On Christmas Eve, 1977, Malibu’s sunny beaches set the stage for what appeared to be a fairy tale wedding. Fred Roehler and Verna Johnson, both widowed and seeking solace, united their families in a ceremony that seemed to promise a happy ending to their past tragedies. Ivor Davis, a London-born former foreign correspondent, recalls the […]
J. David Bethel Turns Real-Life Horrors into Page-Turning Thrillers
Meeting a Dictator David Bethel’s fascination with the psychological depths of the human mind began at an early age. As the son of a U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer stationed in Cuba, an 11-year-old Bethel had a memorable encounter with Fidel Castro just after the Cuban Revolution. “Castro was a tall guy. I mean, […]