The late Sheriff of Tennessee, inspired by a Hollywood film about a law enforcement officer who took an organized crime, killed his wife in 1967. And encouraged people to believe that he was killed by his enemies, the authorities said Friday.
The authorities acknowledged that the discovery would probably be shocked by many who grew up as a fans of Boford’s cousin, and watched in 1973. Walking Tall, which immortalized it as a heavy but honest sheriff with zero tolerance for the crime. The film was redesigned in 2004, and many officials joined law enforcement because of his history, according to Mark Davidson, a lawyer for the 25th court district of Tennessee
There is sufficient evidence that if a cousin, the McNay County Sheriff, who died during the car disaster seven years after his wife’s death, today is alive, prosecutors will submit the indictment to the big jury for the murder of Pauline Mullins Pusser, Davidson said. Researchers also revealed the signs that she was suffering from domestic violence.
Prosecutors worked with the Tennessee Investigation Bureau, which began to re -investigate decades old cases of Pauline’s death in 2022, as part of a regular review of cold cases, said David Rausch, director of the agency. The agents found that the discrepigant version of the events and physical evidence of the BUFOR PUMS received advice on a potential murder weapon and exhumated Pauline’s body for autopsy.
“This case is not related to the sinking of the legend. It is dignity and closure of Pauline and her family and ensuring that the truth is not buried over time,” Davidson said at a press conference on the Internet. “The truth is important. Justice is important. Even after 58 years. Pauline deserves both.”
Evidence does not help confirm sheriff’s history
The case dates back to 1967. August 12 Boford Pusser received a call about disturbance in the early morning hours. He reported that his wife was voluntarily driving with him when he answered. Boford said that shortly after they passed the Hope Methodist Church, the car pulled several times and fired into the vehicle by killing Pauline and injuring Sheriff. Boford Pusser spent 18 days in the hospital and demanded several surgeries to recover. The case was mainly based on his own statement and quickly closed, Rausch said.
In the re -examination of the case, doctor Michael Revelle, an urgent medical physical and medicine expert, researched photographs of postmortem, crime scene photos, at the time of medical expert notes and Boford’s cousin statements and concluded that Pauline was actually more likely to be fired outside the car and then helped inside him.
He found that Pauline’s skull injury did not match the crime scene photographs of the car’s interior. Blood splashes on the hood behind the car contradicted the statements of Buford’s cousin. The gunshot wound on his cheek was actually a close contact wound, not from a long distance, as Boford’s Pusser described, and probably concluded about himself.
Paulina’s autopsy revealed that she had a broken nose that healed before her death. Davidson said that at the time she died, he concluded that she was a victim of domestic violence.
Brother says the investigation gave him a closure
Paul’s younger brother Griffon Mullins said the investigation had closed him. He said in a recorded video showing a press conference that their other sister died without knowing what had happened in Pauline, and was grateful that he would die knowing.
“You would fall in love with her because she was a human man. And of course my family would always go to Pauline if they had problems or needed advice, and she was always for them,” he said. “She was just a cute man. I loved her with all my heart.”
Mullins said he knew there were some problems in Paulina’s marriage, but she wasn’t alone who talked about her problems. For this reason, Mullins said it was not “fully shocked”.
The Tennessee Investigation Bureau plans to form a whole case exceeding 1000 pages accessible to the public by transferring it to Martin, a university in Tennessee as soon as she completed edits. The school will create an online case database. Until then, members of the public may agree to review it personally or to purchase a copy, said the university Chancellor Yancy Freeman Sr.