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 the early morning of August 12, 1967, Pauline did something she'd never done before. She went on a police call with her husband.

Sheriff Buford Pusser was famous in Tennessee for busting the moonshine stills and prostitution rings forged by the "State Line Mob," a collection of gangsters who operated at the Mississippi border. The sheriff would later tell law enforcement that an anonymous person called his Adamsville home just before 5 a.m. and insisted he drive to the state line, about 25 minutes away. Buford said Pauline was suspicious about the call — with reason. Since cleaning up McNairy C

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