Posted on 02/11/2024 7:56:38 AM PST by CFW
Unless the rot extended to the investigators themselves or enough O.C. pressure was applied to them to make the investigation go away unsolved.
Possibly a rifle that someone claimed was used turned up and someone figured to sell it and make some bucks from has been found and word got around. It is an open murder case and would be good PR if they could close the case and have the gun as well.
It is rumored that Pusser took matters into his own hands and hunted down and executed his wife’s killers, one by one.
One more tick mark in the murder solved column without having to incarcerate another minority.
Maybe they suspect Pusser may have set up the entire phony scenario, out on a lonely road in the early morning....and shot his wife to get reid of her, while making it appear that she was shot by non-existent attackers.
It is rumored that Pusser took matters into his own hands and hunted down and executed his wife’s killers, one by one.
Pusser survived several assassination attempts.[9] On February 1, 1966, Louise Hathcock attempted to kill Pusser during an on-site investigation of a robbery complaint at The Shamrock Motel. Hathcock fired on Pusser with a concealed .38 pistol. Pusser returned fire and killed Hathcock. On January 2, 1967, Pusser was shot three times by an unidentified gunman.[10]
While he was already a local hero, Pusser’s “war” on the State Line Mob was brought to national prominence when his wife, Pauline, was killed on August 12, 1967, during an assassination ambush intended for Pusser and instigated by Hathcock’s common-law husband. Pusser named Kirksey Nix as the contractor of his wife’s killers, although neither Nix nor anyone else was ever charged with the crime. Pusser shot and killed an intoxicated Charles Russell Hamilton on December 25, 1968, after responding to a complaint that Hamilton had threatened his landlord with a gun.[11]
maybe, depending on your point of view.
Maybe they want to determine if she was dead prior to the shooting.
mebbe they think they found the gun? want to see if there’s a bullet in her?
It was the usual office bet that had to be settled.
You think he shot himself 2 or 3 times in the face to make it look believable?
Pusser had met and approved actor Bo Svenson playing him for the sequel.
Pusser died on August 21, 1974, of injuries sustained in a one-car automobile accident four miles west of Adamsville.[15] Earlier that day, he had contracted with Bing Crosby Productions in Memphis to portray himself in the sequel to Walking Tall. That evening, returning home alone from the McNairy County Fair in his specially modified Corvette, Pusser struck an embankment at high speed that ejected him from the vehicle. The car caught fire and burned.[15]
According to this, he was going to portray himself.
1 time being shot in the face and surviving is very lucky. But a 2nd shot to the head...And then 3rd shot to the head and he survived? I find that a bit inquisitive...Yep.
Ot wasn’t
Bo Svenson did Walking Tall 2. Can’t remember if they made 3.
One more tick mark in the murder solved column without having to incarcerate another minority.
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Ah. That makes sense.
Seems ridiculous
Perhaps .
I don’t see it.
Yep and blew his face off for effect
If any new info leads to the murderer and he was still alive, wouldn’t he just be an elderly man with poor memory now and not be prosecuted?
You left out "sympathetic" and "well-meaning."
I’ve seen pics of this guy after the shooting event posing for pics with his Corvette. It certainly didn’t look like his face had been “Blown off”.
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