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More than five decades after Pauline Pusser was shot and killed in an ambush likely meant for her husband — Sheriff Buford Pusser — a recent tip has led to a new development in the unsolved case.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confrims the body of Pauline Pusser has been exhumed from Adamsville Cemetery.
Pauline Pusser was killed 56 years ago in what autorities believe was an ambush meant to kill her husband, then-McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser.
TBI said that it was recently discovered that an autopsy was never performed on Pauline Pusser's body, prompting officials to exhume her body for review.
The case is still open into the murder of Pauline Pusser, the former wife of McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser.