Larry Millete: He Googled Rohypnol, Paid Spell Casters & His Wife Was Never Seen Again

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At 440 in the afternoon on January 7th, 2021, Larry Millett sent an email to

You ready? A spellcaster. Woo! Yeah, that's where this is going. Not to his wife, not a call to

a marriage counselor, an email to someone he was paying had been paying for months to use magic

to keep his marriage from falling apart. The message read, I'm shaking inside and ready to

make her miserable without me. You know, like you do. Two minutes later, at 442 PM, a surveillance

camera outside the family's Chula Vista, California, House captured Maya Millett's jeep Rubicon pulling

up to the curb. She parked, she got out, she walked towards the front door, no camera and

that neighborhood ever captured her walking away. At 815, that evening, Maya sent a Facebook

messenger post to family members, a listing for a toy hauler, casual, unremarkable, nothing

in it that reads like someone saying goodbye. Sometimes at night, a neighbor security camera

picked up a series of loud banging sounds coming from the direction of the Millett home.

Maya's phone went dark around 1.25 AM. She has not been seen or heard from sense. Her

body has never been found and the man who sent that 440 email, the man who was shaking inside

and ready to snap has been sitting in a San Diego County jail without bail for more than four years

waiting for a murder trial. And at this point has been delayed so many times that Maya's own family

has started wondering whether justice will arrive before they do.

Maya was 39.

Filipino American, the mother of three kids, age 4, 9, 11. At the time of her disappearance,

she was a division head at a US Navy facility, a career she'd built into a six figure salary.

By every account from the people who knew her, her children were the center of her life,

her eldest daughter's birthday was just days away when she vanished.

She and Larry Millett had been married for nearly 20 years. He worked as an optician at a

Naval Medical Training Center on paper. They were a family. In reality, by mid 2020, Maya was done.

She moved out of the Chula Vista home temporarily and stayed with her younger brother J.R.

She was texting him. I'm so tired of his mental and emotional abuse and

he's got you all in his pockets and I'm alone and isolated exactly where he wants me to pay.

A New Year's Eve going into 2021 during a family trip, Maya pulled her sister aside and told her

the divorce was happening. It would be messy. She had no access to money and then she said

something that would echo through every court proceeding that followed.

If anything happens to me, it was Larry.

I hear there's in so many cases, don't we? Where the warning goes out. If any, it's like,

if you were saying this sentence allowed to anyone, you're close enough for it to happen.

And I don't think we always treat it that way. I think we say these things aloud,

they can now, you know, maybe it's not. It's horrible. Yeah, that would probably

until it does. And then you're dead.

There's no place far enough away from that other person if that's how you're feeling. Understand that.

If that's legitimately how you are feeling,

I said something you're saying in just to a friend of soundboard because people like to make

things sound more dramatic. People like to be victims. People like to get more attention than

they actually deserve. And I'm not saying that's happening here by any stretch of the imagination.

But people make shit up. That's not a force.

So if you are genuinely feeling that way, there's plenty of people who are, I'm just saying,

you genuinely feel that way. And you're not padding your trauma for attention as some do.

You cannot be far enough away from that person to ensure your own safety.

Don't keep flying close to the sun, thinking you won't get burned.

On January 6, she texted Larry directly, 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.

All right, put it down. The very next afternoon, January 7, around 145 PM, she called a divorce law

firm from her cell phone. She wouldn't go in person. She was worried someone might see her there

and tell Larry she couldn't pay with a card from her shared accounts because he monitored them.

The firm's receptionist later testified that the level of caution and fear

and that call was unusual even by family law standards. My schedule to phone appointment for the

following week, she never made it. What the investigation uncovered about this marriage

wasn't heartbreak. It was a documented month by month record of control that got darker every

time Maya moved closer to the door. It started with surveillance. Larry had planted a cell phone

belonging to one of their daughters inside Maya's vehicle, the tracker location. He monitored her

emails, messages, social media, and finances. He followed her to work when she was temporarily

unreachable. Family members testified he would panic, frantic calls, desperate pleas. He called

Maya's brother JR almost every day asking for help convincing her to stay. He told Maya's own sister

in law he was willing to sell his soul to keep his wife from leaving him.

Hence, she get him talking to somebody about putting spells out there.

He was literally looking for a way to invest his soul to accomplish his said goal.

