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May 7, 2014 · CARTHAGE, Texas – A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie is a free man after a judge agreed to reduce his life sentence and release ...
An East Texas jury on Friday night sentenced convicted murderer Bernie Tiede to 99 years or life in prison. Tiede gunned down wealth Carthage widow Marjorie Nugent and stuffed her in a freezer...
Apr 25, 2016 · Now he's been sentenced 99-to-life, and is returning to prison. A jury in Henderson, Texas has closed another chapter in a Texas murder story that captured the public’s attention nearly two decades ago. This past Friday, Bernie Tiede, who was the real-life inspiration for the 2011 Richard Linklater film “Bernie,” was sentenced to 99 years ...
Bernie in Hell. Doting saint or conniving con man? I first wrote about Bernie Tiede twenty years ago, after he was charged with murder for shooting an elderly widow. Now that he has been sent...
Bernie Tiede and Marjorie Nugent. True Crime. Midnight in the Garden of East Texas. Marjorie Nugent was the richest widow in an eccentric town full of rich widows. Bernie Tiede was an...
Jul 23, 2017 · 48 Hours. The Mortician, The Murder, The Movie. By Peter Van Sant. July 22, 2017 / 11:09 PM EDT / CBS News. Produced by Jamie Stolz and Marc Goldbaum. [This story first aired on Oct. 1, 2016. It...
Bernhardt Tiede II is an American mortician who was convicted of the November 19, 1996 murder of his companion, wealthy 81-year-old widow Marjorie "Marge" Nugent, in Carthage, Texas. He was 38 at the time of the murder.
