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They accepted the first design submitted: a cathedral look, open and airy, with a lot of exposed beams and skylights, the children’s rooms isolated from their own, an oversized double garage, and a workshop and study for Pat.”

The house eventually cost $60,000 more because they insisted that a chic Dallas architectural firm do the blueprints. An excerpt from the true crime tome on the case reads, “They got the land for $10,000.

But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real.īased on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Edgar Award finalist Evidence of Love is the “superbly written” account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram).Īdapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town-as well as the new limited series Candy on Hulu and Love and Death on HBO Max-this chilling tale of sin and savagery will “fascinate true crime aficionados” ( Kirkus Reviews).April Towery: We were thrilled to find architect Stephen Chambers, the man who designed a stunning home in the late 1970s for Candy Montgomery, who infamously was acquitted of killing her friend Betty Gore with an ax. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. The “fascinating” true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).Ĭandy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie.

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