Killer depicted in Richard Linklater's Bernie is freed and will live in director's garage

Bernie Tiede's unlikely story of friendship and murder was adapted by Richard Linklater in 2011  and now the freed killer will live with the director as part of his bail terms

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Bernie Tiede, the convicted murderer depicted in Richard Linklater's dark comedy Bernie, is to be released from prison early  with the caveat that he must live in an apartment above Linklater's garage.

Tiede's story was already strange enough to make perfect movie fodder: he was a funeral director who befriended an elderly and wealthy local woman, taking foreign holidays with her and quitting his job to become her business manager. They became so close that she wrote him into her will, but Tiede said he was driven to murder by her increasingly demanding temperament  he shot her in the back of the head and stored her body amid food in a freezer.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/07/bernie-tiede-freed-richard-linklater

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