Buford Pusser served as sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, during the early 1960s, a region dominated by gambling, bootlegging, and organized crime. He launched an aggressive campaign against the ...

MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — The case is still open into the murder of Pauline Pusser, the former wife of McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser. At the time, Pusser was the youngest sheriff in office ...

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.