Crime & Justice

Defiant Teacher Defends Romance With Ex-Pupil-Turned-Murder Suspect

‘NO IDEA WHAT SHE SEES IN HIM’

“Smearing me is... his best case against Gage,” Mary Ferro told The Daily Beast of the prosecutor going after her lover, accused killer Gage Ashley.

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