Candy montgomery where is she now

She left her friend-turned-foe with 41 axe wounds but was shockingly found not guilty of the crime. Both Elizabeth Olsen and Elisabeth Moss have signed on to play the axe murderer in two different limited series. The full story of Betty's murder and Candy's subsequent acquittal was featured in Texas Monthly as a two-part series in The reporting has served as a source for 'Love and Death.

Shocking: Candy Montgomery pictured killed her friend Betty Gore with an axe on Friday, June 13, , in their hometown of Wylie, Texas, after having an affair with her husband Allan. Her story: Candy claimed during her murder trial that Betty pictured had confronted her about the affair and had attacked her with the axe, forcing her to retaliate in self-defense. Candy was a mother and housewife and by all accounts normal and well-liked by the community. In , she and her husband Pat Montgomery moved into their dream house in Wylie, a suburb of Dallas.

Pat provided Candy everything she needed thanks to his job as an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments. She was able to stay home with their son and daughter, and while she didn't mind being a housewife, she was admittedly bored with her life.

The year-old was also a devout churchgoer and attended the Methodist Church of Lucas, where she struck up a friendship with Betty. Their relationship took an irreversible turn in when Candy collided with Betty's husband Allan Gore while playing a church volleyball game. It was an innocent moment, but Candy thought Allan 'smelled sexy.

After bumping into Allan on the volleyball court, she started to fanaticize about having sex with him. Allan may not have come across as the obvious choice to embark on an affair with.

He had a receding hairline and burgeoning potbelly, but they had similar outgoing personalities. Candy also sensed that he was subtly flirting with her. She came onto him a few weeks after they collided. She slipped into the passenger side of his car after church choir practice and told him that she was attracted to him.

Then she got out. Allan thought about Candy that entire week and how she differed from his wife, who taught elementary school in Wylie and was pregnant with their second child.

Violent: Candy delivered 41 blows to Betty's body, 40 of which were done while her heart was still beating, but she insisted she didn't mean to kill her.

Verdict: A psychiatrist determined Candy pictured with her then-husband Pat Montgomery suffered from childhood trauma that had triggered her rage. She was found not guilty. Betty didn't enjoy her job, and she hated being left alone when Allan had to travel for work. Their sex was routine and mechanical, which frustrated her husband. A week after Candy confessed to being attracted to him, they found themselves alone together following another volleyball game.

Candy was arrested. Pat stood staunchly by his wife throughout her trial, which was quite a spectacle. Don Crowder was experienced in civil litigation and broke every rule in the book defending his criminal client, leaving many to wonder if Candy had made a good choice of attorney.

When it came time for Candy to testify, she shocked court watchers with a tale of being confronted by Betty about her affair with Allan. Candy tried to reassure Betty the affair was long ago over, but Betty refused to accept it. Candy said Betty then came at her with ax, explaining the deep cut on her toe seen by others on the murderous day in question. Outraged at being attacked, Candy claimed she grabbed the ax and began hitting Betty. Over and over and over, 41 times total, she hit her until Betty was down.

In a panic, Candy showered fully clothed, trying to remove the blood and gore from her skin and clothing. She then rushed home and changed clothes, tossing the still bloodied outfit into her own washer.

And she immediately returned to the Church to finish the bible school activities. Spectators were wrong in their assumptions, as they learned when the jury returned with a not guilty verdict. Pat and Candy remained together after the trial, selling their house and moved east to Georgia.

It was only temporary, however, as the couple eventually divorced. As of this writing, Candy lives in Georgia and now goes by her maiden name of Candace Wheeler and works alongside her daughter, Jenny, as a mental health therapist to teens and adults suffering from depression.

Ironic, huh? Despite his remarriage, Allan lost custody of his girls to his former in-laws and soon became estranged from them, although recent sightings on Facebook show that a relationship between father and daughters may have been re-established as of late. The authors spent a great deal of time interviewing witnesses and attending the trial as well as researching the histories of both Candy and Betty as well as their respective husbands. In , a made-for-television movie aired offering a dramatized recreation of events based on the aforementioned book titled A Killing In A Small Town.

Although some names have been changed in addition to a few other minor facts for artistic licensing, overall it stays relatively in line with the true story. However, the book was much more detailed—especially in regards to Candy's history, and therefore I recommend it over the movie; or at least, recommend reading the book first.

This content reflects the personal opinions of the author. Self defense is obviously a very bad joke. A million billion dollars says she cut her own friggin toe swinging the axe down at Bettys dead body laying at her feet.

How can someone hacking someone else 41 times be self defense. I just read the book and still in shock she wasn't found guilty. Something stinks in Denmark! On the Candace front After that, the story loses all logic. Nancy Crandell I wish you would post more. What led you to that conclusion? What do you make of the mangled sunglasses and lens found in the garage closet? Or the insider statement that the fridge had been bloodied while on its side and couldnt have been set rightside up by Candy alone?

