ramble. Throughout the 60s and 70s cops hunted down key figures of the Dixie Mafia,

including its enigmatic ringleader, Kirksey Nix.

I'm interested in making money, I'm not interested in hurting people.

15 years into Kirksey's life sentence, the Dixie Mafia was practically folklore,

but that would soon change. I'm Jed Lapinsky. This is Gone South, a documentary podcast from C-13

Originals, a cadence 13 studio, season 2, the Dixie Mafia, available now on the Odyssey app,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Better being better, Boop. Welcome to this week's episode of Run, Mango. I'm your host,

Stephanie Sue. And Dr. Ferguson was the type of psychiatrist, the type of doctor that didn't

like to leave any of the stones unturned. He wanted to get to the root of people's problems.

He wanted to figure out why this patient was so obsessed with the idea that she was the devil.

She said, no, I really am the devil. I'm the devil's child, in fact. And inside of me,

deep inside my bones is pure evil. And since I'm evil, I easily bring out all the evil in everybody

else. And the two guys she just knew that they were trying to seduce her because they could see

the evil in her and they were trying to seduce that evil. They wanted to have sex with her.

Or get violent with her, she could feel it. And every day she felt terrified. What if she gave in,

what if she got swept away? And they all had sex or maybe maybe she joined them to do something

really incredibly violent and just gross. She felt disgusted by the whole thing, the idea,

it was this unsettling, eerie feeling. Dr. Ferguson was trying his best to help, but the delusions,

they were getting more real, more vivid. She kept saying she saw evil in the two guys and that

they were trying to seduce her. One of them was even slowly transforming into a woman hater,

a potential murder. I know you're screaming. Why doesn't the therapist call the police these

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