The Most Famous House in Wylie, 34 Years Later

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Anyone who lived in North Texas in the early 1980s remembers the murder of Betty Gore, and the murder trial of Candace Montgomery, the woman who killed her with an ax. The petite, nondescript Wylie housewife was acquitted in 1980 claiming self-defense. I attended her trial as I was working at the time for KDFW-TV. Then, as now, the case enthralled me.

Gore, a 5th-grade teacher at R.C. Dodd Middle School, had accused her best friend Candy of having an affair with her husband, Allan. I think they also all went to the same church. On June 13, 1980, the 30-year-old Gore was found dead in the laundry room of her home at 410 Dogwood Drive. She had been hacked to death by someone wielding an ax an estimated 41 times.

Montgomery was soon charged with murder. She claimed self-defense. At her trial four months later, Montgomery told jurors that Gore came at her with an ax, pledging to kill her over the affair.

According to The Dallas Morning News on Oct. 30, 1980, Montgomery testified that the two struggled. Somehow, she wrestled control of the ax, and struck Gore on the head, she said.

“At that point, Mrs. Montgomery told the jury, she fell into a ‘dreamlike state’ and didn’t know she was striking Mrs. Gore repeatedly. “I hit her, I hit her, I hit her and I hit her,” a sobbing Mrs. Montgomery told the jury. “I kept hitting her and hitting her. I stood back and looked at myself and I was covered in blood.”

I remembered the shock I felt, along with everyone else, since I was just a few years younger than the murder victim and the defendant. Is it possible, I thought, that a normal, rational human being could be driven to react in so violent a manner of self-defense? How could a woman, a mother, have done such a thing? And the names of the accused and the victim — you just couldn’t make this stuff up!

Jurors deliberated less than three and a half hours before finding Montgomery not guilty. She went on to move to Atlanta.

Jeffrey Weiss wrote a wonderful piece about the crime in the Dallas Morning News on the murder’s 30th anniversary in 2010. The murder really put Wylie, a town of about 3,700 people at the time, on the map.

Though we had just moved to Dallas and were still exploring, I learned more about the northern suburbs of Dallas and northern environs quickly from that case. It was all too surreal. Even the date — Friday the 13th, 1980.

Just like today.

When we first heard of the murder, people panicked, as we tend to do. Was it possible that a brutal ax murderer was loose in this sleepy suburban town, prowling the rows of Fox & Jacobs track homes to chop up housewives? I lived in North Dallas at the time, but was still afraid.

Gore’s body was not found until late that night.

Betty and Allan Gore lived in Wylie with their two little girls. Allan Gore was out of town on a business trip. When he couldn’t reach his wife by phone, he had neighbors check the house. They walked into the house and a grisly discovery: the bloodied remains of Betty Gore in the utility room, a baby crying in her crib, left unattended all that time.

There were bloody footprints and fingerprints, including one on the Gores’ freezer. I think they also found hair and other tissue traces in the shower. If I remember correctly, Candy had cleaned herself off in the Gore home after the murder. Soon we learned that this quiet woman had hacked her best friend to death, 28 blows to her head.

It was surreal.

Candace Montgomery and Allan Gore had had an affair that, she testified, ended months before the murder. The couples were “good friends.” In fact, on the day of the murder, the Gores’ child was in Montgomery’s care. She went over to the Gores’ house while the kids played at hers to pick up a bathing suit for Lisa Gore, age 5, who had spent the night at the Montgomery house.

What she testified in court was that Betty Gore had confronted Montgomery about the affair. Betty Gore was angry. Montgomery said that Gore went after her with an ax. The two struggled, and somehow Montgomery got control of the ax. She told the court that Betty Gore told her to “Shhhh” — and that triggered a response she didn’t know she had deep inside. Indeed,  a psychiatrist testified that the “Shhhh” uttered by Gore unleashed a repressed childhood memory from Gore that made her lose control, fueled an inner rage from her childhood, and resulted in the repeated blows that ultimately killed Gore.

“I hit her. I hit her. And I hit her. She fell slowly, almost to a sitting position. I kept hitting her. And hitting her. … I felt so guilty, so dirty. I felt so ashamed.”

But what about the house where this murder took place? 410 Dogwood Drive. Who lives there? Is it a happy house? According to Weiss’ story, people still drive by it.

The Montgomerys moved to Atlanta, and she apparently became a counselor; Allan Gore remarried (quickly, which always shocked me) and he also moved away. Apparently, that marriage ended in divorce, and Betty’s parents raised the two daughters, who must be nearing their 40s now. Sadly, Candace Montgomery’s skilled defense attorney, Don Crowder, took his own life in 1998. At the time, I recall talk that he had a brilliant career before him after her acquittal.

Like I said, you cannot make this stuff up.

Then two Dallas journalists, John Bloom and Jim Atkinson, wrote a book about the murder called Evidence of Love, upon which a movie was made called Killing in a Small Town, starring Barbara Hershey.

Maybe the next thing is to make a movie about that poor house.

This article was originally published on June 13, 2014. It’s since been edited for typos (ahem) in 2022.

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Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

97 Comments

  1. R. Rehbein on July 15, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    Re: “In fact, on the day of the murder, the Gore’s child was in Montgomery’s care.”

    You mean “Gores’,” not “Gore’s.”

    Gores’ would be plural possessive while Gore’s would be singular possessive.

    If you had written “On the day of the murder, Gore’s child was in Montgomery’s care,” then that would have worked, because you would be referring to only one of the Gores, but adding the word “the” indicates that you’re referring to both Gores, as in “the Gores’ child.”

    Re: “She went over to the Gore’s house while the kids played at her her’s to pick up a bathing suit for Lisa Gore.”

    Oops. This is more than just a typo. You made the same mistake in two consecutive sentences.

    It should be written as, “She went over to the Gores’ house,” not “the Gore’s house.”

    Oh, and I do see an actual typo – you have “her” written twice in that sentence, back to back. However, I will tell you what is not a typo – that you added an apostrophe to “hers,” making it “her’s.” There is no such word. “Hers” – without an apostrophe – indicates singular possessive. “Her’s,” as you wrote it, would translate to “her is,” which would make the sentence something like, “She went over to the Gore’s [sic] house while the kids played at ‘her is’ to pick up a bathing suit.”

    Her is? Her is what?

    Bizarre.

    So you are a journalist, or have worked in such capacity in the past?

    You indicate in this 2014 article that in 1980, you were just a few years younger than the 30-year old victim, Betty Gore. So you were probably born in the mid 1950’s. There is no excuse for your horrid writing. You were born well before the unfortunate and outrageous “dumbing down of America” commenced.

