![]() ![]() “I knew that she didn’t want that,” says Olsen. Montgomery’s years of silence and attempt to start over - the finale, also directed by Glatter, gives an update on her current whereabouts - is why the Love & Death team did not reach out to her when making their series. The other source here is the two-part Texas Monthly article “ Love and Death in Silicon Prairie,” which is what prompted Glatter and Kelley to license the rights for their TV miniseries. Her only cooperation into the retellings of the case has been in the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson, which is one of the source materials that informed Love & Death. Since then, Montgomery, who is now in her 70s, has not done public interviews. ![]() As her attorney points out, they couldn’t find her innocent, but they did find her not guilty. ![]() 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. On June 13, 1980, Texas housewife Candace “Candy” Montgomery was accused of brutally murdering Betty Gore (played in the series by Lily Rabe), the wife of her former lover Allan Gore (played by Jesse Plemons), striking her 41 times with an axe. Events of the Week: 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]()
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