Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Zone 7: Trafficked at 14 by the Dixie Mafia - Tina Dixon’s Survival Story

Episode Date: August 30, 2026

Sheryl McCollum is joined by human trafficking survivor and advocate Tina Dixon, who ran away as a young teenager before being trafficked through the Dixie Mafia’s network of brothels and organized prostitution across the South. Together, they discuss the grooming, manipulation, violence, and addiction traffickers use to control their victims and how organized trafficking operations adapt to changing technology as recruitment expands through social media and other online platforms. Tina also explains what finally helped her break free after decades of exploitation and why she has made it her mission to help others escape trafficking and rebuild their lives. Highlights: (0:00) Sheryl explains the Dixie Mafia’s ties to human trafficking and the importance of understanding victimology in investigations (2:00) Why investigators distinguish between different forms of commercial sexual exploitation and how those differences shape an investigation (3:45) Tina runs away at 14, arrives on Bourbon Street, and becomes involved with an outlaw motorcycle club (8:30) The differences between a “Cassanova pimp” and a “gorilla pimp” and how traffickers use manipulation before violence (10:15) Inside Louisiana's prostitution “circuit” of roadside bars, gambling rooms, and brothels hidden throughout the bayous (11:45) How traffickers groom children online using social media, emotional manipulation, and false promises (15:00) Childhood abuse, addiction, and the vulnerabilities traffickers intentionally exploit (17:15) Inside a rural brothel: how victims are trained, controlled, and punished (23:15) Why traffickers profit while victims are left with addiction, trauma, and nothing to show for years of exploitation (24:15) How online predators continue using the same grooming tactics to recruit children today (26:45) The confrontation that led to Tina being shot twice (30:00) Why Destiny House, Hookers for Jesus, and EMDR finally succeeded after 17 rehab attempts Enjoying Zone 7? Leave a rating and review where you listen to podcasts. Your feedback helps others find the show and supports the mission to educate, engage, and inspire. --- Tina Dixon is the founder and executive director of Queens Arise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping survivors of human trafficking build independent futures through education, career training, mentorship, and long-term recovery support. After surviving decades of trafficking herself, Tina now helps survivors create lasting stability while advocating for survivor-led solutions. Learn more about Tina and sign up for updates on her upcoming memoir, Going to the Country: https://queensarise.org/tina-dixon/ Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an active crime scene investigator for a metro Atlanta police department and the director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, which partners with colleges and universities nationwide. With more than four decades of experience, she has worked on thousands of cold cases using her investigative system, The Last 24/361, which integrates evidence, media, and advanced forensic testing. Her work on high-profile cases, including The Boston Strangler, Natalie Holloway, Tupac Shakur and the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching, led to her Emmy Award for CSI: Atlanta and induction into the National Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in 2023. Social Links: Email: [e-mail] X: @ColdCaseTips Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum Instagram: @officialzone7podcast● TikTok: @Sheryl.McCollum Sheryl’s new book, Swans Don’t Swim in a Sewer: Solving the Cold Case of the Flint River Killer’s Daughter, is available now wherever books are sold.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Most people don't know a lot about the Dixie Mafia, especially as it relates to human trafficking. So the Dixie Mafia, aka Southern Mob, aka corn bread, kosanotra, listen y'all, we got somebody tonight that's going to help us not only understand it at a level that we have not had on this show yet, but a deeply personal level,

which I respect so much that anybody is willing to come to come talk to us and just pull that curtain back and expose their private life. You know, I've worked Dixie Mafia cases and cases that had Dixie Mafia ties. Pauline Pussell, the cold case out of Tennessee. I've worked with Billy Burke on some of his dad's crimes in Georgia. Mary Shotwell Little allegedly had some Dixie Mafia ties. And then my book, Swans Don't Swim in the Sewer, the murder of the Flint River Killer's daughter had some Dixie Mafia

ties throughout it. Tonight, I am thrilled to welcome Tina Dixon. Tina, how are you, honey? I am doing great. Thank you so much for having me. And I love when I'm talking with someone that has a similar accent, then it makes me...

