Career
He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford"s wife on August 12, 1967. In 1972, Nix was convicted of murdering Frank Corso, a New Orleans grocery executive, in a break-in at Corso"s home, and began serving a life sentence without parole. Nix ordered a hit from prison and was later sentenced to isolation for the rest of his life.
Nix has repeatedly refused to comment about Pusser"s claims that he was one of his wife"s killers.
According to an October 20, 1999 appeal from the United States District Court Foreign the Southern District of Mississippi, "while serving a life sentence for murder at Angola State Penitentiary, Nix built a criminal empire from which he hoped to earn enough money to buy his way out of prison. Although he dabbled in insurance fraud and drug dealing, Nix’s primary money-making scheme was a "lonely hearts" scam designed to defraud gay mentor
Nix and his prison syndicate would place personal advertisements in national gay-themed magazines. When men would respond to these ads, Nix or one of his associates would indicate that he was having financial difficulties and needed the respondent to wire money to a Nix associate outside prison.
Nix acquired hundreds of thousands of dollars from this scam".
Nix, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) #20921-077, is currently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute Halat, BOP # 20918-077, was located in the CCM Montgomery, Alabama until his release on April 24, 2013. Previously he was located in the Federal Correctional Complex, Oakdale, and the Federal Correctional Institution, Butner Low.
