![]() Per Texas Monthly, “She was explicit about the kind of affair she was interested in: transcendent sex. Meanwhile, Candy was growing bored of her life with Pat, and had started talking openly with friends about the possibility of having an affair. ![]() There, the center of their social world was the local methodist church, where Candy and Pat befriended a local couple named Betty and Allan Gore.īetty and Allan’s marriage was on the rocks Allan traveled a lot for work, leaving Betty alone for days at a time, and her own job as an elementary school teacher often left her exhausted. In 1977, when Candy was 28, she and her husband Pat Montgomery moved to Wylie, TX, a picturesque suburb about 30 miles northeast of Dallas. Candy Montgomery was a law-abiding, church-going housewife before she met the Gores. Here’s a primer on the key facts to know. ![]() And around the same time, in the small town of Wylie, TX, came the case of Candy Montgomery, whose savage crime is the subject of HBO Max’s new series Love & Death. This suspicion of the suburbs was fueled in part by books like Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, but also by real life cases-most notably the serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a cheery suburban businessman who murdered more than 30 people in the 1970s. The American suburb, with its neatly mown lawns and white picket fences, has long been used in pop culture as a facade of normalcy, concealing chaos and violence. ![]()
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