Hold Onto Your Hat; the ‘Walking Tall’ Cold Case Murder Has Been Solved – RedState
There are sometimes stories that you really don’t want to cover, but to stay faithful to yourself, you have to do it. It is one of them.
When I was in high school, I don’t know how many times I saw High -end to the reader. It was the escape role of Joe Don Baker, and the film, part of this kind of vigilance of the 1970s which understood Billy Jack,, Death wishAnd Dirty harrywas extremely popular in rural southern Virginia. It was the story of Buford Pusser, the real sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee. He was a former sailor who turned into a professional wrestler. He returned home to McNairy County and, after a brief passage as a police chief in Adamsville, Tennessee, he became the youngest elected sheriff in Tennessee. He continued a very public war with the Mafia Dixie and the Mob Line State, using a four -foot crossroads as a weapon of choice.
In the film, the culmination event is Pusser and his wife, Pauline, targeted in an ambush on August 12, 1967. Pusser was struck on the left side of his jaw by at least two, or perhaps three, towers of a caliber rifle .30. Pauline, who accompanied Pusse during an appeal, died of ball injury.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-e8ejehla
This event motivates the inhabitants to stand together and oust the gangsters that have long dominated McNairy County.
Pusser has promised to court his wife’s killer, but no progress has been made. After the death of Pusse in a car accident in 1974, there was no interest in devoting time or energy to the murder of Pauline.
In 2023, the Tennessee investigation office announced that the murder investigation was still open and asked the public to present themselves with advice; See Pauline Pusser Investigation still in progress since 1967. Based on “[a] Recent tip, “Pauline’s body was exhumed at the beginning of 2024 because no autopsy had never been done.
According to the TBI, a recent advice caused a new review of the case file, and the discovery was made that an autopsy has never been made on the body of Pauline Pusser.
“The fact that the TBI had a council that prompted this new look at the case of Mrs. Pauline, such an interesting thing, because if an autopsy has never been executed, this raises some questions which, I hope, could provide clearer answers to what really happened,” said Wheeler.
Pusser’s family supported the TBI’s decision to exhume their body.
Now, with the recent update of technology, the TBI can, hopefully, answer a few questions.
“You realize that even if it has been for how many years, criminaltics can take and do incredible things today that were not even imagined at the time,” said Dennis Hathcock, a retiree.
It brings us to Friday.
AMAZING!!
Buford “Walking Tall” Pusser was the sheriff of the county of McNairy, Tennessee, 67 years ago. He said that his wife had been killed in an ambush as she was driving with him.
It was a lie.
Pusser killed his wife and staged everything. pic.twitter.com/reg3t79aeb– Booker (@realbookerscott) August 29, 2025
It has been said that the dead cannot shout for justice. It is the duty to do so. In this case, this obligation was exercised 58 years later. The TBI, then the Tennessee inquiry office, excuse me, identification, took the lead of this investigation into the murder of Pauline Mullins Pusse in 1967. She was a woman, a mother and a sister whose life ended violently and unjustly. Her husband, the sheriff of the county of McNairy, Buford Pusser, reported that his wife had voluntary to drive in the dark early in the morning for a disruption call. He said that a car had shot his and fired several shots, killing Pauline and injuring him in what he faced was an ambush intended for him and performed by unknown attackers. Buford Pusser recovered from his injuries. No viable suspect has been developed and no charge has been deposited. It was a cold for decades, but in 2022, the agents of TBI took another in the archives file and coordinated with our office. This work accelerated in 2023 and 2024, Pauline Mullins Pusser was exhumed for an autopsy. TBI has completed its investigation process this year and the file was sent to our office to re -examine. The file is bulky, more than 1,000 pages and used modern investigation techniques and legal sciences unavailable in 1967. It is deepened and exhaustive and the scope and extent of it exceeds our ability to discuss it in detail today. This is one of the reasons why we make a public file.
You can watch the full press conference by the District General of District Mark Davidson of the 25th Judicial District of Tennessee; The video below is rejected to his remarks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=live
The main thing is that the statement that Pusser has given on the death of his wife does not correspond to the photos of the crime scene. The autopsy results indicate that Ms. Pusser was beaten and drawn outside the vehicle, and the entire incident was staged.
The TBI says that the autopsy photos of the head trauma Pauline Pusser suffered did not correspond to the photos of the scene of the crime of the interior of the vehicle. According to the TBI, the autopsy also revealed that Pauline had undergone a nasal fracture some time before her shot.
The TBI also says that the blood schemes were splashed on the hood of the vehicle contradicts the version of the events of Pusser.
The investigators would have determined that the ball injury on Pusser’s cheek had been made by a shot at close range which was “probably self-inflicted”. The TBI says that physical evidence suggest that the crime scene has been staged.
“It is likely to believe that Pauline’s death was not an accident, not an act of chance, but, on the basis of the totality of the TBI inquiry file, an act of intimate and deliberate violence,” said the District Attorney Mark Davidson at the press conference on Friday.
According to Davidson, “there is enough evidence that if the sheriff of the county of McNairy, Buford Pusser, was alive today, the prosecutors would present an indictment to the great jury for the murder of Pauline Mullins Pusser.”
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