Murder. Heists. Extortion. Bootlegging. Gambling rings. A loosely knit group commanded by whoever had the most money. One rule all were expected to obey: “Thou shalt not snitch to the cops.” You may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dixie Mafia kingpin who orchestrated the murders of a prominent Biloxi couple over 36 years ago is asking for compassionate ...

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 ...

BOONE, N.C. — A 50-year-old triple-murder case involving the deaths of a Watauga County family has been solved, according to the sheriff’s office. In February 1972, Bryce Durham, 51, his wife Virginia ...

On a spring day in 1971, a shackled Kirksey Nix walked into a Louisiana courtroom with a bullet lodged in his side. Then 28, he was accused of being one of three armed intruders who forced their way ...

Murder. Heists. Extortion. Bootlegging. Gambling rings. A loosely knit group commanded by whoever had the most money. One rule all were expected to obey: “Thou shalt not snitch to the cops.” You may ...

While the myriad of crime dramas that have come and gone over the decades of film and television have made us well aware of many different real-life crime organizations, that doesn't mean that there ...

Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow-Award winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the early sixties, a rag-tag confederation of traveling criminals known as ...

On a spring day in 1971, a shackled Kirksey Nix walked into a Louisiana courtroom with a bullet lodged in his side. Then 28, he was accused of being one of three armed intruders who forced their way ...

Story of 'Walking Tall fame' Buford Pusser, and how he was willing to take on the Dixie Mafia from his daughter, Dwana. After the passing of Prohibition in 1919, whiskey-making in the hills and ...

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 ...