Oh man. Mike, Phil. And that’s when the detectives realize that they had the wrong guy the entire time. And then when they rushed out to find them, he was nowhere to be found. And guys, by law, I can never tell this story again. Oh wait, was this thing on mute the whole time? Oh well, on to the next case. In this episode late because Ky initially recorded it completely on mute and had to rerecord it, yes. Are we putting out a Sunday episode on a Wednesday also, yes. But in today’s episode we’re discussing the second update in the Larry Millete case. So grab your apple juice, hold onto your butts, and let’s get into some Love and Murder.
Welcome, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of Love and Murder You already know, the weekly True Crime Podcast discussing relationships gone terribly wrong, where our motto is you’re either someone’s last love or their first murder. I am your host Ky, and as a reminder, our show discusses true crime cases told in the form of a story with mystery and suspense. We might have a little humor sprinkled in here and there, but that is never at the expense of the victim.
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This is the update number DOS. So last time we left you, it was going to trial. So now the trial has started. But first I wanted to remind you to head on over to our Patreon. In our latest bonus episode, we discussed some crazy cases. It was an unsolved mystery. And you don’t want to miss that. And if you join today, you get access to our entire back catalogue.
So you get, Oh my God, so many bonus episodes. And also, once season one comes off of this platform, you’ll still have access to season one of Love and Murder. So head on over to our Patreon www.patreon.com/loveandmurder and get in starting at only 1$ a month but the best here is the 5$ and up tear. But enough about that. Let’s get into the show. Now if you don’t remember. We did Maya Millete in episode 50. So if you don’t know about this case, I would go ahead and stop listening to this episode. Now go back to episode 50, listen to that case, and then look for the Larry Millete update.
You’ll find that as well. That’s another update and this is, this is actually the second update. So we have the case to update and this is the second update, but I’ll give you a really quick recap of just the whole case in general. So Maya Milette was born in 1981 She was born in the Philippines, raised in Hawaii. Larry Milletet was born in 1979 raised and born and raised in California. However, he also moved to Hawaii after a time and went to the same high school as Maya.
And basically that’s how they met. They got married. Larry’s life when he was a teenager was a bit, you know, he had problems, he had issues, but when he got with Maya, he cleaned up his life, they got married and moved to California, had three children and just lived a happy life. I go into more detail in episode 50. So if you want to go back and listen to that, then you can hear all about how they met, more about Maya’s background, more about Larry’s background, more about their marriage and everything.
Like that. And you don’t want to miss like, the Oh my God, the insane stuff he did in their marriage then. So they were married for some time. He did some crazy stuff in the marriage. You got to listen to episode 50 and then on January second, 2021 which wasn’t that long ago, which means Maya was Maya was 40 at the time. Maya just stopped communicating with her family, which she was normally a heavy communicator. You know, they’re very tight. The family, so they wouldn’t miss a day and talking and then just suddenly just crickets, nothing.
So of course you know, her family members went over to the house to check up on them, you know, find out what happened to Maya. Why isn’t it, you know, she talking to anybody or whatever, making sure everybody is OK. And when he got there, Larry told him that he had no idea where Maya was. She wasn’t home. She had just left and he had no idea why. But the family became suspicious because his story started changing.
So it started changing and she ran away. You know, she just changed different things. And because of a lot of things, the family didn’t believe him. So they called 911 and reported her missing. And two weeks after she went missing. Police started to search for her. They got a search warrant and searched his house and well, their house, not just his house, and got footage from neighbours, cameras and everything like that. Which again, you want to go ahead and listen to episode 50.
You also want to go ahead and join our Patreon because we have extra and we have the footage in there and extra stuff so. By July, he was a person of interest. So, you know, they keep investigating, keep investigating. They start finding evidence that’s going against him, but nothing to actually solidly say that. You know, something happened to Maya, and Larry was the one who did it. On October eighteenth, the Chula Vista Police Department arrested him for the murder of his wife, first degree murder, felony possession of an assault weapon. So by October twenty first, he PLED not guilty, and he’s been in prison ever since.
However, no one has seen Maya. She’s never called, you know, she just, she’s never called her children. And that’s not like her. She’s just gone. No one knows where she is. So that’s basically. The update. And then you got to listen to the first Larry Milletet update and you’ll find out what was going on then. But the last I left it was he had a hearing scheduled on September 26 at 1:30PM PST Pacific Standard Time.
