<p>In January 1987, Lita McClinton answered her doorbell in one of Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhoods and was shot dead by a man holding a white flower box with a pink rose. She was 35, the daughter of one of Atlanta's most prominent Black families, and on her way to court that morning for a pivotal hearing in her divorce from her white millionaire ex-husband, Jim Sullivan. Police were sure Jim had ordered the hit. They just couldn't prove it.<br><br>Writer Deb Miller Landau first reported on the case for Atlanta Magazine in 2004 — and never let it go. In this episode of Gone South, she walks us through her years-long investigation: an interracial marriage that began in 1970s Macon, a $2 million mansion on Palm Beach, a sloppy hit, a payphone call traced to a Georgia rest stop, and the long, twisting road to justice for Lita McClinton.</p><p>Deb Landau's book is "A Devil Went Down to Georgia:&nbsp;Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton​":<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Went-Down-Georgia-Privilege/dp/1639366830">https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Went-Down-Georgia-Privilege/dp/1639366830</a></p><p>Subscribe to our newsletter:&nbsp;</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://jedlipinski.substack.com/">⁠</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://jedlipinski.substack.com/⁠">https://jedlipinski.substack.com/⁠</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Connect with Jed Lipinski:</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/">⁠</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/">https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/gonesouthpodcast/">⁠</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/gonesouthpodcast/">⁠</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/">⁠</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/⁠">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jed-lipinski/⁠</a></p>