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Raised by : Patrick Asher

Married to : Laura Simmons (1984-1990)

Former known girlfriends : Gina DeMott Capwell (1989-1990), Shannon Pressman (1990)

Profession : District attorney

Leigh J. McCloskey :
March 08 1989 (# 1160) to July 20 1990 (# 1507)

Perfect look-alike of Zack Kelton, the gynaecologist-rapist of Eden, Ethan Asher comes to replace Keith Timmons at the post of district attorney in March 1989. He is accompanied by his wife Laura, with whom he finally wishes to start a family. He eventually understands her hesitations when he discovers that Laura has already had a son, Jamie, killed during a shooting between the policeman Michael Donnelly and a criminal named Leo Mitchell seven years ago. What he also ignores is that, since their arrival in Santa Barbara, Laura resumed her past love-affair with Michael. Ethan, jealous, then shows himself convinced of Michael's guilt when Leo Mitchell's body is found dead on the beach. But it turns out that his murderer is in fact Laura, who has acted in position of self-defense. So Ethan helps this latter to be acquitted, but his marriage arrives at its term. Ethan besides meets Gina Capwell with whom he starts a secret affair, just to keep the appearances in front of the voter population.

Ethan then turns out to be in the center of a big mystery, surrounding some other characters of the show, namely Craig Hunt, Derek Griffin and Stephen Slade. Ethan and these three men prove indeed to be all orphans and to have been raised with a girl named Cassandra Benedict, later adopted by the Capwells. But their intentions remain still mysterious.

Because Ethan is not done yet with Laura who, become crazy, tries to kill him repeatedly. After having just escaped a car accident fomented by Laura, Ethan ends up at the hospital. There, he makes a surprising meeting : his nurse happens to be Shannon Pressman, the daughter of Frank Pressman, imprisoned for Cassandra Benedict's murder ! At his release from prison, Ethan finds proofs that the murderer of Cassandra is one of the Capwells, in this particular case Mason. His friend Derek having been arrested to have tried to kill Mason out of revenge, Ethan tries to bribe a judge to release him. But his plan fails and Ethan is arrested at his turn and thrown in prison, without being talked about never again afterward...

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