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[Music] I don't want her to be a Cold Case please get some water hydrate are you ever overwhelmed as you
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look around at this wide open space no they we going to find her got to keep searching this one and this one right
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this one yeah I want her to be f I want to bring her home to her kids to our families how often do you think
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about your sister all the time I still can't believe it's like she just vanish my impression of Maya was that
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she had a beautiful home life she was an accomplished career woman she was a super
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mom what was she like as a friend kind funny witty her voice my God she could sing she could play the guitar she's
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very talented she could do martial arts Jeeping off-roading there's my adventurous little girl it's so pretty
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she loved the outdoors E when did you notice something was wrong she's planning for her daughter's
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birthday and we haven't heard anything from her this is not her at all when we walked in the house was a
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mess boxes everywhere I right away knew there was something really wrong here did you ever think in that moment in
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that house that Larry did something to Maya yeah Larry was the last person that saw
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her what was his demeanor when you showed up and started asking questions calm he hadn't slept much it didn't look
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like he was unconcerned about his wife being gone he said this wasn't all that unusual for
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her I didn't have the answers at that point but I was very suspicious so I needed to gather more evidence the
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family was well aware this marriage was not working out he went on the internet found a website that does witchcraft
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cast spells he bought one of the Spells I don't even know how to make this out so I I need your help this is
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the spell that he cast on Maya and that's blood on there he created the Witchcraft Altar and he puts down the
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picture of himself and Maya he wrote can you hex to have her hurt enough that she will have to depend
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on me maybe an accident or broken bone that's really hard to hear what kind of person do you believe Larry is very
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damaged person do you think Maya left that house on her own no no [Music] sorry it's been really hard it is our
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family we're still asking the public please help us bring my sister [Music] [Music]
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more than a year has gone by since 39-year-old Maya May milete mother of three young children vanished in Chula
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Vista California I still have hope I still had that hope they will find her alive Maya's Sister Mary Chris and her
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husband Richard drer have fought hard so Maya's disappearance doesn't become a cold case it's been a really really
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tough year with the whole family we still don't have answers yet Maya was 13 years old when she
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immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her parents and five siblings in
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1995 Mary Chris says her sister thrived in Honolulu Hawaii where the family settled to build a new life she's always
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been you know the smart one and uh she's very active about school education is very important to the family I've always
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been so proud of her Maya met her future husband Larry milete when they were both
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working at a fast food restaurant in Honolulu Larry's family had also immigrated from the Philippines when
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Larry turned 18 and joined the Navy the couple decided to get married they were so young yeah teenagers yeah she's the
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first one to get married so it was a shock for everyone but we respected her decision Maya and Larry moved to
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Southern California and built their careers working for the Navy Larry was an optician at the Naval Medical Center
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and Maya worked as a supervisor contract specialist at this Naval Station in San
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Diego she was my mentor her from day one she was like this little tiny person but
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she was a big personality Claudia hola and Alice and Alexander worked with Maya at the
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base and became friends we actually negotiate contracts for the US Navy and she was very good at it I used to you
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know joke around with her and you know because she had a photographic memory I had a lot of respect for her
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she was was a very strong and confident leader a lot of the women in the office really looked up to her there was no
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glass ceiling we could get whever we wanted didn't matter where we came from Maya and Larry decided to wait 10 years
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before starting a family the couple eventually welcomed two daughters and a son it's a joy to see them you know that
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they have their own family too we're always out camping we're always Outdoors it's so pretty
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lry was a good dad always attened to the kids like great parents what kind of mother was she very caring loving
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mother she hands on she's um always teaching them something especially you know music Soul she has some videos with her
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son singing with her word by word yeah word by word brings us to tears every time we watch
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[Music] it her kids were everything she enjoyed her kids in early January 2021 Maya was focused on planning a ski
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trip to Big Bear for her daughter's birthday but her family grew concerned when she suddenly stopped communicating
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on January 7th for her not to tell us what's going to happen for her daughter's birthday
