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In the fall of 1980, an attorney looking for some free publicity called Texas Monthly staff writer John Bloom and told him: in one of the wildest crimes in state history, his client, Candy Montgomery, had blacked out with rage and killed her lover’s wife, a woman named Betty Gore—and was acquitted. Would Bloom want an interview with her?Of course he would. But Bloom hadn’t done much crime reporting at the time—certainly not as much as his colleague Jim Atkinson, who had been writing true crime for D Magazine—so Bloom and Atkinson decided to team up, writing a book for the fledgling Texas Monthly Press imprint, with excerpts published in the magazine.They divided the labor, with Bloom reporting on Candy Montgomery, the killer, and Atkinson…

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