What happened to Candy Montgomery? Gruesome story behind Hulu’s ‘Candy’
nypost.comSpoilers for Hulu’s “Candy” follow.Candace “Candy” Montgomery was a popular, outgoing stay-at-home mom in the town of Wylie, Texas.
She was also a leader in her community’s Methodist church. All of which made what happened on Friday, June 13, 1980, so shocking.Jessica Biel, transformed in a tightly curled wig and big retro glasses, stars as Montgomery in Hulu’s “Candy,” out May 9, a five-part series about a brutal murder.
A second series, “Love and Death,” starring Elizabeth Olsen as Montgomery, will premiere on HBO later this year. It’s a story made for dramatization, with a rivalry between two women in a small town, subsumed desires and the pressure to fit into “perfect wife and mother” roles.
In 1990, Montgomery was the inspiration for the CBS TV movie “A Killing in a Small Town,” in which Barbara Hershey played Montgomery.A couple of years before the fateful June night, Montgomery had had an affair with fellow church member Allan Gore (played in “Candy” by Pablo Schreiber), a lengthy involvement Gore ended partly over his guilt about neglecting his wife Betty (played by Melanie Lynskey).
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