Susan Spencer
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His question, after so long, could she still ID the man who had paid Harwood off?
And does she say, oh my God, that's him?
But after a few minutes, she again pointed right to the picture of Jim Sullivan.
Once he had her positive ID, Lang set out to verify the rest of Belinda's story.
The first hard evidence linking Harwood and Sullivan in the months before Leta was killed.
Today, Belinda and her husband Tim Trahan share a picture-perfect life in rural Texas.
a far cry from 1998 when Belinda feared for her life and literally went underground.
She retreated in fear to this crawl space barely four feet high, living deep under her house with a TV, a bed, and a loaded .357 Magnum.
She was hiding in terror from her ex-boyfriend, Tony Harwood, and from Jim Sullivan.
In the 11 years since Lita's murder, Sullivan had been a free man.
And yet even with Belinda's story, police still didn't have enough solid evidence to charge him.
Hoping Harwood would provide more, they told Belinda, call him up and get him talking.
Especially incriminating, Harwood's answer when Belinda recalls that at first, she didn't believe him.
The next day, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent John Lang knocked on Harwood's door.
To Lang's delight, Tony Harwood just couldn't shut up.