By September 2020, around the time Maya first took serious steps toward separation,

something shifted Larry allegedly built a physical shrine to the marriage. A photograph of the two

of them surrounded by candles with what appeared to be red wax or blood. When police later searched

the home, they found spell books on the shelves. One of them was titled Magical Love Spells.

The emails to spell casters started around the same time. He was paying people he believed

could use magic to make his wife stay. I don't know when chorus of controls not working, I guess you

go to magic. Then came the speakers. Larry placed audio devices throughout the house. His internet

search history included the phrase, subliminal wife training. Maya found a phone under their

bed playing audio. She didn't recognize. She confronted him. He told his sister in law it was

recordings of things like, I love you, plate under white noise. Messages used absorb

without realizing it. This is a case where you might even be able to get into like

crazy territory of just like mentally well enough to know what he was doing. I think he was.

Just the extremes some people go to were like, wow. She also stopped taking the vitamins he'd

been giving her. They were making her drowsy. She told him to kept a private digital diary as a

running record of the marriage and entries in it suggested she believed she was being poisoned.

When an investigator was asked directly at the witness stand whether he believed Larry was

poisoning Maya. The answer was a careful but clear yes. I can't factually say he was poisoning her.

But I can see other evidence that backs it up. That other evidence on December 16, 2020, Larry

Googled, rofenol and other drugs and common over-the-counter meds to incapacitate adults.

He's calling the witch doctors. He's calling people to figure out how to incapacitate adults.

He's trying to subliminally message her. It's stupid things people do. It's just like you didn't

what? How about just lover? How about just treat her right? How about don't try to coercibly

control her? Those things actually work magic. That's the real magic of the relationship,

the give-and-the-take of it. Not all this shit. From September 2020 through January 7,

21, $1,154.5 spent on spellcasters. I wonder how that shows up on your credit cards. Sometimes you

go to your credit card on your online interface and you'll be like, here's the percentage of what

was spent on what? Like groceries, utilities, dining spellcasters. Does it get its own little

like chunk? Like, wow, we've been spending too much on spellcasters this month, honey. Maybe we

should cut back. But again, his love spells became requests for broken bones, cancer and nightmares.

He described wanting Maya wanting Maya to be an S slave who would be subservient and obeying him.

He wanted her hurt badly enough that she'd have no choice but to depend on him.

His messages grew more unhinged and direct proportion to Maya's growing resolve to leave.

Multiple witnesses reportedly heard him talk about paying someone 20 grand to kill the man he believed

she was having an affair with. During the preliminary hearing prosecutors played a two-minute video

in open court. A recording Maya appears to have made secretly have an argument between them.

It's the only moment in any of these proceedings where the courtroom heard Maya's actual voice,

and it Larry is pressing her about the affair he suspected. She pushes back quietly, asking him why

he would say things like that. It's unsettling to sit with. The sound of a woman trying to have

a rational conversation with someone who's search history at that point included how to incapacitate

her without killing her. And there's more, because of course there is.

Achila Vista police officer testified in an open court that at least one occasion Maya was so

afraid of her husband that she locked herself in the bathroom for her own safety. Larry punched

through the drywall next to the door. A friend of Maya has told investigators that at some point in

the marriage he had choked her until she passed out. When defense attorney Martinez asked

detective Jesse Vincente directly on the stand point blank, whether he believed Larry murdered Maya.

Vincente said, yes, based on the facts, we've gathered throughout this investigation. I believe

he's responsible for her disappearance. That was the defense asking. That was the cops answer.

In January, the 21, the day that according to prosecutors, that day answers everything. Larry's

phone was off from 6.45 in the morning until approximately 6.30 that evening.

surveillance footage shows the family's black Lexus SUV being backed into the garage early that

morning before pulling away. The district attorney noted publicly that the camera angle could not

confirm what if anything was loaded into the back of that vehicle. The Lexus was gone for more than

11 hours. Larry left his cell phone at home, no GPS, no tracking, no record of movement. When Maya's

brother J.R. came to the house that evening, Larry told him he had just gotten home from work.

He had not been to work. It was his third consecutive unexplained absence. His supervisor

had been messaging him, both him and Maya throughout the day. This is not like him to miss work.