    It is egregious enough that reputable newspapers and magazines are now replete with errors and dreadfully poor writing, and have professional, yet thoroughly incompetent writers and journalists working for them.

    However, someone from your generation should not be among the semi-literate writers we showcase today. Shame on you.

    • KSEubanks on August 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm

      You seriously decided to leave a comment to correct someone’s grammar, spelling, and punctuation? You **do** know none of that stuff has anything at all to do with this article…right?
      Wow, just wow…

      • TxDRtooSlow on August 24, 2015 at 9:59 am

        She should have been found guilty. She’s as guilty as the other texas ladies, like Darlie Routier. GUILTY!

      • SusieQ on August 12, 2017 at 10:58 pm

        The bet is he’s off his meds.

      • Heatherfeather on November 27, 2017 at 8:11 pm

        Indeed!
        What kind of person spends that much time obsessing over someone’s grammatical errors?
        And writes such a nasty ten page angry diatribe of a response?
        Someone needs to come down a few notches and lighten up!

        • Sun DeLong on January 17, 2022 at 11:34 am

          Exactly! Don’t waste time for insignificant stuffs

      • Diana on June 29, 2020 at 9:55 pm

        I saw the errors too but decided not to criticize. I am a recovering spelling nazi. Just today, I was going through some corporate training materials that have been in circulation at my company for several years for a software platform that i wanted to get familiar with and it was replete with typos and grammar errors. My biggest annoyance is the misuse of the word “ran”. I hear this so frequently with younger people. I am about the same age as the author of this article, so I understand how to use that word when speaking or writing. But, younger folks use “ran” when they mean “run”, such as, “The software will be ran”. But, I see it so frequently now, I try to keep my former spelling nazi self under wraps. But, I do understand where you are coming from.

      • kristal on August 23, 2020 at 6:30 pm

        Agree!!!!! Why are people so judgmental, Bottomline this book is amazing!!!

      • John Wood on December 4, 2020 at 4:26 am

        Proper spelling and punctuation are essential in accurately conveying what is being described. Failing to do so is responsible for a confusing and/or erroneous account of a subject. And that has everything to do with this or any other article.

      • Caroline on January 17, 2021 at 6:12 pm

        Apparently this person is clearly trying to divert attention from the main topic, perhaps it is Candy herself or someone related to her who is trying to deflect attention from the real issue that is this psycho killer

    • Bob Dobbins on September 17, 2017 at 11:38 pm

      Bravo! Couldn’t agree more.

    • John Tate on September 26, 2017 at 2:08 pm

      Grammar Nazis amuse me. Do you have no life? You say there’s no excuse for the writer’s “horrid writing.” I think there’s no excuse for your horrid attack that rambled on and on like it was a such a terrible crime that made countless people suffer. Shame on you.

    • Michele Gavillan on October 31, 2017 at 9:10 am

      OMG! SERIOUSLY?
      DON’T YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THEN MAKE GRAMMER CORRECTIONS ON A DISCUSSION PANEL? WHO CARES, PPL ON THIS PANEL GET IT, ALSO NOT THAT SERIOUS, LOL! YES PLEASE GET A LIFE YOU SOUND SO RIDICULOUS, IKR KSEubanks I SO AGREE WITH YOU,
      ON ANOTHER NOTE THAT CRAZY CHICK SHOULD’VE WENT PRISON SHE KNEW FULL WELL WHAT SHE WAS DOING , UNBELIEVABLE HOW THAT LUNATIC WALKED AS WELL HUSBAND MARRIED WITHIN 2 MOS CLEARLY HE WASN’T THAT INTO HIS WIFE LET ALONE A GRIEVING HUSBAND HE WAS PATHETIC TOO, LIKE HOW DO YOU REMARRY AFTER SOMETHING SO HORRIFIC THAT JERK DIDN’T EVEN THINK ABOUT KIDS GIVING TIME GRIEVE FOR THEIR MOTHER YES BOTH PARTIES AT FAULT, KIDS LOST THEIR MOTHER ALL BEHIND HATE, JEALOUSY, MISERY, PURE EVIL,
      JUST SAD VERY SAD

      • Briana N Hunt on September 11, 2020 at 2:01 pm

        Ummm please calm down…maybe they just like the English way of speaking

    • Shelly on July 27, 2019 at 2:39 pm

      LOL
      Some people are beyond petty. Grammar police are always unpopular, especially nowadays. And I bet I spelled “nowadays” wrong.

      • Janice Robinson on April 19, 2023 at 12:00 pm

        Actually, it should be “And I bet I spelled ‘nowadays’ incorrectly”. The word “wrong” is an adjective, not an adverb.

        LOL

    • P W on July 7, 2020 at 5:33 pm

      You have serious issues and it’s too bad that you’re on here instead of in a psychiatrists office

    • Briana N Hunt on September 11, 2020 at 2:00 pm

      I like how detailed this person is in their grammar police moment

    • Laina B on September 14, 2020 at 7:22 pm

      Good for you. Doesn’t bad grammar, written even more than spoken, make you cringe?
      You caught a tough one.

    • Michelle on November 2, 2021 at 4:13 am

      Track homes should be tract homes as well.

  2. JournalistJulia on September 29, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    Hi! I am writing a news piece over the anniversary of the trial and was wondering if ou had any sources you could give me?

    Thanks

    • Candy Evans on September 29, 2015 at 5:44 pm

      No but we’d love to read your story!

    • Judy rISINGER on November 16, 2016 at 3:47 pm

      I will never forget the smirk she had on her face after the trail was over. It was scary. She knew she had gotten away with murder.

    • JezMyOpinion on March 31, 2017 at 5:22 pm

      Journalist Julia and Candy: Do you gals have any pieces on Darlie Routier?

  3. Gurgle on October 17, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    JournalistJulia, Candace Montgomery is a counselor in Dawsonville, GA. She goes by her maiden name Wheeler, but easy to google. Allan Gore is on Facebook as are both his daughters. Doesn’t seem that Candace would ever comment, but perhaps Mr. Gore and his children would be willing to interviewed.

  4. Cwright on December 26, 2016 at 11:20 am

    She was as guilty as Hell!

  5. Veronica on March 4, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    From the brutality that Candy committed should never be forgiven. The whole story sounds weird about the struggle Candy went through with Betty. Very disturbing but an innocent person was botched up and a woman that did that horrid thing got off scot free. Karma does have a way to come back and bite you in the ass.

    • John Tate on September 26, 2017 at 2:05 pm

      It’s over 37 years and Candy must be around 67, now. Karma is taking its time.

      • Karen Sweatman on March 27, 2018 at 6:11 pm

        Ever heard the old saying that the good die young? That means this evil witch will be breathing at 105.

