Susan Spencer

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.

Belinda's boss, attorney Ed Leak, assumed that with Harwood providing the missing link, police now finally would arrest Jim Sullivan for his wife's murder.

but the Atlanta district attorney didn't know where Sullivan was.

After issuing the warrant, DA Paul Howard privately told Sullivan's attorneys that he'd be going for the death penalty.

Or already had run.

In fact, Sullivan had been sunning himself for some time in this lovely Costa Rican seaside community, 1,600 miles away.

And within a day of his attorney's learning about the death penalty, he hot-footed it to Panama in a very big hurry.

But Jim Sullivan's disappearance did not affect the case against Tony Harwood, the alleged hitman.

He eventually cut a deal and pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

But all the while, he insisted that he was not the actual shooter.

Who was?

Well, over the years, he's blamed the mafia, a stripper named Tracy, and some guy nicknamed John the Bartender.

Despite his changing stories, prosecutors agreed to a 20-year prison sentence for Harwood in exchange for his future testimony, whenever Sullivan eventually faces trial in the murder for hire.

International fugitive Jim Sullivan, meanwhile, was on the move, said to have been seen in exotic locales in Guatemala, Venezuela, Ireland, even Malaysia.

And finally, in this idyllic beach resort, 100 miles south of Bangkok.

How did you determine then that he was here?

Bob Cahill, then the FBI's legal attache in Bangkok, says tips from local viewers of the TV show America's Most Wanted led right to Sullivan's hideout, this swanky condo complex on the beach.