"New Tip Leads to Exhumation of Sheriff Buford Pusser's Wife's Body in 1967 Cold Case Murder"

The body of Pauline Pusser, wife of former Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, was exhumed after more than 50 years following a new tip in the unsolved 1967 murder. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation oversaw the exhumation, as there was never an autopsy performed on her body. Pauline Pusser was killed in McNairy County in 1967, and the investigation into her killing has remained active. Buford Pusser, known for his efforts to combat organized crime, was also seriously wounded in the same incident and later died in a car wreck in 1974.