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Infamous America

DIXIE MAFIA: GEORGIA Ep. 4 | “The Assassination”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A leak inside law enforcement keeps kingpin Cliff Park’s bootleggers, car thieves and cop killers a step ahead of prosecutor Floyd Hoard and the GBI. Outrun but not outsmarted, Hoard employs aggressive new tactics to clean up Jackson County. Tactics that ignite Park’s short and volatile fuse. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0

Jackson County is about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta, and all the counties that led out of

0:56.3

Atlanta were experiencing similar problems.

1:00.3

As in Phoenix City, Alabama and many other places, there was corruption at all levels of local government, law enforcement, politicians, lawyers and judges.

1:10.0

Some were good and on the level, but many others accepted bribes from bootlegers, illegal gambling operators, and now car thieves.

1:19.0

The new bane of existence along Interstate 85 in the 1960s was car theft.

1:26.0

There was a network of connected auto theft groups that ran from Florida to Virginia.

1:31.1

They worked independently and together in various combinations.

1:35.3

And then there were just your run-of-themill, car thieves, who probably knew of the network but

1:39.7

weren't really associated with it.

1:42.3

Between bootlegging and auto theft, violent crime was on the rise in

1:46.2

northeast Georgia. In 1956, 66 year old Charlie Drake was shot and killed in his home by an intruder.

1:56.0

The man who eventually confessed to the crime said he had been told by a Jackson County bootlegger

2:01.4

that Charlie kept lots of money in his house and he would be easy to rob.

2:05.8

The Bootleger was A.D. Allen, who was more well known for running the ring of car thieves in Jackson County.

2:13.0

Allen's name would figure prominently into events in the region in the 1960s and 70s.

2:19.1

In 1964, three police officers were handcuffed and executed by car thieves in the woods about 20 miles down the road from Jackson County.

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