Finally, somebody I can understand. I get it. Well, I tell you, your life, you know, it's hard to even know where to start, but I'm just going to jump right on into this thing. For everybody listening, Tina and I are going to talk grown tonight. And what's real important is when you hear me say, Hooker, I am not being disparaging. I'm being clear. I'm being accurate. Because in my world, in Tina's world, a hooker versus a call girl versus an escort versus somebody that's kidnapped, drug, and taken somewhere, those are four

very different victims. So to say sex trafficking, that doesn't tell me what I need to know about the victim. I need to understand the victim to understand the suspectology. A person that goes to a side road bar in deep Louisiana for 15 minutes with a 14-year-old girl is not the same person that's paying $10,000 a night at the plaza. So I want y'all to understand, I'm not going to say sex trafficked for the purposes of this show. And I just want that clear that Tina knows what I'm saying. I wanted y'all to know why I'm talking the way that I'm talking. Fair enough, Tina.

Fair enough. And I'm really glad that you mentioned that because, you know, at the end of the day, I run an organization for women that have been trafficked. And all of those girls, regardless of the circumstance that they're in, regardless of whether they're a call girl, whether they work the track, whether they are turning tricks for 15 minutes in a side room, the people that are exploiting them at the end of the day, they are sex traffickers. 100%.

100%. So, Tina, you are dancing at Big Daddy's on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, honey, in 1976-77. Tell us about that atmosphere, what in the world was going on. You know, you know, that was a really, really crazy time. And to clarify that, I was 14 years old. I had run away from home. My father was an outlaw biker.

My mother was a psychic. And I was from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And the closest place I could get in trouble was Berman Street. So I ran away to Bourbon Street. And I met another biker. Of course, I grew up around a biker household. So when I saw Harley Davison's, it was like a comfort zone for me. And I met this guy, and his name was Mickey.

And he was in the Galloping Goose's motorcycle club. And I became his old lady. And before you know it, he got me a fake ID, and I was dancing on Bourbon Street at Big Daddy's. All right. So you said just then something I've never heard anybody say quite this way. You said Bourbon Street was the closest place I could get in trouble. Well, Bourbon Street was definitely the place you could get in trouble.

There was a lot going there. At 14. Yes, at 14. Okay. So Mickey, how old was Mickey? Mickey was probably 38, 39. I don't, I can't really, I don't think we ever discussed ages because he sure didn't want to know my age. Yep.

I was very well endowed as a child, you know, it was just corn fed, basically. Yep. And I was really enthused. about the life of outlaw biker. And I had been, my mom was, you know, my dad was an outlaw biker. My mom had my daddy's eye. And I wanted that same thing from another man.

I was missing my daddy. And this man came along and he made me his old lady. And he threw me back on the back of his Harley. And he put me to work in the clubs with the other old ladies in the club. And I felt at home. I felt that, you know, I felt actually some kind of security there. Did you realize he was working you? Or did you really think, hey, this is our relationship.

I'm helping the family make money? No, that's exactly what I felt. I felt like I was helping. And actually, the way that they ran the game, they ran it down, was more about you were helping the club. You were helping the club survive. And we all pitched in. and he pitched in his money and he pitched in our money who became my money

because I don't think he ever had a job. It was definitely me the only one in the household working. But it was like I was a member, I was property of this club. Actually, I had a patch of a little bass that I wore that said property of the Gallup and Gooses. So again, you felt at home with that. So when you get into the next club, Funky Bud, What happens? Well, Funky Butts is a club is like a bar on Toulouse Street off of Bourbon Street.

It's about a block and a half off a bourbon street. And there was a time that, and usually Mickey would go out of town a lot. Those guys would go on a lot of runs with their brothers and they go out of town and do all kinds of, I don't know, drug deals or whatever they were doing. I know they were moving a lot of speed during that time. And when he would go out of town, I would be left to work. But typically, when he went out of town, I'd go find something to get in trouble with. And so one day, I was walking down off of Bourbon Street on Toulouse Street.

I walked by a funky butt, and there was this man that was sitting on the table. He had a three-piece suit on and a pistol sitting on the table. And I'm like, well, there he is. This is going to be my man. What did it for you? The three-piece suit or the pistol or the combination? The combination, he had that gangster brim on. He looked like he stepped out of a movie.