So that’s where we left it. So if you want to hear what happened in the update, go to that update episode. I don’t remember what number it is, but go to that update episode and that’s what happened. So let’s move on to what’s going on now. So on September twenty sixth two thousand twenty, two, criminal proceedings started for Larry Millete. So the whole thing was, you know, they had to make sure he was declared competent. And by September 26, 2022 they were like, yeah, you can’t stand trial. You are competent.
We see nothing wrong with you. So you could definitely stand trial. So the judge ruled that the criminal case will go forward. And if you listen to the update, you’ll find out that his lawyer was trying to say that, you know, due to everything that was going on, I won’t go into it just so you go back and listen. But basically due to everything that was going on, her client was just not in his right mind, not emotionally ready and everything like that.
So he stood before a judge and the judge said, Oh no, you’re emotionally ready. We need to find out what happened to Maya. So after this statement came out, Maya’s sister, I don’t know how to say the last name, said that after the results came out, you know, she was happy, “this is good news today that we are finally going forward with my sister’s case and hopefully we’ll get closure. We’re not giving up. We’ll bring my sister home and” so you guys, Larry’s family. File the lawsuit. Against the Chula Vista police, their lawsuit was alleging civil rights violations, so they were saying that the Chula Vista police illegally served a search warrant.
On April 1st, 2021 to Larry and Meyers house they said “They were searching for Larry Milletet’s gun parts. Police officers took not only Milletet’s gun parts, but also guns that plantain that plaintiff Lincoln owned, that plaintiff Lincoln had inherited from his father, and a freezer from the kitchen that Lincoln had borrowed from Larry Milletet. So they are basically saying that the cops had it out for Larry. They didn’t do any other investigation. This is what they’re saying. They didn’t do any other investigations and they came into the house where they got the warrant.
You come into the house to specifically look for certain things instead of, you know, being out there looking for what happened to Maya and everything like that. So that’s what their court filing said. That’s where their lawsuit says. And I actually have the paperwork of the court filings here and I’ll put that in our Patreon now judge Dwayne Mooring said that Larry can actually resume communication from jail with his three children now, if you remember in episode 50.
Was that he couldn’t communicate with his three children. Just listen to it. I’m going to say episode 50, listen to episode 50 about a billion more times, so bear with me. But Deputy District Deputy District Attorney Christy Bowles disagreed with this ruling “it’s our position that the children were present when their father murdered their mother in the home and took steps to hide and dispose of her body while the children were at home”. However, part of the ruling that the judge said was that Larry would only be allowed to write letters to his children and then a court appointed guardian for the miners must read and approve the letters in advance.
And the Guardian’s name was Kelly James and they said, “the children all wish to have contact with their father. It is my opinion that it would be appropriate for the children to have contact with their father through letter writing. Only the children are. All doing remarkably well, and it has been about a year since they have had any contact with their father. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to stop the father from blurting out something inappropriate during a call or a visit, even if it’s supervised. So that’s why they’re justifying the letter. And you know, that’s why they think he needs to go back to talking to his children. So after this, after he was found competent, to move forward with the preliminary hearing.
They went ahead and did that. So at the preliminary hearing, there’s no jury there. It’s basically like it’s similar to a hearing or similar to a trial. But there’s no juror jury. However, witnesses can be called, they can display evidence and. The Council can cross examine witnesses. And at the end of the preliminary hearing, the judge can then rule, if there’s enough evidence for it to be, for it to go to trial. So basically the judge is going to say, yeah, I believe he committed the crime and let’s go ahead and schedule the trial. Or if the judge says there’s not enough evidence to establish probable cause, then the judge is just going to dismiss the charges.
So that’s what they’re doing right now and with this preliminary hearing. They’re going to actually call more than 20 witnesses. Y’all more than 20 witnesses. So the first people they called up were Maya’s siblings. So they came up and my ass sister Mary Chris said that. Larry told her to wait until 2 or 2:30 in the morning or two thirty on January 10th before calling police to let them know that Meyer was missing.
And then Maya’s brother said that Larry told him the same thing. And Larry’s reasoning for that was that he said him and Maya had gotten into a big argument on Thursday the seventh and so he just believed, you know, she was out cooling. Off between the seventh and the ninth. He just believed she was out cooling off. So, you know, hold off on calling the police, even though Maya calls you all the time.
