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Vogt is a journalist and author who reports on crime, politics and social affairs in Europe and the U.S. Her work has appeared in various print and broadcast media, including The Guardian, The Independent, The First Post, Der Spiegel, Review of Policy Research and Panorama. She has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and Nancy Grace, and in Italy on La7, TG1, RAI24 and Sky TG24. On the radio, her reports have aired on BBC, Northwest Public Radio and Sirius XM Radio.

She began reporting on the Meredith Kercher slaying in Perugia, Italy in November 2007 for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and continued Amanda Knox murder trial court coverage throughout 2009 when the newspaper became the online news organization Seattlepi.com. Her in-depth reporting is highlighted as "a voice of reason" with "unbiased attention to detail" by authors of two definitive books on the case, Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox and Darkness Descending: The Murder of Meredith Kercher.

In 2010 she researched and presented a five-part documentary series on homicides involving women, which aired on the Italian national television station, La7. She is currently researching ten other cases for the program's second season in 2011. Segments of an episode where Vogt interviews Amanda Knox's attorney and the Italian magistrate who prosecuted her can be viewed here and here.

In the U.S., one of Vogt's investigative stories helped bring a fugitive to justice in 2010. While a reporter for The Spokesman-Review in 2000, Vogt tracked down an-ex Pacific Northwest laywer accused of bilking millions in a real-estate deal gone sour. Her report revealed the lavish life on the lam of "Koyote Karlos" in the mountain highlands of Chiapas. In January 2010, federal agents arrested as he got off a plane in Los Angeles after a sting operation in Mexico using similar methods of contacting him that she had utilized and written about in her story a decade before. He now faces felony charges in Washington State. You can read Vogt's original story here, and the story about his capture 10 years later here.

Author of two books, Vogt's first non-fiction work, Common Courage, chronicles the story of the grassroots community battle against the Aryan Nations and other neo-nazi hate groups in the Pacific Northwest Bologna Inside, an expatriate's guide to living in Italy she co-authored and edited is available in both traditional and e-book format. A Fulbright scholar in journalism, she has appeared as a panelist at the International Journalism Festival, received Carl Duisberg Society International and Arthur F. Burns fellowships (Germany) and reporting awards from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists (USA).

She is fluent and published in English, German and Italian.

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"Andrea Vogt's moving account of the life and brave death of Bill Wassmuth combines an investigative reporter's thoroughness with a poet's grasp of the spiritual side of his crusade against hate... a disturbing and insightful account of a Catholic priest's soulful journey through the turbulence of the late 20th century."

Chicago Tribune columnist James Coates,
author of Armed and Dangerous:
the rise of the survivalist right.

"Thank you for this gift of love and truth,"
Idaho human rights activist Joann Muneta