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In 1972, 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. [1] [2] Nix was later convicted for involvement in the 1987 murder-for-hire killing of Judge Vincent Sherry and city councilwoman Margaret Sherry, spouses, in Biloxi, Mississippi. [3]
A former boss of the Dixie Mafia who ordered the murders of a circuit court judge and his wife in 1987 and who was suspected in the 1967 shooting which killed the wife of Sheriff Buford Pusser...
Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. was a 44-year-old inmate serving life without parole at Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana when he ordered the murders of Mississippi Coast Circuit Court Judge...
Ringleader Kirksey McCord Nix—a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without parole—believed that if he raised enough money he could buy his way out of jail.
Unbeknownst to authorities, Dixie Mafia leader Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. was orchestrating an elaborate extortion scheme from behind bars. At the time, Nix was already serving a life sentence for a 1972 murder (unrelated to the death of Buford Pusser’s wife).
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.
After he was released from the hospital, he was able to name the four alleged assassins, most notably identifying Dixie Mafia leader Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. as the mastermind who had orchestrated the deadly ambush.
