McNary County, Tennessee—Hollywood made four films about the heroic Tennessee sheriff, Buford Pusser.    A museum was built in his memory.    He shot and killed at least one woman who allegedly tried to murder him in connection with his investigations of gambling, moonshine, drugs and prostitution. Buford’s wife, Pauline was apparently shot to death in August 1967. Buford also suffered a gunshot wound.    Buford claimed that he was ambushed while responding to a call.    He said that he brought his wife along in his patrol car as he responded.    I think most cops, like me would frown at the idea of bringing your wife or girlfriend on a call for police service. Let me make it clear that I was never involved in any investigation of Sheriff Pusser’s various events.  I met their daughter, Dwana when she was 25.    She was selling quite handsome and expensive Colt Python revolvers that commemorated her father and his Walking T...

Rapho Township, PA— Fame nearly always brings hard cold cash so there are never ending attempts to garner fame such as the infamous Balloon Boy Caper. For every publicity stunt that backfires, there are many more that succeed. Natalee Holloway disappeared some five years ago after leaving a nightclub with young strangers while drunk on a vacation in Aruba. Today we still don’t know if she was the victim of an accident, foul play or even if she found a new life somewhere by her own volition. The Holloway case has captured the imaginations of those Americans that don’t have a life and hang on every word of the former prosecutor and now tabloid TV, crime harpy, Nancy Grace . These folks want the young men who were last seen with Holloway hanging from a gallows. Thankfully there is a decent form of Due Process on this Dutch governed island. Now John and Patti Muldowney have produced a photograph of a shape on the ocean floor taken while snorkel diving. Now they have generated a major s...