Buford Pusser: The Other Story Exposed - Chapter 2: Buford's Early Years and Lies | True Crime

Añadido: 2026-05-28

[00:00:05]Well, good morning. Welcome to the channel. This is the Bryant Report. I'm your host, Mike Bryant. And uh I'm back from my trip. Uh talked about it yesterday on my Facebook uh page. And for those that may not be aware, I do have a Facebook page. It's uh the same title as the channel uh this YouTube channel, The Bryant Report. But uh talked about yesterday in a little video I put out and uh you know last week uh well this time last week actually I actually got to McNary County Thursday evening. I left here I don't know it's about 3:00 or 4 in the morning and I got up there about 6 in the uh actually yeah I left actually I left here about 5:30 and uh I got up there about uh about 600 6:30 you know and of course I stopped and had to get out you know because you I've got pretty bad back and bad knees so I have to get out and walk around every now and then but But I got up there, like I said, about 6:30. I stayed the first night, Thursday night in uh Selmer at the uh Econo Lodge and give a shout out to them. Uh they were, you know, I I've had a bad run with Econo Lodge uh over the years, but uh I would say that this one, you know, it was clean. You know, it was a little bit dated, but uh I mean, this bed was comfortable, hot shower, clean room. that's, you know, as long as it's got that, I'm happy.

[00:01:43]And uh so I didn't really do any any sightseeing that day because by the time I got to the hotel, I was uh worn out, you know. Uh but Friday rolled around and uh I met up with uh uh Steve and his wife uh Lisa and uh and I moved over to the Deerfield uh hotel where they were staying. And so, you know, we kind of hung out. He's, you know, he's a Buford Pusser researcher just kind of like myself.

[00:02:15]And uh we went sightseeing. We went to the uh the Savannah Maritime Museum in that little downtown area. And uh they had some cool exhibits. Uh you know, if you're into that kind of thing. Most mostly like riverboat type stuff. uh some Civil War and uh you know military memorabilia also and uh I don't know I I really liked it and then from there we went over to the uh Civil War battlefield at Shiloh that that national park and uh that was that was a really uh interesting place. I mean, I'm not a big Civil War buff uh per per se, but you know, I do like to learn about the different battles and and see the type of weaponry they were using, the tactics, and you know, check out some of the the cool uniforms and stuff that they were wearing. And uh it's a it's a huge place and uh you know it it's uh there's just all kinds of displays set up all over the place and you could probably spend you could probably spend the whole day driving from location to location and checking it all out and there's just like a ton of those uh cannons set up everywhere.

[00:03:33]So that was really interesting.

[00:03:36]And uh and then later that afternoon on into the evening uh you know we met up with uh with Eddie and uh he's a he's a you know a local guy there and he's knowledgeable about everything that's going on and uh so he took me and Steve to the cemetery up in Selmer and you know showed us the location where supposedly uh Dennis Hathcock and his his buddy uh uh Johnny Harrison rode their little motorcycle up there and they was supposedly spying on Anne and Buford down at her place and I guess Big Star uh was in that area and you know mostly because I was just curious. I just wanted to see if physically was it even possible for for that to even happen. And you know, and I, you know, I I I'll have to I guess I have to cut some slack because obviously this is 2026 and we're talking about something that happened in 1967. So, you know, were were there trees in certain locations? Was there not trees?

[00:04:52]You know, are the buildings different?

[00:04:54]Are the houses different? I don't know.

[00:04:57]But I would say that it's probably safe to say that it would be unlikely that they would overhear some conversations from way up there. U so I don't know kind of c cast more doubt in my opinion on on that whole story which was already pretty suspect to me. Um but and and you know uh like like I mentioned uh in yesterday's uh Facebook video, it's beyond me why the TVI agents, you know, Mike Parson in particular, why he didn't just do some simple, you know, detective work. I mean, you know, get out, you know, get out of your office, put your phone down, get up out of your desk chair, and go out to check out these locations. I mean, why not? If I'm if I'm interviewing somebody and they're telling me this story, I want I want them to show me where this stuff happened. Let me see, you know, is it maybe, you know, that's one way you can verify some of this stuff. I mean, yeah, you're talking about something that happened 60 years later almost. So, how you verify things? But if you got a guy like Dennis and he's telling you this tale, have him, you know, show you, okay, well, this is the spot I was standing. that's where the house was, blah blah blah blah blah.

