The Murder of Betty Gore by Candy Montgomery
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Season 17, Episode 6
The Murder of Betty Gore by Candy Montgomery
Candy Montgomery was just another bored 70s suburban Texas housewife when she was tried for committing a crime so heinous people still have difficulty making sense of it. The murder of Betty Gore was the subject of a TV series starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey on HULU called Candy. It will also be adapted into an HBO series starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemmons next spring.
What is so unusual about a murder in 1980 (which was also adapted into a 1990 TV movie starring our forever “old man crush” Brian Dennehy, A Killing in a Small Town) that captures our imagination? Let’s see if we can figure that out today.
Trigger Warnings: Murder
Sources:
Candy: A Death in Texas
Candy Montgomery Wikipedia
Texas Monthly: Jim Atkinson & John Bloom
Oxygen Snapped
UPI 1980
History Vs. Hollywood
Evidence of Love: John Bloom
Armchair Investigator
Ms. Mojo.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margot Donio and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.8 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:09.5 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the |
| 0:14.2 | worst. |
| 0:15.2 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome back to What a Creep, this is Margot Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always |
| 0:34.1 | is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:36.1 | Hey Sonia, hello my friend, hello my friend. |
| 0:40.5 | We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:44.8 | Today we have a Texas size creep. |
| 0:48.7 | If you're outside of the US, that means big, they have big old creeps down there. |
| 0:55.6 | This is a creepy murder that happened in 1980. |
| 1:00.5 | It has some twists and turns to it. |
| 1:03.4 | But before we get to that, and just so you know, if this is your first time listening |
| 1:07.3 | to the show, we always end the show with someone who's not a creep. |
| 1:11.7 | So you're not left feeling completely bummed out about the state of the world. |
| 1:16.0 | We want you feeling a little bit uplifted at least if not mostly. |
| 1:19.9 | Yes, I got someone for you. |
| 1:22.3 | Awesome. |
| 1:23.3 | I don't know who it is. |
| 1:24.3 | I want you to keep it a surprise. |
| 1:25.4 | It's a surprise. |
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