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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Bernie, Jack Black plays a local mortician who murders his live-in companion after she won't stop nagging him. The movie is based on a true story. The film is based on a true story. In 1996, ...

Jack Black as Bernie in the 2011 film directed by Richard Linklater Austin’s federal judge, Robert Pitman, granted the order on Sept. 28, as a previous 14-day order protecting Tiede from the extreme ...