  6. emily gold on October 13, 2017 at 4:31 am

    The way I see the truth is that CM and her team (lawyer, psychologist/psychiatrist) and whoever else it may have included inverted what had happened. I even believe that they moved around the time that things occurred in their version of the story. It is already obvious that CM was never a real friend to BG. CM was never really over her affair AG, but that he was over with it.
    So being inverting I mean I think CM was always the aggressor and reversed the story. She put the blame on the woman she murdered. I believe she hit BG in the back of the head right away and then BG was in big trouble from the start. CM’s sunglasses were found in the garage to reports I’ve read before like she went in the garage and got the ax losing her glasses. And there is just much more. It was already known how BG was quiet and had mental problems and had already had a stay in a mental place. That was a reason Plano ISD disqualified her from sources I got many years ago after the murder. BG was a teacher to someone I’m close to and I heard some things about her as a teacher.
    As far as CM goes it is obvious that she is/was dangerously crazy. I must be a big reason why she is in a counseling field. It’s very scary. I think it proves a lot in itself of her guilt that it was an offensive murder and not a defensive one.
    I don’t know how old Hartman elementary is but probably not old enough for BG to have taught there. I’m very close to someone who taught at that school and says that small objects like pencils would fly 10 to 20 feet off of tables and filing cabinets and such during quiet times when one or two teachers were working while the students were out of the room.

    • KB on January 1, 2018 at 2:51 am

      I think after the assailant herself described how she killed an innocent woman, wife, mother and teacher; then took a shower and went on with her day like nothing happened, even after admitting she had an affair with the woman’s husband, but yet found NOT guilty by jurors is the real CRIME!!
      Those 12 jurors should have been locked up in her place for letting her go free, along with psychiatric treatment. What a bunch of boobs! Justice was definitely BLIND in this case.

      • M MH on January 20, 2018 at 5:18 pm

        I agree!

      • Still Angry on July 17, 2019 at 11:15 am

        I live in Mckinney and was here at the time.,The prosecutor Tom Ryan messed up that trial! He withheld important evidence such as Montgomery’s sun glasses which were found in the garage! That means she went into that garage to get that axe! But the jury was totallyvto blame! They didn’t see all of the evidence. She should at least have been locked into a mental facility for along time!

      • Zazu22 on July 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm

        Agree

  7. Michelle Quinn on October 13, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    People Mrs mcgomery got off with. She served her time in a mental hospital now she is free living up North and got her degree as a Pyscologist can you image the advice she gives to people.
    Mrs Gore was my teacher and deserves a lot of respect and honor. She was a GREAT teacher I remember seeing her everyday after school teaching a girl from Mexico how to speak,read and write English. Mrs Gore bragged on her husband and the day she was killed Mr Gore was in Paris France on a business trip. He had sent her a dozen roses to school. Mrs Gore told the class she was pregnant and was waiting for her husband to come home and surprise him.
    I always wondered if Mr. Gore was behind his wife’s murder because of the life insurance and the fact he got remarried soon after Mrs Gore’s death

    • LizzieLizzard on October 27, 2017 at 9:32 pm

      He was in Minnesota. He was still in the United States. Where did you read he was in Paris, France?

    • Chris on October 30, 2017 at 9:40 pm

      It was Summertime, she was not in school teaching at the time! It’s always amazing how people want to claim they know someone when in fact they never did. I’m 50 years old and was 13 years old when this happened, and we lived a subdivision over from where The Gores lived and killing took place, I remember being scared to death to stay home by myself and at night even my mom was scared if my dad wasn’t home, but the biggest memory is one day shortly after they knew it was Candice that did the killing and we drove past her going through the subdivision and even at 13 years old it terrified me, Candice changed her hair to red and it was short and really curly and she looked Evil, her face literally looked evil! Thank God shortly after this happened we moved ( not because of this).

    • Michele Gavillan on October 31, 2017 at 9:21 am

      First I’d like to say I’m so sorry for the loss of your good teacher she didn’t deserve that my heart goes out to her kids, family, friends she didn’t deserve that that was so horrible I still don’t get how that which was able to walk away and to become a psychologist are you kidding me I wonder whatever happened to Mrs. Gore’s kids he knew that chick he was messing what was unstable he probably planned the whole thing somehow because the Mary 2 months after something so horrific happened to your wife and you have kids by it just makes you wonder definitely wouldn’t surprise me if he did. I do know there was absolutely no type of justice for Mrs. Gore or her babies none at all

  8. Chris on October 30, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    I forgot to add I know who it was making the prank phone calls and they were NOT to the Gore family or Betty’s Husband, the calls were made to Candy and they were taunting phone calls telling first “We know you killed Betty” then they were “You think you got away with Murder” I was surprised they brought up the phone calls on the show I watched on the ID Channel.

  9. Michele Gavillan on October 31, 2017 at 9:13 am

    R. Rehbein
    Your so ridiculous ABSOLUTELY absurd

  10. Lisa on November 1, 2017 at 1:19 am

    I just looked her up, she has 2 stars for ratings and a 1 star in google ratings, so must not be a great counselor – shocker.

    • DeeDee on November 27, 2017 at 11:11 pm

      I remember seeing the movie based on this when I was younger. I was so shocked to find out that this lunatic got off. She never even showed any remorse, and to this day, it angers me. Where is Karma? Something should have smacked this evil whench right in her face long before now, but it hasn’t. Betty’s kids had to grow up without a mother, because of this woman, AND their dad who couldn’t keep it in his pants. UGH! I hadn’t thought about this story in years until tonight when I watched a show about it on the ID channel. I got pissed all over again. What she did needs to be plastered all over the news, the newspapers in the city where she lives, etc. She needs to get hit in the face with this on a daily basis. And one last thing, the fact that she had the gall to become a counselor, angers me even more. How is she going to counsel others when she obviously has issues of her own.

      • Brenda letts on January 20, 2018 at 5:54 pm

        I couldn’t agree more!!!

    • M MH on January 20, 2018 at 5:22 pm

      Who is she? She changed her name from Candy…
      So how do you know her?

  11. Brenda letts on January 20, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    I can’t help wonder what really happened that day. I mean, candy went to Betty’s house to pick up the bathing suit. Betty was packing for a trip to go away with her husband. Maybe candy never got over the fact that the affair had been ended. Maybe she wanted what Betty had, her husband and her lifestyle. Maybe, just maybe, Betty knew absolutely nothing about the affair. She was just excited about her upcoming getaway with her husband. Candy was jealous that Betty had her husband back and he loved her enough to go to the marriage retreat and he realized that he didn’t want to lose what he had. I can imagine Candy telling Betty about the affair! Wanting to hurt her emotionally. Probably rubbing it in her face. Starting a fight that started as verbal then became physical when Candy found an ax and attacked her. There’s no doubt that Betty was terrified of that lunatic. Betty was the victim NOT Candy!!
    Whatever happened that Friday, June 13, 1980, Candy Montgomery got away with murder. She’s a cold blooded murderer that should’ve been put to death.

