December 31, 2025 • 52 mins
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was just 13 when she was reported missing from her family home in Lake Elsinore, 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Celeste, at 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 120 pounds, is reported last seen wearing a black shirt, gray pants, and Hello Kitty sandals. And according to close sources and family members, she has a boyfriend named "David."
Celeste, just entering her teen years, becomes friends with singer D4vd on social media and runs away to Hollywood to see the rising star. Celeste is returned home to Lake Elsinore by the police.
Celeste remains in school for a month, then in May, "D4vd" (David Anthony Burke) picks Celeste up in a Tesla to go to the movies, and she never returns home.
Residents in the Hollywood Hills grow tired of a dusty, 2023 Tesla Model Y with a Texas plate parked on the street for a month and report the vehicle.
Days later, employees at Hollywood Tow notice a foul odor coming from the Tesla and call the police. When officers arrive, they discover human remains wrapped in plastic, placed in a bag, and hidden in the frunk of the Tesla.
Police identify the person/victim as female, 5 feet 2, weighing 71 pounds, with wavy black hair, wearing a tube top and black leggings.
Reports later state the remains are severely decomposed, partially dismembered, and identified as Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the child who was reported missing more than a year ago.
Authorities report the Tesla is owned by singer/songwriter D4vd, who is reported to be living in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood near where the Tesla was abandoned.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime stories with Nancy Grace decomposing, partially dismembered, and a
Star's Tesla trunk.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
He was left literally to ront.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It goes beyond the pale of what any human being
ever would to another human being.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
One of the dumbest people in the world.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
That's controversial to leave the body of his girlfriend in
a trunk of his car.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I definitely smell a rat. A dead body in your
trunk can really hurt your reputation.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Residents in Hollywood Hills grow tired of a dusty twenty
twenty three Tesla model why where the Texas plate parked
on the street for a month and report the vehicle.
Days later, Employees a Hollywood Toe notice a foul odor
coming from the car and call police. Officers discover a
decomposing body found in a bag in the front of
the Tesla. Human remains wrapped in plastic, placed in a
(01:12):
bag and hidden in the front trunk of the Tesla
are severely decomposed and partially dismembered.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Lise.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
The person was a female five foot two, weighing seventy
one pounds, with wavy black hair, and was wearing a
tube top in black leggings. The person appears deceased inside
the vehicle for an extended period of time before being found.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
A missing little girl celested just thirteen years old, which
he goes missing, found decomposing, partially dismembered, and a star's
tesla trunk who is now whining because his tour is canceled.
(01:55):
The music star I'm talking about has gone multi platinum.
But before I talk about all of his musical success
and how much money he's making and how famous he is,
can I show you what he just reposted? Okay of
a guy chopping up lunching me and he says me,
(02:18):
if I see her talk with other dudes, you know,
not a good look when you're then thirteen year old
girlfriend is found dismembered and decomposing in your tesla. And
as I recall to Israel Sala Frodriguez joining a senior
(02:38):
news reporter, us son not just dismembered and decomposing, I
mean you, by the way, that video is from at
Brian on TikTok, you could smell the trunk as you
approached the tesla. And isn't this true, Israel Sola Rodriguez
(03:00):
that the tesla was noticed by the neighborhood because it
was so dusty and it had been sitting there for
so long. My point is, how could somebody put a
a then thirteen year old little girl in a trunk
and leave the car there for weeks on And how
(03:22):
long was that car sitting in there?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Israel, that's right, Nancy, So the car was reportedly sitting
there for weeks, and then the fluent neighborhood in Los Angeles,
the Hollywood Hills neighbors complained about a foul older coming
from the Tesla. However, it wasn't until early September when
authorities finally impounded that vehicle from the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Was the Tesla moved a couple of times when it
was sitting out on the street.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
That's unclear right now, Nancy. However, there was of reports
from neighbors that the Tesla was parked in a home
in that same area in the Hollywood Hills, and then
days later it was parked on this walk.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It's a little weird to see a car that I
haven't seen here for a long time, had a big
dent on it had a Texas plate on it, so
all a little odd. One neighbor says, the distinct looking
Tesla was parked on the street for some time in
front of the house that was searched, and later in
two other spots on the street. The vehicle stood out
because it has a Texas plate and a big dent.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That from our friends at WABC seven to Dave mac
joining me Crime Stories investigative reporter, isn't it true, Dave,
that she was so decomposed she had to be forensically identified.
Isn't that true?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Absolutely correct? Nancy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay again, jos Gott Morgan, I'm just a felony prosecutor.
Could you explain what that means. I mean, I'm guessing
that means that they didn't open the trunk and look
at her and go, that's a little missing girl. Celested.
She had to be forensically identified.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Yeah, to give you to kind of frame this out
a little bit, Nancy, her Celeste measurements her weight specifically
in life be ready for this was one hundred and
twenty pounds. The remains that they have are somewhere in
the neighborhood of seventy, So no, they could not have
been able to actually visualize her and say, yeah, this
(05:23):
is Celeste, this is who we've been looking for. No,
they're going to go at this. I do understand that
she has specific tattoos and they were able to use that.
