The star and director talk to The Hollywood Reporter about the Max limited series, which launched its true-crime retelling with three episodes that take place before the death: 'This is a world that’s very bucolic and beautiful on the surface, but what’s underneath is quite a bit different.'
'Love & Death' Team Recall the "Big Surprise" of Learning Another Candy Montgomery Story Was Coming to TV
On June 13, 1980, Texas housewife Candace “Candy” Montgomery was accused of brutally murdering Betty Gore , the wife of her former lover Allan Gore , striking her 41 times with an axe. As will be revealed in later episodes when the series revisits the trial, a jury ultimately found her not guilty, after her side argued self-defense and a momentary snap, triggered by childhood trauma. As her attorney points out, they couldn’t find her innocent, but they did find her not guilty.
Since then, Montgomery, who is now in her 70s, has not done public interviews. Her only cooperation into the retellings of the case has been in the book by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson, which is one of the source materials that informed
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