    • Cee on June 30, 2018 at 7:07 pm

      This is what I think happened as well. Candy started it verbally and then it escalated to pushing, shoving, hitting. All of it took place in the utility room or started elsewhere and moved into the utility room. Candy saw the ax. It was hanging in the garage, if I remember correctly, where the swimsuit was that she was supposed to pick up. She saw it, grabbed it, and went to town on that poor lady. Self-defense my patooty.

    • Janice P Robinson on June 4, 2021 at 8:13 pm

      There is no truth whatsoever in what you have cooked up here. Candy did not want Allan Gore, Betty had suspected the affair, Candy was not jealous of Betty, Candy ONLY told Betty about the affair because Betty point blank asked her if there had been one, and even then all she said was, “Yes. Did Allan tell you?” No rubbing of anything in anyone’s face. Candy did not start the fight, Betty did. She went and got the axe and threatened Candy with it.

      I get that it doesn’t feel good to acknowledge that a wife and mother who is lying dead, a bloody mess from 41 axe wounds, brought her death upon herself, but it’s the truth, and you don’t have the right to concoct a fantasy just because it’s what you want to believe.

  12. Pamela J on January 22, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    Candace is a psychopath and a pathological liar. Her whole “remembering” thing under that phony hypnosis garbage was beyond stupid. Made the jurors sound like a bunch of backwoods hicks. I knew in the 70’s that hypnosis was crap and I was in grade school back then. Only on TV or in the movies do psychics, hypnosis and telekinetic powers work. They don’t work in real life. Anyone claiming they’ve experienced a “real case” is either a gullible idiot or someone working as or for a con artist. SMH
    Candace should have gone to jail for life! The only good news IS that one day she will have to stand before Jesus and be held accountable for any sins she has not sincerely repented of.

    • Janice P Robinson on June 4, 2021 at 7:30 pm

      Hypnosis may be crap, but honestly it doesn’t matter. Leave all hypnosis out of it, and the fact still remains that Candy Montgomery hit Betty Gore with an axe because Betty threatened Candy with the axe, and thus it was self-defense.

      But I do have to say that it’s ironic that you disbelieve in hypnosis, psychics, and telekinetic powers, and then talk about standing in front of Jesus and being held accountable. There’s the same amount of proof existent for all four.

      • Wheeler on October 30, 2021 at 8:44 pm

        “The fact still remains that Candy Montgomery hit Betty Gore with an axe because Betty threatened Candy with the axe, and thus it was self-defence.”

        First of all the FACT is, it doesn’t take 41 wacks with an Axe for it to be self-defence, Candy could have only hit Betty once in the head and ran away, that is what is self-defence.

        Second, you are correct, Candy wasn’t jealous of Betty, Allan and Candy both decided to end the affair, if that’s what you want to call it, the two of them only hooked up for sex, and it was awkward for them both, and they both decided to not hook up anymore.

  13. Karen Sweatman on March 27, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    Another case of outrageous injustice. What shocks me is that it occured in Texas. Texans were fooled by a woman who faked being hypnotized. They believed the word “shhh” sent her into a state of “insanity” which caused her to butcher another woman with an ax, striking over 40 blows? She was so insane, she cleaned up, turned the newspaper to The Shining advertisement in hopes of making it look like a crazed copycat killer. Let’s not overlook the fact that she had an affair with the victim’s husband who left her to go back to his wife. She had all the motive in the world. The way she lied and covered up afterwards indicated she is a dishonest sociopath by nature. Perhaps most troubling of all is the fact that Texas let someone found to be criminally insane just walk free. No hospitalization, no meds, no psychiatric evaluation as to how safe this woman is to be in society? If someone says “shhh” to her, what will happen? Another gruesome murder? Of coarse not, because it was all fabricated nonsense. It’s absolutely mind boggling how anyone believed her lies. I hope this manipulative murderer rots in hell. That is where she belongs. As for the jurors who decided not to hold her accountable, perhaps we should be giving potential jurors IQ tests, because the rationale of this jury defies logic, and enters the realm of sheer stupidity.

    • Janice P Robinson on June 4, 2021 at 9:43 pm

      What proof do you have that Candy Montgomery was lying about anything?

      As for the “Shhhh” thing, I believe that’s pretty much nonsense as well. I believe it was something cooked up by Candy’s defense to bolster her case, but I also believe that it was completely unnecessary. Betty’s death was self-defense, and you don’t need a “Shhhh” or its resultant effect on Candy’s mind to make it self-defense. Betty went at Candy with an axe. But Candy got the axe and turned it on Betty. That’s self defense.

      You evidently believe that 41 blows makes it not self-defense. Not so. When someone comes at you with an axe, you are entitled to take as many blows as necessary to disable them, and Candy couldn’t be expected to know at what point exactly Betty could have survived her wounds and at that point exactly to stop defending herself. It doesn’t work that way. The human mind, when fueled with fear and adrenaline and trying to forestall death, doesn’t work that way.

      As for Candy having a motive, nonsense. The affair with Allan Gore had been over for months, Candy’s husband Pat had discovered it, he had forgiven Candy and they were working on their marriage. Candy did not want Allan Gore at the time that Betty attacked her, and, in fact, had never wanted him in the sense of wanting to marry him. She had never wanted to marry him. She proposed and indulged in the affair as a way to add some excitement to her life. That excitement would have been over the minute she and Allan said, “I do.” She never intended for either marriage to break up.

      So she tried to cover it up. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t self-defense. She panicked, and probably figured that people would automatically be against her because of the affair.

      The jurors reached the correct decision.

    • Janice P Robinson on June 5, 2021 at 5:32 pm

      Also, I just really noticed an error in your post , so I’m going to point it out, and then I will finally be finished with this several years old article and comment, lol.

      Candy Montgomery was not “found criminally insane”. She did not plead “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity.” She pled “Not Guilty Due to Self Defense.” Thus, when she was acquitted, there was no finding of insanity, and no reason or justification at all for “hospitalization, meds, or psychiatric evaluation.”

      A person who kills another person with an axe for no reason whatsoever may well be criminally insane. A person who kills another person with an axe because the other person was trying to kill him or her with an axe is engaging in self-defense, and acting in a perfectly sane, rational manner. The latter, not the former, describes Candy Montgomery.

