In November 2006, Lay mailed a package to one of M.V.’s friends with instructions to deliver it to M.V. "Inside the package was two letters, four pictures, a plastic ring sizer, a music CD, a half-dollar coin, and $200." These letters detailed plans for meeting up at a hotel and instructed M.V. to avoid telling anyone of this plan. In the following days, Lay continued to have numerous sexually explicit conversations with M.V. over the phone, and further discussed how he planned to trick M.V.’s mother into allowing M.V. to leave for the weekend. However, unbeknownst to Lay, M.V.'s mother had discovered Lay's letters and had subsequently allowed police to record these phone calls.
