Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buford Pusser should have been on top of the world. By Aug. 20, 1974, he was the most famous sheriff in America, all because of ...

One of many photos of Buford Pusser on display at the Buford Pusser Home & Museum.Ray Di Pietro for BI Pauline Pusser was the wife of a sheriff, so her chores were a bit unusual. She cooked meals for ...

Dennis Hathcock never believed the legend of Sheriff Buford Pusser – not for a second, he said. In southwest Tennessee’s McNairy County, where he’s lived all his life, many hail the sheriff as a folk ...

SOMERVILLE, Tenn. — New evidence points to the “Walking Tall” Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 58-year-old murder case of his wife in West Tennessee. A press conference regarding the new ...

A late Tennessee sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about a law enforcement officer who took on organized crime killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies, ...

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A press conference on Friday may have forever shattered the image of a lawman thought incorruptible, whose ruthless war on violent Tennessee moonshiners was believed to have cost him his wife, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...