      So you believe that Candy Montgomery would never kill again for the reason that she heard someone say, “Shhhh”? I agree with that. But take note that she hasn’t killed again at all, reason being that nobody else has ever again tried to kill her with an axe.

  14. J. Strick on May 8, 2018 at 11:20 am

    I know the person who lives in that house. It’s pretty cool.

    • Jeremy on June 3, 2018 at 6:23 pm

      J. Strick have you seen the utility room!?

  15. Shasta Brown on January 9, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    “She had been hacked to death by someone wielding an ax an estimated 41 times.”

    The way this sentence reads is someone wielded the ax 41 times, when it was really one incident in which the victim was hit 41 times.

    The defending attorney killed himself in 1999 not 1998.

  16. Carrie on February 10, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    I’ve always been fascinated by this case, and unlike a lot of people I believe it happens as described in the movie. Fight or flight response. Do any of us know what we would do when confronted by someone holding an ax? Would you just crouch in a corner and let the person hit you with it? Or would you fight hoping you would come out on the winning end? Well, let’s just hope none of us has to find out for sure. I think the horror of being in that situation is worse than any of us can imagine, and the response to it would be very primal, much like the movie. Maybe Candace becoming a psychologist was her way of coping with what she had done, maybe she wanted to understand what happened and help others in some way. I’m sure Betty Gore was a great person and great teacher, and people here may have known her. But they didn’t know her in *that* situation. No one really knows what they are capable of unless they have ever been in the same situation.

    • Seriously on February 12, 2019 at 2:01 pm

      I disagree. Fight or FLIGHT against a person swinging heavy 3 foot long ax while Im next to an open garage and unarmed…id choose FLIGHT.

      • Janice P Robinson on June 4, 2021 at 7:27 pm

        I believe that I’d think about the fact that the axe wielder has legs and is perfectly capable of running after me, so I’d choose FIGHT.

    • Dimension X on July 31, 2019 at 11:19 am

      Are you daft? “Fight or flight,” you hit someone until they are down, then you flee. Anything more goes beyond self-defense. In this case, 41 blows from an ax, goes FAR beyond self-defense.

      • Diana on June 29, 2020 at 10:08 pm

        Agreed. Usually that high number of hits with the ax shows extreme hatred and anger towards the victim.

      • Janice P Robinson on June 4, 2021 at 7:25 pm

        I’m going to reproduce here part of what I said below, because it speaks directly to what you said, and directly to the deep misunderstanding of the human psyche which is evident in your comment:

        when someone comes at you with an axe, and you manage to get hold of it in order to prevent your own death, there is no magic moment when it stops being self-defense. You’re terrified, your adrenaline is going, you’re not thinking like you would be thinking if you were sitting in an armchair watching this on TV, and all you want to do is make sure the maniac who went and got the axe doesn’t kill you. So you hit and you hit, and you hit some more and hit again, and it might be that you hit for quite some time after he or she is dead, because ALL you are thinking is “I WILL NOT LET THIS M—-F—– KILL ME!”

        • Boots on October 15, 2021 at 3:05 pm

          Candace Wheeler Montgomery AKA Janice P Robinson has entered the chat.

  17. R.Gar on April 27, 2019 at 9:27 am

    I’m so disgusted that Candy Montgomery walked free!!! She butchered a woman and because a sleazy attorney twists the story, this butcher walked free!!! Disgusting!!! No justice for the victims family. I hope Candy never enjoys life on this earth again!! She caused this from the start!, A selfish, selfish woman, shame on her and anyone, especially those supposed “church” people for supporting her!!! Shame on Allen the damn whimp, what a spineless, loser husband he was!!!!

  18. Dimension X on July 31, 2019 at 11:11 am

    She got away with murder. What she did went way beyond self-defense. It seems Karma has not caught up with her; I hope she is deeply unhappy to the bottom of her soul, and remains unhappy until the day she makes a full confession.

  19. Marvel on July 14, 2020 at 11:02 am

    Self defence – hitting someone 40 odd times???? She hit her in the head with the axe once in the back of the head – she could have left then and called the cops, but No…. Guilty.

  20. Janice P Robinson on June 4, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    I’m tired of the comments on this case that go like this, paraphrased: “Woman dead from 41 axe wounds, dead woman suburban wife and mother, must be MURDER, bad jury, bad, bad jury!”

    The fact is this WAS self-defense. It’s ludicrous to believe that Candy Montgomery went to Betty Gore’s that day with the intent to kill Betty. For one thing, she brought no weapons with her, and couldn’t have known that the Gores would have an axe sitting just off the utility room. Secondly, by some ridiculous assumption, if she were to go to the Gores’ house intending to kill Betty but deciding to rely on what the Gores had in their house for a weapon, then she would have grabbed a knife from the kitchen, not an axe she couldn’t have known existed. Then there’s the fact that Candy’s husband, Pat, had found about the affair, forgiven Candy, and they were working on their marriage. She had no motive to kill Betty Gore.

    Betty asked Candy if she and Allan had had an affair, Candy said yes, Betty went and got the axe, Betty threatened Candy with the axe, but in the end Candy got the axe and Betty, not Candy, was dead.

    Also, when someone comes at you with an axe, and you manage to get hold of it in order to prevent your own death, there is no magic moment when it stops being self-defense. You’re terrified, your adrenaline is going, you’re not thinking like you would be thinking if you were sitting in an armchair watching this on TV, and all you want to do is make sure the maniac who went and got the axe doesn’t kill you. So you hit and you hit, and you hit some more and hit again, and it might be that you hit for quite some time after he or she is dead, because ALL you are thinking is “I WILL NOT LET THIS M—-F—– KILL ME!” Do you get it now, people?

    And yes, then Montgomery panicked, realized she’d be tried for murder, and very incompetently tried to conceal her involvement. That’s no proof it wasn’t self-defense. Many people would have done the same. She was perhaps thinking that her affair with Betty’s husband would prejudice many people against her, and judging from the comments here, she was right.

    Betty’s death was horrible, and it’s sad that she never saw her children grow up and sad that they didn’t have her while growing up, and of course there were people who loved Betty and mourned her death, but still, in the end, she brought her death upon herself. Moral of the story: No matter how justifiably angry you are with another person, no matter that he or she had an affair with your spouse, no matter that you mistakenly believe that he or she might take your spouse away from you, it’s a bad idea to threaten people with an axe.

    • dana brancato on August 2, 2021 at 11:28 am

      hi janice – thank you for your insight. it sounds as if you knew candy on a personal level? I am a television producer working on a project for this case. I would love to speak with you if you did know either Betty or candy personally. my email is [email protected].

