Birt died sometime overnight Thursday, according to his son, Billy Stonewall "Stoney" Birt.
Barrow County native Billy Sunday Birt, who was part of the notorious "Dixie Mafia" and was sentenced to life in state prison for the murders of three people, has died. Investigation of the Dixie Mafia's involvement in the killings of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dixie Mafia members Bobby Gaddis (left) and. Display my email on my public profile page.Four men with the Georgia-based Dixie Mafia have been pinned as the murderers in the slaying of a family of three in Boone, North Carolina in 1972. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. It is also particularly well known for violence.The men "were part of a loosely organized network known as the Georgia-based 'Dixie Mafia,' which is thought to have engaged in dozens of violent crimes in Georgia and elsewhere across the. The group uses each member's talents in various crime categories to help move stolen merchandise, illegal alcohol, and illegal drugs.
The Dixie Mafia is a criminal organization based in Biloxi, Mississippi, and operated primarily in the Southern United States, in the 1970s.
With the only witness dead, law enforcement in Covington was forced to drop the gypsy camp murder case, and Nix walked free from the Georgia penitentiary in Fall 1970 Dixie Mafia enforcer Stanley Cook shot dead in DallasCook himself would be shot dead in a nightclub parking lot in Dallas two years after his old friend Nix was freed.
He is said to have been involved in more than 50 murders during the 1960s and 1970s. He was convicted of the 1972 murder of his former associate and Winder resident Donald Chancey as well as the 1973 slayings of an elderly couple in Wrens. Billy Sunday Birt has died in prison: Birt was a member of the notorious Dixie Mafia.