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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Love & Death In Elizabeth Olsen’s first television series since the 2021 Disney+ hit WandaVision, the formidable actor plays the notorious Candy Montgomery—a real woman who killed the wife of the man she was having an affair with in 1980. The HBO Max limited series Love & Death, which is based on Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs’ 1984 book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, follows Olsen as Montgomery, a God-fearing housewife beloved by her small Methodist community in Collin County, Tex. before the turn of events that would upend many lives. Jake Giles Netter/HBO Max When we first meet Candy, she has an infectiously sweet personality that makes her, by all appearances, a great mother to her kids and wife to her husband, Pat Montgomery (Patrick Fugit). Candy and her husband seem to have some marital woes, and it’s clear that she feels less desired by her husband than she wishes to be. So she sets out to have an affair with Allan Gore (Jesse Plemons), a longtime friend who is also in her group of church friends and is married to Betty Gore (Lily Rabe). The pair’s love affair heats up quickly, and their rendezvous become more frequent, so they decide to stop seeing each other. But Betty catches on and confronts Candy about the affair. Betty’s rage takes over, and she tries to kill Candy with an axe, but Candy fights back and kills Betty. At first, Candy tries to circumnavigate the judicial process, lyin...

In the finale of the Max Original limited series Texas Monthly is an executive producer) , viewers finally see the bloody axe killing at the heart of the Candy Montgomery case. While everybody watching knew the scene was coming (it had been teased for six episodes), it was still absolutely terrifying—the ferociousness of Candy’s attack was shocking, her savagery beyond doubt. So (spoiler alert) how in the world did the jury find her not guilty of murder? To understand the acquittal, you have to go back a couple of episodes, to a scene in a dark doctor’s office. Candy, played by Elizabeth Olsen, sits in the office of psychiatrist Fred Fason (Brian d’Arcy James), and closes her eyes. She’d agreed to be hypnotized in order to find out what exactly happened the morning of June 13, 1980, when she went to the house of her friend Betty Gore (Lily Rabe) in Wylie, Texas, to pick up a swimsuit but wound up hacking Betty to death with an axe. Candy and Betty’s husband, Allan, had recently ended an affair—something Allan would insist Betty never knew anything about. But according to Candy, Betty confronted her about the affair early in the visit, leading to a violent fight. Candy had maintained that she acted in self-defense—that Betty had come after her first. But that didn’t explain why Candy whacked Betty repeatedly—41 times, in fact. Why had Candy, as a prosecutor on the show put it, “pulverized Betty Gore’s face into a soft mulch”? It was Fason’s job to figure this out. In Love &...

The American suburb, with its neatly mown lawns and white picket fences, has long been Revolutionary Road, but also by real life cases—most notably the serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a cheery suburban businessman who murdered more than 30 people in the 1970s. And around the same time, in the small town of Wylie, TX, came the case of Candy Montgomery, whose savage crime is the subject of HBO Max’s new series Love & Death. Here’s a primer on the key facts to know. Candy Montgomery was a law-abiding, church-going housewife before she met the Gores. In 1977, when Candy was 28, she and her husband Pat Montgomery moved to Wylie, TX, a picturesque suburb about 30 miles northeast of Dallas. There, the center of their social world was the local methodist church, where Candy and Pat befriended a local couple named Betty and Allan Gore. Betty and Allan’s marriage was on the rocks; Allan traveled a lot for work, leaving Betty alone for days at a time, and her own job as an elementary school teacher often left her exhausted. Meanwhile, Candy was growing bored of her life with Pat, and had started talking openly with friends about the possibility of having an affair. Per Candy and Allan were both more outgoing than their spouses, and were involved in church activities and local sports teams. They began spending more and more time together, and by the summer of 1978, they’d developed an intense flirtation. But instead of falling passionately into an affair, the pair spent months cautious...

There’s something about crime shows that pique the audience’s attention, especially when it’s an actual crime show. As horrible as it may sound, actual crime shows are based on real-life events that make them even more relatable. Surprisingly, there’s an ever-growing audience for crime shows because of all the mysteries packed into them. One such show making waves is Candy. It tells the story of Candy Wheeler, 42 years after she killed her lover’s wife. Although acquitted by the court of law, it is one murder that has had the public feeling justice has not been served. Whatever the position of viewers, Betty Gore’s murder still largely has many unanswered questions. One such question is why anyone strikes another with an axe 41 times in self-defense. Hulu’s True Crime Series Called Candy Candy, known internationally as Candy: A Death in Texas, is an American biographical crime drama. It is a miniseries created by Nick Antosca and Robin Veith for Hulu. The 5 episode series retells the story of Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore. In Candy, Jessica Biel portrays Candy Montgomery, with Melanie Lynskey portraying the murdered Betty Gore. Like its real-life story, Candy is set in the suburban part of Wylie, Texas, in 1980. Who Was Candy Wheeler And Betty Gore? Candy Wheeler, known as Candy Montgomery at the time, moved to Wylie, Texas, with her husband, Pat Montgomery, in 1977. As Christians, they soon became active members of the First United Methodist Church of Lucas. It ...

As a result of learning about her husband The killer further claimed that the victim lost control of the weapon at one point, which resulted in a struggle between the two women. When the alleged struggle reached its climax, Candy claimed Betty was the aggressor, which is why she ended up brutally killing her with the ax.

The resurgence of the true crime story of Candy Montgomery has been a phenomenon in and of itself. The case of the axe murder of Betty Gore on Friday the 13th, 1980 by her friend and fellow church member Candy Montgomery was one of the most gruesome and scandalous cases to hit the small Texas town of Wylie. Yet much of the story remained untold, captured only once in the 1990 Lifetime movie A Killing In a Small Town starring Barbara Hershey. However, in the last year, not one but two series were developed based on this true crime case. Hulu created Candy starring Love and Death starring Candy Montgomery was a small-town Texas housewife, active in her local church, and reportedly a friend and neighbor to all. Yet beneath her demure demeanor lurked a dark secret – she was a murderer. The discovery of Betty Gore’s body shocked the town, as the suspect was unknown, and the murder itself was especially gruesome. Betty was struck 41 times with an axe with her baby just in the next room. Many wondered if it was the work of a drifter, some depraved unknown assailant who had been intent on robbing the woman and whose plan had fallen apart at the last minute. No one would have ever suspected that someone within the town would be responsible, let alone a friend of Betty’s. Yet before long, the dark truth came out, Betty’s close friend Candy Montgomery had not only been having an affair with her husband, Allan, but she was also responsible for Betty’s death. Here’s our review of which...