Hidden in Plain Sight: How Joseph Naso Killed for 50 Years Undetected
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When a routine probation check in 2010 uncovered a handwritten "List of 10" on a kitchen table in Reno, Nevada, investigators had no idea they were about to crack open decades of cold cases. Joseph Naso, a 76-year-old former photographer with a history of petty crimes, had been living under everyone's radar for years. That list would become the roadmap to connecting him to four brutal murders spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s. What makes this case even more disturbing? Recent revelations from a fellow death row inmate suggest Naso's actual victim count could be as high as 26 women. From his "rape diary" dating back to his teenage years to his obsessive collection of victim photographs and trophies, this is the story of how one man's compulsive documentation became his ultimate downfall. And why his narcissistic need for recognition led to confessions that law enforcement couldn't extract through traditional methods.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2010, a probation check in Nevada uncovered something prosecutors would later call a roadmap to murder, |
| 0:07.9 | a handwritten list, 10 women, 10 locations, and one man who had been hiding in plain sight for decades. |
| 0:15.8 | The You know that neighbor that seems completely normal. The one that waves from his driveway, |
| 0:42.1 | maybe complains about the weather if you talk to him, lives a pretty unremarkable life, right? |
| 0:47.3 | Joseph Neso was that guy. Born in Rochester, New York in 1934, he did all the regular things, served in the Air Force, got married, had a son he cared for in his later years, worked as a freelance photographer. |
| 1:01.0 | In the 1970s, he took classes at San Francisco colleges, moved around California like a lot of people did, and eventually ended up in Reno, Nevada. |
| 1:10.0 | His neighbors knew him as |
| 1:11.7 | Crazy Joe, because he was a little odd. Maybe eccentric is a better word, the kind of quirky |
| 1:18.0 | you roll your eyes at rather than worry about. Here's what makes this story so terrifying. While |
| 1:23.6 | Neso was living this completely kind of ordinary life, he was documenting something that would eventually reveal him |
| 1:30.3 | as one of America's most prolific serial killers. |
| 1:33.3 | According to a handwritten record, Naseau kept himself. |
| 1:37.3 | His first sexual assault happened in 1950 when he was just 16 years old. |
| 1:43.3 | So we're talking about someone who started victimizing women |
| 1:46.1 | as a teenager and continued for nearly five decades. Five decades of abuse. In 1958, he was convicted |
| 1:55.2 | of rape in Rochester, New York. Now, this is where things get really messed up. Instead of going |
| 1:59.8 | to prison for a significant amount of time, |
| 2:02.4 | investigators allegedly told him, |
| 2:04.6 | get out of town, pack up and leave. |
| 2:07.4 | That's your consequence for rape. |
| 2:09.0 | Just get out of here. |
| 2:10.4 | This decision might have been one of the most catastrophic mistakes in criminal history. |
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