Introducing "Gone South" Season 2: Dixie Mafia from C13 Originals

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow-Award winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the early sixties, a rag-tag confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its hundreds of members, unofficially headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, specialized in scams, heists and murder. Their ringleader — the estranged son of a prominent Oklahoma politician — was a skilled and charismatic outlaw named Kirksey Nix. When Nix was sentenced to life in prison at Angola for a murder he committed in New Orleans, The Dixie Mafia was thought to be extinct. But fifteen years later, a sitting criminal court judge named Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a mayoral candidate for the city of Biloxi, were assassinated. As the case ran cold, authorities were forced to confront a disturbing reality: the reign of Kirksey Nix and The Dixie Mafia was far from over. Gone South is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 studio, in association with Jed and Tom Lipinski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.2	Hey everyone, I've got a preview to share with you, and this one is a doozy.
0:43.8	No podcast about infamous people and events would be complete without some version of the
0:48.2	story of the Dixie Mafia, and it's on our list for infamous America.
0:52.9	Now many of you might not have heard of the Dixie Mafia.
0:55.6	I hadn't until I watched the TV show Justified.
0:59.0	I'm a huge fan of the series and I was fortunate to meet a few of the writers over the summer,
1:03.4	but I had never heard of the Dixie Mafia until they mentioned it on the show.
1:07.0	I remember chuckling and thinking the writers had made it up, but it's very, very real.
1:12.6	In the 1960s and 70s, the loosely connected groups that formed the Dixie Mafia terrorized
1:18.6	communities all over the South.
1:21.3	One story from the era was made into the 1973 classic movie Walking Tall, which was then
1:26.9	remade in 2004, starring the rock.
1:30.7	One of the roughest groups was headquartered in Baluxi, Mississippi, and they sold drugs,
1:35.8	rannixstorsion rackets, pulled robberies, and committed murders.
1:40.3	They were led by a man named Kirksey Nicks who ended up going to prison for murder.
1:45.7	The authorities thought that might be the end of the Dixie Mafia, but they were wrong.
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