Silent Witness: The Story of Chicago’’s Courtroom Sketch Artist Verna Sadock

＂Silent Witness＂ is the story of Chicagoan Verna Sadock, the courtroom sketch artist for NBC TV from 1969-2012. She covered every landmark trial there was, providing America with a way to put faces to the national news every night. She started with the Chicago 7 trial and finished with disgraced Governor Rob Blagojevich’s. In addition, she was an outstanding landscape, seascape, and portrait artist, with her works hanging in major museums around the world.
Looking at her life, in conjunction with these famous trials, gives a clear picture of us as a nation and Verna as a groundbreaking woman in a previously all-men’s world. The parallels are both unmistakable and fascinating.
Legal buffs will enjoy the details about the trials and her behind the scenes stories. If they were notorious and on trial, whether murderer, mobster, thief, predator, or corrupt official, chances are Verna was at the trial. Read what she has to say as a silent witness who heard and saw it all.

Chicagoland writerLiz Samuel Richards has published dozens of articles in ptint and online trade journals both under her own byline and as a ghost writer. Her short fiction has won local and national competitions.
In 2018. She co-authored Run, Jane, Run...We Need You in Office! encouraging women to consider running or volunteering in the political arena and showing them how. Silent Witness, her second book, tells the story of Verna Sadock, Chicago’s courtroom sketch artist who covered and illustrated landmark trials from the turbulent. 1960’s until her retirement at the end of 2012.
Liz is a graduate of Duquesne University and mother of a grown daughter. As a young girl, home for Liz was the suburbs of Philadelphia and then Chicago. Always inspired by the dream of living in a big city, however, she spent several years on Chicago’s Near North Side before moving back to the suburbs with her black cat, Phoebe. Now she says short stays in the city recharge her and broaden her perspective. At home, she can often be found sitting on her tree-shaded deck, writing about topics and people of interest, or listening to a Chicago baseball game, hoping for the best!
Welcoming comments from readers, Liz invites you to visit www.lizsamuelrichards.com, where you can also see future projects and speaking availability. If you enjoy reading either of her books, please go to Amazon and leave a review saying so! That helps tremendously.