Late sheriff who inspired Hollywood movies implicated in wife’s murder nearly 6 decades later, officials say

MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) - Almost 60 years after the death of a Tennessee sheriff’s wife, authorities said new details are coming out that implicate her husband.

The 25th Judicial District Attorney General, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the University of Tennessee at Martin held a press conference Friday to share the developments in the death of Pauline Pusser.

In the conference, officials said Pusser’s death record does not match up with the statements made by her husband, the late Buford Pusser.

It had long been reported that Pauline Pusser was shot and killed on Aug. 12, 1967, in an ambush meant for her husband, who was the McNairy County sheriff at the time.

She was reported to be in a vehicle driven by the sheriff on a rural McNairy County road near