3. Pat Montgomery
Pat Montgomery was Candy’s husband, involved indirectly in the case due to his relationship with Candy.
Pat Montgomery seemed, for years, like the definition of suburban steadiness, an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments making about $70,000 a year (around $330,000 today), a wife who worked as a secretary, two kids, and a new home north of Dallas. On paper, it was comfortable. Ordinary. Then Candy’s affair with Allan Gore began, and the quiet symmetry of their lives fractured for good.
When Candy was charged with Betty Gore’s murder, Pat stayed beside her in court, silent through the headlines and the humiliation. The trial laid bare every private detail — the affair, the counseling sessions, the Sunday school gossip. Even after the jury agreed it was self-defense, the marriage couldn’t survive what the public now knew.
They left Texas for Georgia, chasing anonymity. It didn’t last. By 1986, they divorced. Candy eventually built a life as a counselor, while Pat vanished from view. He never spoke publicly, never courted interviews, never joined the retellings that turned his family’s story into TV.
In Hulu’s Candy, Timothy Simons plays him as a husband trying to hold dignity amid disbelief; HBO’s Love & Death gives him the same quiet weight — a man supportive, stunned, and slowly erased by the spectacle. His story, mostly missing from the retellings, sits in the background where it always did: the cost of loyalty when love becomes legend.
