760 secret messages
Maya Millete and Jamie Laird exchanged 760 messages over the course of a year, most of which were sexually explicit, via secret Instagram accounts.
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Jul 2, 2026
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The Millete Trial: Prosecution's Love Triangle Case
At 3:48 · chapter starts 2:23
Six weeks into the trial, the prosecution has rested a case built almost entirely on motive — specifically a love triangle. Andrea Canning sets the scene: no physical evidence, no body, just the story of a marriage unraveling. Alexis Rivas explains that Maya and her co-worker Jamie Laird began texting in New York and quickly moved to hotel rooms and parked cars. Their secret Instagram accounts generated 760 messages, most sexually explicit. In early 2020, Larry caught the two of them together outside their office. The week Maya vanished, Larry called Jamie's wife Patricia to expose the affair — setting up the next witness who would take the stand.
The Love Triangle at the Heart of the Millete Case
The prosecution's entire case against Larry Millete rests not on physical evidence, but on a love triangle. Maya and her co-worker Jamie exchanged 760 messages over secret Instagram accounts, met at hotels and in their cars, and Larry found them together outside their office a year before Maya vanished.
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