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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

And I'm Melissa Block. In the truth is stranger than fiction category, we can include the true story behind the new movie, "Bernie," a dark comedy. It's a murder story based on what happened in the ...

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 ...