INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA: Politics of Death (...rattle his chain...)

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INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA: Politics of Death (...rattle his chain...)

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dollop | Jul 29, 2009
I caught on to this as I was researching the violent attacks on
Bufford Pusser. The attack upon him and his wife that resulted in her
death was reportedly a contracted assasination performed by members of
the Dixie Mafia. What I have read about the Dixie Mafia is so bad it
makes the rest of the GANGSTER WORLD seem like charity workers!

I will post two links. The first refering to Buford Pusser (who took
office at the age of 26, amazing!).
And the second with some info on the Dixie Mafia. it is a long read
but very, very interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_Pusser

http://insider-magazine.com/inside_the_dixie_...

INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA

Politics of Death

Preference: The following true story is a glimpse into my life from
the years 1966 through October 2004, a prelude to the in-depth book
due out soon "Inside the Dixie Mafia"

By: John Caylor

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Not important | Jul 30, 2009
dollop wrote:
I caught on to this as I was researching the violent attacks on
Bufford Pusser. The attack upon him and his wife that resulted in her
death was reportedly a contracted assasination performed by members of
the Dixie Mafia. What I have read about the Dixie Mafia is so bad it
makes the rest of the GANGSTER WORLD seem like charity workers!
I will post two links. The first refering to Buford Pusser (who took
office at the age of 26, amazing!).that way.
And the second with some info on the Dixie Mafia. it is a long read
but very, very interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_Pusser
http://insider-magazine.com/inside_the_dixie_...
INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA
Politics of Death
Preference: The following true story is a glimpse into my life from
the years 1966 through October 2004, a prelude to the in-depth book
due out soon "Inside the Dixie Mafia"
By: John Caylor
I was taught as a child that if i didn't want the dog ,to not rattle
his chain.It is as good advice today as it was then.Also in the world
we're living in today do you really think you're safe behind your
keyboard.Let sleeping dogs lay,as you obviously have no earthly idea
of what you've decided to tinker with .Choose flowers or pottery .Just
a friendly thought.

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dollop | Jul 30, 2009
What are you, the Dixie Mafia Rep. of Alpine? Haha! LOL! Do you think
I can't comprehend what I have read about them and understand what a
bunch of thugs they are? Live in fear if that is your choice. It is
not mine. I do not fear them or anyone else, and never will. Also, I
think your thoughts are anything but friendly so I reject them.
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dollop
Jul 30, 2009
Not important wrote:
<quoted text>I was taught as a child that if i didn't want the dog ,to not rattle his chain.It is as good advice today as it was then.Also in the world we're living in today do you really think you're safe behind your keyboard.Let sleeping dogs lay,as you obviously have no earthly idea of what you've decided to tinker with .Choose flowers or pottery .Just a friendly thought.


Oops! The cat is out of the bag. Hold on while I put it back in. Wait, wait almost got it.... Darn! Just couldn't do it. LOL! Haha!
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chantam
Aug 1, 2009

dollop wrote:
I caught on to this as I was researching the violent attacks on Bufford Pusser. The attack upon him and his wife that resulted in her death was reportedly a contracted assasination performed by members of the Dixie Mafia. What I have read about the Dixie Mafia is so bad it makes the rest of the GANGSTER WORLD seem like charity workers!

I will post two links. The first refering to Buford Pusser (who took office at the age of 26, amazing!).
And the second with some info on the Dixie Mafia. it is a long read but very, very interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_Pusser
http://insider-magazine.com/inside_the_dixie_...
INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA
Politics of Death
Preference: The following true story is a glimpse into my life from the years 1966 through October 2004, a prelude to the in-depth book due out soon "Inside the Dixie Mafia"
By: John Caylor

the second link is eye opening.
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dollop
Nov 27, 2013
chantam wrote:
<quoted text> the second link is eye opening.


It is isn't it.
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dollop
Nov 27, 2013
The American Mafia In 2013

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:05
(Before It's News)

Many people I don't think realize that the mafia is still around and strong too. Many crime families across the country have gone defunct such as those in New Orleans, Dallas, Pittston, Seattle, Rochester, Denver and San Jose.

