Episode Details

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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