Candy Montgomery: A Guide to the Accused Ax Killer and True-Crime Sensation
Jessica Biel and HBO Max’s starring Elizabeth Olsen -- explore how friend and homemaker Candy Montgomery was accused of killing her with an ax. But as seen onscreen, especially in, which premieres first in May, the story is far more complicated than one woman taking an ax to another. Married to Pat Montgomery and a mother of two children, Candy was a seemingly typical, 30-year-old housewife living in Collin County, Texas, who became close friends with Betty Gore, a fellow housewife and mother who was also a middle school teacher. According to , it was the regularly attended service at the First United Methodist Church of Lucas “that first brought Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore together, and it was the church that led them to their times of closeness and, eventually, to their mutual hatred and Betty’s brutal death.”The church is also where Candy, who had grown bored with Pat, decided to have an affair with Betty’s husband, Allan Gore.