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.⁩