I got you. And I was, you know, and one of the things about that biker lifestyle is those guys were not really clean. And this guy was sharp and fresh. and he knew the right things to say. That's really how that really started. Sounds like a Casanova pimp. He was. He was definitely a Casanova pimp until he became a guerrilla pimp. Yep.

Now tell everybody what that means. So a Casanova pimp is somebody that is a pimp. He meets a girl and it's like a boyfriend, girlfriend type of situation. And he continues to manipulate her. her mind to let her know that what she's doing, she's doing it for them, that everything, they're trying to build a life together. They're going to have children and get married, and they just continue to build this dream.

A gorilla pimp is a pimp that uses force. He instills fear, and he uses force. And even though there are no, like, bars are any locked. he instills so much fear in you that you don't want to, that you're scared to leave. And so it's like a, it's like a mental prison of sorts. Did you think you were going to be in any danger from the galloping goose? Did you think this new man was going to be able to protect you from Mickey coming to look for you? I was not scared about that at all.

I knew that this guy was well connected. I had seen some of those guys around the quarter before. And I know that the Gallup and Goose's and the bikers in the community, they did business with these guys. But I didn't, I didn't, that thought didn't really cross my mind. And we left. He took me out of there really quickly. It wasn't long before we were on the road,

hitting different bar rooms in the back, in the back swamps of Louisiana, where he would gamble and he would introduce me to his friends, quote, quote. Okay. They call that the circuit? The circuit. Yeah, the circuit is pretty much this route, if you will, of these little beer joints that are way out in the swamps and they have a back room for poker and a back room for prostitution, that's as easy as I can say it. And he would go to these different bars and

there was a lot of drugs. We actually stayed traveling around these places for about three days during cocaine. I was done by the time that we got to his bar that was in Baton Rouge. Okay. You know, and just to let the listeners know, there's still a circuit. I mean, every pimp has one. and like Atlanta's having the FIFA right now. So there are people that are being brought here just for prostitution purposes. Any major sporting event, girls are going to be brought there. So this is not something unusual that she's talking about. It's not something that went away, you know, in the 50s or the 70s or the 90s.

It's active right now. So it's important that what Tina's describing, whether it's backroom, bars in Louisiana or major sporting events, it's still a circuit. That's absolutely true. And the thing about these days and what we fight against so hard is this online situation where our predators are online now and they're in our daughter's bedrooms talking, doing this Casanova pimp, you know, like your mom and your dad's not paying attention to you. your dad's too strict, there's some abuse going on, you're being beat.

Well, come over here and I'm going to take care of you, and I'm not going to treat you like that, and we're going to do something together, and we're going to get married, and all of this stuff that they tell them, and they can do it from online and convince these young ladies to leave. And for you, I mean, you ran away at 11. So, I mean, you had said your dad is in a biker gang,

your mom is a psychic, but there had to be some abuse there. There had to be a reason for you to run at 11. Yeah, there definitely was some abuse. I was sexually molested by one of my father's motorcycle guys when I was seven years old, and that continued for about three years. He was our babysitter when he was what they call a prospect. So he's prospecting for the club. Yeah, he's trying to get in the game.

He was trying to get in the game. And so they do various jobs, and one of his jobs was babysitting. And during this time that he babysitted me, he wouldn't molest me. I am so sorry. 11 years old. That wasn't a leap to think something really traumatic had happened to you. So you are now in a bar. There's a bar owner named Flop.

Do you know he's Dixie Mafia, or connected or what's going on now? Yeah, I don't know that he's connected at that time. But we do, we do leave. And so two, three, one on that, flop was actually his name. Oh, okay. I wouldn't have thought that. All right.

Yeah. But he brought me to his bar that he owned in Baton Rouge. And when he brought me to that bar, when he had a, wait, hold a minute. When he brought me to that bar, he took me to the back room. And in that back room, they had racks and racks of little dresses and little makeup kits. And everything a girl could need to go and stay, do a stitch, what they called a stint at the brothel that was on the circuit. You're learning to put together your hoe bag. Yes, exactly.

