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A series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.

Compelling cases, bizarre crime scenes, and criminal minds so conniving they defy understanding. In Solved: Extreme Forensics new, never-before seen forensic techniques are employed to solve the most puzzling of cases. Welcome to the next generation in forensic drama - it's raw, it's unbelievably riveting, and it's real.

Follows case stories solved through forensics involving weather conditions that reveal vital evidence in solving murder crimes.

Crimes relating to the wealthy and privileged members of society.

The case of professional polo player Roberto Villegas, who was found shot to death on Ashland Farm in September 1997.

A 15-year-old girl escaping for her life is savagely beaten and killed in an Ohio cemetery. The case goes cold for nearly two decades, years that bring major advances in DNA technology. To catch this killer, forensic experts must do the impossible: come up with a DNA sample when none seemingly exists. The original vaginal swab had been consumed by earlier testing, but the vial where it had been stored does retain enough to convict a notorious rapist who had once killed a frightened teen. In another story, two young men are found with several gunshot wounds on a Virginia riverbank in 2002-one survives, but is unable to talk. When the survivor is able to speak, he describes the vehicle of the shooter; the cell phones found at the scene are traced to the victim's drug supplier and her boyfriend. Bullets and blood won't solve this case for Shenandoah County Sheriff's detectives. It will take a forensic geologist digging in the dirt and detectives accessing cell phone towers in the sky to nail a suspect who claims he was never there. Conclusive evidence comes from the suspect's SUV, from phone records, from testimony about the shotgun he had, and mineralogic profiles which confirm his presence at the crime scene. Louis Felts is convicted.

A drive-by shooting leaves one man dead and another seriously wounded. Cell phone calls and shell casings point to a suspect, but authorities are unable to place him at the crime scene. When a forensic geologist compared soil from the crime scene with soil found in the wheel wells of the suspect's car, he proved that dirt is anything but dumb. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 35.

On a rainy day in 2002, two teenager were shot outside Front Royal, Virginia. One of them dies, while the other sustain serious injuries. Detectives must obtain every piece of evidence to catch a vicious person on the loose.