QUIT – A Final Chapter, A New Path

For over 25 years I have walked through morgues, stood in courtrooms, stared at skulls, and listened to silence that told darker stories than words ever could. I have seen cruelty that left marks you cannot see on skin. I have learned what people are capable of when no one is watching. Likewise, I have learned that justice is not always just. In the end, I was never part of the system. I was only fuel to keep its machinery running.

Why I am done

The roads between cities became longer, the courtrooms colder, the files heavier. Each trip drained me more than the last. Every report felt less like my own voice. I told myself I would stop many times, but then came another family, another unanswered question, another case that no one else could take. And I said yes again.

Not this time. This decision has been alive inside me for a long time. Quiet, patient, waiting. Today it is clear. I am done with this job, done with this role, done with carrying a system on my back that gives nothing back but more demands.

There is another truth. I live with vertebral compression fractures that make long drives and hours of sitting a source of constant pain. Every trip to a courthouse is not only an emotional burden, it is a physical one. Pain has become a silent companion on every journey, another reminder that life is too short to keep doing what drains you.

What I will do instead

I will not stop working. I am a scientist. Forensic anthropology is part of me. But my future is research and creation, not endless courtroom battles. My work will continue in forensic anthropology, in human biology, in neurology, in criminalistics, in identification of persons from images.

I will finish two books that have been waiting for years. One will finally put into writing what no one before has dared to count in detail. How many unique features does the human face truly have? A professor once said there are 246, yet never listed them. I will. My second book will expose the errors that plague video forensics, the false confidence in identifications from videos and photos, and how software can improve images without distorting truth.

I am building tools for others. The VetBot for veterinarians to simplify x-ray analysis, lab reports, and client communication with private, secure, individual servers for each clinic. The CrimeBot reads thousands of case files, reports, photos, and videos, building clarity where human time is too short. I have seen how some lawyers do not even read their files until half an hour before trial. They walk their clients straight into defeat. Others hire experts, gather facts, and fight with skill. CrimeBot will help the good ones do their job even better. It is already in testing, already proving its worth, and it will keep learning every month.

For two years I have been building tyra.chat, a GDPR-compliant AI platform with revolutionary Qdrant vector database technology. Developed entirely in Germany with zero-access architecture and military grade security. Every user gets a completely isolated, encrypted database with Qdrant’s vector search engine powering the intelligence behind it. Not even I can access your data. It is technically impossible, built into the architecture at a level where no administrator, no developer, and no government agency can bypass it. When tyra.chat uses external AI services, all personal information is automatically masked before it ever leaves our server. Names become placeholders, addresses become codes, and phone numbers become tokens. The external AI sees only anonymized data, meaningless without the key that never leaves German soil. After processing, the answers are reconstructed on our server with your real information. Your sensitive data never physically leaves this country. The Qdrant vector database can handle thousands of PDFs, even image-heavy scanned documents that would break conventional systems. This makes tyra.chat perfect for lawyers who need to search through mountains of case files, contracts, court documents, and evidence. OCR and GPT-5 Vision analyze even the most complex scanned documents, extracting meaning from pages that are nothing but images. tyra.chat is built on 63 API endpoints, with semantic search that understands meaning instead of just matching words, and offers three specialized AI modes for every use case. It is what AI should have been from the beginning. Private. Secure. Under your control. Not a product that sells your thoughts to the highest bidder or hands your secrets to whoever asks loudly enough.

For two years I have also been developing Encryptor, a military-grade encryption tool that I released in 2023. The first version worked well, but it had a fundamental limitation. Your plaintext passed through our server for milliseconds before encryption. We never logged it. We never stored it. But it existed on our infrastructure, vulnerable for that brief moment when anything could happen. That millisecond was a vulnerability I could not accept. In 2025 I rebuilt everything from the ground up. Version 2.2 uses client-side encryption exclusively. The cryptographic operations happen entirely in your browser using the Web Crypto API. AES 256 GCM with PBKDF2 key derivation and 100,000 iterations. Your message is encrypted before it ever touches the network, before it ever leaves the safety of your own device. Even if a government agency compels us to log data, there is nothing to log and nothing to read. Even if our server is compromised, seized, or destroyed, your encrypted messages remain secure. Even if quantum computers break internet encryption, your message content is still protected. I built Encryptor because I spent 25 years watching what happens when people do not have tools to protect themselves. Because I am tired of reading files where a life could have been saved if just one single file had been encrypted. Because I will not stand by anymore watching freedom die while we all look away. You can embed it in your website, install it on your server, or run it locally on your PC. You decide where your data lives. And if you need help with integration, ask me. I will help you for free because this is not business. This is a promise to everyone who has ever felt powerless against surveillance, against systems that claim to protect but only consume.

There is more. A software for facial reconstruction, to rebuild faces from skulls, from remains damaged beyond recognition, from victims lost to time or nature. A tool that helps police, forensic scientists, and archaeologists create scientifically solid reconstructions that can bring names back to the nameless. It is already in beta and will be released soon.

A voiceprint system is also coming. Upload audio files and get a scientifically grounded analysis to say with high certainty if it is the same speaker or not. Not yet as strong as DNA or fingerprints, but strong enough to make a difference in court. I know how it feels to stand in a courtroom and hear judges doubt the evidence because there was no clear tool to support what we heard. That will change.

I will keep standing as an advisor in digital forensics, in video analysis, in voice analysis, and in identification. I will still work with European courts outside Germany, with international law enforcement, with US investigators, and wherever my expertise is respected. Because in those places I have felt what I never felt in Germany. Gratitude. Sovereignty. True neutrality. Real appreciation for what years of knowledge and experience can bring to justice.

What I will no longer do

I will not write expert reports for the German justice system or its investigative authorities. I will not spend my days and my health on endless drives, endless hearings, and endless machinery that consumes expertise and life without giving anything of value in return. My time is better spent building what lasts, sharing what matters, and creating something for the future.

The next chapter

I am 55. I have given more than half my life to a system that could never give back what it took. Now I will use what is left of my time to leave something real for humanity. Knowledge, tools, and truth that lasts.

I am done with the job. But I am not done. The next chapter begins now.