Maybe so but one former Tennessee Sheriff was done this way also.
Indeed he was, and on an evening after he'd spent the earlier part of his day in Memphis....He had announced that he'd play himself in the third film to be made about his life, and having already personally attended to taking care of those who had murdered his wife Pauline during the attempt on his life on 12 August of 1967, it was expected that he was going to do approximately the same to the careers of the crooked politicians who had profited from the payoffs from the stateline mob and other Dixie crime rings, and likely okayed the outlaw's first attempt that killed Pauline Pusser.
On August 21, 1974, Buford Pusser had his last ride. Earlier that day he had been at a press conference in Memphis announcing that he would play himself in a sequel called "Buford." Pusser drove his Lincoln Continental home, parked it in his garage, and changed from his suit into shorts and a tee shirt. Employees of the Phillips 66 Station delivered his 1974 maroon Corvette and Pusser took a test ride. When he returned, his daughter Dwana had already left for the county fair. He got into the corvette and headed for Selmer.
He attended the McNairy County Fair and Livestock show and signed autographs and chatted with Dwana, his daughter. Around midnight, he left the fair headed home, passed his daughter's friend's car and was out of sight. On a stretch of road between Selmer and Adamsville his new Corvette veered off Highway 64, then shot across the road into an embankment where it crashed and burned. His daughter was one of the first to arrive at the scene, and she pulled her giant father away from the burning wreck. "He had suffered so much," she's on record as saying. "I couldn't just let him burn up." While ruled an accident, his daughter suspects foul play.
It took nine guest-books to contain the names of those who turned out for Pusser's funeral. Actor Joe Don Baker, who portrayed the big sheriff in Walking Tall, was there, and even a brooding Elvis Presley lurked somberly in one of the children's bedrooms throughout the service.
