Presenting Gone South Season 2: The Dixie Mafia

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Mark Smirling, from Crime Town, and Crooked City.
0:04.6	I want to share the short preview of the second season of the Hit Documentary Podcast,
0:08.8	Gonçao, from C-13 Originals.
0:11.4	I'm so excited that the new season of this amazing series is back.
0:15.6	After winning the Edward R. Murrow Award, honoring outstanding achievements in journalism,
0:19.9	Gonçao returns with a new case, this time covering one of the most infamous chapters
0:24.3	in the history of Southern crime, the reign of the Dixie Mafia.
0:28.4	You've got Italian Mafia, you've got Russian Mafia, you've got all kinds of Mafia,
0:32.1	but I bet you've never heard of the Dixie Mafia.
0:35.1	Enjoy this preview of Gonçao season 2, available now wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:41.5	In 1968, law enforcement from across the south held a secret meeting in Dallas, Texas
0:47.7	to discuss a loosened gang terrorizing the region.
0:51.2	It was a group of outlaws from like Oklahoma all the way to the east coast.
0:56.8	And at the time, we were referring to my only straveling criminals.
1:01.6	Dealing drugs, cracking safes, committing murder, there wasn't much they wouldn't do.
1:06.8	It's drugs, it's prostitution, it's extortion, it's everything.
1:13.7	And at that meeting, the group was given a name.
1:16.6	The Dixie Mafia, it's a brotherhood of criminals who've done just about everything
1:20.7	from organized drug rings to murdering elected officials.
1:24.4	If you talk to some of them and I have, they would tell you there was no such thing as
1:28.6	the Dixie Mafia.
1:29.6	While they may not be as organized as other Mafia rings, the trail they leave behind is just
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -849 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sony Music, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sony Music and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.