Holiday Encore Special: Deadly Delivery | Someone They Knew Podcast

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

An unannounced delivery of flowers at your front door is supposed to be a delightful surprise, but for Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton, it was anything but delightful. It was deadly. But who would use flower delivery as a ruse to shoot her to death – and why would it take an international manhunt and nearly two decades to bring the person responsible for her death to justice?

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0:00.0	Happy holidays from all of us right here at Court TV.
0:04.3	The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.
0:08.8	Opinions. All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.
0:13.7	Sensitive topics are discussed. Discretion is advised.
0:20.6	Hi, I'm Vinipolitan, and welcome to another edition of the Court TV podcast, which this week is an audio version of our original true crime show, someone they knew with Tamron Hall.
0:32.2	This week will tell the story of Lita McClinton, a beloved woman from a prominent Atlanta family who was discovered
0:39.7	shot to death in the doorway of her own home with a box of pink roses next to her. Who sent
0:47.5	this deadly delivery and why did it take nearly two decades to bring the person ultimately
0:53.0	responsible for her death to justice.
0:57.1	Here featuring interviews with Atlanta news anchor Carmen Burns, journalist Laura Rosa,
1:02.9	and John Lang of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations is someone they knew with Tamran Hall,
1:09.6	deadly delivery.
1:10.5	This is the Court TV podcast. Music Someone they knew with Tamron Hall, deadly delivery.
1:13.7	This is the Court TV podcast.
1:25.7	At that time, Palm Beach was very closed to people of color.
1:28.3	Palm Beach Society did not accept Leida Sullivan, period.
1:30.3	There's no reason that Leida
1:32.3	should have become a victim of a violent crime of this manner.
1:35.3	Nothing in her background would have made her a victim.
1:39.3	The killer brought flowers.
1:41.3	It was a trick.
1:43.3	It was a trick. She was unarmed and defences.
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