Bernie Tiede

In May 2017, 43-year-old Brad McGarry was found shot to death in the basement of his Bellaire, Ohio, home. A well-liked coal miner with a larger-than-life personality, Brad had a wide circle of friends and seemingly no enemies. Investigators initially considered whether his murde ...  عرض المزيد

In the early 1970s, Dayton, Ohio, was terrorized by a gunman who became known as the “Shotgun Slayer.” African American residents on the city’s west side were seemingly targeted at random, leaving multiple people dead and many others wounded. For years, police struggled to identi ...  عرض المزيد

November 19, 1996. Carthage Texas. There is no debate that Bernie Tiede shot 80-year-old Marjorie Nugent in the back four times and hid her body in a deep freezer for nine months. He admitted so in his confession to police and in his later trial. The question is why did he kill h ...  عرض المزيد

Summary: The body of a wealthy widow was found in her deep freezer in the heart of East Texas oil country...and the events that unfolded were so wild that they inspired a Hollywood movie starring comedian Jack Black. Was Marjorie Nugent a sweet little old lady - or the meanest wo ...  عرض المزيد

In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer, Tom Radney, didn’t deny it. Burns told a police officer: “I had to do it. And if I had to do it over, I’d do it again.” The man he’d shot ...  عرض المزيد