CBS 8 reported Larry Millete was sentenced to 25 years to life for the first-degree murder of Maya Millete.

Twenty-five years to life is what the CBS 8 article and the CBS 8 video page printed. Twenty-seven years to life is what NBC 7 printed, with two years described as the gun count. A Monday filing CBS 8 described as a maximum of 25, and a background line in the same story that prosecutors sought 27, are not the same request. A denied motion for a new trial is not an appeal.

CBS 8, in a story credited to CBS 8 Staff and City News Service, published at 4:41 p.m. PST on November 2, 2026, and updated at 5:08 p.m. PST, reported Larry Millete was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Monday afternoon. The dateline is Chula Vista, Calif. The story calls him the man found guilty of killing his wife, Maya Millete, and reports she has not been seen or heard from since Jan. 7, 2021. It reported a judge denied the defense request for a new trial, saying "extensive and robust evidence" was brought to trial. It reported the defense argument relied heavily on media interviews with jurors after the verdict, alleging those interviews revealed juror misconduct, and that the judge found no misconduct occurred. A CBS 8 video page published at 4:57 p.m. PST the same day says Judge Enrique Camarena's sentence of 25 years to life comes nearly six years after his wife went missing in January 2021. The article's sentencing paragraphs say "a judge." The video page prints his name. NBC 7, by Mike Dorfman, on a page whose published line still reads October 30, 2026, reported San Diego County Judge Enrique Camarena handed down 27 years to life for the murder and an unrelated gun charge, and that Millete will have to serve a minimum of 27 years before he is eligible for parole. Twenty-five years to life, in the CBS 8 article and on the CBS 8 video page, and 27 years to life, in NBC 7, are not the same term. The NBC 7 update line that loaded did not print an absolute clock.

CBS 8 reported Millete, 45, was found guilty in July of first-degree murder in the death of his wife of 20 years. It reported prosecutors sought a sentence of 27 years to life, a 25-year-to-life term on the murder count plus a consecutive two years for an assault weapon possession count he pleaded guilty to after the trial. The same article reported that, according to new court filings on Monday, prosecutors urged the judge to impose a maximum of 25 years to life for the murder. A request for 27 years to life, in the background of that story, and a Monday filing the story describes as a maximum of 25 years to life, are not the same request. NBC 7 reported two of the years related to a gun charge he pleaded guilty to after the trial, and that time in custody since 2021 will count because he has been locked up since then. Assault weapon possession, in CBS 8, and a gun charge, in NBC 7, are not the same words. CBS 8 did not print that the time already served will count. NBC 7 reported the defense argued he did not receive a fair trial because jurors were biased, based on interviews they gave news outlets after the verdict, that sentencing had been delayed while lawyers subpoenaed video of those interviews, and that on Monday the judge dismissed the motion. Dismissed, in NBC 7, and denied with a finding that no misconduct occurred, in CBS 8, are not the same sentence. CBS 8 reported the defense pushed to reduce the charges to manslaughter, which would carry a less severe penalty. It also reported the defense claimed the case should be dismissed entirely, asserting there was no evidence of murder. A reduction to manslaughter, a dismissal, and a new trial are three different requests.

CBS 8 reported that before the sentence the court heard testimony from Maya's siblings, nieces, a brother-in-law, and sisters-in-law. It reported the two daughters of Larry and Maya also testified about their grief, and that both children asked where Maya is. NBC 7 reported two of Maya's three children read statements, that both said they had lost their mother, their father, and their childhoods, and that they said they still loved him. Two daughters, in CBS 8, and two of three children, in NBC 7, are not the same count. NBC 7 printed a name with one of those statements. This story does not. CBS 8 quoted one of the Millete children: "It's so hard to believe my dad — who taught me everything I know — could have done something like this to me and the rest of my family," and, "I'll forever keep loving him, though, because even if people see him as a bad person, he will never be seen as a bad father in my eyes... because he's the only parent I have left in this world." NBC 7 reported Maya's sister Jane Fetalvero told the court, "Her children need their Mom, and you took it away from them," and, "You don't deserve to be called their dad, you don't deserve to be free, because you kept our sister Maya, a prisoner." It reported sister-in-law Genesis Tabalanza said, "You can still tell us where May is. Do this for your children, so that they can finally have peace -- the peace of knowing that their mother never abandoned them." CBS 8 reported both of Larry's parents spoke, and that during Benito Millete's testimony he began grabbing his chest, said he has a pacemaker and it was shocking him, and was taken out of the courtroom for medical attention. NBC 7 quoted him, "I wouldn't be here if I did not believe my son," and, "I asked him nine times, if he do it. He said, 'no.'" It reported he then shouted, "My pacemaker! Ahhh!" Those are two accounts of the same interruption. NBC 7 quoted his mother, Judith Millete: "You are always my little boy," and, "I am not ashamed of you. I'm proud of you."

