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By 1967, Billy Sunday-Burt had gone from a heavy equipment operator at the Gainesville Stone in Rock Quarry

and making whiskey on the side for extra money to full-blown criminal.

He was quickly building an empire,

endiving deeper and deeper into the underworld of robbery,

illegal gambling, and hauling and selling hundreds of thousands of gallons of bootleged whiskey

all over the South.

The man who was once so poor he had to steal food to survive,

had now entered a whole new world, one of wealth, and power.

He was now mixed in with a crowd of high-profile kingpins like AD Allen,

who specialized in bootlegging, stolen cars, and shop shops.

He was also known for dealing in stolen, high-end clothing.

AD Allen was reportedly headed of a $1 million operation based out of Commerce, Georgia,

about 20 miles northeast of Winder.

In today's money, that's over $7.5 million.

Not bad for a country boy, right?

AD got away with all kind of stuff and I would imagine.

He would be one that would have gone to Billy Burton, said,

I've got to get rid of this. This guy was going to testify against me and try.

You know, I don't know, I don't have any evidence that ever happened,

but I do know there were people who disappeared before they could be called on to testify.

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