[00:06:17]But, you know, it's just simple thing, little little details like that that just show you how much of a sham uh investigation this really was. But, but uh but anyway, at any rate, the the next day was Saturday and that was the day of the bus tour. And I can say that I, you know, I really enjoyed it and I highly recommend it for anyone that hasn't hasn't done it and hasn't been up in that area. Uh, you know, if you get the chance, uh, you know, next year or whenever the next time is they offer it, you know, I would say I would say go check it out because, uh, well, first of all, it's a full day.

[00:07:00]I mean, it's you're putting in a full day's work almost. Uh there's a ton of these different sites and you're learning stuff all along the way. Uh you don't necessarily get out of the bus at every single stop, but there's enough there, you know, the the state line areas, uh the ambush site, uh the courthouse, um some of the movie location. That's and that's the other thing, too. They don't they they they give you some of the movie locations and then they give you some of the real life uh uh Buford Pusser locations. So, it's a good mix.

[00:07:37]And like I said, it's an it's an all day thing.

[00:07:40]Uh and but like I said, for me, I think it was helpful because I I'm not from up there. And so, you know, it it helps me to put things in perspective where things were. So, I really enjoyed all of that. And then of course we had a kind of a meetup dinner afterwards and I met a lot of uh uh folks that I've interacted with on either Facebook or YouTube and uh so that was really fun and have some conversation and same thing on the bus.

[00:08:11]There were people that I met on the bus that uh had told me that they watched my videos and things like that. And so that was really cool uh to meet meet people and share ideas and have conversations about it. So yeah, I highly recommend all that um if you get the chance. Uh so yeah, Sunday, Sunday morning I left, went up to Kentucky to visit my sister and of course we did some sightseeing up there and then finally I made it back uh the day before yesterday and uh and I'm finally rested back up. You know, you know how it is when you go off on a trip and you've been gone for a week or so, you got to get back and take care of some things. But but I'm back and enough droning on about all of that.

[00:09:02]Uh today's video is about chapter two in Mike Elim's book. And and that's what this whole video series is about is exposing exposing the lies and the misinformation.

[00:09:15]Uh just to get the word out, you know, because there's a lot of people out there that don't really know uh what happened. and uh they don't understand how the TVI reached the conclusion that they did and and maybe they were, you know, limited on information. Maybe all they got was what they found online through Mike Elen's Facebook page or watching his videos.

[00:09:44]Maybe they even bought the book and and then they saw the TBI make their announcement and so, you know, they may not know. So that's the whole point.

[00:09:54]You got to fight the misinformation and get the real truth out there. And so that's the whole point of this. Uh definitely I'm definitely not doing it because I want to hype up Mike Elim's uh book sales. That's that's not the point of this. Uh matter of fact, I I don't recommend to anyone to buy this book.

[00:10:14]But uh be that as it may, chapter two, we'll go ahead and jump in. Uh chapter 2's. It's a short chapter.

[00:10:23]And it's kind of it's kind of all over the place and it's got he kind of tells a bunch of little different stories, but uh it's kind of starts out the chapter starts out where he's explaining um how he met Dennis Hathcock, how that whole relationship took hold. And essentially the way he tells it is that he was making uh some posts on this this gun forum and uh and that's and that's that brings up a good point too because one of the things about Mike Elum and I was and I was having a conversation with somebody about this uh during the tour uh you know I don't view him as an investigator.

[00:11:13]Uh, I don't view him as a journalist or anything like that. What I view him as is a campaigner. And that's basically what he's done. He's, you know, whatever you whatever you think about the guy, one thing's for certain is he ran a campaign and his campaign was to get the TBI to reopen the case and, you know, say that Buford was guilty. Uh, and he was somewhat, you know, pretty successful. I mean, he didn't he didn't get all the way there. there. I mean, the TBI never said he was guilty, but they said they would indict him if he was alive, you know, and so, you know, you have to you have to acknowledge that he was successful and and some of the ways he you know, he did this by employing different strategies. One was his Facebook page, one was the YouTube channel, the book, and then another thing that he was doing is this guy was going to all these other forums, uh, uh, websites, you know, Yahoo groups, Facebook groups, you know, wherever, wherever there was folks on the internet having any kind of conversation whatsoever about Buford Pusser.

