Love and death are not concepts that are based on each other. However, the HBO Max limited series "Love & Death" is based on a true story of Candy Montgomery, a Texas mother and churchgoer who killed the wife of a man she was having an affair with in 1980. The show is based on a series of Texas Monthly articles and the book “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs” by Jim Atkinson and John Bloom. Montgomery was accused of murdering her friend Betty Gore, an elementary school teacher, and was acquitted of the murder charge on Oct. 29, 1980.