Even though Candy Montgomery admitted to killing Gore, the jury believed it was self-defense, supported by polygraph test results. This led to her acquittal, per The Dallas Morning News. Trial onlookers were alarmed by the verdict and shouted “murderer!” at Montgomery when she left the courthouse, per United Press International.
At the time, Bob Pomeroy, Betty Gore’s father admitted, “As far as I’m concerned, justice will be served. She has to live with it. I wouldn’t say I was happy with the verdict. We don’t know what happened and we never will know what happened,” Pomeroy said (via UPI).
Per Daily Mail, Montgomery and her husband moved to Georgia after the trial and the couple has since divorced. Montgomery now goes by her maiden name, Candance Wheeler, and works as a mental health therapist. Actress Jessica Biel plays Candy Montgomery in the Hulu series “Candy,” while Elizabeth Olsen plays the part for HBO Max in their version of the story called ‘Love & Death,’ according to Deadline. The Candy Montgomery story has been told on TV once before in the 1990 movie “A Killing in a Small Town” on CBS (via Daily Mail).
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