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Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. (born 1943) is the former boss of the Dixie Mafia. [1] [2] He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford's wife on August 12, 1967. Nix has repeatedly refused to comment about Pusser's claims that he was one of his wife's killers. [1]
Gillich was also patron and protector of Kirksey McCord Nix Jr., one of the gang's most notable members. In December 1965, at the age of 22, Nix was caught carrying illegal automatic weapons in Fort Smith, Arkansas. An old friend of his, Juanda Jones, ran a bordello there, and Nix became involved with Jones' adolescent daughter, Sheri LaRa. In ...
Pusser named Kirksey Nix as the contractor of his wife's killers, although neither Nix nor anyone else was ever charged with the crime. Pusser shot and killed an intoxicated Charles Russell Hamilton on December 25, 1968, after responding to a complaint that Hamilton had threatened his landlord with a gun.
Nix adamantly denied involvement when I interviewed him." Pauline Pusser's case has never been solved. "The Twelfth of August" was the inspiration for the first "Walking Tall" movie in 1973.
Buford Pusser's name is infamous in Tennessee. He stood large over most people at 6 feet tall and was known for cleaning up McNairy County, jailing criminals who'd run rampant before his tenure.
In the 1980s, Kirksey Nix perpetrated the "Angola Lonely Hearts" scam from within the prison. [36] On June 21, 1989, US District Judge Polozola declared a new state of emergency at Angola. [37] In 1993 Angola officers fatally shot 29-year-old escapee Tyrone Brown. [38] Burl Cain served as the warden from 1995 to March 7, 2016. [39]
On October 23, 1996, Halat was indicted on federal charges related to his involvement in the 1987 murders of Vincent and Margaret Sherry. At the time the FBI believed that the two were killed on Halat's orders after he thought that Judge Sherry was stealing from a bank account Halat kept for an imprisoned client, which held funds from Kirksey Nix's "Lonely Hearts" dating scam targeting gay men ...
After introducing medically assisted treatment in 2013, Seppala saw Hazelden’s dropout rate for opiate addicts in the new revamped program drop dramatically. Current data, which covers between January 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014, shows a dropout rate of 7.5 percent compared with the rate of 22 percent for the opioid addicts not in the program.