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.

Buford Pusser rose to fame in the 1960s for his no-nonsense, hard-charging approach to cleaning up McNairy County of rampant criminals. His life inspired four Hollywood adaptations, the first ...

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.

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'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, and the memorial marking Buford’s fatal car crash ...

Buford Pusser spent six years as McNairy County sheriff beginning in 1964, and aimed to rid McNairy County of organized crime, from moonshiners to gamblers.

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.

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 ...

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.

Pauline Pusser was killed in McNairy County, Tennessee on Aug. 12, 1967. Pauline and her husband Sheriff Buford Pusser were reportedly together in a car on a "lonely country road" when gunshots ...

Buford Pusser, made famous by two Hollywood movies and several books about his life, said he and his wife Pauline were ambushed on Aug. 12, 1967, as they were driving to a disturbance call at 4:45 ...