CA CA - JOSEPH NASO, once a suspect in NY Alphabet Murders, now on trial in California

[dotr]

Sep 17 2025

CA Post in thread 'CA - Charlotte Cook, 19, Daly City, 4 Jan 1974'

Aug 20, 2025

Looks like they found her killer, Joseph Naso.

He’s been on death row for a long time. Could be responsible for 26 murders.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/death-row-murderer-exposed-serial-killer-case-part-1

Fascinating story.

oh wow, thank you so much for this! news just broke yesterday, crazy. though i will point out that if i'm reading this correctly, he hasn't been charged with the murder. Charlotte Cook is also still listed on the Daly City cold case page

also... according to that article, investigators think Charlotte is victim #5, "Girl from Miami Near Down...

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[Daphne1972]

The first episode of Death Row Confidential is on Youtube:

It includes their solutions to girl #5 - Girl from Miami near down peninsula (Charlotte Cook) and #4 - Girl on Mt. Tam (Gail Marie Dahl, also known as Gail Gardner).

Can't see it where I live.

 

[Wilma_W]

Can't see it where I live.

Ugh. I don't know what to say about that. Peacock is a paid streaming service and it should be on there, but I don't know about differences between different countries. The Youtube video is the 'free' alternative for those in the U.S.

Some of it has already been discussed in news articles about the program and the Vanity Fair articles, but it is always nice to see things visually and put together in story form.

One thing in the show that I don't think I saw anywhere else was about using AI to identify the people in some of Naso's photographs. That is how they found that 'Girl on Mt. Tam' was Gail Dahl/Gail Gardner. So the obvious question is whether that AI program could help identify some of the other victims.