Kelly Hesedal

A no-body case...

a very high burden for the prosecution to prove this.

And I think that's the reason why this trial is expected to last three months.

I mean, there is so much evidence they are putting out there.

Their opening statement alone nearly went on an entire day because they were laying out in the opening statement piece by piece all the people that the jury was going to hear from, all of this evidence, all of these experts that are going to be testifying.

So, yes, it is going to be a very long trial.

The defense's strategy is we don't know what happened to Maya Miliete.

There's lots of things that could have happened to Maya Miliete, and they have really been steering the jury toward the man that she was having an affair with.

They want to stir up that doubt in the jury's mind that

It's possible somebody else could have done this.

At one point during pretrial motions, they were talking about somebody could have taken Maya, but it wasn't Larry.

Well, according to the defense, she had created this Instagram account, kind of like this private, anonymous Instagram account where she was basically...

talking to Jamie Laird on this account and also venting her frustrations about her marriage on this account as well.

But according to defense, it was a sexual relationship.

There was a lot of graphic images and graphic photos shared between the two of them.

The defense made it clear this wasn't like they just met up a couple of times.

This was something that had been ongoing.

So the defense also points to Jamie's

His wife was pregnant and actually his alibi for where he was the day Maya disappeared is he says he was at the hospital with her because she was going into labor.

And so the other thing the defense is probably going to point out during testimony is that Jamie never reached out to Maya after she disappeared.