Where is Allan Gore now, husband of ax murder victim Betty Gore in Hulu’s ‘Candy’?
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Betty Gore’s husband Allan had an affair with her close friend, Candy Montgomery. In 1980, after a confrontation about the affair, Montgomery killed Gore with an ax. Decades later, the killing is the focus of two new crime dramas.
In Hulu’s “Candy,” which streamed as a five-night event May 9 to 13, actor Pablo Schreiber plays Allan. Schreiber is a Canadian actor best known for his performances in the movies “13 Hours,” “Den of Thieves” and “Skyscraper.”
In HBO Max’s “Love and Death,” premiering later this year, Allan will be portrayed by North Texas actor Jesse Plemons, who starred in “Friday Night Lights.”
Who is Allan Gore?
Allan met Betty at a Kansas college, and the pair married in 1970. They later moved to Wylie, Texas, and he worked at an electronics company in Richardson. The couple had two daughters, Alisa and Bethany.
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“Allan was a small, plain man with horn-rim glasses and puffy cheeks and, even at a young age, signs of a receding hairline,” wrote Jim Atkinson and John Bloom in a 1984 Texas Monthly profile. “He was also shy, which often made him come across as stern or aloof or even snobbish.”
Allan met Candy Montgomery in 1977 at the First United Methodist Church of Lucas. After a church volleyball match, Montgomery initiated an affair with Gore in late 1978.
“I was attractive to her,” Allan testified during the trial, according to UPI. Allan said he resisted her advances for two months before the affair started. They met sometimes in a motel in Plano, or sometimes for lunch, he said, every few weeks. The affair ended after the Gores attended Marriage Encounter, a marriage counseling program.
Allan was in Minnesota on a business trip when his wife was killed. When she wouldn’t answer the phone, he called Montgomery because she had been babysitting their daughter. Montgomery told him that she did not know where Betty was and suggested that she might be visiting neighbors. He then called his neighbors to check on his wife. They found her dead on the floor of a utility room and the baby crying in her crib.
Allan admitted to having a 10-month affair with Montgomery, which led the police to consider her a suspect in the murder. She was later acquitted after a jury determined that she killed Betty in self-defense.
Says Schreiber, the actor who played Allan in the Hulu series, in an interview with The Wrap: “Even in the courtroom scene, where he’s testifying, they asked him how he felt when he found out that Candy was responsible. He says, ‘I can’t believe that she could have done it.’ So I think, even at the end, he’s still hesitant to admit that she may have been responsible. That’s one of the sort of mysteries of that we leave with is, what was the power that Candy had over these men that ultimately led them to not believe in her guilt?”
Where is Allan Gore now?
After the trial, Allan quickly remarried and moved away from Wylie, according to the Dallas Morning News. He and his new wife have since divorced. Allan’s daughters were raised by Betty’s parents. Today, Alisa works at a multinational conglomerate corporation, and Bethany works as a teacher, according to their social media profiles.
According to his Facebook page, Allan is currently retired in Sarasota, Florida, and has been in a domestic partnership since 2016. It’s unclear whether he has remained in contact with Montgomery, who now goes by her maiden name Wheeler and works as a mental health counselor in Georgia.
Gore has not commented on the drama series and has remained out of the public eye.
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This story was originally published May 13, 2022 at 6:57 PM.