Learned to put together my hoe bag for sure. Okay. All right. and you're just so young. I mean, my mind is a little blown because you're not 19, you're not 17. You're not 16. I mean, you're so, I mean, you are a child

in every sense of the word, except now your experience. You're pretty freaking grown. Exactly, exactly. I had to grow up really, really fast. I still was a child in the sense that I craved love. and attention. And that's, that craving right there is what got me deep in the throes of being trafficked by

the Dixie Mafia. I tell people a lot, Tina, that I have never met a streetwalking prostitute that was not addicted to drugs, never in my career. There's usually a background so dark and so abusive that that is their escape. and I know that you started using cocaine. How old were you? Well, I started using cocaine. Actually, Flop, who was the guy that I ran off with initially.

He introduced me to cocaine that weekend. I had done pills prior to that on Bourbon Street, but the harder drugs was kept away from me. And I had a love affair with cocaine. You know, it's hard to look. back at that, but when you look back at it and you see how many years that you continue to fall into these situations with these bad men and with these men that want nothing but to exploit you, you do it a lot of times. They convince you and they and they manipulate you with those drugs.

And it's the very, it's like you said, it's like the very same drug that checks you out and makes you forget about everything these same men are doing to you. It's kind of like an oxymoron this goes in this continuous circle. Right. And it's another reason you can't save your money. Right. And that you can't leave because the supply is there. So tell us about the spot. There's a bell that gets wrong and what happens? So about the third day, Flop and I were traveling and we get to this place and he says, Daddy's going to leave you here now. And he's, and it's just like the strip club, you'll do fine. And we pull in and there's this big metal gate.

And they open the gate. We go in. And when we walk in, there's a desk. And when we walked into the door, this bell rang. And all the girls started coming from all these different places to line up. I guess they thought there was a customer coming and not us. So the girls dispersed, but one girl stayed there. was Becky. And we got to this desk and there was a man and one of those, I don't know if you

remember these or not, but the old men used to wear those cover-offs. And they were all in one jumpsuit. And this man, and he was smoking a cigar and he was sitting behind this desk. And he introduced me. And then he said, Daddy's going to leave you here right now. And I'll be back in 10 days made daddy some money. And that's the last thing he said. And then this guy read, his name was red. He introduced me to this tall blonde woman that was like just really mean looking. I'll never forget that. She was just really mean looking. And she took me by my arm and she said, I'm going to be your big sister. And I'm going to teach you what to do. And she took me to this room. And it was a bed in the room and it was a little sink on the side. And I couldn't like really understand what the sink,

why there was a sink in the bedroom. And then it made sense that that was to clean up the man and make sure he didn't have any diseases. And of course, she taught me all of that and taught me everything I needed to do to please a man in order to get paid and get out of there in 15 minutes. 15 minutes. That's exactly what they gave you, 15 minutes to. to take care of business with the guy and get on to the next guy. How many dates would you have a day? How long did you have to work? We worked about 12 hours a day from about 12 o'clock noon until, well, sometimes 14 hours, 2 o'clock in the morning.

Usually most places had to be closed by 2 o'clock in the morning. So we worked 12, 15, 14 hours. So I would say maybe about 8 to 10. dates a day. Once he said, I'm going to be back in 10 days. Did you know immediately what your new gig was, or did it take you walking into the room with just the bedroom and, I mean, the bed and the sink? That's actually, that's 100% of where it hit me. A hundred percent, I'm sitting on that bed and I look at the sink and finally it comes clear. And I realize exactly what I'm there for. So this is the first time you got beat. So what happened in that situation was I had been working in the clubs

for quite some time, so I liked to drink. In this particular place, they didn't let the girls drink, but I used to sneak the customer's drinks. And so one day, I got real rambunctious. I started getting in the man in red space. I told him, calling a cab, give me my money, I'm leaving here. And he said, no, you're not, you're on at 12, you better go get ready to go to work. And I kept on and I kept insisting that I wasn't, I wasn't going to work there anymore. I wanted to go home. And he took me to a room and he locked me in the room. And he called the pimp.

He called my trafficker. And when he got there, he grabbed me by my hair, dragged me out of the room. And they called all the girls to the parlor. and so that they can witness me getting beat. And, you know, and he used a clothes hanger in front of all the girls until, you know, I would submit, basically. I wouldn't worry about it until I wasn't talking about running away anymore. And again, for the folks listening, I mean, it's obvious why that happened that way.

