Childlight – How Children Reach Out to Their Parents From the Beyond.Among Grizzlies, (ghosted) (HarperCollins, Spring 1997).The Pena Files-Dramatic Cases From The World's Top PI.Angels of Emergency-Rescue Stories From America's Paramedics and EMTs.Strike Midnight - a novel (Vine Books, 1994).

Taming The Beast – Charles Manson’s Life Behind Bars.

What's In It For Me? - How an Ex-Wise Guy Exposed the Greed, Jealously and Lust That Drive Arizona Politics.

Quitting The Mob - How the Yuppie Don Left the Mafia and Lived to Tell His Story.

Martin's Press under the title For the Defense in June 1991.

Get Me Ellis Rubin! - The Life, Times and Cases of a Maverick Lawyer.

Matera has also appeared in 9 episodes of the television show America: Fact vs Fiction which airs on the American Heroes channel. Matera has appeared in a half dozen television documentaries, including programs on The FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted, 1930s bank robber John Dillinger, and 1960s cult leader Charles Manson. It detailed the controversial story of Elvis Presley's lifelong relationship with a troubled Louisiana woman. His first mass market, non-fiction book, Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Random House/Villard) was an international best seller. Matera became an independent author in 1986. He covered the city beats-education, crime, politics and general assignment.

Matera attended junior high at the International School of Bangkok, and then transferred to Wagner High School on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.Īfter returning to America and graduating from the University of Miami in 1977, Matera worked as a reporter for The Miami News (1977–82). Matera grew up in Bangkok, Thailand, and Angeles City, Philippines. Dary Matera (born 1955) is an America author and newspaper columnist who specializes in real-life casebooks.

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