The Sound of Silence Project

Cold War-era military Veterans who secretly maintained all of DOD’s nuclear weapons worldwide, exposed to deadly radiation without our knowledge and consent.

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Paul Shambroom https://t.co/a80tw2AHMA via @PenskeMedia

Paul, I sent you an email regarding the photo you took at Barksdale, 1995. Please review,
Thank you

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#ColdWarNuclearWeaponsTechnicians

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Secretary Collins @SecVetAffairs. Sir, please remember the Cold War period military Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs), exposed to IRAD without informed knowledge or consent. Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms presented four interview questions (for you) to one of your senior staff members. Reportedly, the staff member "respectfully declined" an interview, on your behalf. Please reach out to Wendy to schedule an interview. Your office has her contact information.

Please note: Approximately 30,000 Cold War period veteran NWTs in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force were exposed to intrinsic radiation (gamma and neutron) continuously emitted from the weapons they worked in, on, and in close physical proximity to.

Estimates indicate approx. 17,000 have died. Many took their secrets to their graves. Please help us Break the Silence...

Thank you for your lengthy and continuing service.

Happy Independence Day,

With respect

#ColdWarVeterans #NuclearWeaponsTechnicians #SoundOfSilenceProject #VeteransDay #SupportOurVets
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INDEPENDENCE DAY 2026

During the Cold War (1945-1991), over 30,000 Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs) maintained our nation’s entire nuclear arsenal — our nuclear deterrent — deployed worldwide on land, ships, and submarines.

NWTs maintained over 65,000 nuclear weapons that included approximately 77 different types of nuclear warheads in 110 configurations. The number of weapons peaked at 31,255 in 1967, reduced to 19,008 by the end of the Cold War period in 1991.

NWTs were responsible for the maintenance, disassembly, component replacement, reassembly, transport, and storage of all live nuclear weapons in the operational and physical custody of the Department of Defense.

While performing their primary duties in secret, NWTs were continuously exposed to dangerous ionizing radiation emitted through weapon surfaces and from exposed components—often without adequate protective measures, modern safety standards, or their full knowledge and informed consent.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — https://t.co/dd0tHmKeqR

They routinely worked near radiation sources without the protections of today’s “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA) programs. Operations generally lacked proper restrictions on time, distance, and shielding.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — https://t.co/dd0tHmKeqR

Despite overwhelming evidence of these exposures, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has historically denied claims and appeals from these technicians, often citing absent radiation exposure records or relying on questionable estimates from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Recent questions from Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms to the VA Secretary remain unanswered. She is the daughter of a Cold War Navy veteran who worked with nuclear weapons aboard the USS Independence CVA-62.
Link: “Four Questions Still Await Answers” — https://t.co/QmOWkEVUPg

This Independence Day, please take a moment to thank a Veteran — and remember their families and the surviving loved ones of those we have lost.

Help protect our remaining Cold War veterans before it is too late. Spread the word in the media. Help us secure invitations to television programs so we can explain our situation.

Please contact your Members of Congress and ask them to become personally involved in The Sound of Silence Project https://t.co/GGNiWVRptz. Urge them to support legislation that ensures these veterans finally receive the recognition, health care, and benefits they earned. Specifically, invite your representatives to contact:
- Senator Cortez Masto (NV)
- Representative Bergman (MI)
- Ranking Member Takano (CA)
to offer support for The Sound of Silence Project and the more than 30,000 affected veterans, their families, and surviving family members.

Happy Independence Day!

God bless our veterans, their families, your families, and the United States of America.

#ColdWarVeterans #NuclearWeaponsTechnicians #SoundOfSilenceProject #VeteransDay #SupportOurVets

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INDEPENDENCE DAY 2026

During the Cold War (1945-1991), over 30,000 Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs) maintained our nation’s entire nuclear arsenal — our nuclear deterrent — deployed worldwide on land, ships, and submarines.

NWTs maintained over 65,000 nuclear weapons that included approximately 77 different types of nuclear warheads in 110 configurations. The number of weapons peaked at 31,255 in 1967, reduced to 19,008 by the end of the Cold War period in 1991.

NWTs were responsible for the maintenance, disassembly, component replacement, reassembly, transport, and storage of all live nuclear weapons in the operational and physical custody of the Department of Defense.

While performing their primary duties in secret, NWTs were continuously exposed to dangerous ionizing radiation emitted through weapon surfaces and from exposed components—often without adequate protective measures, modern safety standards, or their full knowledge and informed consent.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — https://t.co/dd0tHmKeqR

They routinely worked near radiation sources without the protections of today’s “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA) programs. Operations generally lacked proper restrictions on time, distance, and shielding.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — https://t.co/dd0tHmKeqR

Despite overwhelming evidence of these exposures, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has historically denied claims and appeals from these technicians, often citing absent radiation exposure records or relying on questionable estimates from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Recent questions from Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms to the VA Secretary remain unanswered. She is the daughter of a Cold War Navy veteran who worked with nuclear weapons aboard the USS Independence CVA-62.
Link: “Four Questions Still Await Answers” — https://t.co/QmOWkEVUPg

This Independence Day, please take a moment to thank a Veteran — and remember their families and the surviving loved ones of those we have lost.

