Candy Montgomery wanted fireworks. That’s what she told her friend Sherry Cleckler about her affair with the man whose wife she became accused of killing with an axe.
Montgomery, a Christian, suburban housewife in northeastern Texas, was the main suspect in the death of her friend Betty Gore on Friday 13 June 1980. Gore and Montgomery had met at the Methodist Church of Lucas, of which Montgomery was an active member. In 1978, Montgomery had begun a relationship with Gore’s husband Allan.
