Lita McClinton

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Lita McClinton (died January 16, 1987), was the daughter of Emory McClinton, a former U. S. Department of Transportation official and his wife, JoAnn McClinton, a Georgia state representative, was murdered on January 16, 1987, just prior to her divorce trial. In 1997, Phillip Anthony Harwood was identified as the hit man and indicated that he had committed the murder on 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, Georgia (USA). In March 2006, Sullivan was convicted of capital murder for arranging the 1987 shooting of his wife.