

Dixie and Tad reunited when Tad rescued her from crazy Billy Tuggle who had kidnapped her with plans to marry her. Looking for consolation, Tad shared a romantic tryst with his old friend Brooke, and his infidelity was rewarded with divorce papers.

Palmer paid someone to say she had slept with Tad, causing Dixie to leave him. Tad, who had feelings for Dixie, rescued her and helped her keep her son.ĭixie divorced Adam and married Tad, hoping to finally be happy, but her uncle, Palmer, and Tad's birth mother, Opal joined forces to break the newlyweds apart. He tried to drive her insane, and even had her committed to a mental institution, in a selfish plan to gain sole custody of Adam Junior. When Brooke discovered the truth, she divorced Adam and he married Dixie. Tad Martin befriended Dixie to fulfill a job Brooke had hired him to do - to discover the paternity of Dixie's child. His plan worked, and he plotted to steal the baby boy from Dixie and raise him with Brooke as his mother. Adam believed that his wife was barren, so he seduced Dixie, hoping for an heir. Taking a job as Laura Cudahy's nanny, Dixie moved in with Brooke and Adam Chandler. Dixie took a job as his maid, but when he discovered that she was his niece, he would no longer allow her to hold such a lowly position. The man they knew as Pete had changed his name to Palmer Cortlandt, befitting his wealth and stature in the community.

Dixie Cooney came to Pine Valley with her brother, Will, in search of their uncle.