I can only assume her family's involved in put them up.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Please okay. Specifically one tattoo, a tiny tattoo on the
inside of her finger. It says sh sh and you
could only see it if that finger was held up
there it is, there's a sh. Now. I just saw
another tattoo and I'd like to see it again. That
(05:56):
was the other tattoo on her finger, So Mom and
I couldn't see her tattoos. David, Wow, David, David the musician,
and it's on her ring finger. Hello, David the musician,
and it's on a ring configure. But you know what's interesting?
(06:19):
Can I see Joe Scott please? The sh tattoo? What
a co ink? You think that he David? Some people
look at his name and it looks like D four
VD and he pronounces it David. He has the same
(06:39):
tattoo on his index finger. What a coincidence? Isn't that odd?
Joe Scott Morgan?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
What else is odd is that a child, a child
this age has tattoos. All right, So just let that
sink in just for a second. The fact that she
does have this tattoo, though, was certainly beneficial as far
as getting her remains identified. And listen, you can't just
go based upon the tattoo. There are other elements here we.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Have and that just got We were just showing her
with the ring on her ring finger that's on her
left hand. This when she goes mission. She's thirteen years old.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
The thirteen year old became friends with singer David on
social media and ran away to Hollywood deceive the rising star.
Celestia was returned home to Lake elson Or by police.
Celestia remained in school for a month. Then in May,
David picks thee lest up in a tesla to go
to the movies and she has been gone ever since.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This little girl disappears for the first time when she
is just thirteen years old, after she goes to meet
musician who has gone multi platinum and they start talking online.
She goes to a concert somehow with him and they
start talking online. That's the working theory. He's not charged
with anything, and I'm very curious about that decision. Let's
(08:08):
hear it all from the Horse's Mouth.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Hello.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
My name is David pronounced David, not d four VD.
I'm from Queens, New York. I'm in Houston now. I
own a gamer. I love video games. I wanted to
be a professional gamer before music. That's actually what pushed
me into music was getting copyright strikes on YouTube and
I kind of just use my own music and my
montages after my mom told me too, so I was
(08:32):
crying to her about it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That is from the Genius YouTube channel.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
The twenty year old became a YouTube star, playing his
favorite game, Fortnite and commentary. His channel was defunded due
to his use of popular music he used on his
videos that he did not license. He says his mother
told him to make his own music for his videos.
He downloaded a free music app for his phone, and
his music career was born. Using his own music in
(08:56):
his gaming montages, Burke begins uploading his tracks to sound Cloud.
His music gained more attention than his gaming montages. Self
produced song Romantic Homicide goes viral, leading to a record deal.
Romantic Homicide is certified multi platinum.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Has anybody actually looked at the lyrics of Romantic Homicide?
Let's put it up on the screen so we can
all take a look. Okay, we definitely need to shrink
on this. In the back of my mind, I killed
you and I didn't even regret it. I can't believe
I said it, but it's true. Do I love you?
Speaker 10 (09:29):
Know?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I hate you? In the back of my mind? You
died and I didn't even cry. No, not a single tear.
And I'm sick of waiting patiently for someone that won't
even arrive. Take a listen to David promoing his song
Romantic Homicide.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
So when inspired the hook in the back of my
Mind you died, It's kind of like the storytelling aspect
of the lyrics that came before it in a way
that it builds up to the big moment where she
died in the back of my mind and killer physically
in the back of my mind. She died and I
didn't even cry, not a single tear.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is from the Genius YouTube channel. A lot of
you may not be familiar with his music. It's not rap,
it's more like R and B. I've listened to a
lot of it, specifically Romantic Homicide. He's also ventured into clothing.
I'd like you to see some of the shirts that
(10:28):
he David has offered online for sale. Oh wait, hold on,
wait are those blood spattered shirts? It looks like is
it in a car? I don't know where it is,
but that's him with blood spattered shirts. To Joanna Nevis,
veteran criminal defense attorney, Joanna, you are fully versed in
(10:54):
guilty conscience. Sometimes the cleanup is worse than the crime,
the cover up, so to speak. Why would he suddenly
remove shots of him with bloody T shirts. It looks
like it's even in a car. Why why would he
do that suddenly? No, Nancy.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
So many people, especially celebrities, are represented by what we
say like public relations representatives who will advise them to
do certain things so that a kind of attack thing
before the damage happened. And you know, this is somebody
who was in the spotlight. He's already being attacked about
(11:33):
his lyrics. He's already being painted as the person who
is you know, likely responsible for this because he had
a relationship with this person, and he is likely being
told that he should take these images down. Although these
images are a part of his overall brand. We're talking
about creative expression.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I can't wait, I can't wait for you to try
that on the jury. This was his artistic expression. What
more do we know about this guy?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Burke has released several singles, including Here with Me. They
charted on the Billboard Hot one hundred. He has recorded
two EPs, and last April released his first full album, Withered,
with the Withered world tourist starting last month and canceled
the day the body in his Tesla was identified as Celast.
