Kelly Hesedal

Maya and Larry met when they were working at a fast food restaurant.

Maya had actually immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her family back in 1995, and she was just 13 years old.

So they actually got married when they were pretty young.

Maya was 19 years old.

I believe Larry was 18 years old.

And they fell in love, got married, waited about 10 years until they had children.

They ended up having three children, two girls and one boy.

And Larry had enlisted in the Navy at one point, and so they had relocated from Hawaii to San Diego.

And that's where they settled in a portion of San Diego called Chula Vista.

They loved their children.

Larry was an attentive father, according to family and friends.

Maya has always been described as very bubbly, very outgoing, someone who loved the outdoors, loved being outside.

And by all accounts, they had a typical married life.

The prosecution said this week in opening statements, to really understand this story, you have to go back to 2020.

Maya was confiding in her friends about the struggles in their marriage.

She wasn't really confiding in her family quite yet about what was going on, but she was definitely letting her friends know that there were problems.

She began an affair with a coworker

According to prosecutors, during opening statements, it started out as a friendship and then turned physical.

Right.

And when the prosecutor said those words in court this week during opening statements, I mean, there's many reporters that are sitting in the courtroom and you could hear everybody's fingers tapping on the keyboard the moment that she said that, because I think it really struck everybody as a line that really stood out.