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you know that was a big deal Mary Chris says when their brother Jr drove over to
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check on Maya the next day her husband Larry told him Maya had been in the bedroom for several hours Jr knocked on
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the door but got no response he kind of just thinks okay maybe she just maybe she's sleeping Larry did say that they
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had an argument he left it at that we believed Larry they had an argument and she just she just want to be left alone
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the following day when there was still no news from Maya Mary Chris and Richard drove over to the milete house when we
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walked in the house was a mess which I've never seen their house messy and it was cold it was January and
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he had the AC running which was really odd this time Larry told them Maya was out so Larry says Maya's been where
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hiking she went hiking suspicious that something wasn't right Mary Chris reported her sister missing to the chiv
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Vista Police Department that night how did the police react they sent uh three officers went to the house and they
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questioned us Mary Chris and Richard were upset with what they say was a lack of concern from the police it seemed
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like there was no urgency for the police department to investigate it properly by January 10th Maya had now been
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missing for 3 Days her family gathered at her home to celebrate her daughter's birthday hoping against hope we're all
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like looking at the door hoping she'll walk in on her daughter's birthday she never de I feel so
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bad after D she said Mommy didn't show up for my birthday I didn't know how to comfort
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[Music] her as Maya's family tried to keep some normaly for the sake of the children
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Richard was watching Larry during the party just laid back wearing his Navy sweats on a Sunday no shoes and Larry
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had no concern whatsoever on his face for his missing wife not even for his daughter's
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birthday that night Claudia got the distressing news that Maya was missing and drove over to the milete house by
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now the birthday party had turned into a search party so they were outside with babies and
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blankets trying to look for their sister their daughter her parents are elderly the
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brothers and the brother-in-law were out knocking on doors giving out flyers and
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he had no interest in helping as word spread that Maya was nowhere to be found more friends stepped
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in trying to help my wife Lou was working at the 32nd Street Naval Base said that a friend of hers went missing
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the family is concerned would you help them somebody asked for help you just do it right so if she was still alive I
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needed to get to her quickly that's why I went straight to where the last place she was seen which was that house I had
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no idea that it would turn into what it was on January 11th 2021 4 days after Maya milet was last
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heard from I knew what had to be done uh and I did it attorney Billy little a former criminal defense investigator for
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the US Navy decided to step into the missing person's case I went straight to where the last place she was seen which
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was that house little wanted to talk to Larry milete a amongst other things he had found it odd that Maya's husband
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wasn't the one who initially called the Tula Vista Police Department in fact when the family wanted to call 911 he
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discouraged it were there police around also investigating at this point no no according to the family the police had
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come he had given them I guess the same story in news reports at the time a Chula Vista Police spokesperson stated
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that Larry was being cooperative they were treating it as a missing person's case and had found no
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indication of Foul Play Little says after he showed Larry his Naval civilian ID he let him in I started looking for
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things that I thought might be suspicious in the house just like Mary Chris and Richard he noticed something
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strange most of the windows in the house were open it was clear he was trying to
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air the house out little knew from Maya's family that the couple had had a fight on the day she was last heard from
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I was looking to see if there's any damage in the house it would indicate some domestic violence I'm also looking
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for defensive wounds on his hands which I don't see but little says he did see something outside the miletti bedroom we
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went upstairs where her bedroom was the first thing I noticed was the hole in the door right next to the handle cuz
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it's right in the area where if you need access to a locked room you're going to
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punch right through there and I touched the patch and it felt new it felt wet I made a comment to Larry about hey was
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this and he says oh yeah uh Maya punched a hole in the door there inside the bedroom little says he noticed another
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hole on the wall that also appeared to have been recently repaired that would have been too high for Maya to punch cuz
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she was small right and I said Larry what about this hole and he said so yeah she uh got man punched that
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too Larry's creating a picture here of a woman who is violent is this adding up to you no none of his story is adding
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up when you left the house that day after collecting those puzzle pieces what were you thinking I thought Larry
