You may know them better as the Dixie Mafia, a Biloxi-based group of traveling criminals that started in the 1960s, notorious for violence, corruption and participating in high-profit robberies ...

The homicides were reportedly connected to the so-called Dixie Mafia. A 50-year-old triple homicide case has finally been closed, after a suspect's son provided clues that led investigators to the ...

A former boss of the Dixie Mafia who ordered the murders of a circuit court judge and his wife in 1987 and who was suspected in the 1967 shooting which killed the wife of Sheriff Buford Pusser of ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Dixie Mafia boss who ordered the Sherry murders more than three decades ago is asking to get out of prison for medical reasons. 80-year-old Kirksey McCord Nix is ...

This Biloxi, Mississippi based group of con artists known as the Dixie Mafia first emerged in the American South in the 1960s. Members were not united by heritage and had no known hierarchy or oath.

The hit was pulled off by a group of criminals known as the Dixie Mafia over a “Lonely Hearts” scam run out of Angola prison in Louisiana to swindle gay men. Vincent Sherry, a circuit court ...

Half a century after three members of a family were found murdered in the North Carolina mountains during a snowstorm, the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office now believes it has solved the case ...

The ringleader of the notorious Dixie Mafia, Billy Sunday Birt, died in 2017, but the secrets of his murderous reign are still being uncovered today.

Investigators said the suspects were part of a group in Georgia known as the “Dixie Mafia,” and were involved in dozens of violent crimes across the Southeast in the 1960s and ‘70s.

August 7, 1967, was his last day on Earth. He was going after organized crime in Jackson County, and was taking on the so-called ‘Dixie Mafia.’ Copies of The Telegraph from the time say he ...

Margaret was ready to use her campaign to blow the whistle on the firmly entrenched Dixie Mafia, to show her proof and name the names. But honest players don’t stand a chance in Mississippi Mud.

Stoney Birt, the son of Dixie Mafia hit man Billy Sunday Birt, will have his book and products from his distillery at the event. Birt's father was well known as the boss of the "Dixie Mafia," a ...