Atlanta Homicide Suspect Captured in Thailand
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right now we move on to Atlanta, the homicide case here is back in the news 15 years after socialite Lita Sullivan was killed. Her former husband, James, has now been arrested in Thailand. He was on the FBI's Most Wanted List. In 1987, the case electrified Atlanta, more now from reporter Tony Thomas from our affiliate WAGA.</s>JAMES SULLIVAN: The first thing is that obviously I am innocent of all of these charges. It has been a very difficult ordeal.</s>TONY THOMAS, WAGA CORRESPONDENT (voice over): James Sullivan has long denied any involvement in the murder of his estranged wife, Lita, 15 years ago. Authorities have been looking for Sullivan for the past several years, always suspecting he was overseas but never able to find him until this morning, arrested overnight in a condo beach resort about 100 miles south of Bangkok.</s>ED GARLAND, ATTORNEY: Return and face the charges as he has faced them each time before. He has confidence in the legal system.</s>THOMAS: That's Sullivan's attorney Ed Garland five years ago insisting he did not know where his client was. James and Lita Sullivan were involved in a bitter divorce back in January of 1987, but Lita was murdered on the doorstep of her upscale Buckhead condo. She answered the door expecting a delivery of long stem pink roses. Instead she was shot twice in the head. Authorities believe Sullivan paid a hit man $25,000 to kill his wife and avoid losing the property. Lita's parents have kept up hope throughout the 15-year ordeal.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It opens the wound, but we, our family we can take that because we see some light at the tunnel, at the end of the tunnel.</s>KAGAN: And that report coming from our CNN affiliate WAGA, known as WAGA here in Atlanta. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com