Overview
- The trial of Navy optician Larry Millete continued in mid‑June 2026 with prosecutors on June 9–10 reading handwritten journal entries by his missing wife Maya that accuse him of physical and sexual abuse.
- Investigators presented a timeline of online messages and payments showing Larry sought love spells and darker hexes, including requests prosecutors say aimed to harm rivals and force sexual compliance.
- Prosecutors showed surveillance footage they say depicts a freezer being removed from the Millete home, reported gaps in phone and vehicle records, and pointed to contested forensic traces that investigators linked to the case.
- Multiple witnesses testified Maya had made concrete plans for the future and would not have abandoned her children, a line of evidence prosecutors use to challenge the defense theory that she left voluntarily.
- The defense stresses that no body or single direct physical link to a homicide has been recovered, and the outcome will hinge on how jurors weigh the cumulative circumstantial evidence as more testimony and forensic analysis unfold.