[00:12:29]Mike Elim came running like a moth to the flame. And so it wasn't like he just wrote his book and did his own thing and left people alone. No, that's not what he was doing. He was out there seeking out any place he could go on the internet to challenge people and to put his talking points out there. And that's what he was doing on this uh this gun forum that he's talking about. And then that's that's supposedly according to him uh that's how he got in contact with Dennis because supposedly Dennis saw him posting, liked what he liked what he read and then reached out to him and then those two met up and you know that's it's love at first sight you know happily ever after as they say and it's been a you know it's been a been a partnership ever since then.

[00:13:21]And so that's kind of the first part.

[00:13:24]And then he goes into like Buford's, you know, early childhood or young adult kind of years, basically the the time between graduating high school and ending up in law enforcement.

[00:13:39]And you know, he he does he kind of he's one of the things that he's kind of insinuated is well, there's two little two stories that he tells that and he you he basically insinuates that Buford's that's lying that he's lying about it and that he's telling these stories to embellish his career and grow his legend.

[00:14:06]One of them is the Marine Corps story where well, you know, the factual story is is that he went to the Marine Corps and somewhere in his early training phase he got medically discharged and sent home.

[00:14:23]Um, you know, so he did get a DD214.

[00:14:28]Uh, his characterization of service was honorable.

[00:14:33]Uh, and that was pretty much it. Now, when they made the movie, the Walking Tall movie, they portrayed it as he was in the Marines, I think, for three years, I think, is what they said, which, you know, we all know that that's not true.

[00:14:49]That's factually inaccurate.

[00:14:52]Uh, but Mike tries to, you know, insinuate that that's Buford telling the story, but that's not that's not the case. Buford sold the rights to to to the movie just like he sold his autobiographical rights to WR Morris.

[00:15:10]Well, he sold the rights to the movie.

[00:15:13]And so somebody else uh wrote the script, they produced it, directed it, and he was merely given a like an advisor role. And typically these, you know, when you're on a on a movie as an adviser, you're not you don't have any like veto authority. You're not making decisions. You're just there, you know, so like when they're doing a scene and the characters are saying their lines, you know, he's just there to like give some insight, you know, like, oh, you know, is that the way they would have said it or would they said it a different way?

[00:15:53]uh you know the way people wore their clothes, things like that. That's what an adviser is there for. That the adviser has no really real real authority in the matter. So yeah, it's unfortunate that they put it in the movie like that, but at the end of the day, you know, once you give away your rights, you know, that's that's that. Um, and I think Buford, you know, he even he even said that there was inaccuracies in the movie. He I don't think there's been a time where, you know, he hasn't been pretty consistent with that. But that's what Mike Elim uses to establish Buford as a liar. You know, stolen valor, this whole thing.

[00:16:40]And uh and then another story that he tell he talks about is uh when Buford gets out of the Marine Corps and I guess he's got a little money left over from from when he got uh you know discharged and he went back home and then he goes to one of these state line clubs uh and he gets I guess he loses his money doing some gambling and then he discovers that uh the gambling wasn't on the up and up and then he challenges him on it and then there's a fight that breaks out and they end up beating him, cutting him and and and you know, kicking him out of the club or whatever. Basically leaving him leaving him to die, you know.

[00:17:26]Now, you know, Mike Elum, well, he'll say that, well, it's got to be a lie because there was no no police report, you know, there was no no evidence that it happened. So therefore that means he's a liar, you know, and but that doesn't that doesn't but but you know by that same logic later on you know uh I've heard I've heard Elim talk about uh make claims that Pauline was beat up by Buford even though we don't have any physical evidence and we don't have any uh police report to substantiate any of that. So, but but it doesn't stop doesn't stop that story from getting told. Um, now, you know, why Buford wouldn't have went to the police could be, you know, could be a lot of reasons. You know, maybe he didn't want to bring embarrassment to the family. Maybe he thought he would take care of it himself, which we know ultimately he did. Um, but you know, that's the uh that's kind of the thing where he tries to establish Buford as a liar. You know, he's lied all his life. He's always bragging. He's always worried about his image, trying to embellish things, trying to grow his legend. Uh, and so that's that's one of the that's pretty much the takeaway from this chapter. That's what that's what this chapter 2 is all about is making Buford a liar and showing that he's got this dark side and all of that.

[00:19:07]Uh, and you know, but I've got I've got some uh you know, interesting stuff to to uh to contrast with Mike Elim because you know, one thing I've noticed about Mike Elum is is well, number one, he likes to accuse others of whatever it is he's doing. And um you know number two is he tries he he also tries to apply one set of standards for Buford but not for himself or for others you know. And so I've got some uh interesting little tidbits here.

