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  • Authorities Believe Sheriff Who Inspired Movie 'Walking Tall' Killed Wife in 1967

    08/29/2025 10:05:55 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    KOCO ^ | Aug 29, 2025
    Authorities in Tennessee announced Friday that they believe a sheriff who inspired the movie "Walking Tall" is responsible for his wife's death in 1967. During a news conference Friday, officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said there were "inconsistencies" in statements from Sheriff Buford Pusser following the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline. “It’s been said that the dead can’t cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so. In this case, that duty has been carried out 58 years later,” said District Attorney General Mark Davidson for the 25th Judicial District. Blood splatter...
  • ‘Walking Tall’ sheriff likely murdered his wife in 1967, Tennessee officials say

    08/29/2025 4:39:31 PM PDT · by Round Earther · 58 replies
    AL.com ^ | 8/29/25 | Jeremy Gray
    A renewed investigation into the unsolved 1967 murder of the wife of McNairy County, Tenn. sheriff Buford Pusser debunks what has for decades been depicted in movies and implicates the long-dead lawman in his wife’s shooting. The sheriff, who died in a 1974 car crash, long said Pauline Pusser went with him on a call on Aug. 12, 1967 when a car pulled up alongside them and shots were fired, killing her and leaving Buford shot in the face. She was 33. The scene was depicted in the 1973 movie “Walking Tall,” with Buford Pusser depicted by Joe Don Baker....
  • The Wife of a Famed Tennessee Sheriff Died in a 1967 Unsolved Shooting. Agents Just Exhumed Her Body

    02/11/2024 7:56:38 AM PST · by CFW · 96 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 2/10/24 | AP
    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...
  • FBI Handling of Mob Informants Condemned

    11/20/2003 9:24:22 PM PST · by neverdem · 13 replies · 305+ views
    Kansas.com ^ | Nov 20, 2003 | Lolita C. Baldor
    WASHINGTON - While probing organized crime in New England since the 1960s, the FBI used killers as informants, shielded them from prosecution and knowingly sent innocent people to jail, House investigators said Thursday in concluding a two-year inquiry. The bureau's conduct "must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement," according to the final report from the House Government Reform Committee. "Federal law enforcement personnel tolerated and probably encouraged false testimony in a state death penalty case just to protect their criminal informants," said Rep. Dan Burton, who started the investigation when he was...
  • Bush, Ashcroft imitate Clinton, Reno in blocking probe of Boston FBI

    01/22/2002 3:53:43 AM PST · by RJCogburn · 49 replies · 629+ views
    Manchester, NH Union Leader ^ | January 22, 2002 | Robert Novak
    Bush, Ashcroft imitate Clinton, Reno in blocking probe of Boston FBI REP. DAN BURTON’S House Government Reform Committee hearing, scheduled for Wednesday but postponed until early February, will continue months of rancor between old Republican comrades. George W. Bush and John Ashcroft have given an excellent imitation of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno by withholding information from Congress. Indeed, they have surpassed their Democratic predecessors in defying the legislative branch. While President Clinton was trying to undermine investigations of his own campaign finance abuses, President Bush has ruled against the Burton committee’s access to old scandals unconnected to him. The ...