Former Panola County District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson, who was the top prosecutor for the Bernie Tiede murder case, died Sunday. He was 79. He passed away peacefully surrounded by his family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Bernie Tiede lost in the courts again Thursday, but he isn’t giving up. Tiede — a small-town East Texas mortician whose crime prompted a Hollywood movie — has already been sentenced twice in the 1996 ...

A Texas appeals court has upheld the 99-year prison sentence given to a mortician who was the subject of the 2011 film "Bernie." The 6th Texas Court of Appeals in Texarkana on Wednesday upheld the ...

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 ...