Woman Acquitted After Killing Romantic Rival with an Ax | Candy Montgomery Case Analysis 

It was really just self defense

@@Therian4U I think so.

I literally said out loud “what an evil lady’ the child actor was phenomenal

@@DylanRomanov yeah she is absolutely terrible. And just got to...walk away. Its insane

@@Therian4U 41 times...??

Right! I couldn’t believe that either fn 😜!!!!

Imagine getting mental health advice from her and then finding out about this case ? I'd be dumbfounded.

More people need to study the theory themselves. Doctoral level psychoanalytic theory is not as difficult as medical subjects that require biology. It's a fascinating study and if you just keep up with it you can learn a lot of it on your own.

Seriously. The ironies of life!

That’s almost as disgusting as her getting off Scott free .

Betty was completely innocent. That was 1st degree murder.... I just don't get the attraction.... she's very unfortunate looking so I'm not sure how she worked people.....

Lizzie Borden definitely wasn't doing self-defense.

I was shocked she got off. the poor family

@@AnnieBoBannie421 It's called personality. Have you ever heard of it? People have affairs with people who make them FEEL a certain way.

Agreed! What a bunch of worthless people on that jury

Maggie, that poor baby girl was probably dehydrated, dirty, and exhausted because for hours no one tended to her needs.

It really depends on what the evidence was and how it was presented to the jury. There have been so many cases of jury trials that would have been decided differently had the jury been shown ALL the evidence.

@@drbqqq1433 That definitely doesn’t make them (the jury) immune to error. Plenty of innocent people have been exonerated after initially being found guilty and a lot of guilty individuals have walked free. Sometimes it’s a matter of incompetent prosecutors/defense attorneys, other times it may be due to loopholes in a broken system, and there are times where I’m sure some of the fault lies within the jury which is made up of imperfect people capable of making mistakes. This should come as no surprise considering how flawed the US criminal justice system is. Sex offenders often receive less time than non-violent offenders struggling with addiction. The jury finding her innocent doesn’t mean anything in my opinion. I don’t personally believe that beating her over 40 times with an axe was self-defense and that seems to be the general consensus. Poor Betty didn’t even die til the end.

@@drbqqq1433 Lol. Exactly!! 👍

@@MAT-xh3cl What a double standard ~ lol. So it’s okay for Depp to lose his mind, because the top of his finger was sliced off? He became deranged painting the walls in the dripping blood and when that ran out, he used red paint. But this woman couldn’t lose it after Betty chopped off part of her toe with the ax? Hmmm? 🤔

70’s smell, hits different😂

@@johnlopez9014 Maybe it smelled like teen spirit. Lol

Great comment Rejane! Agree 💯%!

@@shayb413 nevermind

Hahaha 😂

Probably a good reason for that.

He look ugly

Best comment on this post lol

Allan was torturing Candy he knew what he was doing

I'd be suing the agency! You come in to get treatment for anxiety and then find out you've been advised by an axe murderer😱. Oh HELL NAW

Axe handle? .she didn't hit Betty with the handle. She hacked her up with the blade

@@KrystyneY you're correct. I mis-listened.

I am a counsellor specialising for the last 6 years in psychosocial assessments, prior to that specialising in forensics, men's anger/violence, youth, relationships, terminal illness, and psychiatric conditions. Some of the worst psychopaths I have met are among my own colleagues. The psychology/counselling/psychotherapy industry is infested with psychopaths masquerading as society's good and caring people. The worst hide among those society trusts. I expect one day in the future the lid will get blown off the psychology/counselling industry and the public will find out how morally corrupt it is.

Amazing example of a malfunctioning justice system and absurd mental health counceling services. Your analysis of the case is brilliant. Candy might kill again, given her brutality. She is only concerned by her own needs.

@Millicient Aspinet that's what it sounded like. She had this whole persona she maintained and it was fraudulent. She wanted what she wanted, and she didnt care how it may hurt other people. Even after the trial she genuinely thought things could go back to normal and that "everyone was ready to move on". It was truly insane how out of touch she was with the fact that she slaughtered a woman and called it self defense because Betty said "shh".

What's messed up is she got away with it and has been able to change her name and establish a new life for herself. Apparently she is a mental health counselor? Just awful

@@laur131306 Agreed, excellent post. The only thing I would add is allegedly Betty said "shh". There should be extreme skepticism about any self serving tale Candy spun.

To kill someone,(especially in that manner), proves that the Candy killer never had an image to begin with, at least not a good 1. She just had everyone fooled.

Think I read the same one…ugh…

That really WAS Genius! Dr. Grande is just excellent!