[00:19:50]Stand uh just give me a give me a moment here. See if I can get this set up.

[00:19:57]And well, first first I got a little video clip to uh to show.

[00:20:09]Okay. And so let me transition over here.

[00:20:13]Okay. So we got a little video of Mike Elum and what this video is about. He he this was back I don't know I know some of you are probably familiar. This was this was after the TBI, the Mark Davidson and the TBI had that press conference and basically said, you know, that if Buford were alive, uh, they would seek try to indict him for for murder. And so, you know, in the days after that, Mike Elen was out there making the rounds, talking to people about it. Well, uh, Fred McCoy, I'm sure some of you might remember, uh, you know, Fred and Sheila McCoy from Hatfield McCoy Museum Adventures, I think was the name of their channel. And you know, he was calling he was calling out Mike Elim because they had found out or they had found some stuff about him, you know, claiming to be a sheriff or claiming to be retired law enforcement and this that and so this was this was Mike Elim's response video about that.

[00:21:20]So, let's go ahead and take a listen, shall we?

[00:21:26]>> Now, and let me make another thing clear, Fred. I uh have never claimed to have been a lifetime law enforcement uh officer. Maybe that's what you uh seem to think I've said, just like you seem to think I've uh indicated that I was a sheriff uh that I was a police officer, so on and so forth. I haven't said these things. I've said that I was a deputy sheriff from Benton County. And I can't help what news stations, what other YouTubers such as yourself, podcasters put out there whenever uh uh they do a a story because that is often created first and their interview with me comes in later. So I don't get to see it. And so, no, I don't go back and protest everything that uh they have to say because I think their intent was good in some cases and some of it was just wrong.

[00:22:28]Okay. So, so there we heard from Mike. Now, remember Mike said that he never claimed to be career law enforcement and never claimed to be a sheriff and he doesn't go back and correct people, you know, which you know, he's insinuated that Buford should have done something when he was an advisor uh on the Walking Tall movie, like he should have wielded whatever little authority he had to make sure that that the story about the Marine Corps wasn't in there. But now here's here's Mr. Elim and he's not bothered at all that people are out here putting this information, calling him an ex sheriff, retired law enforcement, this that and the other. H well, he doesn't have any, you know, he's he's not he's not going to go correct people that get it wrong. I mean, as long as the intention was good.

[00:23:24]I mean, I mean, really, he's more than happy uh when people get it wrong because he doesn't mind being viewed as an ex sheriff or retired law enforcement. He needs that to propagate, you know, his his misinformation. you know, he needs that for his credibility if people do a Google search because maybe they see his book and they're like, "Well, what who who is this Mike Elim that wrote the book?" And then all of a sudden you got these articles popping up that says he oh look at here he's an ex sheriff, retired law enforcement.

[00:24:00]But uh let's see here. Let me see if I can bring up some interesting stuff here that I found.

[00:24:09]So, remember, like I said, he said he was he never put it out there that he was career uh law enforcement or that he was a a sheriff. So, let's just take take a look at at some quick examples that I was able to uncover.

[00:24:24]And remember, this is just a quick quick Google search, folks. Nothing I didn't I didn't hire a detective or anything.

[00:24:33]Uh but right here, this is a Quora profile that he put together and Kora, you know, it's you can go there, ask questions, and people can respond and all that. But, uh, here, let me see if I can hold on a second. Let me let me see if I can set this up here so we can see it better.

[00:25:04]Ah, okay. So, so right up right up uh right up here where underneath credentials and highlights it says former author and former deputy sheriff. Uh hold on. And it's it's from 1972.

[00:25:22]Uh let me see here. Let me This is kind of apologize folks.

[00:25:33]All right. technical difficulties, but right there you can see it says former author and former deputy sheriff from 72 to 2004. Now that so there he is then and he he filled this out. This is his profile.

[00:25:48]Unless he's going to tell me that this isn't his profile. I mean if uh if you're watching this, Mike, you can contact me and and uh and let me know uh how this is wrong. But it says right there, former deputy sheriff from 72 to 2004. So 32 years. 32 years in law enforcement, folks.

[00:26:10]Okay. Now, let's go to the next little thing we got here. Now, this is a snapshot of Mike Elim's uh LinkedIn profile. You see right there, Michael Elim, retired, Low, Arkansas, self-employed, University of Arkansas Fateville.

