Lita McClinton

Who was Lita McClinton?

Lita McClinton, the daughter of Emory McClinton, a former U. S. Department of Transportation official and his wife, JoAnn McClinton, a Georgia state representative, was murdered the day her divorce was to be settled. In 1997, Phillip Anthony Harwood was identified as the hit man and indicated that he had committed the murder at the behest of James Sullivan, the former husband of Lita McClinton. Sullivan escaped arrest by fleeing abroad. On July 2, 2002, he was arrested in Thailand, and in 2004, he was extradited to Atlanta. In March 2006, Sullivan was convicted of capital murder for arranging the 1987 shooting of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The case was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001, the year before James Sullivan was arrested.