Candace Dempsey is an American author, journalist and travel writer. She has written for several magazines in the United States, and is the author of ''Murder in Italy'' (2010), a study of the 2007
murder of Meredith Kercher
Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. By the ...
and the trials of
Amanda Knox
Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and journalist. She spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student with ...
and Raffaele Sollecito.
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Dempsey has been interviewed about the Kercher investigation for CNN, including ]Anderson Cooper 360
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, MSNBC, the BBC, KOMO TV, and Italian television.[ She maintains a blog about the case, "Let's Talk About True Crime," hosted by the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''.
]
Background
Dempsey's ancestry is Italian on her mother's side, and German-Irish on her father's.[Dempsey, Candace]
"Alone again: Lost in the West"
, ''Travel Tales''. She attended West Valley High School in Spokane
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Ca ...
, obtained her master's in journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism
The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...
, and began her career in 1976 as an intern at ''The Spokesman-Review'' in Spokane. In 1977 she married Mark Rosenblum, a New Yorker. The couple lived in Albany, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, for a few years before moving to Seattle.[
Dempsey has worked as an editor, writer and producer for MSN, an independent travel writer, and has written for publications such as ''The Chicago Tribune'', ''The Boston Phoenix'', ''Slate'' and ''The New York Times''.][Homepage]
an
, candacedempsey.com, accessed 10 September 2012. For example:
Dempsey, Candace
"A Lost Child Rescues Himself"
''The New York Times'', 27 July 2012.
Demsey, Candace
''Slate'', 15 November 2011.
Dempsey, Candace
"Angel In Exile"
''Chicago Tribune'', 5 April 1998.
Dempsey, Candace
"Holding Court"
''Chicago Tribune'', 3 August 1997.
Demspey, Candace
"X-ray Vision"
''Chicago Tribune'', 2 March 1997.
She became known in particular for her research into the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia.
The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...
, Italy. Her blog on the investigation was one of the first to post court documents about the case, and her book about the murder and criminal inquiry, ''Murder in Italy'', received Best True Crime Book Reviews Editor's and Readers' awards for 2010. Dempsey was present in the courtroom in Perugia in October 2011 when Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of Kercher's murder.[Adams, Guy]
"Knox hopes for book deal and film rights to settle family's $1m legal fees"
''The Independent'', 5 October 2011.
Selected works
*(2010). ''Murder in Italy: The Shocking Slaying of a British Student, the Accused American Girl, and an International Scandal''. Penguin/Berkley Books
Berkley Books is an imprint of the Penguin Group.
History
Berkley Books began as an independent company in 1955. It was founded as "Chic News Company" by Charles Byrne and Frederick Klein, who had worked for Avon; they quickly renamed it Berk ...
.
*(2001)
"A Restless Night on the Mojave"
''Passionfruit''.
*(1998). "Girl Kayak Guides of Juneau," in Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael (eds.). ''Travelers Tales' A Woman's Passion for Travel''. Travelers' Tales Books.
*(1996). "Alone again," in Susan Fox Rogers (ed.). ''Solo: On Her Own Adventure''. Seal Press; reproduced in Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick and Jennie Good (eds.). (1998). ''Gifts of the Wild: A Woman's Book of Adventure''. Seal Press.
References
External links
;Newspaper interviews with Dempsey
*Baker, Jeff
''The Oregonian'', 13 May 2010.
*Kershner, Jim
"Dempsey tells her side of ‘Murder’"
''The Spokesman-Review'', 2 May 2010.
;Television interviews
with Alex Witt
MSNBC
with Alex Witt
MSNBC
King 5
2010
King 5
2011, from c. 01:22 mins.
;Miscellaneous
Penguin trailer for ''Murder in Italy''
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American freelance journalists
American women journalists
American women writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Oregon alumni
21st-century American women
American women travel writers