[00:26:28]Scrolling down here and where it says uh down well down here at the bottom go chronologically.

[00:26:37]Director of loss prevention and security Philips Company a division of Walton Enterprises from May 78 to September 1988 10 years 5 months asset protection theft and insurance investigation.

[00:26:52]Then the next thing up here, you got Deputy Sheriff, Benton County Sheriff's Office, Bella Vista Division, April 1989, September 1992, 3 years, 6 months, field deputy. And then the most recent one, it says retired 2012, 12 years, 11 months. right now.

[00:27:12]Remember in the previous slide that I showed, he had 32 years listed in his for his law enforcement career. And here he's only got three years and six months. So again, I don't know why all this confusion. And again, Mike, if you're watching this and you're telling me that you didn't fill this out, then let me know. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw up an email at the end of this and you can email me directly so you don't have to, you know, save yourself some embarrassment in the comments.

[00:27:47]Uh, but we can get this cleared up now. Moving on.

[00:27:52]Okay, this is a this is a podcast that he was on and it says in the title here it says the definitive Buford Pusser expert interview walking tall with Mike Elim. And then you scroll down, it says, "Scott and Jyn dive into the tale of Buford Pusser with Mike Elim, a retired law enforcement officer who's done some serious digging into this legend." Well, there you go. Now, he Mike doesn't doesn't seem to he seems mystified why people think that he's a retired law enforcement officer. But here, you know, and this is this would be I'm going to tell you right now, folks, this would be very easy to fix. All he would I guarantee you if he reached out here to uh to these folks here, Scott and Jen, the Talk with History podcast folks, all he would have to do call them up or email them and say, "Hey, you know, you've got me down as a retired law enforcement officer, but you know, I really I only worked three years and six months with Benton County Sheriff's uh department." You know, he could do that real easy. And and then that's just a simple thing where they log on, type it, save it, they can fix it in like 5 seconds.

[00:29:14]And by the way, I I pulled this off the internet uh this morning. So, but yeah, and this and this was the 28th of July, 2025. They hadn't this was right before they released the findings.

[00:29:29]Oh, and by the way, just so you know, these these this information like this information here, it's been up there. He joined this page in 2017. So, that information was up there uh in case the TBI wanted to do some research on who Mike Elen was. Well, there it is.

[00:29:52]They would see that.

[00:29:54]They would have saw that, too.

[00:29:57]So, let's move on to the next thing here. And what do we got here? We got a a newspaper article from the Nashville, Tennessee by Kenneth or by Keith Sharon.

[00:30:10]Now, this was dated February 23rd, 2024.

[00:30:14]And it's title of it says Buford Pusser was once his hero. Now, this ex sheriff has a new view of the famed law man.

[00:30:25]So again, here's a here's a newspaper article. Exsher ex sheriff. And this was dated February 2024. That was deep in the middle of the investigation.

[00:30:39]Mike Parson, you know, and you know, and I bring that up because the TBI when they were doing their investigation, uh, they one of the favorite things of theirs to do was to use newspaper articles to attack people or to paint them in a negative light that they were untrustworthy.

[00:31:01]They did that with uh a lot of these folks, you know. They did it with WR Morris.

[00:31:08]Uh well, they did it with Buford several times and they also did it uh with like Governor Blandon. Now, now granted, Governor Blandon had his own issues, but the point being they didn't hesitate to use negative articles against people uh to kind of ruin their credibility.

[00:31:30]And here you've got a newspaper article that the TBI would have had access to and uh you know they could have showed that but they didn't. You know they protect they protected their their guy Mike Elum because he was proving their case for him. So it would have been embarrassing because he's the guy that they turned their investigation over to.

[00:31:56]Okay, now we're going to move on. And what do we got here?

[00:32:01]Another newspaper article. Pretty much the same one, but this is uh, you know, got the big pictures. This was in the Tuscaloosa News, Monday, February 26, 2024.

[00:32:13]View for Puster was once his hero. This ex sheriff has a new view.

[00:32:18]And not only that, uh, but we go to the next slide and what do we have here? We have this picture and it says Mike Elim, a retired sheriff from Bella Vista, Arkansas, shows a picture of uh W Hathcock, owner of the plantation club, part of the research accumulative accumulated for his self-published book.

[00:32:44]So again, here's another example where he's cited as being a ex a retire. This one says retired sheriff.

