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 ...
When Buford Pusser’s wife was killed, his story was turned into the 1973 movie ‘Walking Tall.’ But a new report from ...
Did a legendary pro wrestler turned sheriff, who inspired the movie Walking Tall, murder his wife? That’s the conclusion that ...
MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. -- 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 ...
Buford Pusser served as sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, during the early 1960s, a region dominated by gambling, ...
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 ...