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Serialously with Annie Elise

352: She Said it Was Self Defense: The Axe Murder That Shocked Suburbia | Candy Montgomery

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Daily News, Documentary, News, True Crime

4.710.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the quiet Texas suburb of Wylie in the summer of 1980, two families were living side by side, sharing church pews, backyard conversations, and what looked like a simple, ordinary life. But beneath the surface, secrets were simmering. When Betty Gore was found brutally killed in her home, struck dozens of times with a wood-splitting axe, suspicion quickly turned toward someone no one expected: Candace “Candy” Montgomery, a friendly, well-liked woman from the community who had been entangled in a hidden affair with Betty’s husband. As Candy’s trial unfolded, her shocking claim of self-defense, and the details that followed, left the town divided and the nation captivated, forcing everyone to question how well we truly know the people living right next door...
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0:00.0

Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an an all new episode of Serialessly. I hope you all

0:32.1

had an amazing holiday season with your family, your friends, your loved ones. We're

0:36.7

obviously still in the thick of it.

0:38.9

And that's kind of what brings me on today. Instead of a headline highlights today, we actually

0:44.0

are going to do a case deep dive together. Now, there is a dramatization series that recently

0:50.6

released on Netflix called Love and Death. And so many of you have been asking me to

0:55.5

cover this case because a lot of you are new listeners and you didn't know that we covered this case

1:00.3

a few years ago. So what we're going to do today is a little bit of a throwback episode. We're going to

1:05.6

revisit that case. I'm going to give you all of the deep dive details and we will resume regular headline highlights next week.

1:13.9

But now for this week, you'll have, you know, a little bit of a longer episode to get you through the family get-togethers, get you into the new year.

1:22.5

And yeah, so interested to hear what you guys think about this case.

1:25.7

It definitely is a wild one.

1:27.3

And let me know if you guys have watched love and death on Netflix yet. I again, hope you all had an amazing holiday and happy new year.

1:35.9

Oh gosh, guys. Today's episode, it is just a wild one. It was one that I was debating if I wanted to cover with you guys and if I wanted to do it on the podcast or if I wanted to do it over on 10 to Life. But it's one that is the epitome of serialously and makes you kind of say, seriously? What the fuck? Like, what is going on? And it's very interesting. And you'll understand what I'm talking about here in a second. But it's very interesting because it's a case that has been repurposed into

2:02.2

material on Netflix, or I'm sorry, not Netflix, on Hulu, HBO Max, but two different points of

2:08.9

view are stated in the series version of this case. And also, they missed so much information.

2:15.0

So I'm going to talk more about that in a second, guys. Sorry, I know I'm getting ahead of myself. But anyways, welcome back. I'm so glad you're here with me, besties. It's another true crime case that we just have to talk about. So before we jump in, if you could quickly do me a solid, just double check that you're listening, or I'm sorry, that you're listening, that you're

2:35.0

following this podcast. I didn't even know that following a podcast was a thing until recently,

2:39.9

but it's almost like Instagram or any other social media. You can follow along so that you

2:44.2

actually get notified of future episodes that I drop. And lately I've kind of been dropping a lot of

2:50.0

random bonus episodes throughout the

2:51.8

week as we've been following so many cases with trial updates, things like that. So you're going to

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