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The killing took place in Wylie, Texas, on June 13, 1980. During the assault, Gore was struck 41 times with a wood splitting axe . Montgomery pleaded not guilty to charges of murder on the basis of self-defense , alleging that Gore confronted her about the affair she had with Gore's husband and attacked her with the axe.
Closing arguments in the murder trial of Tamera Laws, 28, ended on Friday, Jan. 31, with her attorney saying she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, KSAT reports.
Authorities found her body the next morning in a creek in North Houston and determined she had been raped and murdered by strangulation. [2] Texas prosecutors have indicted the suspects on charges of capital murder , kidnapping , and aggravated sexual assault .
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
The 1980 murder of Betty Gore in Wylie, Texas, and the trial of her friend, Candace “Candy” Montgomery, has gotten renewed interest 43 years later with a new HBO crime drama revisiting the case.
Through the thin walls of a duplex, a neighbor heard the victim and her boyfriend arguing before she was killed. Music used to obscure shots fired to kill woman, neighbor testifies at Fort Worth trial
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Lopez faces a murder charge, a first-degree felony that could lead to anywhere from five years to life in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 fine if she’s found guilty. The trial is expected to ...