According to Oxygen, Montgomery’s lawyer stated that she had killed Gore in self-defense. While on the stand, Montgomery explained that she showed up at the Gore’s residence to pick up a bathing suit for Alisa, the Gore’s older daughter whom she was babysitting (via All That’s Interesting). It’s then that Gore asked Montgomery point-blank if she was having an affair with Allan. Montgomery confessed that she was and claims that Gore proceeded to attack her with the ax. Montgomery then overpowered Gore and killed her. She left baby Bethany in her crib and returned home as if nothing had happened.
In a decision that is still deemed controversial today, Buzzfeed states that jurors bought Montgomery’s self-defense story. She was ultimately acquitted of Gore’s murder in October 1980. Bustle reports that after the trial came to an end, Allan remarried and lost custody of Alisa and Bethany to Gore’s parents. Alisa now lives in Kansas with her own family and works as a business controller.
Per The Sun, she has gone on to say that “My family has a lot of anger and a lot of hatred toward her (Montgomery).” Alisa’s younger sister Bethany agrees and stated in a 2000 interview that “I just think (Montgomery) got away with it.” Bustle notes that Bethany has a daughter, Betty, that was named after her mother.
