator Ben Dobbin in Rochester, N.Y., and researchers book Ausuebel and Monika Mathur in New royalty contributed to this report.

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