Susan Spencer

He could get the death penalty.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

Prosecutor Sheila Ross previews her case.

Jim Sullivan killed his wife.

The state is going to prove it.

We ask that you find him guilty at the close of all this evidence and end 19 years of waiting for her family.

Sullivan's lawyers are not impressed.

They scoff at the star witnesses, painting Sullivan's mover, Tony Harwood, as a con artist.

And his ex-girlfriend, Belinda, as a dupe.

First on the stand for the state, Lita's mother, who tells prosecutor Kelly Hill that Jim Sullivan never even went to Lita's funeral.

Yes.

His only communication, a telegram to the funeral home.

Sullivan listens expressionless through all this, even when the state presents its most damning evidence.

Phone records of calls to and from his Florida home, conversations with the alleged hitman, Harwood.

And it's a number that you'll see at four

to five important times at the trial.

It's actually five.

The most important call, one Harwood made from a pay phone a 40-minute drive from Lita's house, 40 minutes after she was shot.

And the message was just two words.

Merry Christmas.