The Dixie Mafia kingpin who orchestrated the murders of a prominent Biloxi couple over 36 years ago is asking for compassionate release from federal prison. Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. was a 44-year-old ...

BOONE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A 50-year-old triple homicide case has finally been solved. Police in Boone say that the alleged perpetrator, Billy Wayne Davis, 81, along with 3 others were responsible for the ...

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, pointing ...

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 ...

A Georgia inmate fondly reminiscing to his son about “killing three people in the North Carolina mountains” during his glory days has led to police cracking one of that state’s most brutal cold cases.

In 2019, Snowden Wright published “American Pop,” which I enjoyed immensely. That novel, set in Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi, followed for a century the fortunes of the Forster family in war ...

A triple homicide committed 50 years ago has been solved after the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina received information revealed by a Georgia inmate during a visit with his son. In ...

In 1946 Fate Leebern, the forebodingly named founder of the Georgia Crown Distributing Company, lost his life, allegedly to the “Dixie mafia” over booze. This year Donald Leebern Jr., Fate’s grandson, ...

Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. in a file photo taken during an interview with a Sun Herald reporter at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola during the investigation into the 1987 murders of Biloxians ...