CNN: ‘Dazed and Confused’ director takes in murderer

Three years ago, director Richard Linklater made a movie about a mortician named Bernie Tiede who went to prison after he shot a rich, cranky widow four times in the back with her armadillo gun and hid her body in a deep freezer under the pot pies.

Now he’s Tiede’s landlord.

Tiede, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of a wealthy Texas widow named Marjorie Nugent, was released from prison on Tuesday. Originally sentenced to life, he has been set free on a $10,000 bond — with conditions.

One of them is that he live in a garage apartment owned by Linklater, the Austin, Texas-based director of such films as “Before Sunrise,” “Dazed and Confused,” “School of Rock” and 2011’s “Bernie,” based on Tiede’s case