"Deadly Faith" Episode 41: Betty Gore Part 1 The House Wife Ax Murder of Texas Podcast Episode 2024
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Montgomery pleaded not guilty to charges of murder on the basis of self-defense, alleging that Gore confronted her about an affair she had with Gore's husband and attacked her with the axe. We were already on our path, instead of watching something else with a different approach to it. Though I respect everyone has their own way of looking at material.
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When the Gores got in the car to go home, the radio happened to be broadcasting the wrap-up show for the Dallas Cowboys game. Allan switched it off; it was just noise to him, part of a past life. In retrospect, she would see that it had been inevitable. Sex or no sex, she and Allan had both come to look forward to their daily conversations, their shared confidences, their joint dependence. Lately they had been exchanging funny little greeting cards, and whenever Candy had to drive into Richardson on an errand, she would stop at Allan’s office and place gifts under his windshield wiper. Sometimes Allan would go out to check his car even when he was staying for lunch, just to see if he had any brownies or homemade candy waiting for him.
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” I have to believe something deep cracked open there. The TV show relies on facts from the real-life case, leaning on several accounts of the story from different angles. However, it is also a dramatization of real-life events, which means it has to fill in the gaps with fictional plot lines. It was less a counseling session than a total-immersion experience.
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Allan was just as satisfied by the lunchtime rendezvous and was looking forward to the next one. When he went back to work, he felt weak the rest of the afternoon. They didn’t make the final decision that day, but after Allan left, Candy thought to herself, “How much farther can you go? ” They had already made too big a deal of something that should have been more natural. It wasn’t as though Allan Gore was her fantasy man or anything. When Pat Montgomery married Candy Wheeler in the early seventies, he was one of the brightest young electrical engineers at Texas Instruments.
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Though it had the tacit approval of the church, it was run by laymen. It began with a Friday-night dinner at which the rules were explained. Spouses were to be at each other’s side at all times.
Later one of Candy’s attorneys, Robert Udashen, consulted on both series, the Lakewood Advocate reported. Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to some 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms. Moneymaker, 39, is a former member of the music group Expose.
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Each series takes a look back at the harrowing tale of the two churchgoing couples enjoying small-town family life, until that fateful Friday the 13th of June 1980. But I think we tried in our way of telling the story to answer a lot of those questions. It really does end up resting with the complications of who we are as humans. And I wish there were easy answers, but there don’t ever seem to be. We are so much more complicated and things that people do and feel and can’t talk about and wish they could talk about and wish they could communicate about and, if only. If only a few things had been different that day.
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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. 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.
Allan was concerned since Betty was not answering her phone all day. Montgomery told him she saw Betty that morning to pick up Alisa's bathing suit and said Betty seemed impatient for Montgomery to leave. She falsely said that Betty was doing okay and was busy sewing. When it was already nighttime, Montgomery found out from others that Betty might've died. The news broke around town the next morning, when Alisa was still over at the Montgomerys' house, according to Texas Monthly. After Candy Montgomery killed Betty Gore, she went about her day as usual.
After all, people had gone to jail for far less, and so this felt like a case where justice wasn't being served, according to the Dallas Morning News. Plus, immediately after the news of Betty Gore's death, they'd all been terrified, thinking this was the work of a mass murderer. Montgomery had to be escorted by security since she had received a death threat, and it was then that she finally broke down into tears. As she rushed to her attorney's car to escape the mob, she was surrounded by chants of "Murderer!" (per United Press International). To convince the jury that Candy Montgomery acted in self-defense, Montgomery's lawyers painted a picture of a confrontational and vengeful Betty Gore.
A jury found Montgomery not guilty of murder and shortly thereafter she and her husband Pat moved to Georgia, but four years later they divorced, per Distractify. When the sexual topics showed up in Betty’s letter, Allan was unable to respond. How could he tell her that one of the reasons he didn’t want to have sex as much anymore was that he was sleeping with Candy? The weekend was supposed to bring about total honesty, but that was one detail he did not intend to reveal. When they went to bed Saturday night, exhausted from the long day, they made love—and Allan could tell that the weekend was going to be good for both of them. She was embarrassed and humiliated and deeply hurt.
This experience was revitalizing in a way that his life with Betty hadn’t been for a long time. It had been two or three weeks since the last time they had talked, in the parking lot outside the gym. She felt foolish after throwing herself at him and then being so calmly rejected. Besides being embarrassed, she was afraid that Allan would think less of her.
She obviously wants to help and give back in some way. But this would be a hard one to get over in one’s life. The last sale of the home occurred in March and it sold over the list price. This sale was, prior to the release of the new Hulu showing of Candy.
But he knew that Candy really wanted to see him that day. If he didn’t go to work and she ended up at the Como by herself, the fallout would be disastrous. But when Allan told Betty he intended to go to work on Friday, she objected, arguing that he should stay home and help her with errands.
He also lost custody of his two daughters, who were raised by Betty Gore's parents, according to Collin County's Local Profile. Several years after the trial, Candy Montgomery's attorney Don Crowder said that the faces of Gore's family still haunted him. He was afraid that they didn't comprehend his job in defending their daughter's killer. Crowder committed suicide in 1998, seemingly motivated by other perceived failures in his life and career. Initially, there were mixed feelings about Montgomery's freedom. Betty Gore's father, Bob Pomeroy wasn't pleased with the verdict but knew Montgomery would have to live with her actions, per United Press International.
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