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In August 1997, I read a short story in the Dallas Morning News about Bernie Tiede, the 39-year-old assistant director of a funeral home in the small East Texas town of Carthage. Bernie had just confessed to murdering the town’s grande dame, Marjorie Nugent. In his confession, he said he shot her four times in the back, then stuffed her in her own deep freeze in her garage, where she remained undisturbed for nine months before anyone really started to look for her. Although Bernie was the sole heir to Mrs. Nugent’s estate, which at the time was worth millions, he told the sheriff that he felt he had no choice but to kill her because she had become “very hateful and very possessive.” I headed…

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