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 ...

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 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 ...

Remember Bernie, the 2011 Richard Linklater film based on a true story about a lovable man in Carthage, Texas (played by Jack Black) who murdered his elderly benefactor and hid her body in a freezer ...

Sometimes, the most fascinating stories are the ones that sound too strange to be true. "Bernie" is exactly that. Going into it, I had no idea what to expect. The comedy thriller movie is based on a ...

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 ...

Richard Linklater’s Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the murder of an 81-year-old woman in a fashion that is not ...

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’ ...