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And then raced to Leta's side.

She had been shot in the head.

A dozen long-stemmed pink roses lay nearby, still in their box.

And he did it because?

Of money.

But Sullivan had an alibi.

When Lita was shot, he was 600 miles away in Palm Beach.

Despite that, police started taking a long, hard look at Jim Sullivan.

Suppose, the investigators wondered, he had hired someone to do his dirty work for him, a hit man.

With no murder weapon, they were left with only one real clue, a suspicious phone call made to Sullivan about 40 minutes after Leta was shot.

The call came from this rest stop.

Coincidentally, about a 40-minute drive from Lita's home.

The theory?

The hitman called Sullivan to tell him the deed was done.

What did you think was going to happen?

But the phone call wasn't enough.

And not only was Sullivan not arrested, within months, he had married his girlfriend, Suki Rogers.

the McLintons were appalled.

He's just taken something that he had no right to take.

Hi, this is Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst, certified financial planner, and the host of the Jill on Money podcast.