Bored Texas housewife Candy Montgomery started having an affair with family friend and married software engineer, Alan Gore in 1978. When Alan was away on business in 1980, something happened between Candy and Alan's wife, Betty, in the Gore home, that ended up with Betty murdered, struck by a bloody ax 41 times. What ensued was an unusual and controversial trial and verdict, one which brought up a childhood traumatic event in Candy's life that purported to explain her post traumatic stress and violent actions during a fight with the victim.
—anonymous