[00:32:52]So remember he was saying, "Well, I never said, you know, and and ask yourself a question, folks." Ask yourself a question.

[00:33:01]Do you think it's more likely or less likely that they got this information from Mike Elen? I mean, how could so many people keep getting that wrong, you know? How could it be? Uh, I mean, think about it. If you're going to reach out and to do an interview, talk to somebody, you know, you're going to you're going to ask him those questions like, well, what's your what's your name? What town are you from? What's your occupation?

[00:33:35]So, is he trying to convince us that these all these organizations, they just made just made it up? They just, you know, I'm going to interview somebody.

[00:33:45]I'm going to make up their background. I mean, just, you know, give it give it the smell test. Give it the smell test and just ask yourself what what do you think is more likely or less likely to have happened. But I think I got one more maybe.

[00:34:02]Okay, this was the Jackson Sun. Now, this was from the day of the news uh the press conference. See Jackson son picture of Mike Elim.

[00:34:18]Look underneath it here again. Mike Elim, retired sheriff and author of Buford Puss or the other store. Now this this was a year and a half after because you go to this other this picture was in February of '04 and they're saying they're calling him a retired sheriff. And here we are again.

[00:34:43]And this is Michael Woods for the Tennesseeian.

[00:34:46]This is Jamar Coach, the Jackson Sun.

[00:34:49]So, a year and a half later, they're still calling him a retired sheriff.

[00:34:54]So, you know what? Just I guess you know, again, ask yourself the question, where are they getting this information from?

[00:35:07]But but Mike Elum, he just said in that video he never claimed it. And and furthermore, he's not going to correct anybody. He's not He's perfectly fine with lies being told about him, but he's upset, but he's up. I mean, just just think of the irony. Just think of think of the irony that we that we got going on here.

[00:35:31]Uh, you know, Mike Elim so upset about the Walking Tall movie, The Legend of Buford Pusser, uh, all of that, and uh, you know, he's he's worried and he's he's so upset about these lies being told about Buford and hyping him up and his legend and embellishing and all this all all this stuff he's, you know, going on and on about, but yet he's perfectly fine that all these lies that's inflating him and embellishing him are out there. You know, is he out here correcting people?

[00:36:12]No. Uh remember remember the truth has no agenda. How many times have we been told that the truth has no agenda?

[00:36:22]But here's a guy that's got people lying for him and blowing him up, inflating him, his his credentials, and not no problem there.

[00:36:36]We I guess I guess the truth truth doesn't matter when it's when it's helping you out. I guess the lies don't matter when it's helping you out.

[00:36:46]I don't know. It's a bad look, Mike.

[00:36:48]It's a bad look, buddy. Um, I don't know why you're so, you know, you're out here lecturing people about, uh, you know, the truth and and and and lies and all this, that, and the other, but you're not going to go out here and correct anybody. You're perfectly fine with lies being told to help you.

[00:37:12]It's very strange. Very strange indeed.

[00:37:17]Um, and speaking of and speaking of uh more lies, you know, one of the things that he tells in chapter 2 is uh he repeats this lie that and I don't know I'm not sure like what his motive is for this, but he wants he wants to tell this story about Pauline being an exotic dancer and and even and he even admits in the book that he doesn't have any any way to prove that, but he throws it in anyway.

[00:37:50]Isn't that odd? I mean, and it's just a little paragraph about this big, and you know, you look at this book, how thick it is, you know? So, why put something like that in there? Why put something like that in there? If you can't substantiate it and it doesn't help the story out in any way, why put it in there? Very bizarre.

[00:38:16]Uh, and then something else too that he brings up, there's another story about uh, you know, Buford having a job at the funeral home.

[00:38:29]And, you know, a matter of fact, I'll I'll just I'll just read that little snippet uh, real quick. It's it's kind of crazy, but says right here, page 15 for those of you that have the book.

[00:38:45]It just says here, it says uh Buford soon found work as an ambulance driver and helped with funerals during his employment with the local funeral home. The job at the funeral home was one Buford was said to have enjoyed.

[00:39:02]Uh he would however suddenly be terminated from his job in September 57 for reasons that are still that still are unclear. Many locals suggest the reason for his termination involve some inappropriate behavior with bodies.

