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Lita Sullivan

Case from Atlanta, GA dated Jan 16, 1987

Victim Details

Lita LaVaughn McClinton Sullivan

Female

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

1987-01-16

35

Lita

Sullivan

07/28/2026

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On a cold January morning in 1987, Lita McClinton Sullivan, a 35-year-old Black socialite, answered the door of her upscale Atlanta townhouse. A man stood on her doorstep holding a box of a dozen long-stemmed pink roses. As she reached for the flowers, the man pulled out a 9mm handgun and shot her in the head, ending her life. The day of her murder, January 16, was tragically significant; it was the same day a crucial hearing was scheduled in her contentious divorce from her estranged husband, J ...
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