NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have exhumed the body of the wife of a famed former Tennessee sheriff more than a half-century after she was fatally shot in a still-unsolved killing.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed that it oversaw the exhumation of the body of Pauline Pusser on Thursday at Adamsville Cemetery.
A TBI statement said the agency received a new tip that led agents to find that there was never an autopsy performed on Pauline Pusser's body.
The Pusser car was hit 11 times.
Buford Pusser spent six years as McNairy County sheriff beginning in 1964, and aimed to rid McNairy County of organized crime, from moonshiners to gamblers.
Persons:
Pauline Pusser, Buford Pusser, Joe Don Baker, Dwayne “, ” Johnson, Pauline Pusser's, Mark Davidson, Pauline Pusser’s, Keli McAlister, McAlister, “, Sheriff Pusser, Pusser
Organizations:
—, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Adamsville, Judicial, Tennessee, Selmer, Sheriff, Tennessee -, Tennessean
Locations:
Tenn, Tennessee, McNairy County, Adamsville, Tennessee - Mississippi, County, moonshiners, Washington state