Andrea Canning

Prosecutors believe he killed Maya, but can't say for certain how or where he disposed of her body because it has never been found.

What they do point to is a trail of evidence they say includes poison, an alleged affair, and even magic spells.

Larry's defense attorney, on the other hand, says there is no proof Maya is even dead.

And if she is, there were other people who may have killed her, like her married lover.

As Larry's trial enters its second week, NBC7 investigative reporter Alexis Rivas is here to tell us more about the proceedings so far, which, Alexis, includes a call you got from Larry himself right in the middle of trial.

That's right.

I definitely wasn't expecting that, and it's definitely a first for me.

Yeah, well, thank you for joining us.

We're going to get to that in just a moment.

But you've been covering this story from the very beginning, right?

Give us a sense of who Larry and Maya were before all this happened, at least who they seem to be to the outside world.

Well, they got married very young.

They were teenagers in Hawaii.

Eventually, through the Navy, Larry gets relocated over to Southern California.

Maya goes with.

And they both wind up working very successful jobs.

He's in optometry.

She's an administrative specialist for the Navy.

And from photos, they had kind of the perfect family.

As we talked about off the top of the segment, the last confirmed sighting of Maya was when she was captured on her neighbor's security camera footage.