James Sullivan's 1976 marriage to Atlantan socialite Lta McClinton proved to be a hindrance to Sulivan's obsession with climbing up the ranks of the social elite and the marriage floundered. Answering the door to a hit man posing as a flower delivery man, Lita was shot dead at point-blank range. It took 13 years for the police to locate and arrest the hit man who accused the husband, James, to be behind the murder plot. When Sullivan vanished, it took years and an international manhunt to bring Sullivan in.