On this day, Jan. 16, in 1987, Lita McClinton, the daughter of former U.S. Department of Transportation official, was shot in the head after accepting a dozen pink roses at her Atlanta home. It would take 19 years before her husband, Palm Beach millionaire James Sullivan, would be brought to justice for arranging the murder.
Investigators found that 40 minutes after she was shot, somebody made a one-minute collect call from a pay phone near her home in Atlanta to his mansion in Palm Beach.
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