DALLAS (AP) — When the East Texas mortician who inspired the movie “Bernie” was let out of prison, family members of the elderly woman he killed found out about his release from reporters. Now, ...

NEW BOSTON (KLTV) - Fifteen years after he was convicted of murder, people across the country are learning about an East Texas man named Bernie Tiede. The movie "Bernie," is being shown in select ...

EAST TEXAS (KXAN) — A convicted murderer released and allowed to live in Austin won’t be back in the courtroom Tuesday as scheduled. Bernie Tiede was expected to appear in court in East Texas for a ...

CARTHAGE, Texas -- Marjorie Nugent's family wants Panola County District Attorney Danny "Buck" Davidson thrown off Bernie Tiede's case, but Tiede's defense team is taking aim at the Nugents themselves ...

HENDERSON, Texas (AP) — A former East Texas mortician whose murder case inspired the movie “Bernie” is headed back to prison. Jurors deliberated for about 4½ hours before sentencing Bernie Tiede (TEE’ ...

Here’s a story that’s stranger than fiction… Bernie Tiede, a murderer played by Jack Black a few years ago in the Richard Linklater film Bernie, has been released from prison. In 1996, Tiede confessed ...

The true story of a gay funeral director and a bitchy millionaire. Richard Linklater’s Bernie tells the tale of Bernie Tiede, a thirtysomething funeral director in Carthage, Texas, whose boundless ...

DALLAS (AP) — A funeral director in small-town East Texas befriends a widow 40 years his senior at her husband's funeral, spends her money freely, then in 1996 shoots her and hides her body in a ...

A jury on Friday sent a former East Texas mortician whose murder case inspired the movie "Bernie" back to prison. The Rusk County jury of 10 women and two men deliberated about 4 1/2 hours before ...