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killed her and we need to find out what he did and what he did with the body but
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I wasn't ready to tell Mary Chris yet cuz I didn't know right I could be wrong little began canvasing the neighborhood
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and knocking on doors to track down home security footage to see if anything suspicious was caught on camera around
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the milete house so I knew we had to get that uh quickly and preserve it quickly
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time was of the essence oh God yes what little found was a treasure Trove of Clues he says a camera from a
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neighboring house recorded The Voice of the milet children playing in the yard at 10:30 p.m. on the night their mother
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was last heard from on a school night and it's cold outside and the weather I believe it was
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in the high 40s that night another camera recorded Larry backing their Lexus into the garage at 558 a.m. the
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next morning so you can't see what's going on but you can see it going in the garage Larry then leaves the house at
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6:45 a.m. and doesn't return home for almost 11 and 1 half hours you could have moved on why did
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you stay on this case and take matters into your own hands in my mind my job wasn't nearly complete it was just
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beginning it was just beginning when I see Mary Chris and I see her crying I'm just like I got to figure
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this out so as Billy little continued investigating it's just not in me to quit so I don't Mary Chris and Richard
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turned to local media and organized the first search for Maya on the hiking trails behind her house we were
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desperate for answers we wanted action and we wanted to do something staying at home sitting
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down wasn't going to bring us answers bring her home her sister goes on television and is
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begging the public for help help me find my missing sister and that really moved
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people ala V an attorney and true crime author saw Maya's case on the news and started following it closely you realize
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that this was somebody that was very vibrant that was really out there living her life and that is part of why it's
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all so shocking that she's missing it shocks her conscious as the the case gathered steam
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in the media on January 23rd 2021 2 weeks after Maya's disappearance the Chula Vista Police Department
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searched the milete house and what they did find was that Larry had a lot of firearms They seized two Glock handguns
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a rifle and a shotgun and they found that he was in possession of an illegal assault weapon investigators also
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downloaded images from Larry's phone 3 days later the police were back on January 26th
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they served another search warrant and the police take the navigation system the GPS from Larry's Lexus meanwhile
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Maya's friends had been revealing details about the couple's relationship I would say March or so of
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2020 the obsession became obvious Larry's Behavior had grown alarming before his wife went missing
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he would do subliminal messages for her to be that perfect spouse and it was everywhere she walked at different times
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they would turn on that is insane it sounds like from a movie [Music] she didn't just walk out that's
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something she would never do about a month after Maya's disappearance her husband Larry milete hired a lawyer and
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stopped cooperating with investigators I believe that he did something to her Billy little was told by Maya's
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friends and family that troubling signs in the marriage began emerging the year before and it started back in January of
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2020 when they started marital problems Larry will call every single one of us trying
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to ask for help to intervene you know into the marriage Larry was complaining that Maya was having a midlife crisis
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he's said well she's been going out with her friends more often and she has a lot
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of single friends but my sister is saying you know it's not me it's it's Larry Maya's friend Claudia spent time
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with the couple socially his relationship was very kind of to the side and just very watchful from what my
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observation of him he always had to be in control Claudia recalls an instance when Larry couldn't get a hold of Maya
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at work you know when somebody might be agitated or you overhear their voice I did hear where are you it takes you this
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long to get from your car to your office who were you talking to he wants her to
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pay submissive for her to comply to him or to be the same person as you know she
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used to but Maya's loved ones say that Maya was changing she was growing into someone new a strong woman for sure as
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the months passed in 2020 Larry's grip on Maya tightened he's now tracking her spending habits he's gotten into all of
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her social media accounts she doesn't have any privacy and he suspected that she was straying Larry accused her of
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having affairs with several Men at Work wrote emails to her boss at work he knows that if he tells the boss that
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she's having an affair with somebody at work that she will get fired he tells all of Maya's family she's cheating
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she's sinful help me get her back on the Christian religious way and starts forcing her to go to church these are