    • Truth Hurt on October 1, 2021 at 11:18 pm

      So is this what you tell yourself to justify what you did, Candy? This is so obviously you defending what you did. Karma will collect.

  21. Chris Kent on October 28, 2021 at 1:08 pm

    Even to this day, it is almost impossible to comprehend such disturbing overkill. Candy was enraged, furious, terrified, all of the above. Still doesn’t entirely explain swing number 15, 16, 17 to 41. Candy’s lawyer provided a good defense, offering a peculiar, if safe, explanation for the unthinkable. H.G. Wells once said, “Make a man sufficiently angry, and staring back at you are the red hot eyes of the caveman.” We don’t like to think a suburban, churchgoing housewife could turn into the “caveman.” But that’s what happened, a uniquely haunting contrast.

  22. Mercy on January 16, 2022 at 1:34 am

    Gee””sss lady,,or who ever. WHO cares.. if it’s are not dotted,etc…especially in such a horrible thing happened to a childs mother!! Where’s respect,any more?from some folks, God bless that baby..give her healing!!

  23. Chris Keathly on February 24, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    Betty Gore was my 5th-grade reading teacher and attended my church. The ladies did NOT attend the same church. This article also forgot to mention that Candace Montgomery said she did not do it until the last minute and changed to self-defense. The attorneys prosecuting the case did not prepare for self-defense only proving that she did it. They were thus ill-prepared and lost. Candace not only did not go to jail but paid no damages and made money with a TV show, a book, and then was offered a movie deal which Alan from what I understand said no finally. So we have an affair which I believe was admitted to, a murder which left lives forever changed and Candace makes money on the deal. Now two more groups are planning on making shows about it, I guess Candace needs more cash. Hope that will not require another loss of life.

  24. GibsonGirl on March 17, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    With the exceptions of R. Rehbein (2015-grammar comment), Michelle (2021-pointing out that the ‘realtor’ who wrote the original text used the incorrect term for the home of the victim), and Janice P. Robinson (2021-logical, grammatical [in the main], and obviously a close reader of the original book published on this subject) most of the comments here are exactly what one expects of commenters on the Internet. The views of each writer, to which they are entitled. Most expressed poorly, with logic or reason scarcely evident.

    ‘Boots’ (2021) accuses Ms. Robinson of being Candace Wheeler Montgomery without evidence, which is SOP [Standard Operating Procedure] for such fora. Luckily, no one else jumped on to this eagerly offered bandwagon.

    The final [to date] comment by one Chris Keathly is, however, the most egregious. The book, “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs” was written by John Bloom and James R. Atkinson, with a copyright date of 1983. The Library of Congress lists “Montgomery, Candace Lynn” as a SUBJECT, tied to the title by Bloom and Atkinson. Unless and until she writes her own book, any monies paid for the story will be to the copyright holders of the above noted book, if it is used as the basis for a screenplay. If a screenplay is based on publicly available information, such as that contained in newspaper, magazine, or televised news stories from the time period in which the event occurred, then payment would go to the copyright holders of said items, unless copyright has expired or been allowed to lapse by said copyright holders. A cursory search of the relevant titles on the IMDb would have revealed as much, so readers of this comment thread might have cause to doubt your investigative abilities, Mr. or Ms. Keathly. Another cursory search of WorldCat (a library utility for the US) reveals no titles that can be definitively tied to the acquitted Candace Lynn Wheeler Montgomery.

    The upshot? All of us are entitled to our own opinions. I, along with R. Rehbein, wish only that they were expressed more cogently, with correct spelling. Writing is communication, and thus should always be as clear, cogent, and as thoroughly correct as possible.

  25. LogicalHuman on April 16, 2022 at 3:09 pm

    Does this case set a precedent that people have a place and legal method to fulfill their killing fantasies without any consequences?

    Based on this case does it reason that a man can enter a woman’s residence and take her life with an axe, knife or gun and be innocent of their actions depending on the place and description of the events that occurred?

    For example, let’s say a woman is found lifeless with massive head trauma that caused her expiration. A man is found to have caused the trauma.

    What if he says, “She had an axe/knife/gun. She tried to kill me first. I axed/stabbed/shot her head. She was still alive. I axed/stabbed/shot her head until half her face and skull were removed so I could to be sure she would not be able to kill me.”

    Would the size or age (10, 20, 40, 70) of the deceased have any bearing on the determination of guilt or innocence?

    If they knew this would Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, etc have been alive and ki!!ing (*ahem*…typo…meant “kicking”)

  26. Susan Trager on May 9, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    I just saw this on line and was reading all of the comments. If I had been on the jury I would have said guilty. How does anyone know what went on that day? How do we not know that Candace picked up the axe first in a fit of rage because she did not like what Betty said to her? Why did the defense attorney kill himself? Does anyone know? It was said that Betty Gore was unconscious and was lying on the floor. At that point Candace could have left and Betty might still be alive. No. She wanted to kill her because then Betty would have been able to testify to the truth and Candace would be in prison. This way she purposely killed her and then fabricated the no merit self defense story. How could you kill your best friend ? How could you live with yourself? How could you hit someone so hard that you tear the other person’ s face off? Sounds like she had a lot of strength and hatred because those axes are heavy. How could you have an affair with your best friend’s husband? Nice friend. I always thought the law read for example: If someone slaps you then you cannot shoot that person in the head. You can hit back but not with more force than what was done to you. Please Janice Robinson don’t serve on any juries. Everyone has their opinion but I don’t agree with you. I don’t care what you think but it sounds like Candace Wheeler Montgomery has an anger management problem. She could strike again given the right circumstances. I can’t believe she is a counselor and people go to her for advice. I also can’t believe the jurors’ verdict. I also wonder what would have happened if the shoe was on the other foot and if Betty Gore would have had an affair with Candace’s husband? I wonder what Candace would have done then? I believe you have to be accountable for your actions. .Did the family of Betty Gore try and sue Candace Montgomery?
    This story reminds me of Lizzie Borden. She hacked her parent to death and was acquitted. It happened many years ago..

  27. Jenny on May 10, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    This is really bad writing. Ugh

  28. Susan Trager on May 10, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    To Jenny: This is a website where you can voice your opinion about the Candace Montgomery murder case not to tear down someone else’s opinion. Like my mother always said if you can’t say something nice about me don’t say anything at all.

  29. Abigail Parker on May 13, 2022 at 5:37 pm

    And we are to take the word of someone who wacked her friend 43 times that it was in self defense. Sure…

  30. Sweet D on May 14, 2022 at 12:30 am

    Hmm, if Betty knew about the affair, why would she let her daughter stay at the house of the woman who had an affair with her husband?

