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 […]
The Murderous Saga of Dallas Drug Kingpin Geno Camacho
Geno Ruiz Camacho was a feared drug kingpin in Dallas, Texas, during the late 1980s. Connected to a powerful Mexican drug cartel, Camacho’s brutality was unparalleled—he put a woman through a tree mulcher and murdered a three-year-old boy and his mother. After a Dallas County jury sentenced him to death, the judge remarked that the […]