Sheriff Buford Pusser Inspired ‘Walking Tall’. Did He Also Murder His Wife?

B uford Pusser should have been on top of the world. By Aug. 20, 1974, he was the most famous sheriff in America, all because of the unexpected smash-hit film Walking Tall, which introduced Pusser — played in a starmaking turn by Joe Don Baker — and his crime-busting exploits in McNairy County, Tennessee, to...