Agree. Another great one from Dr, Grande…..

I haven’t laughed so hard in a while!

I was like "DAMN IT GRANDE, HOW DO YOU DO IT! "

I laughed so hard!

He's very clever. And I love the dark humor.

I know I love his dad jokes. So endearing and funny!

@Leyla Moody and Betty also had another child a 5year old girl

She's a MARRIAGE COUNSELOR!

@@elizabethcompton738 how 😖😖

@@elizabethcompton738 We have an entire Psychology dept. like that in our main University.

I laughed so hard when he said that.

Wasn't that THE BEST!! Agree 💯!

I believe her whole issue was losing. She didnt want Allan according to her...but she couldnt stand to lose.

@@laur131306 right, she lost and she took it out on Betty. Candy’s marriage sucked and the marriage retreat didn’t work like it did for Betty, and Betty was everything she really was not. A good wife. And Candy hated her for it.

All I kept thinking was man, the 70s were rough. Candy was the most middle aged looking 29 year old ever.

@@jessgal76 You mean The 80s...The crime happened in 1980.

@@jessgal76 i literally had to rewind when he said 29... I was like, you just said 39 right?

Lizzie Borden was innocent though

Mark S issue with that is her innocence was on the jury's belief that since she was a woman, she couldn't have been capable of doing the gruesome deeds. She could've been falsely accused, but there's no doubt that the jury was heavily biased, given that it was an all male jury as well.

Great comment here!! Very smart! 👍

@@mookiess She was a small woman contrary to popular belief of her being big, a woman her size can't open a man's skull with an axe like that.

Mark S makes sense from a biological viewpoint that the damage done on the corpses seems to surpass the capabilities her small stature could've done, but i've been proven wrong myself so i personally view size as being less important in stuff like this. There's other factors that could've played a more major involvement--adrenaline and sheer will/hatred can do wonders when it comes to the human body.

I totally agree….

Ooohhh good one this sounds plausible

May I ask what scared you about it so much?

I mean was the book written by the best novelist in the world? Was it the same story we are hearing here? A woman who has no other incidents in her life and does something crazy one day? Yeah it’s very crazy to murder someone like that but ok that’s it? Nothing else to her story? Besides a weird boring affair? Why no mention of her being mentally I’ll her whole life and being a weird creepy woman who was bound to snap one day? Where’s the backstory? Was it her mother they mentioned literally for a half a second? I had absolutely no time and was given no reason to care about any of these people other than just nodding my head like ok wow 41 wacks with an axe that’s crazy. But it also made no sense. Why be mad at or kill the woman she already screwed over by having an affair with her husband. I’m still puzzled and trying to understand if she was really that in love with this guy? Seemed she could care less either way. I don’t understand the obsession with this case. and Jury’s get it wrong literally ALL THE TIME so why is everyone so surprised exactly?!

Candy seemed to be craving control her whole life. The type of person who likes to have an affair with someone's spouse just because they feel they have the superior ability to make someone else's spouse bend over backwards to please them. Against all odds, the situation with Allen & Betty turned to be a 'humiliating' incident for her. She probably didn't have any intention to kill Betty but I wouldn't be surprised if she threw passive aggressive attacks towards Betty just to 'win' the game. Betty snapped and attacked her, not necessarily with an axe (no one could give a good explanation how come the lens of her sunglasses found near the place the Gores kept thir axe). Candy (who hated Betty for her success with Allen in their marriage counseling) attacked Betty back with an axe. That's the most likely scenario I could think of.

​@@danielleminerva4525your comment has some inconsistent questions sorry what is your point? She just said she found this case creepy who in the whole world wouldn't find it creepy??? The woman went insane once? Her total life was insane.. Religious people are insane that's the point.

Same

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Hahaha! 🤣 Good one! 🪓

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Hold on there. Great sex is real and can be better than anything you can read or fantasize about. I know a woman who would drive three hours one way just to spend one hour with a man and it took the three hour drive back home to cool her down.

Something a little off about MANY High School Gym teachers, but that is just on another level CRAZY! Bet that really shook your town, very disturbing!!

How tramatic 😭

Haha this is very true! Maybe it's something about the Pheromones! Lol

Only in Texas ....

You’re assuming she killed Betty over Alan…? Maybe she didn’t want her husband to find out. Maybe she lost it bc Betty dared to confront her. Maybe they did start fighting, & then Candy just went into narc rage.

@@isitoveryet9525 Candy's husband knew about the affair. He found a letter Allan Gore wrote to Candy breaking off the affair. Betty was the only one in the dark.

ego...

have u seen the clip of candy with a tv crew...her stare absolutely freaked me out to my core....scary lady

That speaks volumes.

