The defense has to make the victim as unsympathetic as possible, implying that he/she deserved to be killed. As Dominick Dunne pointed out, in every murder trial the victim is put on trial. At the trial she pleaded self-defense, and the most soulless jury on the planet bought it.Needless to say, we're never going to get Betty's version of what happened (I have a feeling that it would have been quite different from Candy's version) and apparently, that's just fine with the authors.Where is the compassion for the victim of this tragedy? There is none. The book is told, sympathetically, from the point of view of Candy Montgomery, who hacked Betty Gore to death with an axe, forty-one times. To readers who might be similarly tempted, be forewarned: it's just another trashy blame-the-victim extravaganza.
It's so repulsive that I removed it from my kindle. Rotten, and NOT Great on Kindle! I was bamboozled into buying this crummy book by the lure of a discount. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real.īased on exclusive interviews with the Montgomery Gore and families, Evidence of Love is the riveting account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram).Īdapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town, this chilling tale of sin and savagery will “fascinate true crime aficionados” ( Kirkus Reviews).
What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction.
On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage.
But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).Ĭandy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie.
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