Jason Guerrasio

Buford pivoted, turned, and shot her and killed her.

He was found not guilty by a grand jury.

They came to an agreement that it was in self-defense.

His assumption was that it was someone involved with the state line mob.

He never really gave any specific names.

It was more just, they finally got me.

Buford even took part in some points of the investigation, strangely enough.

There were a few specific people in the state line mob.

One individual named Toehead White, who was in jail at the time of the ambush, that they went and questioned.

They questioned his girlfriend.

And there are transcripts now that...

Show the girlfriend calling up Towhead going, why are the police trying to interview me about this ambush?

So there were specific people that Buford wanted investigated, but those things all led to dead ends.

They investigated for about 10 years, even going as far as reaching out to J. Edgar Hoover in the offices of the FBI to run ballistic tests on bullets that they had found.

But eventually it became a cold case.

No one was ever charged.

No murder weapon was ever found.

And then eventually that led to Hollywood getting hold of the story.

Of all people, it's Bing Crosby and his production company who catches wind of the Pusser story and decides to bring it to the big screen.

And