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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. ... Pauline Pusser was killed in ...
The Tennessean ran a front page story on Aug. 13, 1967 the day after McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser's wife, Pauline, was killed in an ambush outside of Selmer, Tennessee. Investigators ...
Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 – August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee from 1964 to 1970 and constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. He is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining , prostitution , gambling , and other vices along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line.
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Nix was a suspect in the attempted assassination of McNairy County, Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser, and in the murder of Pusser's wife. Nix was also convicted of murdering wealthy New Orleans grocery owner Frank Corso. At the time of the murder, Nix was believed to be employed by Darrel Ward in Clarksville, Texas.
He shot at police responding to the scene and was killed by return fire. [131] 1993-01-31: Copeland, Timothy (19) Washington, D.C. Copeland was shot and killed by a police sniper after a hostage crisis in which Copeland fatally shot a woman and an infant and wounded another woman. [132] [133] 1993-01-30: Muhammed, Mujahid (24) New York (New York)
Bradley Dawson is escorted through Lautoka High Court in Suva, Fiji, on Jan. 27, 2025. Dawson was convicted in the murder of his wife, Christie Chen, on their honeymoon in 2023.
Unidentified murder victims in Tennessee (2 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Tennessee" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.