Kelly Hesedal

and that Google searches were recovered showing that he had searched for things like flour and hemlock, poisoning, what is the best poison for a fast death, those sorts of things.

However, the defense has countered, basically saying this wasn't what prosecution made it seem.

Right.

Absolutely.

And so it wasn't for weeks later that they determined that an investigation needed to begin.

And at that point, I mean, this was a couple of weeks after she had disappeared.

And the fact there was no body.

So I think for them, they still had the idea as well that it's possible she could potentially still be out there.

But yeah, the family was very frustrated in the beginning.

And that's when they turned to the media.

Mary Chris, the sister, did numerous interviews with the media trying to get her sister's story out there and trying to really put pressure on the police to really focus on this investigation.

Larry was arrested in October of 2021, so obviously several months after Maya had disappeared.

And the news conference that day is something I will never forget because Mary Chris stood up there in front of all of these reporters

And actually, it made me very emotional that day.

It always gets me when I think about it now.

Her voice was shaking and she was just begging people to stand by her family.

I mean, she said something along the lines of, I promised the children that I would bring my sister home.

And so she was really...

appealing to all of the people out there to help them with any tips, any leads, anything like that, because she said she wanted to keep that promise to the children.

Absolutely.