Crime & Real Estate
April Towery: We were thrilled to find architect Stephen Chambers, the man who designed a stunning home in the late 1970s for Candy Montgomery, who infamously was acquitted of killing her friend Betty Gore with an ax. An excerpt from the true crime tome on the case reads, “They got the land for $10,000. The…
Stephen Chambers was just starting out decades ago as a young Dallas architect when he was approached by Candy and Pat Montgomery to design their perfect home. It would become “the best party house” in eastern Collin County — a prominent backdrop in Candy, the Hulu miniseries about a gruesome 1980 Dallas-area murder in the…
A Frisco developer who bilked more than 300 people out of millions of dollars in a real estate investment scheme was sentenced this week to 45 years in state prison. Christian Custom Homes CEO Phillip Michael Carter also was ordered to pay $30 million in restitution. Carter also served as the principal of Texas Cash…
Take a spin down Dogwood Drive in Wylie, just a couple of blocks off the city’s historic downtown, and you wouldn’t know a brutal ax murder occurred on this quiet residential street in 1980. The home itself isn’t particularly remarkable, but it has certainly drawn its share of gawkers since the true crime mini-series Candy…
Four North Texas real estate financing executives have been found guilty on 10 federal counts of fraud. According to evidence presented at trial, executives for Grapevine-based United Development Funding orchestrated a scheme to mislead investors and the SEC about their funds’ performance. Founded in 2003, UDF used a family of five funds – UDF I,…
