24 Facts About Bernie Tiede

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.

Bernie Tiede was temporarily released on bail in 2014, pending a resentencing hearing.

Bernie Tiede's case is featured on the Season 3, Episode 7, titled "Millionairess Mortician", from the show Deadly Sins.

Bernie Tiede is the son of Bernhardt Tiede, a native of Olegnow, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.

The elder Bernie Tiede had served as a professor of music and choral director at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, Texas, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, at Kilgore College in Kilgore, and then McMurry College in Abilene, where he served as director of the McMurry Chanters until his death.

Bernie Tiede's mother was his father's first wife, Lela Mae Jester.

Jester was killed in an automobile accident when Bernie Tiede was two years old.

In 1963, Bernie Tiede's father married Clara Kathryn Wiley, who became his stepmother.

Bernie Tiede's father died in Abilene when Tiede was fifteen.

Bernie Tiede became a mortician, working in Carthage as assistant director of the Hawthorn Funeral Home.

Bernie Tiede met the wealthy widow, Marjorie Nugent, in March 1990 at her husband's funeral, which Bernie Tiede had helped arrange as assistant director at Hawthorn Funeral Home.

Bernie Tiede placed her body in a freezer used to store food at her Carthage home.

Bernie Tiede was taken in for questioning, and he admitted to Nugent's murder to police in August 1997.

Bernie Tiede said that after the murder, he had prepared the body, and placed it in a freezer.

Bernie Tiede had given him power of attorney over her funds.

At the resentencing trial, Bernie Tiede was sentenced to life in prison.

Rod filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bernie Tiede, claiming he had embezzled more than $3 million from his mother.

Shortly after entering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 1999, Bernie Tiede was attacked by fellow inmates.

Cole theorized that Bernie Tiede shot Nugent while in a brief dissociative episode brought on by her abusive treatment of him, a theory backed by forensic psychiatrist Richard Pesikoff.

Bernie Tiede's granddaughter expressed shock that the release was granted, and claimed that Richard Linklater's 2011 film Bernie had influenced the legal system.

Between the time of his release in 2014 and his resentencing hearing in April 2016, Bernie Tiede resided in Austin, Texas, at the garage apartment of filmmaker Richard Linklater, who had offered to assist him; this was a condition of his release.

Bernie Tiede resided in the Telford Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for at least 15 years.

Bernie Tiede is not eligible for parole until August 3,2029, which is the day after his 71st birthday.

Bernie Tiede is currently the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice regarding the lack of air conditioning in its prisons, which the suit estimates kills 14 inmates every year.