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texts that Larry sent to Maya's family and he's quoting the Bible and it says for the lips of the adulterous woman
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drip honey her feet go down to death her steps lead straight to the Grave he talking about Maya in his own words he
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said that he was getting desperate and he felt that the devil was tempting him at some point Maya's family says they
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told her they were concerned about what was unfolding at that time we knew that my sister is ready to move on we told
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her whatever your decision is we're here to support you by the fall of 2020 Billy
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little says Larry was growing increasingly desperate to hold on to Maya and so what does he do he goes to
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uh witchcraft there are people on the internet that'll sell you for five bucks you know how to make a spell that will
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get her to be attracted to you to bind your marriage in Blood and that's what he tried to do
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does a little Butch crab blood alar that is the picture that he took of the altar
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an old photo of them with blood thrown on it little said says Larry contacted numerous spellcasters and even wrote a
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review for one and he writes of this spellcaster she is kind professional and courteous my casting has not yet
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manifested but I'm really hoping and counting on it leaving a review like one would leave on Yelp for a food order
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like it's an Uber ride they like ah five stars good job spellcaster so he's not quite as smart as he thinks he is he
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doesn't realize that all of that stuff was pointing the finger in by December of 2020 Maya and Larry were sleeping in
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separate rooms little says Maya found speakers in her room and confronted Larry he admitted he had been playing
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subliminal messages while she slept Maya messaged a friend and said her marriage
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was definitely over what was that message that was coming out of those speakers under the bed it's right there
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no more men no more men no more men on New Year's weekend Maya told her family her decision she's ready for
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divorce she's finally made up her mind I just told her just be careful just be careful on January 7th
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the last day she was heard from Maya filled out this form and made an appointment with a divorce attorney I
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think she told him that she was going to file for divorce he snapped when he found out that he was finally losing her
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what had happened in the house that night little thinks he knows after a neighbor reached out with some
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information the neighbors do they say oh yeah we heard gunshots yeah not only did
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they tell me that they've got gunshots but they've got the audio a home surveillance system from the neighbor
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captured these loud bangs around 1 p.m. that night little also believes they are
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gunshots it's coming from Larry and Maya's house remember Billy little had tracked down
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that other home security footage that police agreed captured audio of the milete kids playing in the backyard at
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10:30 p.m the picture is becoming more and more clear he's got to clean up and he's
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got to move the body so he needs to send those kids outside in the school night at 10:30 do you try to speak to law
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enforcement I did and I told them what I found and time and time again there was
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just no followup by the police the Chula Vista Police Department declined our request for an interview but an April
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2021 they told local media that it had been an active investigation since mid January and they were keeping their
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cards close to the vest it's tough there was very minimal details and that was part of our frustration working with the
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police department the family now is having various rallies in front of the Chula Vista Police Department basically
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demanding answers but the police are not going to release a lot of information to
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the family this is potentially a murder investigation in May of 2021 the police served Larry m with a gun violence
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restraining order among the reasons investigators had found this image on Larry's phone another photo which had
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been redacted featured the couple's 4-year-old son surrounded by weapons authorities retrieved more
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firearms from the Milad house I think that was a smart move by the police it protects the children while they try to
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buy a little bit of time but it also protects them if they have to go in and arrest him in the summer of
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2021 investigators named Larry milete a person of interest in his wife's case she keep wondering is this going to be
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the time that they're going to arrest Larry on October 19th 9 months after The Disappearance of Maya investigators did
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just that today at 11:42 a.m. the Chul Vista Police Department SWAT team arrested Larry m for the murder of his
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wife and with that even more evidence came to light Maya's family and friends anticipated
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the news of an arrest for months I understand that there is a case that needs to be built there's only one
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shot but it just seemed like it was too too long yet when Maya's husband Larry milete was arrested for her murder in
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October 2021 it was still a mixed range of emotions Claudia what was your reaction
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relieved yet at the same time sad and so although you keep that hope up now it became
