121. Justice for Lita McClinton Sullivan: Part Two

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This week, we pick up with the second episode exploring the very long road it takes to get justice for Lita McClinton Sullivan. It is a very short time period we focus into within this middle section. We begin in 1983, when Lita and her husband, Jim Sullivan begin their life in Palm Beach, planning a new, bright future. By August 1985, Lita is headed back to Atlanta, and by January 1987, everyone is eyeing Jim as the most likely suspect in her slaying.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,
0:07.9	where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thanks so much for tuning in today as we
0:14.5	continue the investigation into the death of Lita McClinton-Sullivan and the long quest for justice to bring her husband Jim Sullivan to account for her murder.
0:28.1	In the second episode of this arc, we are going to explore Jim and Lita Sullivan and their time in Palm Beach from 1983 up into the morning of Lita's death in Atlanta in January of 1987.
0:46.8	Let's investigate.
0:48.4	Let's investigate. One part of this story is about an upstart, Jim Sullivan, who is never going to fulfill the life he craves, but not for lack of trying.
1:15.8	The story in another part is about the lengths. This upstart will go to in order to fulfill his dreams.
1:25.0	In 1983, Jim and Lita Sullivan come to town and Jim trying his best with all the things he
1:32.9	thinks he has to make it into the real Palm Beach. Again, Palm Beach is a high society
1:41.0	bastion. But remember what Dominic Dunn says. It is exclusive. This world happens in
1:48.9	private homes and clubs. It is very much behind walls. And to break through in Palm Beach,
1:57.2	it takes a little bit more than money and the right home. Jim Sullivan doesn't have
2:03.0	quite that kind of cash or the storied generations of relatives that have played in the Palm
2:11.4	Beach scene, but most problematically, at least within Palm Beach Society, Jim Sullivan had the wrong kind of
2:20.3	wife. Not that there is anything wrong with Lita McClinton Sullivan. She's a beautiful
2:27.0	Atlanta socialite, loaded with charm, filled with grace, all the right schools and connections, but Lita is a black woman,
2:38.1	married to a man who is incredibly ambitious.
2:43.1	Jim and Lita come to Palm Beach in 1983 with the intent of climbing the ladder in this elite
2:50.3	community. Lita from Atlanta, the city in this elite community.
2:52.0	Lita from Atlanta, the city too busy to hate, and Jim, with his accomplished wife, the money
2:59.6	that he has made, his important home, it never occurs to Jim and Lita that the rungs of that high society social ladder might be
3:11.3	more difficult to attain than they first thought in their sunny optimism.
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