HER mutilated body was found lying in a pool of blood in the utility room of her suburban home.
Mum-of-two Betty Gore, 30, had been struck 41 times with an axe, and detectives described the scene as like something out of a horror movie.
Indeed the attack, on June 13, 1980, came just a month after the first Friday The 13th film hit cinemas.
Even more chilling, on the kitchen table was a copy of that day’s paper, folded to show a review of the film The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson as an axe-wielding psychopath.
The small-town community of Wylie, Texas, where schoolteacher Betty lived, became gripped with fear of the crazed killer on the loose.