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Gone South

​BONUS: The Real Buford Pusser | Part 3

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1967, Sheriff Buford Pusser said gunmen ambushed his car, killing his wife Pauline and inspiring the Walking Tall legend. Nearly six decades later, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation exhumed Pauline’s body after learning no autopsy was ever done. Reporter Jed Lipinski travels to Adamsville, Tennessee, where new witnesses and old secrets threaten to upend the myth of Buford Pusser. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. You can also subscribe to our newsletter, Gone South with Jed Lipinski. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys?

0:01.2

It's Candace Dillard Bassett, former Real House Wife of Potomac. And I'm Michael Arsena, author of the New York Times bestseller, I Can't Date Jesus. And this is Undomesticated. The podcast, where we aren't just saying the quiet parts out loud, we're putting it all on the kitchen table and inviting you to the function. If you're ready for some bold takes and a little bit of chaos, welcome to

0:23.2

Undomesticated. Follow and listen to Undomesticated, available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.3

Gone South listeners, what you're about to listen to is a special two-part follow-up on a story

0:36.9

from Season four,

0:38.5

the real Buford Pusser. If you haven't listened to parts one and two of this story,

0:43.2

I encourage you to go back and listen to those. They're episodes 7 and 8 of season 4.

0:49.3

And some more good news. Season 5 of Gone South is set to premiere in February. Until then, I hope you

0:56.4

enjoy these episodes and any other episodes from seasons 1 through 4 that you might have missed

1:01.3

along the way. As always, thank you for listening to Gone South. Last season, we did a pair of episodes about a man named Buford Pusser.

1:18.0

Buford was a former sheriff in McNary County, Tennessee, whose life story became the basis of a series of Hollywood movies called Walking Tall.

1:27.4

In the popular legend of Buford's life, he was a tough-on-crime sheriff, of a series of Hollywood movies called Walking Tall.

1:29.6

In the popular legend of Beaufort's life,

1:31.4

he was a tough-on-crime sheriff,

1:34.0

who, during the early 1960s,

1:38.2

took it upon himself to clean up the Tennessee-Mississippi state line,

1:41.8

which was rife with moonshining, gambling, and prostitution.

1:46.3

But what made Beaufort famous was an incident that took place on August 12, 1967. Early that morning, according to the story Beaufort told, he and his wife,

1:53.8

Pauline, were responding to a disturbance call at a roadhouse across town when a car full of men ambushed

2:00.5

them.

2:01.9

Buford took a bullet to the face.

2:04.1

Pauline was shot in the head and killed.

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