Barbara Bentley, author of A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath, is a great photographer as well as writer and wine maker. She and her husband Rex Johnston visited Pike’s Place Market during their “rain-cation” to the Pacific Northwest during May and June. These are some of her photos … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on June 7, 2010 · 2 Comments
Barbara Bentley, author of A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath, and her husband Rex Johnston were in Seattle last week. The two met as co-workers in 1969 and reconnected at the Justice for Murder Victims dinner dance in San Francisco. Barbara described the end of the evening in … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 14, 2009 · 3 Comments
On Wednesday evening, August 12, 2009, Barbara Bentley was BettyJean Kling’s guest on BlogTalkRadio to talk about her book A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath. If you click here, you will be able to find The Majority United for Women’s Rights ”On Demand” options to play the broadcast or … Read more
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Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on June 8, 2009 · 6 Comments
Barbara’s charming, fascinating, and charismatic late husband presented himself as a retired Navy rear admiral and the descendent of two infamous admirals named Perry. They were VIP guests of the Navy during Fleet Week in San Francisco. He had war medals including the Congressional Medal of Honor. They were invited to President George H.W. Bush’s inauguration and the inaugural balls. The only part of his story that was true was that he was the black sheep son of Admiral Perry.
The truth was that he was a con man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a US Navy officer.
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