Presenting Gone South Season 2: The Dixie Mafia

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning documentary podcast. Starting in the sixties, a loose-knit 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 alleged leader — 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 Dixie Mafia was not done yet. Gone South is an Audacy Original produced in association with Jed and Tom Lipinski. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.8	In 1968, law enforcement from across the south held a secret meeting in Dallas, Texas
0:07.1	to discuss a loosened gang terrorizing the region.
0:10.4	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 far into my only traveling criminals.
0:20.8	Dealing drugs, cracking safes, committing murder, there wasn't much they wouldn't do.
0:26.1	It's drugs, it's prostitution, it's extortion, it's everything.
0:33.1	And at that meeting, the group was given a name.
0:36.0	The Dixie Mafia, it's a brotherhood of criminals who've done just about everything
0:40.2	from organized drug rings to murdering elected officials.
0:43.7	If you talk to some of them and I have, they would tell you there was no such thing as the Dixie Mafia.
0:49.2	While they may not be as organized as other Mafia rings, the trail they leave behind is just as deadly.
0:55.5	Throughout the 60s and 70s, cops hunted down key figures of the Dixie Mafia,
1:00.5	including its enigmatic ringleader, Kirksy Nyx.
1:03.7	Kirksy McCord Nyx Jr. is a so-called Godfather of the Dixie Mafia.
1:07.5	Kirksy McCord Nyx Jr.
1:10.8	Louisiana Inmate Kirksy Nyx, a Dixie Mafia leader.
1:14.3	Dad was a judge, his mama wasn't a Tony.
1:17.6	He was very smart but almost totally immoral.
1:21.0	If you had to kill somebody to rob a jewelry store, that was snubbig deal.
1:25.0	What was his reputation?
1:27.7	Don't fuck with him.
1:29.6	This call is from a federal prison.
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