364. The Murder of Pauline Mullins Pusser — The Boys from Alabama

We’re gonna take you up to McNairy County, Tennessee

Back in the days when Sheriff Buford Pusser ran things around there

Sheriff Buford Pusser was tryin’ to clean up McNairy County, Tennessee

From all them bootleggers that was bringin’ crime and corruption

And illegal liquor into his little dry county

And for his troubles he got ambushed and his wife was murdered

And his house got blown up, and they made a movie about it called Walking Tall

This is the other side of that story.

–Drive-By Truckers

Sources:

Buford Pusser Died Here, Adamsville, Tennessee

Buford Pusser, The Tragedies – Sheriff Buford Pusser Museum

Buford Pusser, The Man – Sheriff Buford Pusser Museum

Pauline Mullins (1932–1967)

Crime-busting sheriff Buford Pusser killed his wife in 1967, cold case investigators say | AP News

Buford Pusser Biography – Facts, Childhood, Family Life of Former Sheriff of McNairy County

The wife of a famed Tennessee sheriff died in a 1967 unsolved shooting. Agents just exhumed her body | AP News

Buford Pusser, Sheriff Depicted In ‘Walking Tall’ Film, Is Dead – The New York Times

Walking Tall (1973) – IMDb

Why were Pauline Pusser’s remains exhumed?

Tennessee authorities: Sheriff who inspired ‘Walking Tall’ film killed his wife in 1967 | FOX 5 DC