  31. Beverly Roberts on May 15, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    Seriously? Correct in the writers grammar. I think most of us can overlook the typos or intentional mistakes without your help.

  32. Karen Eubank on May 17, 2022 at 1:24 pm

    I just watched the Hulu series, which I thought was extremely well done. What stood out to me is the line “Who uses an ax?”
    I had just moved to Dallas when this was going on. I have to imagine Candy had some serious mental issues and a lot of repressed rage that finally came out. BUT, if she wanted to kill Betty, and had considered it if it was not an act of sudden rage, then there were much easier ways. Once a rage episode is over, from what I’ve read, it’s like a balloon has deflated and the person is in a trance-like state, so the cleaning up would have been a mechanical response to being covered in blood. So, to me, the story makes a lot of sense.

  33. John on May 18, 2022 at 4:19 pm

    May 2022 and way past losing count on Texas Jurys screwing up a case. This was 1980 and do believe the people in Texas have regressed. Flat out sickening and sad. This just the cases that we heard in media. Think we can imagine how many times got jt wrong the other way. Jurys mess up, but no state even close to ignorance of Texas. Sad

  34. Janice P. Robinson on May 28, 2022 at 1:54 pm

    Hey it’s me again. I’ve seen the accusations (how seriously meant, I can’t be certain) that I am Candy Montgomery, and thought I’d set the record straight.

    I am not Candy Montgomery. I am not related to Candy Montgomery. I have never met Candy Montgomery, and have no reason to believe that I will ever meet her.

    The closest I have ever come to Candy Montgomery: When I was living in Tyler, Texas, in the mid 1980s, my husband had a co-worker whose husband said, at a party, that he had interviewed Candy Montgomery. This was pre-internet, and because the book “Evidence of Love” did not have photographs, I had no idea what Candy Montgomery looked like. So I asked this husband’s co-worker’s husband (and I don’t remember what his name was—-in fact, I don’t remember the co-worker’s name) if Candy Montgomery was pretty, lol. He said she was not pretty. We spoke no further about Candy Montgomery.

    So, no, I am not Candy Montgomery. But I have had life experiences that most people have not, and these experiences have led me to have more sympathy than most for people who are falsely accused of a crime. They have made me more sensitive than most to the injustice of not being believed because of the widespread assumption that the accused would not have been accused if he or she were not guilty, and because of the widespread assumption that the authorities can never be wrong.

    My heart goes out to people who have been legally exonerated yet cannot escape slanders based upon wrong-headed assumptions.

    I have little tolerance, and no respect, for the simple-minded thinking which leads people to believe that because Betty ended up dead and Candy did not, and because Candy committed adultery while Betty did not, this means that Betty could not have been the aggressor and Candy had to be.

    As someone correctly surmised, I was a close reader of the book about Candy’s case, and I came away from it with the firm conviction that what Candy said happened is the only sequence of events that makes sense. If you don’t think so, it’s unlikely that you’ve looked closely into this case, so I would advise you to do so before making a judgment based solely on emotion and prejudice.

  35. Janice P. Robinson on May 29, 2022 at 1:30 pm

    Yes, fine,have it your way. I am Candy Montgomery. I walked out of the courtroom forty years ago after my acquittal to cries of “Murderer!” and I knew right then that I would live under a cloud of notoriety for the rest of my life and that most people would think of me as just that for the rest of my life, I knew then that I would have to ignore these slings and arrows for the rest of my life, that it would be impossible to change every mind and futile to try, and that the only way to rise above it was to ignore it, yet I’ve chosen this time and this place to come to this obscure website, to purposely look at comments that I know are going to be uninformed and hurtful, to defend myself. Yes, exactly.

    Also, it’s obvious that I am the only person in the world who was charged with a crime I did not commit and that my family members are the only people in the world who are related to someone who was accused of a crime that he or she did not commit, therefore, it is utterly impossible for anyone who is a stranger to me to empathize with me.

    You’re happy now, I hope.

  36. Janice P. Robinson on May 29, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    To Sweet D.: Most likely, Betty suspected the affair on some level, but before she asked Candy about it, she had not yet admitted it to herself on a conscious level. The emotions were brewing somewhere below the surface, but she had never yet formed the words in her mind, “I wonder if Allan and Candy had an affair?” This is not uncommon when human brains are forced to confront painful truths. The mind engages in a form of self protection by pushing the conscious thought down whenever it threatens to arise. If Betty had started treating Candy like a woman who had hurt her, refusing to allow her daughter into her presence, that would have been an admission of something that her mind was not yet ready to admit.

    Obviously, this form of self protection finally failed when Candy was at Betty’s house that day, leading her to ask Candy whether or not she and Allan had an affair. Notice, even then, that it was framed as a question, meaning that Betty did not KNOW they’d had an affair. She had merely suspected it.

    As for why it happened then, nobody can know for certain, but it’s true that Betty was in a bad state mentally. She had suffered from depression and anxiety since the birth of her first child. (It’s rather ironic that so many here have accused Candy of being “crazy” and in need of psychiatric care, when the truth is that Betty, not Candy, was the one who had psychiatric issues.) And that morning, she had been particularly depressed and anxious, mainly because she feared she was pregnant again. (As it turned out, she was not.) Allan had had to give her a pep talk before he could leave on his business trip. She was in a particularly vulnerable state—most likely that’s why her defensive wall finally came down.

  37. Janice P. Robinson on May 29, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    To Susan Trager: To compare what happened between Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore to a hand slap vs. a gun is specious. There is a huge difference between the damage a hand can do and the damage a gun can do. A gun is a far more lethal weapon than a hand. And you are speaking of two different weapons: A hand and a gun.

    But in the Candy Montgomery case, there was only one weapon: An axe. It could wield the same deadly results in either one of the women, if the other woman managed to gain control of it. They were both facing the same deadly weapon, and the same possible damage, unlike the scenatrio you draw in which one person is facing only a hand and the other a gun.

    So whichever of them gets killed in the axe scenatrio, who is to blame? The person who introduced the axe into the equation. In other words, Betty Gore.

  38. Janice P. Robinson on July 7, 2022 at 9:05 am

    From what I have been able to gather, there are two types of people who don’t believe that Betty Gore’s death was self defense:

    The Bad Adulteress Storytellers. These are the people who are predisposed to disbelieve Candy’s recitation of the facts because they have pre-judged her for having an affair with a married man while she herself was married. The y choose to believe that Candy attacked Betty with the axe, not vice versa. They spin tales about Candy still wanting Allan Gore, Candy being jealous of Betty, Candy taunting poor innocent Betty about the affair, Candy making sure ahead of time that Betty’s older daughter was not at the “crime scene”, Candy going into the baby’s room, getting her bloody, and then washing her, and more fairy tales. (Note: Not all of these tales were told by commenters on this website. Some I have seen on other websites.) I tell them that I want to join story time, too! Then I say that aliens came to Earth, killed Betty, and then planted a false memory in Candy’s brain. Why not? It’s all the same.

