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The movie Walking Tall tells the Hollywood version of the real-life story of Sherriff Buford Pusser’s war with the Dixie Mafia. A two-hour film cannot possibly explain the entire story, nor can it relate the stories of all the secondary characters. Unfortunately, the story of murder, betrayal, and cover-ups didn’t end with the death of Sherriff Pusser. I will try to relate this massive tale to you, but it may take more than one post.
The Dixie Mafia was known as the State Line Mob and was led by Carl Douglas “Towhead” White and Louise Hathcock. White was in prison when his lover, Louise Hathcock pulled a gun on Sherriff Pusser and was killed. Upon hearing the news, White called his friend Kirksey Nix, Jr and ordered the hit on Sherriff Pusser and his wife, Pauline.
August 12,
Sherriff Pusser received a disturbance call in the wee hours before dawn. Pauline Pusser decided to ride along with her husband as she had done on many occasions. The pair drove out to New Hope Road to check it out. The disturbance was a ruse to ambush the young sheriff and his wife.
Pusser
Biloxi Confidential
During his interactions with the FBI, Broussard learned that the agency was investigating a strange — and lucrative — scam that was operating out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. Bogus want ads were being placed in U.S. and Canadian publications appealing to lonely men and women seeking partners. Most of the ads, however, were for men seeking other men. Thousands of dollars were being bilked from straight women and gay men in a scheme that tied together an intricate network of convicts, complicit prison guards, runners ("road dogs" in the prison lexicon), and other individuals on the outside of the prison — including the receivers of the money who were laundering it through rapidly swelling bank accounts.
Louisiana State Penitentiary gate
The scam worked roughly like this: ads would be placed in the "personals" sections of widely read newspapers, purportedly by individuals seeking companionship — most often men seeking other men. When responses came in, letters would be sent to the respondents requesting money. The letters would usually include a photo of an attractive man which the letter claimed to be of t
Kirksey Nix
American mobster
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Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. (born ) is the former boss of the Dixie Mafia.
He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford's wife on August 12, Nix has repeatedly refused to comment about Pusser's claims that he was one of his wife's killers.
In , Nix was convicted of murdering Frank Corso, a New Orleans grocery executive, in a break-in at Corso's home, and began serving a life sentence without parole.
Nix was later convicted for involvement in the murder-for-hire killing of Judge Vincent Sherry and city councilwoman Margaret Sherry, spouses, in Biloxi, Mississippi. As described by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:
While serving a life sentence for murder at Angola State Penitentiary, Nix built a criminal empire from which he hoped to earn enough money to buy his way out of prison. Although he dabbled in insurance fraud and drug dealing, Nix's primary money-making scheme was a "lonely hearts" scam designed to defraud homosexual men. Nix and his prison sy
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They killed his wife and took his face. Now he was out for blood. Someone would have to pay for the death of Pauline Pusser. Hollywood loves the tale of a vigilante seeking justice, but the facts don&#;t line up with &#;Walking Tall.&#;
After the ambush on New Hope Road on August 12, , Sheriff Buford Pusser supposedly named four suspects in the death of his wife, Pauline. When asked again while being wheeled out of surgery, he wearily replied that he didn&#;t know who shot them. Carl Douglas &#;Towhead&#; White was apparently the man who ordered the hit from prison and his friend Kirksey Nix, Jr. was the one to carry out the hit. The names Carmine Raymond Gagliardi, Gary Elbert McDaniel, and George Albert McGann were also mentioned.
Legend says the officer went rogue and got revenge on everyone who killed his wife except for Kirksey Nix.
Hollywood loves to spin tails, and this one is no exception. Keep this in mind if you watch the various versions of &#;Walking Tall.&#; There is so much fiction woven into the stories that minimal facts remain. Buford Pusser was a sheriff, and Pauline his wife was killed. All of this happened along the stat
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