Anne-Marie Green

It is a trial that is five years in the making.

Larry Milioti is in court this week charged with killing his 39-year-old wife, Maya, who was last seen in their Chula Vista, California, home on January 7th, 2021.

48 hours followed Maya's family, friends and the community as they searched and searched for her.

Yet her body has still never been found.

Meanwhile, prosecutors say that Larry had been paying people online to pay.

cast spells on his wife spells to first make her stay with him and then later to harm her in opening statements the prosecution said that maya was having an affair and according to emails larry sent to spell casters the affair resulted in maya getting pregnant the prosecution says this revelation caused a huge fight between larry and maya in january of 2021 right around the time she went missing

Larry Miliente has pleaded not guilty.

I'm 48 Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green, and this is Case by Case.

And today I'm being joined by Kelly Hesedal.

She is a CBS 8 San Diego reporter.

She has been following this story and was in court earlier this week.

So, Kelly, thank you so much for making some time for us.

Thank you for having me.

So let's just sort of start kind of in the beginning.

I want to talk about Maya, or May, as some people called her.

What was her relationship with Larry like in the beginning?

But clearly, things started to change.

They started to unravel at some point.

Larry obviously was not doing well with this.

He did not want a divorce.