That's how you control the rest of them. Because if they don't get in line and stay in line, that's going to happen to them. And again, this ain't nothing new. It's happening today. It's not something that they don't utilize. That's why we have pimps that beat the hooker right there on the street in front of God and country. They don't even care who's witness it. No, you're absolutely right.

You're absolutely right. And here's what's amazing to me. You're still so young. But you got a mouth on you, honey, and you have an attitude. And that doesn't completely go away coat hanger or no coat hanger. No, it does not go away. And I continue to get in trouble until the point that I had to run away from him and go find another guy because, and that was basically the story of my life, to be honest. I would go with one pimp. So after I met him, then there was this thing in my head that the only way that I was going to behave myself and do right is if I had a pimp. But then I get tired of that. control. So I'd go out and I'd use drugs and I'd run away and I'd take all the money and go get high. And my life would be in shambles because of the drugs. But in my mind, a pimp was the only person

that was going to solve that problem. A pimp was the only one that was going to have enough control over me to keep me from getting high and enable me to have the life that I always dreamed of. But it wasn't the life that I always dreamed of. And the end of the day, it was the life the money that I was giving him. And he was the one that got the benefits of that. Not me. My life, I didn't get a car in my name. I didn't get a house in my name.

I didn't get any stability. He got the stability on my back. 100%. And that's when you go with Jimmy Danos. I do. I leave him. So he had me working in the club. And I meet this guy, Jimmy Danos.

And he used to, he was, he was, was sweet on me. And he would come into the club and he would give me speed. And so I'd sneak it and I'd just do a little bit so nobody would know. And I, you know, I'd kind of hush, hush talk to him. And one day, he convinced me to leave. And so I left the club with Jimmy and he took me to his house and I found out that he was a drug dealer. He wasn't Dixie Moppy. He was a drug dealer. Um, And he was the devil. He was definitely the devil. Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

And that's why I think it's so important that if we're talking about it, where do I find these Johns? Where do we, you know, put the spotlight on them? Because the reality is some are on Wall Street. Some are at the fancy, you know, Fortune 50 companies. Some are your mechanic. Some may be a schoolteacher. Some may be a preacher.

But where you find them is not, you're not. necessarily going to be the same place. Exactly. Exactly. And some of them are going to be coming into your home on your daughter's computer while she's locked in her room doing homework. No doubt. No doubt. And I always say this. There ain't no such thing as a part-time serial killer. And there ain't no such thing as a part-time child molester.

And we're talking about that specifically too on these computers. That's what Tina's telling y'all. They know how to do it. They know how to finesse. They know what. to say to her. They do. And as soon as they think, well, this girl's not getting the attention, I'm going to tell her how beautiful she is. I'm going to tell her parents are holding her back.

She's not a baby. She's a grown woman. And I love her like a grown woman. And the next thing you know, she's running down the street meeting him and having no idea she's about to be five states away. Exactly. That recently happened in Louisiana. There was a 13-year-old girl.

that was talking to a guy on the computer and the mom had done everything she could to keep that child from being online. And she managed to wrangle a tablet somewhere and she started talking to this guy and she left him. They have pictures of her at the Baton Rouge bus station and they started looking for her

and they found her in Baltimore, Maryland in a case that he had, when they raided the house, he stuffed her in this case like this plastic tub, and that's where they found her at. And she had said that that's where they kept her in between, in between the times that she would have to service, you know, have sex with the various guys that would come to that apartment.

Good Lord. Good Lord. Yeah, more's got to be done. You hear stories like this, and they're not rare. They're not. It happens every day, all day, y'all. So remember I told y'all that Tina, got a mouth on her and, you know, once it gets going, she's like my best friend, Bay,

you know, when we worked together, you know, she would sometimes get on a roll and she'd push that envelope, whether it was to a supervisor or whoever. But here's what I want you to tell us. Tell us about you stopping and after hitchhiking. What happens to you? As I told you before, I was constantly on the run because typically if I got tired of being controlled, then if I got enough drugs in my system and I got tired of being controlled, I would take off. And this one particular time, I needed to get out of town. So I went to a truck stop to try to go back to California. And that would happen when you go to a truck stop.

