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Despite the informal structure, the Dixie Mafia had one rule that members were expected to obey: "Thou shall not snitch to the cops". [6] Unlike members of the American Mafia, the members of the Dixie mafia were not connected by family or country of origin. They were loosely connected individuals of many nationalities with a common goal—to ...
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]
Finch began his racing team with driver Jeff Purvis in dirt oval track racing. He moved to NASCAR in 1989 in the Busch Series and then Winston Cup Series racing. Phoenix Racing fielded a single entry, numbered 51 and 09, on a mostly part-time basis in the Cup Series throughout its history before going full-time in its final years, and was known for its sponsorship from Miccosukee resorts.
James Moretina – In 2010, Moretina pleaded guilty to conducting an illegal gambling business alongside Vincent Civella. [14] He was released from prison on April 27, 2012. [15] Vincent Pisciotta – A career criminal, Pisciotta was charged with second-degree murder in 1980 for a 1978 killing, but a mistrial was declared when a key witness ...
Part2 Pictures is an American production company that launched in 2007 in Brooklyn, New York.It is known for projects including (U.S. TV channel) CNN’s This Is Life with Lisa Ling, Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi for Hulu, the series Belief with Oprah Winfrey for OWN, Discovery Channel’s Dixie Mafia, Engineering Ground Zero for PBS NOVA, and National Geographic Channel’s Hard Time.
After incumbent sheriff James Dickey was killed in an auto accident, [7] Pusser was elected sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, becoming the youngest sheriff in Tennessee's history. Pusser promptly began trying to eliminate the Dixie Mafia and the State Line Mob. [8] Pusser survived several assassination attempts. [9]
The State Line Mob was an association of criminal elements that operated in the 1950s and 1960s at the Mississippi–Tennessee state line in Alcorn County, Mississippi, and McNairy County, Tennessee, along U.S. Route 45.
There is also a song by Molly Hatchet called Cornbread Mafia (on the Kingdom of XII album), and a now-defunct band that called itself Cornbread Mafia. [38] In a 2015 interview with Terry Gross, Graham Yost, the creator and show runner of the FX series Justified, said, "Honestly, we didn't know a lot about the Dixie Mafia. It also goes by the ...