And for some reason she’s so angry that for the first time in her life she’s not calling y’all to discuss something that’s going on in her life. So hold off on calling the police until two thirty in the morning. I wonder why that was the time. Hold off until 2:30 AM. I don’t understand that, but he apparently had a reason. For that anyways. And Maya’s brother also testified about him being the first one to the house when Maya hadn’t.
They hadn’t heard from my end for like a couple hours. That’s how much she speaks. She speaks to her family folks. They hadn’t heard from her in just a short period of time. It wasn’t even a day yet. And her brother went out to look for her. And that’s when he said he got to the house and he couldn’t find her. And Larry was just not even worried. Then they called a lawyer that Maya had spoken with. Destiny Johnson, which she works at a lot a family law firm in Chula Vista and she testified that when and I’m sorry, she’s not a lawyer.
But anyway she testified that when Maya called she answered the phone and that was around 1:45 PM on January 7th and Maya said she wanted to begin the process in seeking a divorce from Larry. And this person, destiny said that the phone call lasted about 20 minutes, maybe give or take some. And she said it was unlike any other. Of the hundreds of divorce calls that she’d ever had, she said Maya tried to or wanted to cancel her in-person appointment. She just wanted to go ahead with the divorce proceedings over the phone.
She didn’t want to come in because she was afraid that, you know, if Larry found out or, you know, he followed her there or sent somebody to follow her there or whatever, and if he found out what he would do. So she said she wanted to just start it over the phone. So they did. But then destiny, you know, decided to set up a meeting. Like 24 hours after because she said, you know, she was concerned for Maya safety.
It just sounded weird as she said. And like I said, in the beginning it sounded most unusual, which I don’t understand how that’s unusual because as a divorce attorney I’m pretty sure you’ve heard. I don’t want him to know until he served, you know, I don’t know what reaction he might have. He or she, it’s just like. That could have meant anything. I don’t want him to find out.
I don’t know what reaction he’s going to have. Is he gonna start crying? Is he gonna try and take the kids? Is he gonna file before me? That doesn’t mean that was an unusual call, because the first thing that should not come to your head is he going to murder her? Like, so that’s why I’m just kind of put off by that. You thought that was an unusual call, like. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me. It’s just my opinion and opinions aren’t meant to be right. So let me know what y’all think in the comments below. I’m not a divorce lawyer and I don’t work in a family law firm, so maybe it is a weird conversation.
Maybe it was weird. What she said, I don’t know. So she said she sent the paperwork to maya did fill out the paperwork and had it back to her within the hour. And then she followed up with Maya in 24 hours. Maya didn’t respond. So on January tenth her boss, her boss, told her to send my an email because they were just concerned that she didn’t respond.
Then the next person they called to the stand was a forensic specialist with the Chula Vista Police Department named David Gerber or Garber. And David said that he was the one who photographed all the evidence. And then he just talked about like the evidence, what he photographed. So he just photographed regular stuff like inside the house, outside the house, the cars, their living room, just different things. But the one thing, well, a couple things that he said were weird was that there was a spot of blood in the master bedroom bathroom. There was a spot of blood there. And then that there was damage to oh, three things sorry, there was damage to the bed, the bathroom door and that there were patches in the wall.
So like somebody had cut out holes in the wall and then patched it up but hadn’t painted over it yet. So these are the three things that he said. When he took pictures, those things were just kind of weird. But there was no further investigation into that blood spot, so I’m figuring that they tested it and nothing came of it. So that’s that one is kind of weird to me. And I mean, damage to the bathroom door and damage to the bathroom could have been anything, and again.
I’m not saying yes. I’m not saying no. I’m just. Giving my opinion here folks. The only thing that I see that’s really that could really be used as evidence is that spot of blood, however. They didn’t move forward with it, so I don’t know what that’s about now the one thing that I want to note to y’all is the main thing that they’re. Paying attention to here is Larry’s phone records. So both Larry and Maya’s but mainly Larry’s phone records, what he texts, how much he was using his phone.
And the big thing is that on the day his wife disappeared, his phone was off. And the reason why this is a big thing again, if you listen to episode 50, listen to episode 50, you’ll understand that Larry never had his phone off. He was a heavy phone user so when the day his wife disappeared between 6:45 AM until six thirty 6:30 PM, his phone was off so that’s kind of suspicious. You never have your phone off and suddenly on the day your wife disappears, your phone is off. And then as in episode 50, you’ll see that. Well, you’ll hear that. There were neighbors had surveillance cameras. So the police used those surveillance cameras to see what was going on at the Millete House.