NBC 7 reported that a few minutes before the sentence Larry Millete addressed the court and, without admitting guilt, apologized to Maya's family. One attribution on that page spells the surname Milette. In that attribution he said, "I'm hoping i can make amends and reconcile," and, "I hope I can make amends with the Tabalanza family." The page then spells the name Millete and reports he told Maricris Drouaillet, Maya's sister, "I really loved you sister," and, "I miss her every day," and that screams from the gallery stopped him before he finished. It reported Maya's niece shouted for him to say where Maya was and that bailiffs removed her. It printed no name for that niece. CBS 8 reported a niece submitted a written statement about five years of grief, and it printed a name. This story does not use that name. NBC 7 reported that after order was restored the judge imposed the sentence and a 10-year protective order barring contact between Millete and his children, and that the judge said they could petition to lift it once they reach 18. CBS 8 reported the prosecution filed a request for a criminal protective order to bar that contact for 10 years, arguing he interfered with the children's interviews with law enforcement and manipulated them during the investigation. A request in a filing, in CBS 8, and an order NBC 7 reported the judge instituted, are not the same step. CBS 8 did not print 18. NBC 7 reported she was the mother of three and that she walked into the family's San Miguel Ranch home and was never seen again. San Miguel Ranch does not appear in the CBS 8 article. The article's dateline is Chula Vista.

CBS 8 reported prosecutors alleged Millete killed Maya in their home because she sought a divorce, then loaded her body into an SUV and disposed of her on Jan. 8, during about 12 hours in which his whereabouts remain unknown. It reported her body has never been found, and that police and prosecutors say there is no evidence she was alive after that date. It reported that before the trial Judge Enrique Camarena barred the defense from arguing that Maya's co-worker, James "Jamey" Laird, was involved. It reported the defense said disclosure of an affair could affect Laird's marriage and career, and that Camarena ruled the claim did not meet the standard for third-party culpability evidence. It reported Laird was said to have been at a hospital that night while his wife was giving birth, and that the defense argued investigators did not fully confirm the alibi. It reported Deputy District Attorney Christy Bowles told jurors she could not say how Maya died and that Larry was the only person with the means and the motive. It reported the prosecution focused on tracking her whereabouts, controlling her finances, and messages to "spell casters" that, Bowles argued, moved from asking that Maya love him again, to asking that she obey him, to asking that she become sick or incapacitated, and that those requests stopped after she disappeared. It reported defense attorney Liann Sabatini told jurors in closing that conduct being classified as stalking was Larry conducting a "tragic investigation" into whether Maya was cheating. It reported she said Maya was denying the affair to family and friends while portraying Larry as "crazy" and "the villain," and that he was being psychologically abused and "gaslit" by Maya. It reported Sabatini said, "There is no playbook for heartbreak," and that jurors were being asked to speculate in a case with no body, no crime scene, no murder weapon, and no eyewitnesses. It reported Bowles called the absence of a body evidence the disappearance was "so well-planned that it is nothing other than premeditation." It reported a vial found in the home after his arrest tested positive for coniine, a poisonous compound in poison hemlock, that he had searched online for the plant and for other ways of killing or incapacitating someone, and that Sabatini called the poison theory "silly" and said the searches could have been about suicide. It reported surveillance captured Maya entering the home at around 4:45 p.m. on Jan. 7 and did not capture her leaving, that her last known contact was a text with one of her sisters at around 8:15 p.m. that night, and that her phone ended its cellular connections at about 1:25 a.m. on Jan. 8. It reported his phone also lost its connections that morning, and that he allegedly left in an SUV at about 6:45 a.m. and did not return until about 6 that evening. The July verdict is what CBS 8 reported the jury found on the murder count. Monday is the sentencing the two outlets described, and they did not describe the same number of years. Any appeal is a separate proceeding. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.