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real I think we had different reactions I said finally she started crying he's been with us for 20
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years my sister did love him she gave him three kids she just came go in a press conference San Diego
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County district attorney summer Stefan laid out some of the details of the monthlong law enforcement investigation
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in homicide case say there is often a triggering event in this case the last call recorded that may made was to a
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divorce attorney that call was at 3:48 p.m. home security cameras captured her arriving at her house at 4:42 p.m. there
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were no images of her leaving investigators had also turned up more evidence of Larry trying to keep Maya in
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the marriage through the super natural before she went missing I've never had a case where that was
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[Music] involved but the Spells they discovered went beyond more than asking Maya to be
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attracted to him according to the arrest warrant Larry now wanted Maya to be harmed before Maya went missing Larry
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sent this message to a website that claims to cast spells please punish May and incapacitate her enough so she can't
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leave the house it's time to take the gloves off it was evidence they say of his unbalanced
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mindset and homicidal ideation the day Maya went missing Larry sent countless emails to spellcasters I think she wants
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me to snap I'm shaking inside ready to snap what's more according to the arrest warrant Larry had allegedly snapped
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before one of Maya's friends said that Maya told her Larry choked her to the point where she was unconscious I just
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heard that oh I was mad how could he do that Maya had never shared that with Mary Chris she didn't share what she was
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going through cuz she didn't want the family to worry about her she was also protecting Larry and she was protecting
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the children were you aware of any physical abuse no no she would say little things here and
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there there but not always to the same person there were already incidents that were huge red
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flags that if we all knew it at the same time it would have been a bigger picture
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I feel guilty at the you know after the fact once she went missing it was a very harsh reality for me I wasn't able
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to help her and I will forever live with that [Music] nobody had the full picture right
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besides the two of them Evelyn Rodriguez is an associate professor of Sociology who teaches on topics of race and
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identity at the University of San Francisco she reviewed the case for 48 hours the signs of domestic abuse can be
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so hard to identify because we as a society are unable to distinguish the line that divides that kind kind of like
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zealous passionate love from controlling Behavior Larry m checks all the boxes for domestic partner abuse he knew what
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Maya's pressure points were and so he weaponized her work he weaponized her children her family her religion before
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he got desperate enough to try these other means of controlling her and keeping her in that
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marriage Rodriguez suggests when Larry turned to spellcasting as another method to control Maya he may have been
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inspired by an oldw World form of folk magic in the Philippines and this is stuff of like the old world to our
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parents even somehow that has evolved into what I think Larry was able to find but Rodriguez points out that it is
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important not to lose sight of what the issue is here really the story here is that this was an abusive partner
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regardless of his culture Who was exhibiting every single sign of domestic abuse this one and this one right one
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this is where we're going to be staying with Maya's alleged killer Behind Bars her family knew their work
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was not done don't go too far they were more determined than ever to find her energized with new information that had
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come out after Larry's arrest aav Von was part of that search the thing that this case really needed was to be able
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to know where to search that was the problem here you can't just search the entire
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world where are we right now it's a hot spot that Larry could have brought mil's
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body out here like Billy little invest instigators obtained footage that showed Larry leaving the house in the couple's
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Lexus for almost 11 and 1/2 hours the day after his wife was last heard from they analyzed the car's navigation
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system according to the information that we have now he was about 2 and 1/ half hours out from his house when he put his
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address in somewhere 2 and 1/2 hours away from his house Larry had entered his address to find his way back home
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that information was enough to Center the searches on places Larry was familiar with like this desert area
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where he and Maya had gone hiking what are you specifically looking for as you comb this
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area at this point unfortunately I hate you say but we're probably just looking for clothing or
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[Music] bones over the months droves of volunteers have responded to her family's calls to the community and have
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joined joed team Maya we're just so thankful and blessed to have everybody here together I'm San Diego City retired
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firefighter I got a team and we go out and we systematically cover areas where someone could possibly hide a body and
