The reason? Candy had been sleeping with Betty’s husband, Allan, the previous year, and Betty found out. On the stand, Candy told jurors she had killed Betty in self-defense after her friend flew into a rage and threatened to kill her.
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Their 5-year-old daughters were friends as well, and Betty’s older daughter had been sleeping over at Candy’s house when her mother was killed.īut it was Candy’s defense, laid out in an October 1980 trial that drew hundreds of spectators, that truly shook the town. Candy had even thrown Betty a baby shower the previous year. Candy and Betty had been friends, and both were active members of the same church. The second shock to the community came when authorities arrested Candice “Candy” Montgomery, also a 30-year-old wife and mother, for the slaying. The residents of the small North Texas town were flabbergasted by the brutality of the crime, newspapers reported. Her 1-year-old daughter sat in her crib, abandoned and screaming for hours. Betty, a former fifth-grade teacher, had been struck more than 25 times with a 3-foot ax in a brutal attack that an official at the time said left her nearly dismembered, with deep wounds across her face. On Friday, June 13, 1980, a 30-year-old mother of two named Betty Gore was discovered murdered in her home in Wylie, Texas.
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