Is Alibi beach day? That's alone in beach. With his four-year-old son,

when investigators asked him to point the location on a map, he identified a beach in

Torrey Pines area, miles from where he claimed to have been. Then on January 9th, he told the

neighbor, he'd actually taken the Lexus to Anne's of Orego Desert State Park, a completely different

location. In that same conversation, he asked the neighbor to detail the vehicle to clean it.

And Maya's father came to the house and was told she was upstairs in the bedroom. The door was locked.

Larry reached into his pocket and produced a key the room was empty. His first instinct

pointed to a credit card, missing from her desk. His explanation for a missing wife, she probably

went hiking. When investigators examined his phone, every text between him and Maya prior to

January 9th had been deleted. His last email to a spellcaster was sent at 4.40pm on January 7th.

His only contact with him afterward, a single email sent January 9th asking to have all the

hexes on his wife removed. He'd been writing to them nearly every day for four months.

After January 8th, he never sent another one.

Before this goes to a jury, the defense deserves a fair hearing.

And what they've argued goes beyond simply saying Maya left on her own.

In sealed sidebar transcripts from the preliminary hearing, later obtained and published by

CBS 8, defense attorney Bonita Martinez argued that Maya had a specific reason to disappear.

And a reason to make Larry look responsible for it. The theory, Maya had allegedly lied to NCIS

investigators during a workplace investigation, tied to an affair at the Navy facility where she worked.

If that surface publicly, in a contentious divorce, the defense argued it could have

cost her her career and her security clearance. They also claimed Maya had told someone that if she

left Larry, she would never see his children again. Their argument plainly stated she was in a

tight spot and she had to disappear. Yeah. Points for creativity. The defense also argued no

witness ever directly observed Larry commit violence against Maya and that not every exit from

the Millett home was covered by surveillance. The judge ordered Larry to stand trial anyway in

his ruling judge Dwayne Maureen cited a marked contrast between how Larry behaved when Maya was

temporarily unreachable in the past panic, relentless versus how he behaved after she disappeared

for good. He called that contrast strong ground for suspicion of guilt. He found no credible

evidence Maya would have voluntarily abandoned her children, including a daughter, his birthday party.

She'd been plotting for the following weekend.

So where do things stand today? And where it gets even harder to sit with? Larry Malat has

been in custody since October of 21. He faces up to 25 years to life on the murder charge

plus a felony weapons count. 16 guns were recovered from the home two of them illegal assault rifles.

He's maintained his innocence throughout and is said publicly he intends to take this to trial.

His therapy records are released to both sides in January 26 only legally possible because courts

have now presumed Maya dead after five years of silent silence. The trial has been delayed more

than most people can keep track of. It was set for September of 23, then January 24, then August

24, then January 25, July 25, then January 26, then March 9th of 26, which attorney said at the

time was expected to be the final post-ponement. It wasn't. And January 28th of 26 with the

March 9th date two weeks away or more than two weeks away. The defense asked for yet another

continuance citing personal family losses. The judge granted it.

Maya's sister, Marisa stood in that courtroom and begged him not to. She told the judge, both

my parents are living day to day. We do not know how much time they have left. They wake up every

morning still waiting for justice for their daughter. The judge granted the delay anyway.

The trial is now scheduled for May 11th of 2026. Maya's three children after four years of legal

battles by Marisa's are finally out of that chula vista house and living with Maya's family.

They had been with Larry's parents in the same home their mother disappeared from.

From the time if his arrest until August 24, allegedly, there are two versions of what happened

in that house on the night of January 7th of 21 and eventually a jury will be asked to do decide

between them. One is that a woman who spent months quietly warning the people closest to her

was right about everything. The other is that a woman with professional exposure and something to

lose made a calculated choice to disappear and let her husband take the fall. What neither version

explains away is a man who the morning after his wife was last seen. Backed his car into the garage

before dawn turned his phone off drove for 11 hours and this day cannot tell investigators consistently

where he went. Maya let's say that if anything happens to me, it was Larry. She said it to her sister.

She said it to her brother. She said it quietly on New Year's Eve when she could have said

anything else. She wasn't asking anyone to stop it. She was just making sure that when it happened,

at least a few people would remember. She warned them. Her parents are still waiting. Her sister

is still fighting and some are in Chula Vista in a courtroom that has been asked to hold this case

for five years. A jury seat sits empty until May. Your thoughts in the comments section on

substacking YouTube. We're going to dig deeper into this case in the coming weeks, months, as we

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