Tag: murder
A new book, A Devil Went Down to Georgia, explores the 1987 murder of Atlantan Lita McClinton
Deb Miller Landau first wrote about the haunting 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan for Atlanta magazine. Her new book on the case has gained national attention.
The source of violent crime in Atlanta isn’t mysterious: It’s desperation, born by inequality.
We just need to be willing to see it, writes George Chidi.
In nearly every way, the Tex McIver verdict is confounding
Acquitting Tex McIver of malice murder meant the state had not proven that he had planned to kill his wife Diane. But convicting him of aggravated assault meant he had intended to shoot her.
Relentless: Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills chases a killer
The best Howard Sills could remember, there hadn’t been a double homicide in Putnam County since May 1984, 30 years earlier. In minutes, the mood inside the lake house swung from wild intensity to who the hell did this? This, the sheriff told himself, ain’t local talent.
Andrea Sneiderman sentenced
Today the trial of Andrea Sneiderman ended where it began—on the witness stand of Courtroom 5-D at the DeKalb County Courthouse. There clad in jailhouse orange, she sobbed and begged Superior Court Judge Gregory Adams for leniency: “Please let me go home.”
My Brother’s Keeper
It was a bright weekday in mid-September and the Cormier boys—thirty-one years old, identical twins, best friends, incorrigible malcontents—were coming home. Their sixty-two-year-old father looked out his living room window as a U-Haul rumbled into the gravel drive.
Social Disgraces: The murder of Lita McClinton
After years on the lam, a journey that took him from Costa Rica to Thailand, James Sullivan has been brought back to Atlanta and will stand trial—again—for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his wife, Buckhead socialite Lita.
Sara’s Story
Sara Ambrusko saw him on the evening news. Fredric Tokars was a junior prosecutor assisting in a murder trial — the gruesome slaying of an Atlanta attorney by his lover.
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