A 50-year-old triple homicide case has finally been closed, after a suspect's son provided clues that led investigators to the so-called Dixie Mafia, authorities say.
The homicides were reportedly connected to the Dixie Mafia, the group involved in dozens of violent crimes across the Southeast in the 1960s and 1970s.A 50-year-old triple homicide case has finally been closed, after a suspect's son provided clues that led investigators to the so-called Dixie Mafia, authorities said.
While participating in research for a book about Georgia crime at the White County Sheriff's Office, one of Billy Sunday Birt's sons, Shane Birt, claimed that during a prison visit his father"admitted to killing three people in the North Carolina mountains during a heavy snowstorm," the Watauga County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
"Davis claimed to have acted only as their getaway driver, and that it was the other three men that entered the house that night," the Watauga County Sheriff's Office said."It remains unclear who solicited the crime against the Durham family."In this booking photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections, Billy Wayne Davis is shown.
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