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The Wife of a Famed Tennessee Sheriff Died in a 1967 Unsolved Shooting. Agents Just Exhumed Her Body
Epoch Times ^ | 2/10/24 | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


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To: CFW

Next time Pusser could be played by Lucy Liu or Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.


61 posted on 02/11/2024 10:37:43 AM PST by bgill
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To: dragnet2

Yea, that jaw looks normal...

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/18225573471474966/


62 posted on 02/11/2024 11:14:07 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Farmerbob

That’s a long way from having your face or head blow off.


63 posted on 02/11/2024 11:29:05 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2; wardaddy

Who said anything about “head blow off.”? I said “ shot 2 or 3 times” which came from the Wikipedia article. It also said he had multiple reconstructive surgeries. Wardaddy said “face blown off”, a figure of speech, which was probably an exaggeration. He was a big man, but I think it would be hard to shoot yourself in the face with a carbine without severe powder burns.


64 posted on 02/11/2024 11:47:25 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: BAN-ONE

30 carbine with ball is a perpetration beast.


65 posted on 02/11/2024 11:47:45 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You’ll have to educate me.

I have no idea who that is.

I am curious about the hat as well.


66 posted on 02/11/2024 11:56:06 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: BrexitBen
Trying to solve a 50 year old murder case is quite ludicrous.

I agree.

I can't imagine there being much that can be gleaned from a body in the grave for over 50 years and it was obvious at the time of the crime that the individual was shot.

You have a better chance finding useful evidence in the car if it still exist un molested.

67 posted on 02/11/2024 12:02:08 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Farmerbob
Yep and blew his face off for effect

C'mon...And were talking about the 60s where reconstructive surgery was primitive...

Btw, I have some pics of some unfortunate individuals who've had their faces/heads blown off with 1 round...All of them were killed in the process. I won't post them here to show you...They'd be deleted anyway...

68 posted on 02/11/2024 12:02:32 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: CFW

Kirksey Nix an evil man


69 posted on 02/11/2024 12:03:43 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Pontiac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tobey


70 posted on 02/11/2024 12:04:31 PM PST by abb
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To: BAN-ONE

Not optimal agreed but effective enough

Wehrmacht picked em up and used em

Liked the lightness

Man U could buy them for nothing in my youth direct in Boys Life etc

Course a Garand was only 99-150

I bought Norinco SKS early 2000s three for 250 at gun shows

Well my wife did


71 posted on 02/11/2024 12:07:10 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Farmerbob

My only point here was the wife ends up shot to death, and the husband I’m told took 3 rounds to the head and survived...We’re talking lottery luck here.

And if I were an investigator on that case, I would have taken a real close look at the surviving husband. And based on the fact they’re wanting to exhume the wife’s body seems to indicate they might not have. No?


72 posted on 02/11/2024 12:07:25 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Farmerbob

Reaching partner


73 posted on 02/11/2024 12:27:10 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Farmerbob

Reaching partner
Plus no evidence he ever more than absolutely adored her


74 posted on 02/11/2024 12:27:56 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: CFW; Pelham

My wife is related to Buford Pusser, and dreamed that night that he was killed or died. She woke up and told her mother that she dreamed uncle Buford was dead.
I think I have told us here before

Her mother told her child he was killed last night and we’re not sure if it was an accident


75 posted on 02/11/2024 12:31:07 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy

C’mon, It would not be the first time people were shocked to find a loving husband took his wife out. Happens a lot.

Not saying that happened here, but ya never know. Obviously some questions remain or some new information has surfaced. Otherwise they would not be exhuming the wife’s body.


76 posted on 02/11/2024 12:32:27 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Pontiac

His name is Kenneth Toby. He was in the movie Walking Tall and killed Pusser’s wife in a drive by.

You may remember him as the guy running the gas station who bought the ashtray in Gremlins. He did a bunch of other stuff too.


77 posted on 02/11/2024 12:34:06 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: DesertRhino

From “Shots Fired in Anger” by LTC (then LT) John George, a rifle champion who fought on Quadalcanal and then in Merrill’s Marauders . The Marauders walked 800 miles through jungles and the Himalayas to attack behind Japanese lines, wreaking havoc.

“-The oft-mentioned ability of the Tommy gun to hit and kill at ranges up to five hundred yards is pure theoretical hokum. Practically speaking, the gun will always be an ultra short range weapon, good in the jungle and in street fighting, but poor where the least measure of accuracy is called for. Another most serious limitation is poor penetration. Bullets that bounce off a hard wood surface at 50 yards are not good brush-rakers. Firing a Tommy into the jungle blindly is not effective because so many of the bullets would be stopped by vines and branches. The greater power of military rifle cartridges, fired from full-automatic rifles and machine guns would be preferable for such work. The standard Japanese bullet-proof vest, which would not even slow down a carbine bullet, stopped .45 slugs cold, whether fired from pistols or Tommy guns.

...The advent of the carbine later on in the war eliminated, in my opinion, the last need for a Tommy gun. The carbine made a much more accurate offensive weapon, and a much quicker pointing and more accurate defensive weapon. The lighter weight and greater penetrating power of the .30 caliber carbine catridge increased this superiority even more.”
Pages 395-396.


78 posted on 02/11/2024 12:40:59 PM PST by Farmerbob
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To: wardaddy

I agree with your opinion. It’s dragnet2 and Tucker39 who thinks the sheriff murdered her/ shot himself. Him shooting himself with a carbine sounds ludicrous to me.


79 posted on 02/11/2024 12:50:52 PM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Farmerbob

Don’t lie. I never suggested or implied that. Try reading the words before burping up bull s**t.


80 posted on 02/11/2024 12:58:08 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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