Everybody can understand just being pent up.” and then we got into 2020, and with everybody locked into their houses, I was like, OK, this story is universal. when #MeToo was sort of in full steam, and I just felt like a story of released feminine rage was feeling very identifiable. I’m in,’” Veith said at a panel with other showrunners of true crime shows at SeriesFest in Denver last week.
“I did some research, and I was just like: ‘Wow, this is like a madman ax murderer. But in 2019, Antosca flagged a story from 1980 that he thought Veith might be drawn to: the arrest and trial of Candace “Candy” Montgomery, a housewife accused of murdering her close friend, Betty Gore, in Wylie, Texas.
