HBO’s ‘Love & Death’: What happened to Betty Gore and husband Allan’s home in Wylie, Texas?
On June 13, 1980, a nondescript, single-level brick home in the small town of Wylie near Dallas was the site of a gruesome killing.
It’s where Candy Montgomery killed Betty Gore with an ax, an act she said was in self-defense. Neighbors found Gore dead with 41 wounds in the utility room of the home.
HBO is releasing a limited series in April — the second adaption of the Montgomery case in less than a year. Hulu’s “Candy” starring Jessica Biel in the titular role, first made its way to the small screen first in May 2022.
Elizabeth Olsen is now stepping into the role of Montgomery, alongside Dallas-born actor Jesse Plemons who plays Allan Gore. Lily Rabe and Patrick Fugit fill in the rest of the core cast as Betty Gore and Pat Montgomery, respectively.
The limited series is based on the book “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs” by Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs, and a series of Texas Monthly articles. “Love & Death” was created by David E. Kelly and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
What happened to the house where Allan and Betsy Gore lived?
What happened to the house where Gore lived with her husband, Allan, who had an affair with Montgomery?
According to realtor.com, the 410 Dogwood Drive home where the Gores lived with their two young children has sold at least six times since the murder.
The home was last sold on March 23 for over the $344,900 asking price. The three-bedroom home, built in 1974, has recently been renovated. It sold a few weeks after it was listed by Monument Realty.
“It looks like a normal house,” Monument Realty real estate agent Darla McMullen told Realtor.com. “It’s been remodeled enough that it’s a different flow.”
Previously, the home had been sold for $251,750 in September 2020. The owners didn’t know about the home’s history when they fell in love with the house, McMullen said, and they weren’t deterred when they found out. One of them had grown up in a home whose previous owner had been a serial killer, she said.
With the news of the Hulu and HBO Max crime drama series, “Candy” and “Love and Death,” people began driving by and taking photos of the property, McMullen said.
The horrific incident shook the tiny northeastern suburb of Dallas. At the time, Wylie was a town of 3,700 people, according to the Dallas Morning News. Wylie has grown significantly since then; it now has about 51,251 residents.
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