Witness
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.
Directed by Greg YaitanesWritten by Kim Newton
First Air Date : Sunday, 9 November 2003
Flashback year : 1981 (22 years ago)
Based on real case : 1995 murder of Adrianne Jones at the hands of Texas Navy cadets Diane Zamora and David Graham
A petty crook, Ricky, hoping to get a reduced sentence, relates witnessing a young man washing blood out of his car the night a teen track runner was murdered. The young athlete, Paige Pratt, was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson was originally imprisoned for the crime.
Bennet : Jane and I used to say that we were as... we were as rare as Halley's Comet.
Lilly : Don't like bastards getting away with murder.
Directed by James Whitmore Jr.Written by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 30 November 2003
Flashback year : 2001 (2 years ago)
When a young woman, Rosie Miles, wakes up from a coma, Lilly re-opens the fall in which her 6-year-old daughter Toya died. Things get complicated when the mother remembers very little of that night, and Lilly feels especially motivated to find the killer, as Rosie was poor and living on welfare, reminding Lilly of her own past, and giving her an emotional bond to Rosie.
Lilly : We got nothing. We got a witness. Whose hard drive's been erased. "Bruises and butterflies", that's her big contribution.
Stillman : Black man hauling ass through lily-white Port Richmond? Stands out like Vera in a bikini.
Directed by Rachel TalalayWritten by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Saturday, 6 December 2003
Flashback year : 1989 (14 years ago)
Lilly gets an anonymous phone call from a man claiming he killed an elderly woman back in 1989 and buried her body in the basement of a house. When Lilly checks the dwelling, a body is recovered, but the alleged murderer refuses to identify himself.
Directed by Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Kim Newton
First Air Date : Sunday, 28 March 2004
Flashback year : 1999 (5 years ago)
A drunken driver's hit-and-run confession leads the detectives to discover that foul play -- not an accident -- may have killed the victim.
My millennium resolution was to have a family, kids and all. Susan and Gary were that family.
Directed by Karen GaviolaWritten by Stacy Kravetz
First Air Date : Saturday, 17 April 2004
Flashback year : 1985 (19 years ago)
Film tribute : Wall Street
The team reopens the 1985 case of a wealthy stock broker. At the time it was deemed that Charles Danville was killed when someone attempted to steal his car, but new evidence suggests that he may, in fact, have been murdered.
To lives of quiet desperation... and not leading them.
Directed by Kevin HooksWritten by Laurie Arent
First Air Date : Sunday, 25 April 2004
Flashback year : 1989 (15 years ago)
Based on real case : Cathleen Krauseneck
The 1989 case of a woman murdered in front of her 3-year-old son is re-opened. A psychologist asks Det. Rush to look into the case again when the son, now a 17-year-old teen, suffers from intense nightmares and troubled behavior.
Red and yellow balloons. A train and the name "Bobby". That's what I remember about her being murdered.
Directed by Nelson McCormickWritten by Meredith Stiehm
First Air Date : Sunday, 23 May 2004
Flashback year : 1986 (18 years ago)
Based on real case : Soria murders
When DNA evidence reveals that a wrong man was convicted for killing 15-year-old Eve Kendall back in 1986, the team re-opens her case in an attempt to find the real killer.
Directed by David Von AnckenWritten by Stacy Kravetz
First Air Date : Sunday, 10 October 2004
Flashback year : 1943 (61 years ago)
On the eve of the 60-year reunion of women who worked in a weapons factory during World War II, Lilly is asked to re-investigate the death of Alice Miller, one of the worker girls. The death was deemed accidental at the time, but her friend pleads to Lilly to look closer into the case.
Directed by James Whitmore Jr.Written by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 16 January 2005
Flashback year : 1976 (29 years ago)
Film tribute : Rocky
When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwards.
This movie's got me thinking, If some bum wants to be president in the United States, he really can be.

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