Former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser talks about his life on Aug. 1, 1973, ahead of the six-year anniversary of having his jaw shot off and his wife killed in a dawn ambush on Aug. 12.

Buford Pusser's life became a national story in 1971 when "The 12th of August," a book by W.R. Morris, was published. The gravesites, the Pusser home, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of “Walking Tall” Sheriff Buford Pusser, was exhumed from an Adamsville, Tenn. cemetery Thursday following a recent tip to authorities.

Buford Pusser was a basketball star at Adamsville High School in the mid-1950s. At 6-foot-6, he played center, and averaged a tick under 20 points per game.

Famed Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser died more than 50 years ago, but his daughter carried on the legacy before she died in 2018. Now the torch has been passed to the next generation.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of “Walking Tall” Sheriff Buford Pusser, was exhumed from an Adamsville, Tenn. cemetery Thursday following a recent tip to authorities.

SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - Officers and constables from all over West Tennessee met at the McNairy County Fairgrounds on Thursday to honor the legacy of Buford Pusser. The Jackson Sun reports (https ...

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Pauline Pusser has been dead for 56 years without a suspect in the case. On Thursday, authorities exhumed her body, the wife of hard-charging sheriff Buford Pusser, who became known as a folk hero ...

A famous cold case is drawing nationwide attention once again after the body of a woman murdered more than 50 years ago was exhumed this week.

The woman standing outside the house at 342 Pusser St. recites her story in the brisk, rehearsed voice of a tour guide. ”My mother was killed when I was 6, my father when I was 13. I was ...

Pauline Pusser was killed 56 years ago in what authorities believe was an ambush meant to kill her husband, then-McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser.