"DALY CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- Daly City police believe they have solved their oldest cold case murder; a young woman found at Thornton Beach in January 1974. A new documentary ties convicted serial killer Joseph Naso to the case, his first known African American victim. A death row inmate befriended Naso, and over the course of 10 years, got him to admit to 26 killings. Police agencies around the Bay Area are now working on these new leads."
"Noguera handed the clues to cold case detective Ken Mains, who "couldn't find anything for the longest time from anybody missing from Miami with the same MO or signature that Joe had, and it was driving me batty." Mains then remembered that Naso is sometimes called the "Alphabet Killer" because the victims from his court case had first and last names that began with the same letter:"
Daly City police believe a 1974 Thornton Beach murder of a young woman may now be linked to convicted serial killer Joseph Naso. A documentary and a former death row inmate's decade of conversations with Naso produced admissions to 26 killings and clues about a victim described as a "girl from Miami" visiting a sister. The inmate passed those clues to cold case detective Ken Mains, who initially found no Miami matches. Mains then noted Naso's "Alphabet Killer" pattern of victims with matching initials and identified a peninsula double-initial victim, Charlotte Cook, who had been strangled and dumped.
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