Murder along the banks of the Mississippi in Memphis, Tennessee comes often during the "hot killing months" of July and August. Following on the critically acclaimed "Brooklyn North Homicide Squad," this powerful new reality mini-series takes you, for the first time, ever behind the scenes of the busy Memphis Homicide Squad -18 elite investigators work over 150 murders a year in one of the deadliest bible belt/gun belt towns south of the Mason Dixon line.

Follow them in the moment as they "catch" and solve a fatal crime of passion, a harrowing child abuse homicide, a drug-related gang shooting, and a car-jacking turned murder. As they work the cases we follow their personal lives as they try to keep their obligations to family and faith intact.

Woven through all three episodes is the eerie ongoing "Mystery" investigation of a man found dead next to a dumpster. The Memphis investigators find themselves "behind the Eight Ball" with no witnesses, no clues, and a victim they can't even identify. They work round the clock, in a roller coaster journey that takes them up and down the Mississippi not just to identify their "John Doe", but in a twist, find out who killed him.

Filmed over many months, with unprecedented and intimate access to crime scenes, forensics, autopsies and confessions, the series intimately shows the relentless dedication, and emotional sacrifice it takes to "speak for the dead," and to bring justice during tragedy to the families of homicide victims.