Posted on 02/11/2024 7:56:38 AM PST by CFW
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed that it oversaw the exhumation of the body of Pauline Pusser on Thursday at Adamsville Cemetery. She was killed by incoming gunfire while in a car driven by her husband, McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, a figure whose legend was captured in the 1973 film “Walking Tall” starring Joe Don Baker and a 2004 remake starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Various sites in Adamsville continue to attract tourists interested in the sheriff’s legacy in west Tennessee.
A TBI statement said the agency received a new tip that led agents to find that there was never an autopsy performed on Pauline Pusser’s body.
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The Tennessean cited an Aug. 13, 1967, publication of its newspaper that says Pauline Pusser was killed and her husband was “seriously wounded in the jaw when Pusser’s prowl car was fired on at dawn on a lonely country road.”
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Investigators found 14 spent 30-caliber cartridges on the road where Pusser said the shooting occurred about three miles from the state line, according to The Tennessean. The Pusser car was hit 11 times.
In the archived news article, The Tennessean quoted an investigator who said they believed the couple had driven into a trap.
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“prowl car”??
They need an autopsy to prove she was hit with the bullets that hit her husband? Isn’t it obvious without an autopsy? The Dick Tracey’s involved in this “investigation” probably weren’t even born when the crime took place. The only bearing that has might be that they just are satisfying some bizarre interest.
The meaning of PROWL CAR is squad car ... prowl car. noun. : squad car. Word History. First Known Use. 1937
I remember seeing it on screen, and for me, back then, I thought it pretty gory.
The view now among most homicide detectives and prosecutors is that there is a valid public purpose in genuinely solving homicide cases even if no one can be charged. If nothing else, it permits them to tell suspects and the families of victims that a homicide case will not be closed until it is solved.
That explains a lot.
The M1 would not be my choice but is certainly a possibility give the cheap availability of surplus weapons on the market at the time.
But the lack of penetration power through windows and car doors of the round would lead me to chose a different weapon for an assassination attempt at a moving car.
I was guessing 30-30 Winchester. Still not great but better than the M1 for penetration.
Two riflemen with the 30-30 could pump out 14 rounds.
Called using up funding.
Waste of manpower that could be better used in other areas.
Self important jerks hoping to get a book or better yet a segment on one of those tv crime dramas.
Shameful!
Since there was apparently no autopsy, the body has to be exhumed and examined for there to be a credible resolution of the case. Most likely, new forensic science is coming into play or someone has gotten talkative in their old age in order to unburden their conscience.
Bringing a murderer to Justice isn’ta waste of time. Maybe they have a suspect, a new witness, a gun they think was involved. And this was mafia.
Cool. Thanks. New one to me.
“M1 30 Cal Carbine?”
Nice gun isn’t it?
You must not be one of her relatives.
If the public is interested in the case, public officials will usually see that leads are is pursued. In most instances, the cost in manpower and other resources is minimal and there is no personal gain of any sort for the detectives.
Fame is a personal gain in thos internet age.
The public is only interested in what you tell them to be interested in.
This doesn’t make sense on many levels. Don’t all jurisdictions require a post mortem be performed for death by misadventure or unless under continuous physician care like hospice? Wouldn’t the investigating detectives attend the post mortem and it would figure large in their murder book on the case until solving it?
Yes… the murder was 11 rounds from an M1 carbine. And spent apparently there was a very good suspect. I’m thinking someone found a rifle tied to that guy or a witness has said something. There exhumation doesn’t seem random.
14 rounds that is. Someone dumped a whole mag. Wonder if it was modified full auto? Not much time as two cars were at speed on the highway.
Most detectives shun what you describe as fame. And around the world, the public tends to have an interest in old murder cases.
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