April 19, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
April 19 is … Garlic Day
A young woman I do not know has gone missing in Tennessee. Her name is Holly Bobo; she is a twenty year-old nursing student. She is missing from her small community of Parsons, an hour or so northeast of Memphis but worlds apart. Holly is the cousin of country singer Whitney Duncan. Until three days ago, I had never heard of Holly Bobo or Whitney Duncan.
Holly Bobo was last seen Wednesday morning by her brother, who called 911 after seeing her heading into the woods with an unknown man dressed in camouflage. Authorities have said they believe Bobo did not go "willingly," but she also was not dragged or carried into the woods outside her home, as early reports suggested. The brother thought she was with her boyfriend but that was an error. Neither the boyfriend nor the brother are suspects, persons of interest or the subject of an investigation.
On Sunday, more than five hundred volunteers searched the woods and area near where Holly Bobo was last seen. This story has played out across America thousands of times over the last few years and before. It likely happens around the world but I don’t really care. I am an American. This should not take place in my country.
More than likely, this will not end well. Her body will be found. Sooner or later, and in Tennessee I bet sooner, her killer will be caught. It will be a man with a lengthy criminal history of violence. He will be punished but not executed. This is sad. The barbarians are at our gate yet the liberals and ball-less politicians will not stop the violence. The death penalty must be implemented on a grand scale. I am aware an innocent man or two may be put to death but a few must suffer so the many survive. We need to get a clue. We need to let the average American make this decision not some over-educated ‘expert’ who has made a living working on the government dole conducting meaningless studies that come up with pre-determined anti-death penalty answers.
Think of the counselors and psychiatrists you have seen, heard or read. They are all paid by the government or a university that is funded by the government. The ‘studies’ they concoct are all funded publicly. Killers, serial killers, mass murderers and rapist rarely have the money or the inclination to go see a counselor or psychiatrist. The source of the funding is obvious.
Why study this behavior. Over the years, since the end of WW II, this type of anti-social, violent behavior has increased at an alarming rate. I did not study that, I just know it. It is caused by single-parent households with children born out of wedlock that have no guidance or discipline at the government supplied home they grow up, or at least get older, in. When you give people everything they need, they feel no responsibility for their life or pride in their existence. They feel they are worthless and so are others’ lives. Religion has left the mainstream urban lifestyle. I am not talking about fire and brimstone religion or some cult type religion, I am talking about dressing up in your Sunday go to meeting clothes religion; fellowship and community service, bake sales and children’s programs, yawning during the sermon religion, where the celebrant is not espousing a political message or looking for a donation to a cause other than the Church. Good old fashion religion.
The way the ‘experts’ have been telling us how to live and treat our fellow Americans is not working. Just because we used to do it a certain way and have changed does not mean the way we changed from is wrong. Let’s get back to the way it was; we can always change again if the new old way does not work but it will.
This story caught my attention because my name has the same initial for first and last name. This came out of San Francisco but has ties to the rest of Northern California, New York, Reno, Nevada and federal prison. A man charged in four killings that have gained national attention because of similarities in the victim's initials had set his focus on an apartment neighbor 30 years ago, an upstate New York couple said Saturday. Margaret Prisco and Thaddeus Iorizzo said a detective contacted them last fall saying that Joseph Naso -- who lived downstairs from the couple in a San Francisco apartment building in the early 1980s wrote in graphic detail about torturing a then 23-year-old Prisco. "It's disconcerting. When you're that age, living in San Francisco, you don't have your guard up and thinking that someone is after you," Prisco, 53, told the Associated Press on Saturday from her home in New York. Joseph Naso is accused of killing four women between 1977 and 1994. An upstate New York woman says he stalked her in San Francisco in the early 1980s. "It never occurred that someone was stalking me," Prisco said.
Iorizzo, also, 53, added, "Well, I knew he was a whack job, but imagine someone wanting to kill your soul mate?" The San Francisco Chronicle first reported Saturday that the couple said Det. William Thurston of the Nevada State Police told them Naso -whom they called "Crazy Joe" - had apparently filled three notebooks describing how he wanted to torment Prisco. Iorizzo said the details were so graphic that Thurston didn't want to repeat them on the phone. He said the documents included a "to-do" list of women Naso wanted to kill. Prisco's name was No. 10. Iorizzo said Thurston also told him a copy of the couple's rental agreement was among Naso's documents. The evidence was among writings and photographs found in Naso's home in Reno after he violated his probation for a theft conviction last April. It sparked a yearlong investigation leading authorities to charge Naso this week with murdering four women in Northern California from 1977 to 1994.