    And then there are the “You’ve Got To Keep Your Cool When You’re Attacked With An Axe” people. They believe that Betty did attack Candy first, but they say that Candy inflicted too many axe blows for it to be self-defense. Yes, Candy Montgomery, after Betty Gore attacked her with an axe, at some point became enraged, felt that she hated Betty, and this fueled a great deal of adrenaline and more axe blows than it takes to kill. But these people believe that a person has no right to a rage response when attacked with an axe, and/or it’s impossible that the rage was caused solely by the attack, and that if there is a rage response, self-defense becomes murder or manslaughter. I believe none of that.

    I believe that Betty did attack Candy first. Candy was backed into a confined space by an unbalanced woman who then attacked her with an axe It’s frustrating and irritating that people who have never been attacked with an axe are oh so certain of what they would or would not do if they were, and feel that they have the knowledge and experience to judge Candy.

  39. Rani kaur on August 9, 2022 at 10:04 am

    Having an affair is one thing but then continuing to behave like nothing happened and wanting to remain close with the family, is extremely selfish. Even if Janice Robinson is not Candy, she definitely sees only one point of view. I believe candy was unhappy, unfulfilled and a narcissist which is why she had the affair(s). Continued to remain “fake” friends with the family. She was condescending towards Betty and when she thought maybe Betty was pregnant and going on this wonderful trip to Spain – which is not attainable for many people
    In todays time and age – she just had to rain on Betty’s parade and say mean and hurtful things in her condescending way. I believe years of repressed emotions and being in an unhappy marriage made her snap that day. CANDY’s glasses were found in the garage..and no explanation has ever been given for this. Candy herself said the door to the garage was locked. I believe Candy brought the axe in to the situation. Even if Candy wasn’t the culprit, she is definitely a mean mean selfish person. Staying friends with Betty after the affair and acting like she was a good friend was the reason this incident took place in the first place. Candy should never have been at Betty’s house or continued to be her “fake” friend. She did this because she needed a play mate for her own daughter. Candy’s narcissistic behavior is what led to the tragedy and whether she was innocent or drawing first blood she was guilty in so many other ways and the true root cause of the events of that day.

  40. Rani kaur on August 9, 2022 at 10:15 am

    I also believe that candy needed to be the center of attention and her fear that Betty might expose her affair – even if it was over – would make others think less of her and this is something that Candy could never tolerate: She needed to be the center of attention. Her excessive rage and anger would also erupt if Betty said she would tell everyone what candy had done. It’s so sad but candy and her legal team won because the prosecutor was definitely not prepared for self defense. Allan gore clearly was a flaky guy as well so Betty really had no one rallying behind her. Allan also changed his story about his break up with Candy to making it seem mutual. That would have weighed heavily with the jury as well. Betty’s own husband seemed to side more with candy. This is what happens when a truly selfish woman inserts herself into a family’s life. Candy approached Allan to start the affair. Candy went to the Gore residence that day as this fantastic family friend taking Betty’s daughter to her swimming lessons and popping peppermints into her mouth as she swam…all on the day she had just slaughtered her mother to death. Candy is not a good person. She has a very evil side to her. The death of Betty Gore is not the only bad thing she had done. It’s her whole outlook on life and her approach to others. She thinks of only herself in every situation and her own needs.

  41. Neighbor on May 13, 2023 at 11:55 pm

    Anyone who thinks the HULU show was accurate doesn’t know anything about what really happened, I can tell you first hand Candy was an absolutely crazy person, she wanted Allen so bad, but he didn’t want her, Candy was known as the woman who ( if you hold a snakes head long enough, she would screw it) no joke, Candy was a whore, as sad as that is. The Killing traumatized a lot of people, 41 times with an Axe is NOT self-defense, and by the way, the laundry room was very very small, Candy could have ran right out of there as soon as Betty hit the floor.

  42. Neighbor on May 14, 2023 at 12:26 am

    Candy got away with murder, Betty could NEVER have prevented Candy from leaving that laundry room, there were 2 doors, and Betty could NOT have held her body against 2 doors to prevent Candy from escaping, Candy only had run out of either door, but she decided to stay and wack Betty 41 times with axe.

  43. Ziggy on May 17, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    We will never know the truth unfortunately. The story is unbelievable! I watched all the television series with the different portrayals of Candy. I do believe Candy was a very confident person to carry on the way she did. Very strong minded as well. I’m surprised someone so strong minded could be hypnotized so easily.

  44. Sandra on June 20, 2023 at 12:29 pm

    Back to the grammar issue: If you are going to leave a comment attacking someone else’s grammar, be very certain not to make any of your own, The decade should be written as “the 1950s.” No apostrophe, please.

  45. Janice Robinson on June 28, 2023 at 12:14 am

    To Neighbor: You can tell us “first hand” that Candy was blah, blah, blah? That means you knew her personally, correct? It can’t mean anything else. If so, prove it. If not, then you know nothing “first hand”.

    As for your allegation that Candy was “a whore”. 1. That’s misogynistic and 2. Yet it’s helpful because it indicates the real reason that you don’t believe Candy’s account: She violated your personal moral code. Because of that, not because of the evidence.

    Betty was physically larger than Candy. When Candy tried to leave by the door to the rest of the living quarters, Betty blocked her way. When Candy turned because Betty was blocking her way, Betty then got between Candy and the door to garage. At that point the struggle for the axe began and Candy was not free to exit, because she could not do so while being certain that Betty was not coming up behind her with the axe.

    Sure, Candy could have “walked right out of there” after Betty was down, IF she had not been in a state of terror and shock, pumped up with adrenaline caused by BETTY’s attack on her, an adrenaline fueled state of terror that did not, oh I’m so sorry, dissipate the nanosecond that Betty was not able to continue to attack.

    I’ve said this I don’t know how many times in discussing the case but I’ll say it again: It amazes me that people who have never been attacked by an axe wielder and who are very unlikely to ever have to face an axe wielder, feel that they have the right to judge Candy Montgomery, who was and did.

  46. Janice Robinson on June 28, 2023 at 12:20 am

    To Susan Trager: I’ve come back and re-read your comment and this time it made me laugh:

    What, you became angry and enraged because Betty Gore tried to kill you with an axe? Wow, Candy, you have a real anger management problem!

    LOL

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