Larry Millete: Nine Bangs, a Dead Phone, a Missing Mom
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
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Summary
At 4:42 PM on January 7, 2021, a camera captures Maya Millete walking toward her front door. No camera in the neighborhood ever records her walking away.Between that moment and 6:45 the next morning — when Larry Millete drove the family Lexus away from the house with his phone turned off — something happened inside the Millete home that changed everything. A neighbor's camera recorded nine banging sounds that night. The FBI couldn't confirm they were gunshots. Maya's phone died at 1:25 AM and has never been recovered.This is Episode 3 of a five-part Hidden Killers series. In it, we reconstruct the full timeline of January 7 through January 9, 2021 — every call, every text, every surveillance timestamp, every lie Larry told his family and investigators in the hours after his wife vanished.The Lexus logged hundreds of unaccounted miles. Larry claimed he was at the beach. Nobody could confirm it. He told Maya's brother he'd just come from work. He hadn't. He told the family Maya was locked in a room. She wasn't there. He asked a neighbor to clean the car. He deleted every text between himself and Maya. Larry Millete has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | At 9.57 p.m. on January 7th of 2021, a security camera mounted on a neighbor's house near the Millet family home in Chula Vista, California. |
| 0:18.9 | Recorded something, not video of a person, not footage of a vehicle. |
| 0:23.0 | Sound. |
| 0:24.3 | A series of loud banging noises. |
| 0:28.6 | Reportedly, as many as nine. |
| 0:32.9 | Coming from the direction of the house from Maya and Larry Mellett lived with their three children. |
| 0:39.2 | The recording was discovered later almost by accident. |
| 0:43.6 | When the neighbor was reviewing footage after the camera had also picked up audio of children playing outside earlier that evening, |
| 0:50.6 | the FBI eventually examined the audio. Their conclusion, they could not |
| 0:55.2 | confirm the sounds were gunshots, but they could not rule it out either. That ambiguity, |
| 1:02.0 | the space between probably and definitely is the ghost that haunts the entire case, because |
| 1:07.3 | three hours after those sounds were recorded, all digital activity on Maya Millett's |
| 1:13.1 | phone stopped. Her phone had not generated a single data point since 1.25 a.m. on January 8th of |
| 1:20.2 | 2021. It has never been found. January 7th was a Tuesday. For Maya, it was supposed to be an ordinary day in the final |
| 1:29.8 | stretch before her daughter Laura's birthday party that weekend and her appointment with a divorce |
| 1:35.2 | attorney the following Tuesday she went about her business made her phone calls bite at her time |
| 1:42.2 | she sent messages everything about her digital activity, |
| 1:45.6 | that day looked like a woman who expected to be alive the next morning. At 11.m. Maya sent her |
| 1:52.7 | last known text message. It was to Ricky Lincoln, Larry's uncle, often referred to as Uncle Rick. |
| 1:59.5 | Simply said, thanks, Rick. |
| 2:06.6 | At 116 and at 140 p.m., she placed calls to two law firms. |
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