If Loving You Is Wrong (27 page)

Steve and Mary Kay Letourneau and their children lived in this modest home in Normandy Park, Wash. Ultimately, marital infidelities on both sides and financial pressures would cause them to lose their dream house.
(Author)

Sixth-grader Katie Hogden considered her favorite teacher a friend and spent hours on the phone chatting with her. After Mary Kay's arrest for rape, the teacher asked the girl to relay an important message to Vili. She refused.
(Judy Hogden)

Some teachers at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien, Wash, were embittered by what they considered a lack of support from the district administration during the scandal.
(Author)

Defense lawyer David Gehrke represented Mary Kay through her second arrest. He infuriated Mary Kay's friends by calling them “groupies.” The friends, in turn, begged Mary Kay to dump the lawyer.
(Noel A. Soriano)

Nick Latham, Public Information Officer, Highline School District, was on the frontlines of the media storm.
(Courtesy KIRO)

KIRO-TV reporter Karen O'Leary was sued by Vili's family after she interviewed the teenager in a park near his home. The reporter considered the lawsuit an attempt to silence the media about the true relationship between the teacher and student.
(Courtesy KIRO)

Dr. Julia Moore diagnosed Mary Kay with bipolar or manic-depressive disorder. Dr. Moore's testimony at the sentencing hearing in November 1997 was critical to securing sex-offender treatment over prison time.
(Donald Moore)

The Mecca Cafe in Seattle got caught up in the media fever.
(Jim Fielder)

The story turned tabloid when lawyer Bob Huff brokered the Fualaaus' “exclusive” story to the
Globe
, “Inside Edition” and
American Journal
. Their French tellall,
Un Seul Crime, L'Amour, netted
them more than $200,000.
(Author)

Mary Kay Letourneau after her release from jail in January 1998. Though she looked it, the fallen teacher was not at her low point. Some encouraged her and enabled her to see the teenage father, and the results would be disastrous.
(Seattle Police)

Michelle Jarvis (here, with her husband Michael) flew to Seattle to bring Mary Kay home from the hospital after Audrey was born. Michelle worried about possible violence against her childhood friend by Steve Letourneau.