2. Allan Gore
Allan Gore was Betty Gore’s husband and father to their children. His relationship with Candy Montgomery was a point of interest in the case.
Allan and Betty had been married since 1970, living what looked like a perfectly standard suburban life with their two daughters. But behind closed doors, their marriage was fracturing. Allan’s meticulously planned affair with Candy Montgomery from 1978 to 1979 was the catalyst for the entire tragedy, even though they had called it off months before the actual confrontation.
On the day of the killing, Allan was completely out of the loop, away on a business trip. Later, during the trial, his testimony actually ended up helping Candy’s case. By confirming under oath that their affair had been over for a while, he helped the defense argue that Candy didn’t go to the house with a premeditated motive to kill his wife.
The aftermath of the trial completely derailed Allan’s life. He lost custody of his two young daughters, who were sent off to Kansas to be raised by Betty’s parents. He quickly remarried a woman named Elaine Clift, but that relationship eventually fell apart as well.
Today, Allan stays completely off the radar, dodging the true-crime spotlight that still clings to his name. In the recent TV adaptations (played by Pablo Schreiber in Hulu’s Candy and Jesse Plemons in Max’s Love & Death), he’s portrayed as a quiet, passive guy who got caught in the crossfire of a failing marriage, a secret affair, and a brutal murder that destroyed multiple families.
