Presenting Gone South Season 2: The Dixie Mafia

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 3 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.

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0:00.0	In 1968, law enforcement from across the South held a secret meeting in Dallas, Texas
0:07.2	to discuss a loosenit gang terrorizing the region.
0:10.6	It was a group of outlaws from like Oklahoma all the way to the east coast.
0:16.4	And at the time we were farmed from only traveling criminals.
0:21.2	Dealing drugs, cracking safes, committing murder, there wasn't much they wouldn't do.
0:26.3	It's drugs, it's prostitution, it's extortion, it's everything.
0:33.2	And at that meeting, the group was given a name.
0:36.1	The Dixie Mafia.
0:37.8	It's a brotherhood of criminals who've done just about everything from organized drug
0:41.3	rings to murdering elected officials.
0:43.9	If you talk to some of them and I have, they would tell you there was no such thing as
0:48.1	the Dixie Mafia.
0:49.1	While they may not be as organized as other Mafia rings, the trail they leave behind is
0:53.9	just as deadly.
0:55.6	Throughout the 60s and 70s, cops hunted down key figures of the Dixie Mafia, including
1:01.0	its enigmatic ringleader, Kirksy Nix.
1:03.9	Kirksy McCord Nix Jr. is a so-called Godfather of the Dixie Mafia.
1:07.4	Kirksy McCord Nix Jr.
1:09.9	Louisiana Inmate Kirksy Nix, a Dixie Mafia leader.
1:14.3	Dad was a judge, his mama wasn't a tonne.
1:17.7	He was very smart but almost totally immoral.
1:21.1	If you had to kill somebody to rob a jewelry store, that was snubbig deal.
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