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Authorities exhumed the body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of hard-charging McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, 56 years after she was shot to death in an ambush presumably meant to kill her husband.
Pauline Pusser was killed in McNairy County on Aug. 12, 1967, and a previous iteration of the TBI, then named the Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Identification, was called in to investigate.
In a TBI written statement: "With the support of Pauline’s family and in consultation with 25th Judicial District Attorney General Mark Davidson, TBI requested the exhumation in an attempt to answer critical questions and provide crucial information that may assist in identifying the person or persons responsible for Pauline Pusser’s death."
Louisiana State Penitentiary, from where Nix perpetrated a "Lonely Hearts" scam. Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. (born 1943) is the former boss of the Dixie Mafia. [1] [2]He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford's wife on August 12, 1967.
Finally, Pauline and Pusser are ambushed in their car. Pauline is killed and Pusser is seriously injured. Pusser is admitted to the hospital after being shot, and while still in a neck-and-face cast, attends his wife's funeral. Afterward, Pusser rams a sheriff cruiser through the front doors of the Lucky Spot, killing two of his would-be assassins.
Authorities exhumed the body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of hard-charging McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, 56 years after she was shot to death in an ambush presumably meant to kill her husband.
The ambush was featured in a 1973 movie called “Walking Tall.”
Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American retired actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. [1] He established himself as an action star with supporting roles the Westerns in Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973).