Solved

- Season 1

(2008)

The story of the murder of Alan and Diane Johnson.

The case of 47-year-old eye doctor Brian Stidham, who was stabbed to death in the parking lot of his medical practice in Catalina Foothills, Arizona in 2004.

A man confesses to killing his polygamous wife but refuses to give details. Where's the body? What's the method or motive? Forensics is the key to bring this self-appointed "minister" to justice.

Two suspicious suicides in Georgia are linked to a prominent dentist. The blood spatter analysis experts are the key to determining the true cause of the identical deaths - deliberate deception by a calculating killer.

The Los Angeles FBI office receives a call from a man who claims his son has been kidnapped with just one week to live unless his family pays a $230,000 ransom. Agents follow the money trail overseas and uncover a ruthless international kidnapping ring.

Three homemade bombs claimed two lives in Salt Lake City and injured a third. Document examiners were the forensic experts who uncovered the motive and exposed Mark Hofmann as the guilty party.

Unusual forensic experts helped solve the 2004 murder of Charlene Hummert: forensic linguists, soil analysts, photometrics, and computer recovery. Even without being allowed to know the man had confessed to the murder, the jury convicted him on the evidence.

Who would murder such a nice lady? And why? Cooperation of the public and family with the Pinellas PD was just as important in solving this case as forensics. A photo of the victim wearing a watch was a clincher for the jury.

Three pieces of luggage filled with the dismembered body of William McGuire are retrieved from Chesapeake Bay. Can New Jersey police convince a jury that his beautiful wife (a nurse) was capable of such a gruesome crime?

The story of the murder of Christina Moore.

What if you cannot trust your best friends? A missing young woman is found shot to death and hurriedly covered up in a makeshift grave. Her best friend comforts her mother and points police to the Goth friends she has been warned against.

When a young mother disappears, leaving her infant at home alone, her husband is the main suspect. Her burned body is later found. When the killer goes to court, the forensic science of a tree's "fingerprint" is used for the first time in the US.

The most likely suspect when an estranged wife is missing? The husband, of course. When she is a college professor having a fling with a "bad boy," police believe there may be a better choice, but first they need to find her body.