The Body Searchers focuses on the work of an unusual forensics organisation known as NecroSearch. Based in Colorado, NecroSearch is made up of forensic anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists, geologists, thermographers, geophysicists, criminalists and bloodhound handlers.

Pooling their resources and talents, they use a wide array of techniques to help law enforcement agencies find clandestine graves and recover the evidence from those graves. Their methods are unique. Unlike the police who often use bulldozers and backhoes to dig up a body, NecroSearch treats an exhumation like an archaeological dig.