Tracy Lynn McKinney Tafoya, 31, was murdered in August 1994 in Yuba County, California. She has been identified as one of the victims linked to Joseph Naso, a freelance photographer who was living in the area at the time. At the time of her death Tracy was working as a prostitute and had told her husband that one client was a photographer; she never named him.

Richard Tafoya, her husband, testified identifying his wife in photographs recovered from a safe deposit box belonging to Naso. The images showed women from the waist down; Richard recognized the undergarments his wife wore in those pictures. The Marin County District Attorney’s Office presented evidence tying Naso to multiple murders in a preliminary hearing that examined whether he would stand trial.

Tracy’s killing was part of a series of murders of women from Yuba County connected to Naso. Few personal details about Tracy’s life are given beyond her age, marital separation from Richard, and that the couple spoke nightly while separated.