Others are just barely hanging like Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and still others are signifigantly smaller than they use to be like St.Louis, Cleveland and Chicago. But that doesnt mean they aren't still there and doing what they have always done.
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http://insider-magazine.com/inside_the_dixie_...
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Roudy The Second
Nov 28, 2013
dollop wrote:
The American Mafia In 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:05
(Before It's News)
Many people I don't think realize that the mafia is still around and strong too. Many crime families across the country have gone defunct such as those in New Orleans, Dallas, Pittston, Seattle, Rochester, Denver and San Jose.
Others are just barely hanging like Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and still others are signifigantly smaller than they use to be like St.Louis, Cleveland and Chicago. But that doesnt mean they aren't still there and doing what they have always done.
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http://insider-magazine.com/inside_the_dixie_...
All a person has to do is think a little to come to understand that the large amount of drugs that are being shipped into this country could not be done without help from government officials. The guys that get caught and go to prison are the ones who are operating on their own or not playing the game. It does not take a genius to figure out there has to be government involvement, local, state and federal. There is tons of money involved and money talks and moves things. If this article is true in every detail or not is hard to say ,but there is something to it that is true. Not much we as citizens are going to do about it, because by the time a politician works his way up to state or national office he/she is already bought. Drug money is in a lot of things that are legal but would not be profitable if not supported by drug money. The only way this will ever be stopped is make some drugs legal, but that will never happen , because the guys running it are not going to let it happen. Too much money in it and too many people involved that are sitting in key positions in government.
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Roudy The Second
Nov 28, 2013
The author of the above posted article is an interesting person. He has had a lot of difficulties with the law seemingly due to his investigations. Just Google John Caylor

http://www.google.com/url...
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dollop
Apr 13, 2014
Roudy The Second wrote:
<quoted text>All a person has to do is think a little to come to understand that the large amount of drugs that are being shipped into this country could not be done without help from government officials. The guys that get caught and go to prison are the ones who are operating on their own or not playing the game. It does not take a genius to figure out there has to be government involvement, local, state and federal. There is tons of money involved and money talks and moves things. If this article is true in every detail or not is hard to say ,but there is something to it that is true. Not much we as citizens are going to do about it, because by the time a politician works his way up to state or national office he/she is already bought. Drug money is in a lot of things that are legal but would not be profitable if not supported by drug money. The only way this will ever be stopped is make some drugs legal, but that will never happen , because the guys running it are not going to let it happen. Too much money in it and too many people involved that are sitting in key positions in government.


Yes, government is deep into the drug trade.
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Dixie Mafia
In Biloxi, Mississippi
Founded by Mike Gillich, Jr.
Years active late 1960s - present
Territory Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi
Ethnicity mostly white
Membership 100 +/-
Criminal activities fraud, illegal gambling, bribery, drug trafficking, burglary, robbery, theft, money laundering, murder, fencing
Allies American Mafia
The Dixie Mafia is a criminal organization based in Biloxi, Mississippi, and operated primarily in the Southern United States, in the 1970s. The group uses each member's talents in various crime categories to help move stolen merchandise, illegal alcohol, and illegal drugs. It is also particularly well-known for violence.

Early days

Beginning in the late 1960s, the Dixie Mafia began working as a loosely knit group of traveling criminals performing residential burglary, robbery and theft. The gang did not function with a set chain of command, but was led by whoever had the most money. Despite the informal structure, the Dixie Mafia had one rule that members were expected to obey: "Thou shall not snitch to the cops".

Unlike members of the Sicilian 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 make money and wield control over illegal moneymaking operations by any means, including influence peddling, bribery of public officials, and murder.

The gang became known for carrying out contract killings, particularly against former members. During its peak, from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, dozens of people were murdered (usually shot) by its members. Victims were most often murdered because they testified, or threatened to testify, against fellow members. One contract killer William Miller aka. "Blue Eyes" was said to have carried out many of the contract killings. This could never be proven due to lack of information or evidence. He disappeared and was thought to have settled down in Nashville.

"The Strip" in Biloxi, Mississippi, was home base for the Dixie Mafia, and Mike Gillich, Jr. was the group's unofficial but de facto kingpin. Of Croatian descent and from a large, poor family, he had raised himself in the city's Point Cadet section to become a wealthy entrepreneur along "The Strip". He owned a string of motels, a bingo parlor, and nightclubs that doubled as strip joints and gambling dens. He was known and trusted by almost every member of the Dixie Mafia, especially those who trusted no one else.

Mike 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 Ft. Smith, Arkansas. An old friend of his, Juanda Jones, ran a bordello there, and Nix became involved with Jones' adolescent daughter, Sheri LaRa. In later years, she would play a key role in his operations, including direct ties to the murders of Circuit Court Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife, Margaret, a former Biloxi councilwoman and mayoral candidate.

Edward Humes, in his 1994 book, Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, chronicled the Sherry murders, and the subsequent investigation of Gillich, Kirksey Nix, Bobby Fabian and others that were involved either loosely or actively in the murders. Bobby Fabian began cooperating with the FBI on the Sherry murders and was pleading with any law enforcement officials to move him out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) because he felt he would be murdered. Fabian was transferred out of Angola but not a moment too soon as Dixie Mafia member (Florida Boss) Jeffery Carter had managed to be assigned to Camp-D within the penitentiary, exactly where Fabian was being housed.

LSP security obtained information from a confidential informant that Jeffery Carter was armed with a knife and that Carter was going to kill Fabian on the prison yard. Angola security immediately reacted to the information and actually spotted Jeffery Carter walking towards Bobby Fabian at which time a correctional officer ran up on Carter who was only 50 yards from Bobby Fabian and took control of Carter. Upon searching Jeffery Carter, correctional officers found a Buck knife in the open position on Carter's person.

