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Candy Montgomery murdered her friend and the wife of the man she had an affair with. The horrific crime scene showed Candy committed a crime of passion.
The arrest and trial of Candace “Candy” Montgomery in 1980 was huge news: The Dallas-area woman was accused of killing her friend Betty Gore with an ax. Hulu and HBO Max both have new crime drama...
A 30-year-old housewife living in the suburbs of Dallas, Candace "Candy" Montgomery murdered her best friend Betty Gore with an axe on June 13, 1980. Shortly before her best friend Betty Gore gave birth to her second child, Candy Montgomery started an affair with her husband — then murdered her.
Candace Lynn Montgomery (née Wheeler; born November 15, 1949) is an American woman who was accused of murdering her lover's wife, Betty Gore. The killing took place in Wylie, Texas, on June 13, 1980. During the assault, Gore was struck 41 times with a wood splitting axe.
DALLAS — It was a brutal ax killing that shocked the small North Texas town of Wylie in 1980. Candy Montgomery killed Betty Gore by slicing her with an ax 41 times, following a confrontation ...
But what's inarguable is that it ended with Betty Gore lying in a pool of her own blood, her body mutilated by a 3-foot long, wood-handled ax found at the scene of the crime to the point of being nearly unrecognizable.
After deliberating for under four hours, the jury acquitted Candy Montgomery of the murder of Betty Gore on the basis of self-defense. “Murderer! Murderer!” people screamed at her as she left the courthouse, according to the United Press International news service.
Candy Montgomery killed Betty Gore by slicing her with an ax 41 times, following a confrontation about Montgomery's months-long affair with Gore's husband, according to Texas Monthly's...
In the fall of 1980, an attorney looking for some free publicity called Texas Monthly staff writer John Bloom and told him: in one of the wildest crimes in state history, his client, Candy...
Max's ‘Love & Death’ stars Elizabeth Olsen as infamous axe murderer Candy Montgomery, who killed her neighbor Betty Gore. Here's what to know about the horrifying real-life crime.