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For many Tennesseans growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, and especially those in McNairy County, Sheriff Bufford Pusser was a ...
Sheriff Buford Pusser's fame reached beyond McNairy County in the 1960s and 70s. In fact, he ran in the same circles as Elvis ...
Pauline Pusser was killed, she was out on a service call with her sheriff husband when the killers ambushed the car.
ADAMSVILLE, Tenn. — The annual Sheriff Buford Pusser Festival in Adamsville kicks off in McNairy county Friday. The event is ...
Something didn't seem right to him. It's about 20 miles from former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser's house to the spot, or spots, where his wife, Pauline was shot in rural West Tennessee.
McNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Buford Pusser is arguably the most famous sheriff Tennessee’s ever seen. He died in 1974, and all these decades later, his hometown still honors him. Like so ...
TBI turned over Pauline Pusser's autopsy results to DA weeks ago Buford Pusser has been the subject of books, movies and websites including "Walking Tall" films of 1973 and 2004 What was the cause ...
State authorities dug up the body of Pauline Pusser, wife of famed McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, in search of an answer to a 56-year-old question — who killed her? A tip led the ...
Authorities have exhumed the body of the wife of a famed former Tennessee sheriff more than a half-century after she was fatally shot in a still-unsolved killing. Officials said the unexpected ...
The Texan also was memorable in 'Junior Bonner' and 'Charley Varrick' and as two different characters — one good guy, one bad ...