Tennis Racket
Directed by Mark PellingtonWritten by Meredith Stiehm
First Air Date : Sunday, 28 September 2003
Flashback year : 1976 (27 years ago)
Based on real case : Martha Moxley and the Skakel brothers
Lilly Rush investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate. A maid to a wealthy family, Bonita Jakarta, claims she witnessed the murder of teenager Jill Shelby. Now dying of cancer, the maid who remained silent, wants the killer brought to justice. Rush reopens the case, in which two brothers were originally suspected but not charged due to their powerful society family.

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