I never understood how that jury could have let that skank Candy walk away after she brutally murdered poor Betty! Self defense, in Betty's house? And i agree with the people in the community when they called her "Murderer!! This whole thing is BS! I am a teacher myself. Blood was all over the walls, on the freezer, and on the door leading to the garage. Photos of the linoleum floor in the utility room show three dots in one photo, and those same dots with a tape measure open in another photo.

It was a small foot. Those photos were followed by a picture of a three-foot-long ax, the weapon used to kill Betty. The blade appears to be half hidden under the freezer. Nearby, a pair of sunglasses with a missing lens and one sandal lay on the floor, both indicators of a struggle.

A sandwich baggie placed over the handle of the ax looks uncharacteristically out of place for a crime scene investigation. The small baggie, much like the rolled bath mat, was simply a foiled attempt by an inexperienced individual to preserve evidence. An easy solution, said Deffibaugh, would have been to station an officer at the front and back doors so evidence would be protected.

He also put plastic bags on the front door and back door knobs. The reason for the presence of the Justice of the Peace, Deffibaugh explained, was because Collin County did not have a medical examiner, so the JP was the one summoned to pronounce a person dead, and in some instances, request an autopsy. Several photos of the freezer show blood smeared on the white exterior in what looked like a failed attempt to clean it up.

The blood pattern, Deffibaugh said, puzzled investigators from SWIFS but it was later explained during the trial after Candy testified she tried to wipe down the freezer. The multiple photos of the victim are gruesome. According to Deffibaugh, and the autopsy report, Betty was struck 41 times with an ax, 28 of them in the head. There was a footprint under her left thigh, he said, which was another indication the body had been moved. A closeup photo shows Betty was missing her right eye, which, according to Deffibaugh, appeared to have been purposely chopped out, something he noted was more common among same sex couple murders.

During the trial, Deffibaugh said they returned to the crime scene to try and do a rebuttal. He added that due to an officer picking up the other sunglass lens, he never found where it landed, which would have been helpful in determining where the assault started.

Why would she keep hitting her? She panicked, and probably figured that people would automatically be against her because of the affair.

A person who kills another person with an axe for no reason whatsoever may well be criminally insane. A person who kills another person with an axe because the other person was trying to kill him or her with an axe is engaging in self-defense, and acting in a perfectly sane, rational manner.

The latter, not the former, describes Candy Montgomery. I agree with that. The way this sentence reads is someone wielded the ax 41 times, when it was really one incident in which the victim was hit 41 times. Fight or flight response. Do any of us know what we would do when confronted by someone holding an ax? Would you just crouch in a corner and let the person hit you with it? Or would you fight hoping you would come out on the winning end?

I think the horror of being in that situation is worse than any of us can imagine, and the response to it would be very primal, much like the movie. Maybe Candace becoming a psychologist was her way of coping with what she had done, maybe she wanted to understand what happened and help others in some way.

No one really knows what they are capable of unless they have ever been in the same situation. I disagree. Are you daft? Anything more goes beyond self-defense. In this case, 41 blows from an ax, goes FAR beyond self-defense. Usually that high number of hits with the ax shows extreme hatred and anger towards the victim.

She butchered a woman and because a sleazy attorney twists the story, this butcher walked free!!! No justice for the victims family. I hope Candy never enjoys life on this earth again!! She caused this from the start! Shame on Allen the damn whimp, what a spineless, loser husband he was!!!! She got away with murder.

What she did went way beyond self-defense. It seems Karma has not caught up with her; I hope she is deeply unhappy to the bottom of her soul, and remains unhappy until the day she makes a full confession. Self defence — hitting someone 40 odd times???? She hit her in the head with the axe once in the back of the head — she could have left then and called the cops, but No….

The fact is this WAS self-defense. She had no motive to kill Betty Gore. Betty asked Candy if she and Allan had had an affair, Candy said yes, Betty went and got the axe, Betty threatened Candy with the axe, but in the end Candy got the axe and Betty, not Candy, was dead. Also, when someone comes at you with an axe, and you manage to get hold of it in order to prevent your own death, there is no magic moment when it stops being self-defense.

Many people would have done the same. I am a television producer working on a project for this case. I would love to speak with you if you did know either Betty or candy personally. So is this what you tell yourself to justify what you did, Candy?

This is so obviously you defending what you did. Karma will collect. Even to this day, it is almost impossible to comprehend such disturbing overkill. Candy was enraged, furious, terrified, all of the above. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Sardone Construction. Tim Jackson Custom Homes. Grenadier Homes. Skip to main content. Share News:. The Dallas Morning News photo archives. Posted in Collin County. She is also the North Texas real estate editor for Forbes. Constantly breaking celebrity real estate news, she scooped former president George W. Bush's Dallas home in She is the founder and publisher of her signature CandysDirt. Candy holds an active Texas real estate license but does not sell.

This is more than just a typo. You made the same mistake in two consecutive sentences. Her is what? So you are a journalist, or have worked in such capacity in the past?

Why are people so judgmental, Bottomline this book is amazing!!! Ummm please calm down…maybe they just like the English way of speaking. I like how detailed this person is in their grammar police moment.