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 television series that airs on the Investigation Discovery network. The show also aired on TLC

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. Debuting on October 13, 2008, Solved is produced in conjunction with Digital Ranch Productions, Inc.

Synopsis

The series features career-defining cases of police officers and FBI agents, with a heavy emphasis on forensic evidence. In each episode, a mysterious homicide case unfolds through first person accounts from America's elite law enforcement officers.

Topics covered include: forensic document examination, forensic linguistics, and computer forensics.

3D CGI environments are used to illustrate crime scenes, physical evidence, and various high-tech crime fighting techniques.

Season One (2008)

• "The Devil Within" - A teenager claims an intruder killed her parents.
• "An Eye For Murder" - A popular ophthalmologist is found murdered.
• "Minister Of Murder" - A missing woman's husband claims she ran off with another man.
• "Old Habits Die Hard" - A woman's family refuses to believe she committed suicide and abandon her children.
• "Blood Money" - A man contacts the FBI after his son is kidnapped; during the investigation the FBI uncovers evidence of an international kidnapping ring.
• "Secrets and Bombs" - Two people are dead and one injured after a series of package bombs go off in Salt Lake City.
• "Behind Closed Doors" - A serial killer letter claims responsibility for a woman's death but the evidence suggests otherwise.
• "The Watch Man" - Investigators have no leads to follow when a crime scene yields no physical evidence.
• "Broken Vows" - Three matching suitcases containing male body parts are found off the coast of Virginia Beach, leading investigators to the victim's wife.
• "Shattered Silence" - A surprise tip helps police solve a six-month old murder investigation.
• "The Dark Side" - An 18-year-old woman's body is found in a makeshift grave three weeks after her disappearance; the woman's online journal reveals a love triangle full of conflict.
• "Burden of Proof" - A young mother's body is found days after she disappears; the husband is suspected of the murder.
• "Grave Danger" - A woman's parents alert police when she goes missing; friend's of the victim tell investigators there was another man in her life besides her estranged husband.

Season Two (2009)

• "Written In Blood" - Police find a word written in blood near a woman's lifeless body.
• "Gone But Not Forgotten" - The body of Summer Baldwin is found inside a suitcase.
• "Impediment to Riches" - A millionaire, his wife and their daughter are found dead in the California home; police spend three years investigating the crime and make an arrest that shocks many people.
• "Truth In Shadows" - A 44-year-old mother of two is found dead in her art and frame shop; detectives uncover a link between the killer and the victim.
• "A Test Of Time" - A dark secret brought forward solves a cold case.
• "The Green Dragon" - A 4-year-old boy runs to his church and tells volunteers that his grandparents are "melting"; the boy's relatives are found dead from shotgun blasts.
• "Sin" - A church employee arrives at work and discovers a woman's body; the pastor believes it was a random killing but detectives suspect differently.
• "No Way Out" - A woman is seen being forced into her car by an unknown man on a surveillance video.
• "Last Man Standing" - A woman is found tied to a bed with slashes across her body and a man is found with three gunshot wounds on the floor next to her.
• "Life And Death" - A pregnant woman is found dead with her fetus removed through a crude cesarean section.
• "Poisoned by Love" - When a man is found dead by poisoning, the case takes a strange twist when one prime suspect attempts to kill the other.
• "Lost Decades" - DNA samples taken from three suspects in a 1980 murder case are compared to DNA evidence from the victim with startling results.

Season Three (2010)

Season Three is currently in production.

A case describing Cesarean Section Homicide within the context of psychopathic female murders has been reported in the forensic literature.
The Perri and Lichtenwald article outlines the murder of Bobby Jo Stinnett by Lisa Montagomery. After her arrest and detainment in jail waiting trial for committing a Cesarean Section Homicide, Lisa Montagomery was recorded in a telephone call with her husband saying that she was “messing with” the psychiatrists by saying she heard voices. The defense used Lisa Montagomery’s brain scan as part of an insanity defense.