A reexamination of the death of Pauline Pusser revealed that she was a victim of domestic abuse and had been killed by her husband with her body placed in his car to make it seem like she was the victim of an ambush.

A Tennessee sheriff whose story inspired a Hollywood film was not the tragic hero he made himself out to be — in fact, new evidence shows that he killed his wife, then led people to believe she had been slain by his enemies.

Buford Pusser became famous in the 1960s for taking on organized crime, but his story turned tragic in 1967 when his wife, Pauline Mullins Pusser, was killed during an ambush.

In 1973, the movie Walking Tall portrayed Pusser’s story on the big screen, immortalizing him as a tough but fair sheriff with no tolerance for crime. The film was later remade

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