McNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Famed Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser died more than 50 years ago, but his daughter carried on the legacy before she died in 2018. Now the torch has been passed to the ...

MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — For many Tennesseans growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, and especially those in McNairy County, Sheriff Bufford Pusser was a hero. Hollywood made the big hit movie ...

Pauline Pusser was the wife of a sheriff, so her chores were a bit unusual. She cooked meals for prisoners and cleaned the jailhouse between raising her children and sending Christmas cards. But on ...

A late Tennessee sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about a law enforcement officer who took on organized crime killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies, ...

Tennessee officials say Sheriff Buford Pusser killed his wife in 1967 and staged it as an ambush. A cold case review found evidence of domestic abuse and contradictions in his story. Pauline Pusser’s ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has concluded that former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser likely killed his wife, Pauline, in 1967. New evidence contradicts Pusser's account of the ...