[00:39:19]Since they offer no proof to back these accusations, there is no point in dwelling on the subject as even those who worked with Buford at the time refused to comment or define his inappropriate behavior. So, here's the here's your cold case investigator extraordinaire and he's out here uh talking to people or we don't even know. He might have just made that up on his own. I mean, he doesn't cite anybody. He doesn't site any source for where this came from, but it's just it's just, you know, it's one it's another like two paragraphs that are unnecessary.

[00:39:59]uh and he just throws them in there with no substantiation whatso even says he even admits that uh those who worked with Buford at the time refused to comment or define his inappropriate behavior.

[00:40:13]Well, first of all, let's talk about inappropriate inappropriate behavior. I mean, and first of all, he doesn't offer any proof or evidence that Buford was fired. Um, but if you're going to be fired, it's probably going to be for some inappropriate behavior. I mean, if you're doing appropriate behavior at work, you're not going to get fired probably unless they're, you know, going out of business or something. But uh an inappropriate behavior could be you showed up for work late or maybe you didn't show up at all or maybe not filling out paperwork correctly or you're not doing your job correctly or maybe you've got a bad attitude or you know you get into a shouting match with customers or who knows.

[00:40:59]Uh but he has no but the problem is he he he tries to build that into something you know really really disgusting if you ask me pretty offensive. Uh I mean and and that's a pretty grotesque accusation.

[00:41:19]You know if you're going to accuse somebody of something like that you would think that you would come with some real evidence. But in Mike Elim's world, you don't, you know, you can just, you can just throw anything in there. And and he said he couldn't substantiate, but he threw it in the book anyway. Just like the whole whole thing about Pauline being an exotic dancer, he couldn't substantiate it. No proof of it, but he throws it in anyway.

[00:41:46]Why?

[00:41:47]Why? For what purpose? I mean, I understand I understand uh you know, the thing about Buford and working at the funeral home that's just to try to make him seem like a monster, but lying about Pauline um you know, it's uh it's pretty like I said, that's that I mean, what happened what happened to justice for Pauline?

[00:42:13]You know, what happened to that? What?

[00:42:17]Like you're you're so concerned because how many times does Mike Elim lecture the rest of us uh about you know, oh you guys are you guys are always defending Buford and you don't care about about Pauline. Well, you're the guy up here trying to turn her into an exotic dancer with no evidence whatsoever to this day. This book was been out since 2020. So for six years, you've had a chance to substantiate that, but you haven't done it. So where where is that proof, Mike?

[00:42:46]Um, but that but this just highlights even further that Mike Elim has he's not an investigator. He has no experience. Uh, he has this bizarre idea that being an investigator simply means talking to people and you just accept whatever they tell you is gospel. You know, however bizarre or anything. You don't corroborate anything. You don't get proof of anything. Nothing. You just as long as what they're telling you fits your narrative, that's what he thinks an investigator is. And like I put I respond to one of his posts yesterday on Facebook that he would not cut it in any department I ever worked in. I I promise you that uh if he was doing if he was pulling that kind of stuff anywhere where I worked uh in Navy law enforcement, he would be He'd be like a permanent gate guard or he'd be the guy making coffee, washing washing the vehicles, taking out the trash. That's about all that he would be good for because that this right here, he has no concept of what even the most basic aspects of law enforcement are.

[00:44:07]But u but that's going to do it for today's episode. Uh I hope I made it worth your while. Hope uh you know, like I said, this was kind of a short chapter. Maybe the next chapters we'll get more uh but you know, you got to figure out what I'm working with here with with uh what Mike Elim has given us. Um oh, and by the way, before we go, uh I want to throw this out here. That's my That's my email address in case anybody ever uh needs to email me something or get in contact with me for some reason. And uh yeah, Mike, you know, you can you can reach me at that email. If I got something wrong about you in this episode, hit me up on the email. That way you don't have to put your stuff out on on public and uh you know, we can we can hash it out. Uh but oh and then also for those of you don't know uh I do have a and I said it at the beginning but in case you didn't hear it do have a Facebook group Facebook page it's the Bryant Report.

[00:45:14]It's on you know you can easily search it up and I try to post some little you know daily updates and some things uh there that don't make it onto the into the videos. But, uh, that's going to do it for today's video, folks. I hope everybody is, uh, doing well. Hope your week is, uh, has gone well. And it looks like we're we got the weekend coming up.

[00:45:39]So, maybe you guys, uh, can get out, enjoy the weather, get out and do something, spend some time with some with the family.

[00:45:47]But, uh, that's going to do it. I will see you guys on the next video. Take care, everybody.