The home of missing Maya Millete has been sold for $1.3million while her husband, Larry Millete, awaits trial for her murder.
Built in 2004, the five-bedroom home in California that once belonged to the couple now stands vacant and was placed up for sale in December after a dispute over the estate was settled in court.
Now, the property has been snatched up, with a pending sale listed on its Zillow page for its asking price.
The home features three full baths and one three-quarter bath, a three-car garage and an upstairs balcony.
The 3,682-square-foot home sits in San Miguel Ranch, a neighborhood in Chula Vista, just twenty minutes from San Diego.
According to the listing, its 7,659-square-foot lot ‘is designed for low maintenance’ and the home ‘boasts dual staircases with elegant wrought iron handrails’ as well as mountain views.
The home went on the market not long after the couple’s three children moved out of the home following a change in custody from their grandparents to Maya’s sister, Maricris Drouaillet, who had sought to preserve her estate.
It was ruled in August that ‘by clear and convincing evidence under Probate Code 1804 that Ms. May T. Millete is a missing person and whose whereabouts are unknown since January 2021, hence, a conservatorship is appropriate.’
Court documents also found that the decision was made partially due to missed mortgage payments resulting in the beginning of the foreclosure process on the home.
It is believed that Larry will use the funds from the sale to fund his legal defense.
After the home was put up for sale, an anonymous neighbor told CBS 8: ‘When the kids moved the U-Haul truck came, and then two, three weeks ago, there was a U-Haul. I guess the parents took some stuff out.’
Larry currently awaits trial for the murder of his wife Maya after she disappeared on January 7, 2021, and has pled not guilty to first-degree murder and illegal possession of an assault weapon.
Larry contends that his wife left him to start a new life.
When Maya first went missing, the family hired a private investigator who discovered that Larry had allegedly sent hundreds of emails to various online ‘spellcasters…psychics, spirit-channeler, or white-light practitioners capable of energy work’ prior to her disappearance.
Barry Littler, an ex-criminal defense investigator for the Navy, found evidence that Larry purchased a slew of ‘spells’ from the self-professed mystics – some of whom promised to get his wife to find him attractive again, and another to ‘incapacitate’ her so she couldn’t leave the house.
‘Please punish May (Maya) and incapacitate her enough so she can’t leave the house,’ Larry wrote to the spellcaster, before chillingly adding, ‘It’s time to take the gloves off.’
Another spell requested by Larry, according to Little, would ‘enhance a person’s love life, eliminate debt, or make a romantic partner remain faithful.’
On December 31, 2020, a week before Maya’s disappearance, he allegedly emailed another charmer asking for a spell that would cast physical harm on his wife, who was scheduled to meet with a divorce attorney the day she vanished.
‘Can you hex to have her hurt enough that she will have to depend on me or need my help?’ Larry wrote, Little’s report shows. ‘She’s only nice to me when she needs me or [is] sick. Thanks again. Maybe [an] accident or broken bone.’
Larry’s penultimate request to a spellcaster came in the early hours of January 8 – the day after Maya, who has four kids with her husband, was last seen, prosecutors allege.
The message, sent just before 1:3 0am according to Little, saw Larry begging an online wizard once again to save his marriage, an hour after Maya’s phone activity suddenly stopped, according to Chula Vista police.
The next day, Larry abruptly asked for the hexes against his wife to be stopped, according to Little. No other messages came after.
Little, who also discovered a makeshift shrine made by Larry during his sprawling one-month investigation, said messages show that the couple had reached a breaking point in their marriage, spurring Larry to resort to unusual measures.
Larry was taken into custody in October 2021 after murder charges were filed by the San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan, but Maya’s body still hasn’t been found.
Stephan said that Larry tried to put a curse on his wife as the relationship deteriorated, and she began talking about wanting a divorce. Stephan also revealed the final call made by Maya before she vanished had been to be a divorce lawyer.
‘Extensive search warrants uncovered a trail of things that were happening, that were of great concern,’ Stephan told a press conference outside the Chula Vista Police Department.
‘Larry was trying to hold on to May[a]. He resorted to contacting spell casters, who would be asked to make May stay in the relationship.
‘In December, he was asking for May to become incapacitated, to be in an accident and have broken bones so she could stay at home.’
During the January 7 call, Maya spoke to a divorce lawyer and set a date for an appointment on January 12, Stephan said.
The last message that Maya sent was at 8:15pm on January 7, when she used Facebook Messenger to contact her family.
A few hours earlier, in the afternoon of January 7, Larry had sent a text message which read: ‘I think she wants me to snap and I am shaking inside ready to snap.’
Maya’s phone activity stopped at 1:25 am on January 8.
‘Larry’s messages to the spell caster turned from wanting to keep May to wanting to punish a man he blamed for the failed relationship,’ said Stephan.
He also kept an extensive collection of rifles and guns in the couple’s Chula Vista home.
Police described Larry in a court filing as having ‘a frantic, desperate, unbalanced mindset coupled with violent and sometimes homicidal ideation.’
They said he was also suspected of trying to hire a hitman for $20,000 to kill a man he believed was having an affair with his wife.
Larry ‘s murder trial is set for July 7, 2025, after the trial has been delayed multiple times by his defense teams.