On a cold January morning in 1987, the murder of socialite Lita McClinton rocked Atlanta and made national and even worldwide headlines.
In broad daylight, a flower delivery man, with a gun in tow, rang the doorbell at her Buckhead townhome. When she opened the door, he shot her.
Immediately, her millionaire, soon-to-be ex-husband, James Sullivan, was considered the prime suspect in orchestrating the plot. The day Lita was shot was also the day a judge was about to settle the couple’s divorce case.
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