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it's you know it's very sad to even talk about but you have to do it and it's the
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the proverbial needle in a Hast tack why are you here today uh really just to support our family hopefully we can
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bring peace to the family always make sure you've got eyes on somebody what drives you to do this for a total
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stranger somebody you didn't even know I I felt that it should be a community effort you just want closure for this
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family so much and that's why we're out here it's why we keep coming they deserve it Maya deserves it as the
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search for Maya continues in the vast lands of Eastern San Diego The Quest For Justice is just beginning in the halls
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of the San Diego court system the problem with this case is you don't have a body
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what would inspire you to join a search for a missing person go inside The myate
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Disappearance at 48 hours.com Mr M you have the right to have a preliminary examination hearing
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within 10 C Court days and no later than 60 his ego was so damaged by the fact his wife didn't want to be with him
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anymore and he couldn't handle it so he killed her Larry milete has been behind bars
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since his arrest in October 2021 awaiting trial and at this time would like to enter a plea of not guilty he
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plad not guilty to charges of murder an illegal possession of an assault weapon if convicted Larry could face up to 25
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years to life in prison so we're just going to do 14 then although there is still hope Maya could be found any day a
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victim's body is not required to convict someone of murder and this is one of the
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strongest circumstantial cases I've ever seen you don't have a body so what you don't get to get away with murder
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because you're good at disposing of bodies but Larry maintains Maya left on her own his defense attorney Bonita
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Martinez turned down our request for an interview but spoke with reporters after
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a hearing where Larry was denied bail his wife was used to leaving the house in the past and you cannot rule out that
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she's alive Larry maintains that Maya voluntarily left him left the children to start her own New Life do you believe
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that no nope not at all never believe that never Maya love her kids there's no way she would have up and left the best
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argument for the defense here is Maya is not dead they don't have a body she's alive and well attorney alavon says a
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nobody defense has worked before in other cases she says without a body the prosecution may be at a disadvantage
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they need strong evidence and the question is what do they have do they have something that they're going to
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bring out in a courtroom that definitely ties Larry to murder those loud bangs recorded on the
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neighboring security camera May not be proof of anything an FBI analysis was inconclusive they couldn't definitively
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say those were gunshots because the sound quality was not good enough in November 2021 Larry's attorney filed
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documents with the San Diego Superior Court with more allegations about Maya they believe that she had this wild
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lifestyle that she was out there having Affair she's dating different men off the internet that she's drinking excess
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mely that she's become this completely different person and so they're pointing to third party culpability if she's
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harmed it was somebody [Music] else Larry and his parents claim in court documents that Maya was
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essentially a party girl definitely not the Maya that I know was a devoted mother not long after Maya's
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disappearance Mary Chris and Richard say Larry cut off contact between between the children and Maya's side of the
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family we're just trying to see them going from hanging out hugging them jumping on my back seeing them at least
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once or twice a month at least to not seeing them at all for 9 months the milete children are still
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living at home in the care of Larry's parents but after months of not seeing them Maya's family was granted
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visitation rights in November 20 21 but the fight is not over Mary Chris has filed a petition for guardianship of her
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sister's children just show them that the whole entire family are waiting for them and you know are eager to be with
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them again glory be to the father and to the son but those children will go through
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all those moments in life when they need their mom and she's not going to be there it breaks my heart in January
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2022 Maya's family and friends held a vigil to Mark the 1year anniversary of her
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disappearance there's somebody out there that knows something that seen something
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they should come forward have it in your heart to help us bring it home tomorrow I'll be
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gone tomorrow I'll be gone away she will forever be my hero that's what I'm going to take with me it's a bright
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shining star of a woman that gave Every Other Woman regardless of what she was going through an inspiration to be
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whoever they wanted that's who Maya is [Music] [Music] these trees that are all around us here
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played a role in solving a murder absolutely a young mother dead will DNA from a tree found on a suspect's boots
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