"If you owned or did business with a bank in a small south Georgia town, and it got robbed or burgled, I probably did it.” So Willie Foster Sellers could say with complete accuracy.
A Surrency, Georgia, farm boy, Sellers and his Dixie Mafia cohorts sparked a crime wave in the old Confederacy during the late 1950s that lasted through the mid-1970s and netted them an estimated $8 million in ill-gotten loot.
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Details of Sellers’ colorful, unlawful life are described in “Dixie Mafia Gangster: the Audacious Criminal Career of Willie Foster Sellers.” The book is now on sale.
The author is Dr. Max Courson who, like Sellers, grew up in Appling County. The two collaborated by mail for years because Sellers was an inmate at one of several Texas state prisons. Courson also visited Sellers at the Lubbock prison facility. |
