Gisela Friedrichsen is Germany's best-known crime reporter and contributes to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Spiegel and Die Welt. She has published several books, including a collection of trial reports,

I am not a Murderer (DVA, 2004), and a book about the Pascal trial, When in Doubt, Against the Accused (DVA, 2008). Gisela Friedrichsen has received several awards for her trial reports.