With the aid of his father's connections in neighboring Oklahoma, Kirksey Nix beat the weapons charges in Ft. Smith and moved on to other crimes. He was suspected in the gangland-style murder of a gambler named Harry Bennett, who was about to turn state's evidence against several Dixie Mafia members. Although Nix's involvement in Bennett's murder was never proven, this incident precipitated a string of killings that left twenty-five people dead in six states over the next four years.

Nix was a suspect in the attempted assassination of McNairy County, Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser, and in the murder of Pusser's wife. Nix was also convicted of murdering wealthy New Orleans grocery owner Frank Corso. At the time of the murder, Kirksey Nix was believed to be employed by Darrel Ward in Clarksville, Texas. Mr. Ward was a noted associate of syndicate boss Sam "Momo" Giancana and is thought to have controlled organized crime and bootlegging throughout Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. The Dixie Mafia was strongly connected to the State Line Mob and its leader Carl Douglas "Towhead" White.

Dixie Mafia's locales

The Dixie Mafia's origins were in the Appalachian states. The group operated in many large Southern cities and some of the group's criminal activities were in more obscure parts of their major areas of operation, making the group and their activities harder to pinpoint.

The Dixie Mafia committed most of their crimes in areas that lacked strong, coordinated law enforcement, particularly in small communities throughout the South. In doing so, murders, intimidation, or other criminal activities could take place with less risk of local law enforcement being able to directly link the crimes to the organization. Small town and county law enforcement agencies, especially in poorer sections of the South up to the 1990s, were usually inadequately equipped, and rarely had officers with extensive experience in the investigation of homicide or organized crime.

The members of the Dixie Mafia usually created small, seemingly legitimate, businesses such as buying and selling junk or antiques. These businesses would provide fronts for the operators to buy and sell stolen items provided by others within the network. The businesses would usually operate until they aroused suspicion, then move to another location.

Many members of the Dixie Mafia were former state or federal prisoners. Members were usually recruited while in prison; a history of violent behavior was generally a prerequisite to becoming a member. According to an article in the Las Vegas Review Journal, the gang was well-known for its violence in collecting debts owed to gambling houses and strip clubs.

The terms "Dixie Mafia" and "Southern Mafia" have been used interchangeably. Documented use of the two terms existed as early as 1993, when Scarfone wrote about the "Dixie Mafia" or the "Southern Mafia" working together with the "Italian Mafia" in the South. His accounts of the "Good Ol' Boy's Southern-Mafia" in Parts 3 and 4 of the article describe the group's indigenous nature. It is unclear whether or not all journalistic and literary references to the "Dixie Mafia" and the "Southern Mafia" refer to the same group of individuals. Therefore, these terms have become terms of general reference to any illegal enterprise in the Southern states that, for cultural reasons, can expect a certain amount of support, both intended and unintended, from the local population

Dixie Mafia at the Louisiana State Penitentiary

Louisiana State Penitentiary is home to many Dixie Mafia members. Most have life sentences without any chance of parole. Some mafia members have served a lengthy prison sentence and have been released from prison. One such Dixie Mafia member who is suspected of numerous murders around the United States (and Mexico) is Jeffery Carter. Jeffery Carter served a 20-year sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) for the death and sexual assault of a New Orleans prostitute. Carter has since been released from custody and resides in or near Hamilton County, Florida. Jeffery Carter was also on New Orleans Police radar in the murder of New Orleans bar owner Eugene Davis. Mr. Davis and Mr. Carter visited the 1984 World's fair together on May 30, 1984 of which was the last night of Eugene Davis' life. Mr. Davis was found beaten to death in his French Quarter residence just a block away from his French Quarter bar.

Eugene Davis was questioned about possible ties to Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination. Jeffery Carter is suspected to be the Florida boss of the mafia, taking orders only from members behind bars in Angola, Louisiana (Peter Mule) and Marion, Illinois (Kirksey Nix). Shortly after Jeffery Carter's release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Federal authorities were involved in an airplane chase over the Gulf of Mexico after authorities spotted a low flying Piper Cub flying at full speed just a few hundred yards off shore. The pilot of this aircraft ignored the Federal authorities attempt to communicate. The pilot made a dangerous belly landing just yards away from the shore and was seen swimming to shore by authorities using infrared night vision. Despite all efforts to have law enforcement on the ground to locate this pilot, the pilot was never caught. The airplane was later determined to be stolen, and there was nothing illegal on board. However, law enforcement authorities believe that this low flying pilot was Dixie Mafia member Jeffery Carter. There was never enough evidence to arrest Carter as the pilot.

A 2011 NPR report claimed some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.




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Amazon.com: Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia (9780671535056): Edward Humes: Books

covedweller...I've read it. I was given the book by a friend when I mentioned the corruption. It's frightening. And the Dixie Mafia is still alive and well and infiltrates more places than people can imagine.

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