About this episode

Tina Dixon shares her harrowing experience of being trafficked by the Dixie Mafia and her journey to recovery.

In this episode of Zone 7 , 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…

People in this episode

Host: Sheryl McCollum

Guest: Tina Dixon

Topics covered

• human trafficking
• survivor stories
• Dixie Mafia
• victimology
• online grooming
• organized crime

Keywords

• human trafficking
• Dixie Mafia
• survivor
• grooming
• prostitution
• organized crime
• victimology
• social media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dixie Mafia

Places: Bourbon Street, Louisiana

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