Susan Spencer

It was an assassination.

The day she decided to divorce Jim Sullivan was when her life ended.

Millions of dollars were at stake.

My name is Sheila Ross.

I'm an assistant district attorney with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.

I'm one of four prosecutors assigned to the case of State of Georgia versus James Vincent Sullivan.

Jim Sullivan plotted and hatched the idea himself and then hired a hitman to kill his wife.

What I think is so disgusting is that Jim Sullivan for 19 years lived as a free man.

He was living in Palm Beach.

He was a social climber.

He was wooing other women.

It seemed that he was untouchable, that no one could stop him, that no one could hold him accountable for his murderous act.

In January of 1998, a woman named Belinda Trahan came forward.

with what could only be described as astonishing information.

My name is Belinda Trahan, and I broke the Sullivan case wide open.

Understanding the remarkable saga of Leta Sullivan requires turning back the clock.

back to 1975, to the days of disco.

In those days, Leta was still Leta McLinton, living the good life of an attractive single 23-year-old, the daughter of a prominent family in Atlanta.

Leta was a happy, likable person.

We had a lot of fun.