When investigators from the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office visited Davis, he “implicated Birt, Gaddis and Reed as engaging in a hired ‘hit’ in the North Carolina mountains, one where they almost got caught during a bad snowstorm.”ĭetectives interviewed Davis in 2019, 20. 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 Southeast in the 1960s and 70s,” the release said.ĭavis, 81, is the only surviving member of the quartet and is serving a life sentence for a 1971 murder in a prison in Augusta, Georgia, according to prison records.
The men responsible for the killings were identified as Billy Sunday Birt, Bobby Gene Gaddis, Charles David Reed and Billy Wayne Davis, according to the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office release. Nearly 58 years later, police solve cold case murder of 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl Marise Ann Chiverella Pennsylvania State Police The son said his father had told him about taking part in “killing three people in the North Carolina mountains during a heavy snowstorm,” the Watauga sheriff’s news release says.Īccording to Birt, his father said the group had almost got caught.Īfter the revelation, the White County Sheriff’s Office contacted the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office with the new information. In 2019, Shane Birt was at the White County Sheriff’s Office in northern Georgia being interviewed for a book about crimes in the state when he related a story his father had told him during a prison visit.īirt said he shared a close bond with his father, Billy Sunday Birt, who died in prison in 2017 while serving a sentence for murder. The case remained unsolved for nearly five decades, but based on interviews with the son of an infamous killer in Georgia, authorities now believe Bryce Durham, 51, Virginia Durham, 44, and Bobby Durham, 18, were killed by “Dixie Mafia” hit men. In February 1972, a man and his wife went with a neighbor to check on her parents and brother in Boone during a snowstorm when they found the three victims “brutally murdered,” according to a news release this week from the sheriff’s office. A triple homicide committed 50 years ago has been solved after the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina received information revealed by a Georgia inmate during a visit with his son.
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