Great choice

I visited Sylvia’s grave in 2020. She’s the most visited grave in that cemetery. God rest her soul. I brought her cookies since her father used to call her Cookie. Someone left a painted rock that said “You Mattered.” She did. What a story. Poor girl. They were monsters.

OMG. That story had me in tears. Brutal and impossible to understand. Wasn't she called "The Concrete Angel"? I would appreciate Dr. G's insights on this crime also.

@@lilas1959 Great suggestion. As someone bullied throughout my school years, it put things in perspective for me... RIP Lovely girl Sylvia ❤️🙏💞

@@sarahalbers5555 the ‘concrete angel’ was Junko Furuta, a Japanese high school girl who in the early 80s was tortured and killed in a manner unfortunately very similar to Sylvia’s - though in this case it was a group of fellow male students who kept her hostage for months, while their parents apparently did nothing. She eventually died and was buried in a barrel filled with concrete, to make the body disappear... It is another simply terrifying story.

*(Quickly writes "Candace Montgomery" in the Death Note)*

Boo him while you're laughing.

Yeah, I agree to an extent. Most people don’t seem to think this way though, which makes me think - in a way that Candy’s story could be true. Candy would be more inclined to try and cover up her part in it. She did a terrible job obviously, but If she had called the cops right there after the Axe encounter and claimed it was self defense, no one would have bought it. People still don’t believe her to this day. The over kill of 41 swings of the axe is hard to defend, but like I could see with all the adrenaline running, and pent up rage how it could happen. Like if someone tried to murder me and I was able to get the upper hand I could see how I could loose it and go in for the overkill. It’s definitely possible and shouldn’t be written off just because of the brutality of it. Humans are capable of some dark & awful things. It doesn’t matter if you think someone is a “good” person or a “bad” person. You throw someone in a crazy situation they have the ability to act equally crazy. I can’t find it anywhere but if the show was accurate that they charged her with first degree murder, the prosecution dropped the ball. Nothing about this crime seems premeditated to me. They could have gotten her on second degree or manslaughter. Considering she admitted to the crime and anything she did to “cover it up” was super sloppy and not well thought out. We only know one side of the story though, and because of this - there will always be doubt. I honestly don’t know what really happened no one actually does. I am not ruling anything out, but I can speak to what seems logical to me. I do think it says a lot that Candy didn’t go off and continue to bludgeon more people to death. If she was just a homicidal maniac, then she probably wouldn’t have been able to suppress that for the rest of her life. Betty didn’t deserve such a brutal and tragic fate, she deserved respect and some mental health help. She was clearly suffering- no matter what actually happened that day. As for Candy she should’ve stopped once she gained control of the situation. (If we believe her story) If this is how it happened I can’t blame her for having an extreme reaction to almost being killed. I think it takes more than just “jealousy” to invoke that kind of rage in a person. This case requires a level of nuance that most people on the internet aren’t capable of. People forget the way the laws are written to convict someone of a crime you have to prove “beyond a shadow of a doubt” that they are guilty. As far as Candy being guilty of first degree murder… there’s nothing but doubts in my mind about that. 2nd degree, there’s some doubt but it makes sense, as far as manslaughter- yeah she definitely did that & it was voluntary. If people are pissed she got off completely without any charges they should be mad at the prosecution.

@@kiyakia Sure, Jan.

@Krysta Briley what podcast did you listen to?

I think that both women suffered from mental health issues. That doesn’t justify murder but you can almost see how this was a perfect storm. Crazy people do crazy things.

After reading some of the other comments here, I agree that she should not have been acquitted. Even if she were not guilty due to mental incapacitated, she was a danger to herself and others, and clearly needed treatment and monitoring.

That's what I thought. LOL. I don't know if it's the way Dr Grande explains it or if church affairs are just generally business-like and agreed upon with a open psalm handshake.

@@robbieburns3564 lol it appears that way.

LOL no they do not. Juries decide guilt and innocence. In America a judge has no power to find someone guilty if a jury says she is not. They can find someone innocent if a jury convicts, but not the other way around.

@@bobross1829 you should research it. They can if there’s legality they can use to prove their stance.

@@garydomaz1849 I am a lawyer and no it cannot happen ever. That is why you have a right to a jury. No judge is allowed to veto a jury acquitting you in America.

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Maybe you would like to explain that statement. Are you implying men and women don’t know how to have sex, or are you just trying to sound clever, because you sound stupid

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That's not ironic.

@@eadweard. Neither are you

@@brianpratt3224 Well, even so.

It is ironic.