State Line Mob

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The State Line Mob operated in the 1950's and 1960's at the Mississippi-Tennessee state line in Alcorn County, Mississippi and McNairy County, Tennessee along U.S. Highway 45. The State Line Mob were criminals enterprised in bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, tourist fleecing, robbery, and murder. Many of the prestige members came from Phenix City, Alabama after martial law was called and the U.S. Army cleaned the city up and rid the city, which also sat on a state line (Alabama-Georgia).

The State Line Mob owned and operated motels, restaurants, and clubs at the Mississippi-Tennessee state line. The establishments were centers for every form of vice. Establishments such as motels, restaurants, and truckstops were also operated in the southern portion of Alcorn County, just south of Corinth, Mississippi. The establishments help bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal moonshine and taxed whiskey.

The establishments were owned and operated by Jack and Louise Hathcock, Carl Douglas "Towhead" White, W.O. Hathcock.