[Georgia] The Deadly Delivery to Lita McClinton

On a bitterly cold January morning in 1987, thirty-five-year-old Lita McClinton was inside her Buckhead townhouse in Atlanta, getting dressed for a critical eleven o'clock court hearing to challenge a prenuptial agreement with her estranged husband, multimillionaire beverage heir James Sullivan. When her doorbell rang, an apparent deliveryman handed her a long white floral box tied with a pink ribbon. Beneath the tissue paper and roses was a nine-millimeter pistol. What followed was an agonizing, nineteen-year fight for justice that spanned interstate payphone trails along I-85, a four-year international manhunt ending in a luxury seaside villa in Thailand, and a high-stakes Fulton County murder trial. Grab your mason jars and join Cara and Stew on the porch for the complete investigative breakdown of one of Georgia's most calculated crimes.

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Sources:
Supreme Court of Georgia En Banc Decision (Sullivan v. State, 284 Ga. 358, 667 S.E.2d 32, 2008)
Georgia Court of Appeals Judicial Records (Harwood v. State, 303 Ga. App. 434, 693 S.E.2d 589, 2010)
Fulton County Superior Court Indictment, Trial & Penalty Phase Transcripts (State of Georgia v. James Vincent Sullivan, 2006)
Bilateral Treaty on Extradition Between the United States and the Kingdom of Thailand (Treaty Doc. 98-16, Article 6, 1991)
Contemporary investigative coverage and trial reporting by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Associated Press