Last year, while working on an HBO series, I stumbled into a small Northeast Georgia farm town.

By complete chance, I met a man there that would change the trajectory of my whole life

for the next 18 months while I learned who he was and who his father was,

former Dixie Mafia hitman, Billy Sunday Bert, known as the most dangerous man in Georgia history.

Billy Sunday Bert was a whiskey man, he was a white robber, he was a hitman, he was a murder,

he was the enforcer for the Dixie Mafia, he's also my father.

While telling the unbelievable and incredible true story of Billy Sunday Bert,

I quickly found out that the deeper we dug, the more secrets we uncovered.

And in the summer of 2020, we uncovered more than I could ever have imagined.

Clues to secrets hidden in plain sight for more than 50 years.

Information on unsolved murder cases and the discovery of maps made by Bert provided

clues to mysteries that have baffled investigators for half a century.

In recent days, we've discovered that the exes and crosses that Bert had marked on the maps

so many years ago might just lead us to hidden treasures or maybe even a body.

I'm Cheryl McCollum, I'm a crime scene investigator and I'm the director of the

Cold Case Investigative Research Institute and I think the number one thing for me,

anytime you're looking for a clandestine grave, you're looking for some type of skeletal remains,

if there's something that you can identify there, that's going to be key.

Well here, it's a piece of jewelry. If that jewelry is there, then there's no question.

Then we can go completely on that alone.

So again, you've got a map, you've got memory, I'm all about it.

There's no failure here. Y'all begin here is not a failure.

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