Product Details

• Actors: Paul Winfield, Keith David, Marc Wanamaker
• Writers: Alan Gratz
• Producers: Brian O'Connor, David Lane, David Madison, David Wallach, Elizabeth Gibson
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767015223
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #394,675 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Biloxi, on the Gulf Coast of Missisippi, is a city with a long history of scandal and corruption. But it is also a city with deep roots in southern gentility. Vincent Sherry and his partner Pete Halat ran one of Biloxi’s top criminal defense law firms until Sherry eventually became a judge. Vince's wife Margaret was a woman on a crusade to clean up Biloxi and had even campaigned unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor. Vince also had connections through his law practice with many of Biloxi's criminal element, men like Mike Gillich, the godfather of the Dixie Mafia, and Kirksey Nix, Jr. a criminal mastermind serving a life sentence in Angola prison for murder. On the night of September 14, 1987 a man entered the Sherry home in the historic Ancient Oaks neighborhood with a silenced .22 Ruger pistol. 9 rounds later, the Sherrys were dead. No one heard or saw anything - it was the perfect execution. But who had wanted the Sherrys dead? And why? Their eldest daughter, Lynne Sposito was determined to find out. Lynne finally helped uncover a million dollar telephone scam run from behind the bars of Angola. It was a scam masterminded by Kirksey Nix, and perpetrated with the help of Vincent Sherry's partner, and the eventual mayor of Biloxi, Pete Halat. It was a scam whose concealment led to the murder of Lynne's parents. It wasn't until 1997 that new evidence brought a second set of convictions. This time, Pete Halat received a sizable prison sentence. Ten years after her parents' murders, Lynne finally saw the killers brought to justice.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Episode, January 31, 2010

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Hercule Poirot (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: City Confidential - Deadly Odds In Biloxi [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of my favorite espisodes. If a organzied crime syndicate did not exists, you still have an organized one in the form of the casinos with the assistance of the city government ripping off the poor officers, sergeants, and airmen at the nearby Air Force base. If there was not a government installation next to the city, the casino would have gone belly up because there was no steady stream of customers. Amazing how people say that they don't need government assistance; however, in reality, they take it anyway they can legally and illegaly.

5.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Look, January 21, 2007

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Charles R. Rutherford "redneck historian" (Dixon, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: City Confidential - Deadly Odds In Biloxi [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An interesting look into a unique culture in America,and a in-depth look into the Dixie mafia.