Kelly Hesedal

Their communication pretty much just ended on January 7th.

And we learned through the prosecution this week that both Jamie and his wife are expected to take the witness stand during this trial.

Well, they have a lot of circumstantial evidence to get through.

They have a lot of investigators who are going to testify.

They have a lot of experts that they're going to want to put up on the witness stand.

We know from pretrial motions that just the cell phone data itself

was kind of in question by the defense.

And then there's a lot of family members to also get through who are all testifying, a lot of friends.

One of the biggest moments this week was that Maya's father was on the witness stand.

He was being questioned by prosecutors.

He has a translator with him.

And that one moment he got up and had this just emotional outburst at Larry that he was crying and wailing and screaming, saying, I loved my daughter.

Why did you do this?

Why did you do this?

And this went on for a while.

One of the defense attorneys left the courtroom crying.

The judge cleared everybody out of the courtroom.

The defense tried to call for a mistrial, but the judge said no.

The judge said to the jury, you can take into account the emotion behind what he said, but you must ignore.

You know, I've talked to legal experts about this who have made some pretty sad revelations that at the end of the day, Maya's family just wants to bring her home.