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In

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nineteen sixty eight, law enforcement

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from across the south held a secret meeting

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in Dallas, Texas, to discuss

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a loosenet gang terrorizing the region.

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It was a group of outlaws

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from Lake Oklahoma all the way

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to the East Coast. and at the time

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we were burned from only as traveling criminals.

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Dealing

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drugs, cracking safes,

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committing murder, there wasn't much they

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wouldn't do. It's drugs.

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It's prostitution. It's it's

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extortion. It's it's empathizing.

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And

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at that meeting, the

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group was given a name. The Dixie

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mafia. It's a brotherhood of criminals

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who've done just about everything from organized drug

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rings to murdering elected officials.

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If you talk to some of them and I have,

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they

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would tell you there is no such thing as

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mafia. While they may not be as organized

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as other mafia rings, the trail they

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leave behind is just as deadly.

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Throughout the sixties and seventies, cops

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hunted down key figures of the Dixie

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mafia, including its enigmatic ringleader,

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Kirky Nicks. Kirky McCord Nicks

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Jr. is a so called godfather with the

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see mafia. Kirksey McChord Knicks

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junior. Well, Louisiana

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inmate, Kirksey Knicks, a Dixie

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mafia leader, dad was a judge.

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His mama was an attorney. He

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was very smart, but almost totally

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amoral. If you had to kill somebody to

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rob a jewelry store, that was snipping

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deal. What was his reputation?

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Don't

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fuck what he?

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This call was from a federal

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prison.

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Can you hear me? Yes. I'm

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an owl and I was a thief,

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but I'm far from being psychopathic

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nut case and I've been made out to

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me. Right. Fifteen

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years into Kirksey's life sentence at Angola,

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the Dixie mafia was practically folklore,

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but that would soon change. Mississippi

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circuit court judge Vincent Cherry and his

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wife, Margaret, a former, Pelosi Council

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member, were assassinated in their Pelosi

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hold. It was a professional hit.

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This wasn't random. This will be a very

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difficult crime to solve. This

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wasn't a robbery. I I'm interested

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in making money. I'm not interested in her heartbeat.

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This wasn't mistaken identity.

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Was he the target? Was she the target? Was she the target?

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This was very much a case of

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taking out a politician and

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a judge on purpose. Did the

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mayor have

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anything to do with this? I was not

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in any way and fault. and then he brought

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to murder my friends, Benson and Margaret

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Sherry. It's a It's a big trail.

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It never happened. Everything

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down there's crooked. just dealing with this

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case.

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All of those other officers and

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all those other FBI people lied

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through their fucking

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teeth. So do you trust? Who do you go

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to? Who do you trust? I'm seeing a case

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like it.

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I'm telling you everything I know

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because you guys have really got it wrong.

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You guys have really got it

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screwed up.

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the

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I'm Jed Lipinski. This

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is Gone South, a documentary

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podcast from c third eighteen originals,

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a cadence thirteen studio. Season

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two, The Dixie mafia.

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I was there when the agreement was made,

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somebody was gonna die. Available

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