And it shows that Larry, put something in his car, I don’t know what. He put something in his car and then he drove away. He left his house at like six forty five AM, which is the same time his phone was turned off, and he came back around 6PM and then 30 minutes later he turned his phone back on and they got I don’t, I don’t remember what it was. Maybe it was a GPS in the car or whatever. Got to listen to episode 50 and they pinged something. He pinged. They pinged something, his GPS or something. I cannot remember what it was. And he was not near his home so.
This is like. Where were you? You know, so another thing they were looking at in Larry’s phone was text messages between his supervisor at work, and they showed the text messages. So on January sixth, he showed his supervisor screenshots of messages, like a conversation between him and Maya. And one of the messages Maya said was, “I don’t want to be your wife anymore. I’m filing whether you like it or not. I should have left a long time ago and this time. I’m not gonna look back and say that again so”. That’s the day. Ok. So then Larry called off from work.
He showed him those texts and they called off from work. And he said because he was, “mentally and physically, emotionally spent, that’s what he texts to his supervisor. And then he didn’t come in the next day either. So he didn’t call, he didn’t everything, anything, he just didn’t come in. So the boss was like when are you coming back?” And Larry text “I’m not right.” And then the supervisor asks “have you eaten?” And then Larry responded, “I’m about to lose it.” And that was it. That last. Literally it. And then the next day.
Police are looking at his phone and everything like that and there’s barely any activity on it. He didn’t text anybody, he didn’t call anybody. He’s like. Not using the phone at all even though. Like a ton of people were trying to reach him. Like everybody was calling him just to find out how he’s doing, what’s going on? How are you holding up? Whatever, whatever. Just what’s going on? We haven’t heard from you. Even his father called him and then text him and begged him to turn on his phone.
But Larry just didn’t use his phone. He just didn’t do anything. Another thing that they were looking at was his internet search history guys, one of the things he was searching for was “subliminal wife training.” Like what the what? But if you listen to Episode 50 you’ll hear all the crazy things that he was doing. If you think Subliminal wife training is crazy, wait till you listen to episode 50.
He had subliminal white wife training in his history. He had a search. He had a history of. Like playing subliminal messages. So basically, I guess subliminally train your wife. I don’t know, but you’ll find out more about that in episode 50. Cause that’s in there, trust me. So he also searched “various individuals who appear to sell spells.” And you’ll find that out if you listen to the other episode. And he also had a search, and this one’s like, wow, he also had a search in there for.
I don’t know. I’m not even trying to say the name of this drug. But the date rape drug, the date rape drug, which I don’t understand. Why are you searching for the date rape drug for your wife? So with that drug, it basically incapacitates people. So that’s another suspicious thing. Why are you searching for that? Included with trying to train your wife air.
So yeah, those are the suspicious things, however. None of it is actually evidence and again, my opinion y’all doesn’t mean I’m right. I’d love to hear from you in the comments below. None of that is actual evidence saying that Larry did something to his wife. You know what I’m saying? The only thing that I could think of that would be evidence would be the blood, because anything could have happened to the wall, the bathroom door on.
Unless you actually have the pieces of the wall, then that’s not really evidence. The only thing that I think they had. Was the blood but. They’re not moving forward with the blood, so that means there’s nothing that they can do with that. Other than that, everything else is circumstantial. Him leaving between six forty five and six his phone being, off even though, it’s you know, that’s weird and that’s. Not like him. Her not talking to her family. All of this is all circumstantial cause it literally could be anything. She could literally just be like I don’t want to talk to my family, which again is not like her.
But it’s not hard evidence to say we’re gonna send Larry to trial again. I’m not for Larry, I’m not against him cause I don’t know what happened. This is just my opinion. But I’m thinking about. Like what the judge will do? Because that’s circumstantial. I don’t know. This is this is really weird you guys. I don’t know. What do you all think? I really want to hear from you all on this, but that’s all I have for you. They are still going through the preliminary trial, but I will keep up to date with this and I will keep you all up to date also, pretty sure you are going to keep yourselves up to date either way, but I’m going to try and keep you all up to date as well.
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