A brutal decades old murder-by-hit man of a prominent young married black socialite in the South — a killing shockingly contracted by her craven white millionaire husband — is given the full forensic treatment in journalist Deb Miller Landau’s “A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton.”
Just hours before McClinton and her wealthy businessman husband, James Vincent Sullivan, were due in an Atlanta courtroom — where a judge would determine the outcome of their multimillion-dollar divorce case — she would be shot to death in broad daylight, in cold blood, by a hired amateur killer.
Friday, Jan. 16, 1987 — the beginning of the weekend before America’s second-ever Martin Luther King Day would be celebrated on Monday — was cold and dreary.
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