Help protect our remaining Cold War veterans before it is too late. Spread the word in the media. Help us secure invitations to television programs so we can explain our situation.

Please contact your Members of Congress and ask them to become personally involved in The Sound of Silence Project https://t.co/GGNiWVRptz. Urge them to support legislation that ensures these veterans finally receive the recognition, health care, and benefits they earned. Specifically, invite your representatives to contact:
- Senator Cortez Masto (NV)
- Representative Bergman (MI)
- Ranking Member Takano (CA)
to offer support for The Sound of Silence Project and the more than 30,000 affected veterans, their families, and surviving family members.

Happy Independence Day!

God bless our veterans, their families, your families, and the United States of America.

#ColdWarVeterans #NuclearWeaponsTechnicians #SoundOfSilenceProject #VeteransDay #SupportOurVets

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Mr. Greenwood, please review the plight of Cold War Veteran Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs). The very veterans who maintained all nuclear weapons deployed to the DOD throughout the world from 1945 through 1991. I was one of those technicians, beginning four months after I turned 17. We worked in secret, in silence. We were not told that ionizing radiation bombarded us at all times while we worked on those weapons.
NO ONE will acknowledge us, as if we are ghosts. NOT the VA, NOT the DOD. Practically no TV (minus one local TV station and small regional affiliates), no newsprint, and no radio media.
Many veterans "grew up" (I'd been in the service since 1973) with your God Bless the USA song... It became the military's (practically official) theme song. They played it and we sung it at major functions, graduations, retirements, promotions, large and small gatherings. YOU recognized us, recognized ALL veterans. We still need you... we need you now... still.... again.

Mr. Greenwood, please help us Break the Silence.
Please see https://t.co/GGNiWVRptz Please contact me. Thank you sir... Hand salute...

Rick Workman, Captain, USAF (retired), Founder, The Sound of Silence Project

--- ANYONE/EVERYONE who sees this, please spread the word... Over 17, 000 of the approx. 30,829 Cold War era NWTs have died. Please help BREAK the SILENCE before so many more are forever lost.
We thank you all.

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Thank you for your service. I talk frequently with many other NWs, GMTs, WTs, and veteran nuclear weapons technicians from the Army and AF (hard to find some of the marines who worked with nukes during the Cold War). I invite you to review the information at the link below, that includes info about intrinsic radiation (INRAD): “Ionizing radiation emitted through the weapon surface or directly from exposed weapon components." You certainly were exposed to INRAD while working directly on the weapons.

I wasn't in the Navy (was in the AF), but inspected many boomers, a few fast attack boats, and many ships throughout the world. Interesting, impressive, and eye-opening.

The Sound of Silence Project: https://t.co/GGNiWVRptz
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Rick

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@NewsNation So... was the house searched... floors walked all over on, BEFORE the floors/tiles were processed for footwear impressions? Crime Scene 101... day one, hour one.

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It CANNOT be done thoroughly, properly in that time. NO WAY... !
The entire property should have been marked with crime scene tape, law enforcement staged at appropriate exterior locations to ensure no entry, the house should have been searched for persons (carefully, walking near the wall as closely as possible) then get out.
Then... floors processed for footwear impression evidence (can be done in stages to allow other investigators to do other work as early as possible), then, and only then... begin processing for finger prints and search for other items/information... and a lot more to that.
The scene must NOT have been released at all until all boxes are checked.... and until there is no chance that additional information learned may lead to possible collection of other items within and near the house. Even if "completed"', I'd still keep the crime scene, yard and all, in place for quite some time... definitely would not release it yet... (not today... and likely not for a couple weeks, pending a LOT more knowledge of the facts, circumstances, and potential evidence not known at this time). Under the current circumstances, NO promised/proposed date of release of the crime scene.

I worked, supervised, and managed crime scenes for 22 years, from burglary to kidnap, rape, and multiple murders. In two murder cases I worked, one has been on death row since approx. 1998, another was executed. I managed the scenes and testified in those related trials and many others over the years. Not bragging... just evidence that I'm not an "armchair quarterback".

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Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

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- Rick Workman

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Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject
- Rick Workman

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Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject
- Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject
- Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject
- Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject
- Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject
Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject

- Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject

- Rick Workman

[The Sound of Silence Project @TSOSProject]

Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject

Rick Workman...

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Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?

I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.

ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.

Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.

My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.

@TSOSProject