MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Investigators have implicated him in the death of his wife, but support from some for the larger-than-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser remains strong. The Sheriff ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He drove the murder route. Mike Elam scanned the bushes along the sides of the road where killers could have laid in wait.

Pauline Pusser was shot and killed in an ambush more than 56 years ago when she was driving with her husband, who was the McNairy County sheriff, officials said. Screengrab from the Sheriff Buford ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pauline Pusser was the wife of a sheriff, so her chores were a bit unusual. She cooked meals for prisoners and cleaned the ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has concluded that former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser likely killed his wife, Pauline, in 1967. New evidence contradicts Pusser's account of the ...

Sheriff Buford Pusser home and museum in Adamsville, Tennessee. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia) No one made a conscious decision to designate McNairy County, Tennessee, the center of the Buford Pusser ...

A sheriff whose crusade against corruption inspired a string of Hollywood films is now suspected by Tennessee authorities of killing his wife before 1973’s “Walking Tall” was released, in a dramatic ...

Pauline Pusser was shot to death Aug. 12, 1967. Sheriff Buford Pusser was made famous by 'Walking Tall' movies in 1973 and 2004. TBI announced it is 'more likely than not' that Buford Pusser killed ...

He drove the murder route. Mike Elam scanned the bushes along the sides of the road where killers could have laid in wait. Something didn't seem right to him. It's about 20 miles from former McNairy ...

Pauline Pusser was the wife of a sheriff, so her chores were a bit unusual. She cooked meals for prisoners and cleaned the jailhouse between raising her children and sending Christmas cards. But on ...