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Generation Why: True Crime

The Ambush of Pauline Pusser - 658

Generation Why: True Crime

Wondery

Murder, Unsolved, Missing Person, 855520, Crime, Conspiracies, Serial Killer, Exhibit C, Conspiracy, Controversy, Society & Culture, True Crime, Trial, Government, Case, Documentary

4.618.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

August 12th, 1967. Selmer, Tennessee. Pauline Pusser was fatally shot while riding with her husband, Sheriff Buford Pusser, who was responding to a disturbance call in the early morning hours. Police believed she died in an ambush meant for her husband, but Pauline’s case remained unsolved for almost 60 years.

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0:00.0

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0:06.2

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0:15.5

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0:57.8

Music get ahead of the game with Wondry Plus. How you doing tonight, Aaron?

1:01.2

I'm doing very well, Justin. How are you?

1:05.4

I'm doing okay. It's six degrees in Kansas City right now.

1:11.4

Yeah, I don't want to leave the house, but I have to today, and that's going to make me very sad.

1:16.5

You want to be able to just walk out into sunshine, right?

1:18.6

Where's L.A. when you need it?

1:23.5

But, you know, winters here are a little bit more mild than they typically happen.

1:25.2

So go global warming.

1:26.1

Anyways.

1:28.3

Climate change, Justin. Yes.

1:29.3

And as most people know, we live in Kansas City and they expect us to be Chiefs fans.

1:35.3

That's the number one question I'm always asked is, oh, do you watch the Chiefs?

1:39.3

I'm like, no, I really don't.

1:41.3

And I don't think you really do either.

1:43.3

I do, well, I have family that lives nearby, and they watch the Chiefs games every Sunday that they're playing, and sometimes I'll go over there to hang out with them, watch the game with them. But if they win or lose, do you care? Like, do you personally care? Uh-oh. We're going to get in trouble now. But you don't really have a dog in that race. You're not a die-hard chiefs fan. I'm not a die-hard chiefs fan. If they win or lose, I don't care. If something's happening, I don't care. I don't have a strong opinion about it. And the whole point of this is that's how I feel about the case

2:19.4

tonight, because there are some diehard supporters of the person we're going to be talking about.

2:25.4

And they may think that we are detractors. They may think that we want to tarnish somebody's

2:33.2

reputation. And that's not it at all. I care about

2:36.5

the story, I care about telling it correctly, but I don't have any loyalty to the person that we're

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