Candy Montgomery

Elizabeth Olsen will play Montgomery in the HBO Max series Love and Death, due for release in March 2023.

Jessica Biel plays Montgomery in the Hulu/ Disney + Star Original series Candy, which debuted in May 2022.

The 1990 television movie A Killing in a Small Town is based on the case.

Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, a book examining the case and events following the trial, written by Dallas-based journalists John Bloom and Jim Atkinson, was released in January 1984.

Montgomery underwent a polygraph test prior to the trial, which indicated that she was being truthful. District attorney Tom O'Connell argued that Montgomery could have fled the scene instead of attacking Gore. He also argued that attacking 41 times was disproportionate. Montgomery was subsequently found not guilty on October 30, 1980, by a jury consisting of nine women and three men.

Montgomery, who was 30 years old at the time of the incident, was married to Pat Montgomery, an electrical engineer. The couple had two children—a son and daughter. They moved to Collin County, Texas, in 1977, where they regularly attended the Methodist Church of Lucas. Montgomery became close friends with Gore, a middle school teacher, after meeting her at a church service. Gore lived nearby with her two children and her husband, Allan, with whom Montgomery engaged in an extramarital affair.

Candace "Candy" Lynn Montgomery (née Wheeler; born November 15, 1949) is an American homemaker. She was accused of murdering Betty Gore, the wife of her lover. The killing took place in Wylie, Texas, on June 13, 1980. During the assault, Gore was struck 41 times with a wood splitting axe.