MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of “Walking Tall” Sheriff Buford Pusser, was exhumed from an Adamsville, Tenn. cemetery Thursday following a recent tip to authorities.

Your wife being murdered, and being shot yourself, by several assailants with rifles, would be very traumatic," said Baldwin. Buford Pusser spent six years as McNairy County sheriff beginning in 1964.