Episode 64, Season 4 - Lita and Jim Sullivan – Murder on Delivery, Part 1
- Bianca Sloane
- Apr 7
- 1 min read
On a gray and drizzly January morning in 1987, the doorbell rings at the Atlanta home of socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan.
She opens the door to what she thought was a delivery man bearing a box of beautiful long-stemmed roses.
Instead, he came, bearing bullets.
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Photo caption: Lita LaVaughn McClinton was born into the Atlanta elite and expected to do well in life. She was considered beautiful, charming, smart, and with a flair for fashion (credit: Oxygen); Wealthy Yankee James 'Jim' Sullivan came to Atlanta and swept a smitten Lita off her feet, marrying her in 1976. She would find out too late how many secrets he was hiding from her (credit: CBS News); Lita and Jim Sullivan in happier times (credit: Palm Beach Daily News); Lita thrived once she and Jim separated and was looking forward to receiving a proper financial settlement from her multimillionaire husband and starting her new life (credit: ABC News); On January 16, 1987, Lita opened the door of her upscale Atlanta townhouse expecting a delivery of long-stemmed roses (credit: Atlanta Magazine); Lita's Buckhead home, where she was gunned down in the doorway (credit: Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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