Overview
- HBO Max’s Love and Death is now streaming on Netflix, renewing interest in a case also dramatized by Hulu’s Candy in 2022.
- Contemporary reporting says Montgomery had an affair with Allan Gore, the victim’s husband, which preceded the confrontation at the Gore home.
- Forensic testimony documented 41 ax wounds, and Montgomery told jurors, “I hit her,” acknowledging the attack.
- After an eight-day trial, a 12-person jury acquitted her on self-defense grounds, with a juror saying the number of strikes did not affect their decision.
- People reports the Montgomery children’s identities remain private, the family moved to Georgia after the trial, the parents later split, and Candy has lived quietly under her maiden name.