Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! We are back to our original format this week as we decide our next book! Liv covers the devastating cold case from the early 2000’s. The murder of Nizah Morris, who was an activist for the LGBTQ community and a pillar of inspiration for many who lived in Philadelphia. Please check the show notes for additional information on where you can donate to the Morris Home which was founded in her name after her death. Mack brings us a crazy story from Texas covering the colorful life of Bernie Tiede and the unexpected murder of Marjorie Nugent.

This episode contains foul language, murder, discussions about police brutality, and sexual abuse. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!

Morris Home

Showing Up for Morris Home: Go Fund Me

Sources: Nizah Morris

Slought: An Anthology of Silence

PGN Article by Tim Cwiek

Wikipedia

One Pennsylvania

Sources: Bernie Tiede

“Midnight in the Garden of East Texas”, Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, Jan 1998

“How My Aunt Marge Ended Up In The Deep Freeze…”, Joe Rhodes, NYT Mag, April 2012

Interview with Melissa Torre, KLTV7 News, Youtube, November 2012

“Lights, Camera, Carthage”, Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, May 2012 "

History of Bernie's secret: Facts of sexual abuse could have been key to defense”, Phil Latham, Longview News Journal, May 2014

“3 men say Tiede's uncle molested them when they were young”, ABC7, KLTV, April 2016 “Bernie in Hell”

Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, June 2016

“Bernie” Film written by Skip Hollandsworth and Richard Linklater