Accused serial killer Joseph Naso, who's currently in a pre-trial hearing and being his own attorney up in Marin County, is a scary bastard. In yesterday's proceedings, we heard from Detective Ryan Petersen of the Marin County Sheriff's Office who says that Naso got defensive after his arrest last April regarding the contents of two bank deposit boxes in Reno. They contained post-mortem photographs of two of his alleged victims — 38-year-old Pamela Parsons and 31-year-old Tracy Tafoya, both murdered in Yuba County in the 90s — as well as photos of two other unidentified women, items belonging to a fifth missing woman, and $152,400 in cash. Naso dismissed the photos in speaking to investigators, saying, "It's kind of like my dark side."

Furthermore, he called them his "secret hobby," and he asked the detective if he was married, saying, "As a man, there are things you don't want other people to know about." Earlier in the hearing we heard Naso referring to the pictures as "art" featuring "old girlfriends.

It's like he doesn't even accept that he's [allegedly] a murderer! At the very least, he's admitting to being some kind of necrophiliac. Naso stands accused of killing four women, two in the 70s and two in the 90s, one of whose bodies was found near Lagunitas in Marin County. Wrapped around the neck of the latter victim, Roxene Roggasch, is the primary piece of physical evidence: a pair of Nylons containing DNA from Naso's wife, Judith Naso of Piedmont.

This was the fifth day of the preliminary hearing, and soon the judge will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to go forward with a trial. Our bet: There is.

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