Just like you say, there's the track, there's the stroll where the girls work. on, there's also truck stops where girls work at. And it's a whole another culture where girls work in prostitution. Y'all, they're called lot lizards. Go ahead, honey. Go ahead, honey. And so I had made some money there, and I go into, I go into, in a taxi, and a taxi generally knows where you can get some drugs at. So I was like, I need to get some drugs and took me to the project in San Antonio, Texas. I got in the projects and I bought some drugs and I got a little bit further back and attempted to use those drugs and it was not real drugs. It was fake drugs, which happens all the time. They sell you bad stuff. So I was, you know, real aggravated, pissed off. I left. I went

further deeper into there and I ended up getting some real drugs and some real drugs. And so real crack and I smoked the crack and I was leaving to go out of there and I saw the guy that sold me the bad drugs and because I have a mouth on me because I had had been drinking that night I started talking mess to him you're going to give me my money you're going to give me my money and all he could say was white girl you better get out of here white girl you better get out of here and I kept talking smack and kept telling me to go get out of here and before I know and he had pulled his pistol and shot me. He shot you twice.

And the craziest thing ever is I'm laying on the ground. And I talk about this when I share my recovery story. The true meaning of powerlessness is that night. When I'm laying on my back, I'm going into shock. And I have this crack in my mouth. And the only thing that I could think about was who had a pipe so I could get me one more hit. And y'all, let me tell you, she did turn her life around. She went to rehab 17 times.

17 times. And with the background that you have just heard, she started a nonprofit to help other victims. Freaking hero. Freaking hero is all I can tell you. You know, you know, what I really want to put across out there is that I didn't change my life until I was 48 years old. I was in that lifestyle, addicted to drugs, going in and out rehab, blowing my life up for years and years until finally, something finally snapped in me. And I went to a program. I went to a program in Las Vegas. And I had some real trauma therapy.

I had EMDR. And EMDR changed everything in me. Because really, I had. I had. I had really sure. I had. I had. PTSD from all the things that had happened to me. And so until I could address that PTSD, I was never going to be able to stay clean. And so now I have 13 years clean. And since 2013, I went into this one year program in Las Vegas called Destiny House, crazy organization called Hookers for Jesus. But what they what they mean by that is, they will be fissures of men. But she's a market, Annie LaBere is a marketing genius.

I happen to say that. I'm going to tell you, hookers for genius would have stopped me in my tracks. I need the shirt. I need the bumper sticker. I love it. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yeah, 100%. And she had a program that was a lot different than the rehabs I had been into. It was, there was a house donated by somebody, it was an old rat pack house in Las Vegas. that was donated by somebody its daughter had been killed by her pimp. And he donated this house to Annie, and they called it Destiny House. And I was one of the first four girls there.

And it was the entire reason that I stayed because it was different. Now, it was strict. We weren't allowed, we weren't allowed but 10 people on our phone list. We only could watch Christian TV. but it was in this big, beautiful mansion with a swimming pool and tennis courts. And they took us out to dinner and to movies every weekend. And they really just kind of loved on us rather than pushing all this principle and theory on you. They worked on the trauma and the things that were wrong with us.

And when my trauma was addressed, it changed everything for me. Well, Tina, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you. your honesty, your realness, you're just wide open with it. I know how many people you're helping. And I appreciate what you're doing every single day. Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much. And, you know, I'm in the process of writing my book.

It's called Going to the Country. The name that I chose going to the country is exactly what my pimp would say. before we would go to one of these spots that would, these brothels in the woods and in the byuse, say, come on, get ready. We're going to the country. And so the title of my book is going to the country. And there's a pre-launch lander that can be found on my website,

queensdm.org. And you can go and sign up and get information about when I released the book. Well, I will talk to you soon, and I appreciate you so much. All right. Well, thank you so much. I'm going to end Zone 7 the way I always do with a quote. Fake is all outdoors and you know that. Real, don't have to be proven, it reflects.

You can see the realness. Now run tell that. Don, Magic Wand, a former pimp. I'm Cheryl McCollum and this is Zone 7. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Thank you.