Naso, 77, did not enter a plea Wednesday as a Marin County judge postponed his arraignment until April 27 while the court determines who will represent him. Prosecutors noted that Naso has up to $1 million in assets, which could allow him to hire a private lawyer. The four victims - Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya - had identical first and last initials. Authorities have released few details about the cases, which all involve women whose bodies were found in Northern California with little trace of their assailant. But their names alone already bear an eerie resemblance to the notorious "double initial murders" in the Rochester, N.Y., area in the 1970s. The victims there were three young girls with alliterative names. And one of them also was named Carmen Colon. Prisco told the Associated Press on Saturday that she has always gone by Margaret and was sometimes called Maggie and Margo, but not Peggy.
The couple, now married with two teenage sons, has been following Naso's case on the internet. Prisco, now a computer programmer, said she didn't have much interaction with Naso, but that Iorizzo remembers clearly. "Each time I crossed paths with him the hair on the back of my neck would stand up," Iorizzo said. "You'd get a real creepy feeling. He was pure evil.
"I'd say to myself, 'Stay away from this guy. He's nuts.' “Iorizzo recalls one day at the trash bin when Naso was dumping two stacks of pornographic magazines featuring photos of women in bondage and being tortured.”He kept saying, 'This isn't mine, this isn't mine,' "Iorizzo said.”So, after he left, I untied the bundles, looked at the photos and said, 'This is disgusting! Who would look at stuff like that?' "
Iorizzo, also, 53, added, "Well, I knew he was a whack job, but imagine someone wanting to kill your soul mate?" The San Francisco Chronicle first reported Saturday that the couple said Det. William Thurston of the Nevada State Police told them Naso -whom they called "Crazy Joe" - had apparently filled three notebooks describing how he wanted to torment Prisco. Iorizzo said the details were so graphic that Thurston didn't want to repeat them on the phone. He said the documents included a "to-do" list of women Naso wanted to kill. Prisco's name was No. 10. Iorizzo said Thurston also told him a copy of the couple's rental agreement was among Naso's documents. The evidence was among writings and photographs found in Naso's home in Reno after he violated his probation for a theft conviction last April. It sparked a yearlong investigation leading authorities to charge Naso this week with murdering four women in Northern California from 1977 to 1994.
Naso, 77, did not enter a plea Wednesday as a Marin County judge postponed his arraignment until April 27 while the court determines who will represent him. Prosecutors noted that Naso has up to $1 million in assets, which could allow him to hire a private lawyer. The four victims - Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya - had identical first and last initials. Authorities have released few details about the cases, which all involve women whose bodies were found in Northern California with little trace of their assailant. But their names alone already bear an eerie resemblance to the notorious "double initial murders" in the Rochester, N.Y., area in the 1970s. The victims there were three young girls with alliterative names. And one of them also was named Carmen Colon. Prisco told the Associated Press on Saturday that she has always gone by Margaret and was sometimes called Maggie and Margo, but not Peggy.
The couple, now married with two teenage sons, has been following Naso's case on the internet. Prisco, now a computer programmer, said she didn't have much interaction with Naso, but that Iorizzo remembers clearly. "Each time I crossed paths with him the hair on the back of my neck would stand up," Iorizzo said. "You'd get a real creepy feeling. He was pure evil.
"I'd say to myself, 'Stay away from this guy. He's nuts.' “Iorizzo recalls one day at the trash bin when Naso was dumping two stacks of pornographic magazines featuring photos of women in bondage and being tortured.”He kept saying, 'This isn't mine, this isn't mine,' "Iorizzo said.”So, after he left, I untied the bundles, looked at the photos and said, 'This is disgusting! Who would look at stuff like that?' "
Iorizzo also recalled practicing his bass guitar one afternoon. Iorizzo said Naso came out of the building dressed in his underwear, holding a bottle of tequila and screaming for whoever was playing to stop. Iorizzo said he opened up his window and told him it was the middle of the day. "He yelled, 'I'll kill you!' I'll kill you!" Iorizzo said. "I told him, 'Yeah, bring it on Joe! You'll be seeing stars!' I had a Louisville Slugger with Harmon Killebrew's autograph on it waiting for him."
Prisco said she's curious to see the notebooks written by Naso and if she can bear to read the alleged graphic details. "It would set my mind more at ease to see if there was a threat," Prisco said. "Maybe it will offer some closure. You don't know the darkness of the human heart until you hear something like this
Prisco said she's curious to see the notebooks written by Naso and if she can bear to read the alleged graphic details. "It would set my mind more at ease to see if there was a threat," Prisco said. "Maybe it will offer some closure. You don't know the darkness of the human heart until you hear something like this
I know this is out of the land of fruits and nuts but it happens all over. This story references Rochester, New York. The initial arrest reports involving crimes like his are always updated, usually adding names or increasing numbers. Once this story circulates for a while, others will come forward with tales about the accused. Some will be credible; some will be from other nuts.
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
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