Susan Spencer

Filed for divorce.

packed up the Mercedes, and moved to an Atlanta townhouse the couple had purchased.

She had planned the divorce.

She didn't just wake up one day and say, I'm divorcing Jim Sullivan.

She made sure she had copies of his important papers.

Before long, Sullivan had a new woman in his life, a local socialite named Suki Rogers, and Lita was getting ready for a rough court fight.

She knew that he was the type of guy who just wasn't gonna give up any of his money, and she knew he was gonna play dirty.

He had played dirty their entire relationship.

Assistant District Attorney Sheila Ross says in January of 1987, financially, everything was coming to a head.

So time is running out for this man.

It really is running out.

An Atlanta judge was due to decide if Lita could challenge an agreement the couple had made about dividing Sullivan's roughly $8 million fortune.

If Leta lost... She was going to get around $200,000 total.

But if the judge ruled in Leta's favor... She could get anywhere from zero to all of his estate.

She may have underestimated him in terms of how much he loved his money, but he also underestimated just how smart she was.

On the very day the judge was to make his ruling, Lita's good friend Bob Christensen, who knew all about her troubled marriage, this is your house, right?

That's right, that's my house, yes.

Noticed a stranger in the courtyard near Lita's front door.

The man was carrying a box of flowers.

So Christensen turned and went back into his garage.