The Man Behind the Cover

Jon Dietz has had a lifetime passion for three intellectual outlets: History, politics, and current events. After graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Dietz landed a job as a reporter for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He had multiple responsibilities, including crime reporting, featuring writing, military historian, and weekend metro-editor. He interviewed Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

During his days as a newspaperman, Dietz went to Honduras with a bounty hunter. They successfully returned to the United States with a drug dealer who had fled the country to escape prosecution. Dietz also covered the Ted Bundy murder trial for a foreign publication. His writing attracted the attention of the top people in the European Union Parliament. He was offered a one-month travel grant to visit Germany, France and England. After fourteen years as a newspaperman, Dietz changed careers.

He was hired as an investigator for the Office of Public Defender, 12th Judicial Circuit. He was promoted to the homicide division. He and Public Defender Elliott C. Metcalfe Jr. handled several high-profile murder cases. Dietz’s first novel, “The Jerusalem Train,” can be purchased on Amazon.