Woodard as Rev. Merrilee McCommas Molly as Molly. Marjorie Dome Townsperson as Townsperson. Tim Cariker Townsperson as Townsperson.
Fern Luker Townsperson as Townsperson. Jack Payne Townsperson as Townsperson. Chris Humphrey Townsperson as Townsperson. Ann Reeves Townsperson as Townsperson. Kay Epperson Townsperson as Townsperson. Richard Linklater. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. We meet Bernie Tiede , a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work.
He's a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas pop. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie.
Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do? A story so unbelievable it must be true.
Biography Comedy Crime Drama. He had his groupies," said Davidson. And people are still mystified about what really happened on that November afternoon that led Bernie to shoot her four times," said reporter Skip Hollandsworth. Bernie Tiede had preached and comforted and sang his way into this proud small town's everyday life. And he got one. The trial of Bernie Tiede for murdering Marjorie Nugent was moved 50 miles away. And in February of , Danny Buck Davidson told his tale to a jury who had never heard about Tiede.
Bernie Tiede's defense was that he killed Marjorie in an act of passion … that her murder was not premeditated. Nine years after he met Marjorie Nugent at her husband's funeral, Bernie Tiede was sentenced to life in prison.
Case closed. Except for this: Richard Linklater couldn't get the tale of Bernie Tiede out of his head. Black became so intrigued, he agreed to play the lead role -- but not before he and Linklater paid a visit to a Texas maximum security prison to try and understand just who Bernie Tiede really was.
The visit was videotaped:. Jack Black : I wanted to come and meet you. I just think it's important if I'm gonna play a real person that I should meet you. Bernie Tiede: OK. I'm just a people person. Black wanted to know what made Tiede tick, right down to what he felt in the days after he murdered Marjorie:.
Bernie Tiede : You just have no earthly idea…. It was absolutely horrendous. It's just one of the rules of the game," said Black of the prison visit. It was just something that doesn't happen in prison," said Tiede. I mean they took the most awful part of our lives and just laughed about it and joked about it," said Susan Jenull. And now, the Bernie Tiede story was about to take yet another bizarre twist that began right at the movie premiere. She is appeals lawyer Jodi Cole. And after watching the movie she got a hunch that the trial of Bernie Tiede had been a miscarriage of justice.
He snaps,' Cole said of the scene in the movie where Tiede shoots Marjorie. Cole poured over the files, knowing that Tiede's life sentence hinged on Danny Buck Davidson's argument that the murder was premeditated. Sixteen years after he shot Marjorie Nugent dead, Bernie Tiede painted a picture for defense attorney Jodi Cole about how he felt that awful morning.
And I have learned that is called a dissociative episode. A dissociative episode -- the new-age term would break the case against Bernie Tiede wide open. They actually disassociate, which is to leave their body," Cole explained. And he stayed as long as he could and his body acted in a way to end that abuse," Cole told Van Sant.
Tiede also confided in Cole, what he says is his darkest secret -- about that childhood sexual abuse he claims he suffered at the hands of an uncle. Davidson says if he had to do it all over again he would have sought a much lighter sentence. Not because Danny Buck wants It's what the law says," he explained. Davidson then went to bat for the killer he had once helped convict.
And on May 6, , Tiede's life sentence is thrown out. A new sentencing trial is ordered, and Tiede is released from prison for the time being. Not understanding how someone like Tiede could commit such a terrible crime, this new lawyer began reviewing the case file. After visiting Tiede numerous times and pressing him on the matter, she got Tiede to admit that he had been abused sexually as a child.
The lawyer presented this information to Davidson, who agreed to have Tiede evaluated by an expert witness. All of this occurred without anyone bothering to tell the Nugents.
The expert conducted one brief interview with Tiede in jail and then concluded that he had acted emotionally as a result of the childhood sexual abuse when he killed Marjorie.
Bear in mind, by this point Davidson had become something of an East Texas celebrity as a result of being played by McConaughey in the movie. Indeed, if you run a Google images search on Davidson, among the very first photos to pop up are pictures of Davidson with McConaughey and director Richard Linklater at events related to the film. Davidson claimed that, had he known this information at the time of the original trial, he would set have sought a much shorter sentence for Tiede.
By now, the media was all over the story. At this point, the Nugent family hired me to help prevent Tiede from evading his life sentence. Our brief provided a full picture of the facts. And what facts they were! Capitol attack planned? A North Texas case adds to intrigue. The furor over critical race theory puts feelings ahead of truth. Dallas has failed to meet its recycling goals, and we must hold our city accountable.
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Tiede's supporters, including Linklater, worked for years to get his life sentence reconsidered. But Shanna Nugent, her parents and three siblings were a fixture on the front row of the courtroom throughout the three-week trial. They spoke often with state prosecutors, who convinced the jury of 10 women and two men that Tiede was a con man who killed the family's matriarch after stealing millions from her.
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