His deluxe album is shelved. His record label Interscope, suspended
(12:23):
the album's release and paused all promotional activities related to David.
His endorsement deals are canceled.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
What do I have? This correct to Dave Matt, Crime
Story's investigative reporter that after Celeste butchered remains are found
in his tesla trunk, he continues touring for several weeks
until the outcry online it becomes too noisy to ignore.
Speaker 11 (12:54):
It's unbelievable, Nancy, that bloody remains are found in a
vehicle registered to you, Yet you continue on this world
tour like nothing was found in your car, and only
stop when the remains are identified.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
As a missing child from Lake Elsinor. He went on
about his daily business after a bloody chopped up, decomposed, course,
was found in his abandoned guard. Nancy, think about all
of this, and it goes beyond the pale of what
any human being ever would do to another human being.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You know, Dave, Matt Apparently you and I are the
only ones concerned because as of this moment when we
go to air tonight, there have been no charges at all. Okay,
he's in a relationship with her. She's a runaway times two.
She's been gone over a year with him. I bet
(13:59):
if we timed the those photos would find out how
long she's been with him and now she's dead. Now, okay,
look at this livestream video of David and Celeste. Oh yo,
what way? Wait?
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Look one.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
Family? Oh thank you, Mitch, Mitchel Kanzio Mas can we
delete alls? And then as soon as the stream too.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's around friends at the Daily Mail. An integral part
of any homicide investigation is a time line. It's critical.
Based on a timeline, you can alibi people, you can
unalibi other people that you're looking at as a suspect.
(14:55):
It changes everything. And in the last hours, a video
has emerged potentially placing this little girl just thirteen years
old when she goes missing at a David d four
VD concert in Maryland on August twenty four. Significance very quickly,
(15:18):
Dave mac When was Celeste's body found in David Burke's
Tesla Trump.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
She was found on September the eighth, and it had.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Been sitting out on the street in posh Hollywood Hills
for weeks that we know of. So that gives me
a timeline, That's what I'm getting at. So if she
is alive, if this is in fact her in the
video August twenty four, and then we've got September seven,
that gives me a timeline. Let's take a look at
(15:51):
the video right now. This video has been circulating video
from at clips of David on TikTok Now. Is isn't
it true? Melissa McCarty joining me, I investigative reporter, host
of the Killer Jeans podcast, author of the Making of
a Crime Reporter, Melissa, Thank you for being with us.
(16:11):
Isn't it true that Celeste's body was found in a
black tube top and ripped jeans? Isn't that true? Melissa?
Speaker 13 (16:18):
She was about seventy five miles away from where she
was living with her family in Lake elsinor in the
Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Now I'm gonna come back to you on that Melissa,
because I don't think she was living with her family anymore.
She was at one time and then she goes missing,
and according to neighbors that we have heard about tonight,
she had been living with this grown man, David Anthony
Burke aka David for a long time. Some sources date
(16:48):
her relationship back to her age eleven. Did you see
that picture of her as a little girl, Yeah, age eleven,
we can establish age thirteen. You are seeing video from
atclips of David on TikTok. I want to see that
again because now we are learning. We are learning. Moses
(17:13):
Castillo joining me, former supervisor detective at LAPD, private investigator
for the Dordellian Law Group. Castillo, Look at this. People
are saying, no, that's not her. So it's a woman
that a young girl that looks just like her, that
is wearing her clothes, that is in a balcony reserved
(17:33):
for special guests and family aunt. Moses Castillo. Uh oh,
by the way, this is from atclipse of David on TikTok,
Moses same clothes. People are saying, oh, wait, I don't
think that's her. Sure looks like her. Who should? I
believe them are my lying eyes.
Speaker 14 (17:51):
Yes, I believe it is her, and I believe many
people also believe it's her.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Guys. This is from a Silver Springs, Maryland concert August
twenty four, and if true, these photos create a timeline
from August twenty four until her decomposing body is found
in Burke artist known as David Tesla in an en
pound lot on September eight. Is reported the Tesla was
(18:20):
parked on the street for about a month before being
reported abandoned. There is I assume that is the front
of the to loot. It was reported abandoned September three.
Now we now have a timeline from August twenty four
to September three, not when the body was discovered in
(18:45):
the parking in the toe lot, but when it was abandoned.
The body was already in there. We have now narrowed
the timeline down from August twenty four to September three.
I want to show you another video that we dug up.
Take a look at this. The words I got time
to kill, you got time to fill, We got blood
(19:08):
to spill all over the new car seats that I'm
sleeping on. Okay, let that sink in just for a moment.
You got time to feel. We got blood to spill
all over the new car seats that I'm sleeping on.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Friends of Burke thought Celeste was nineteen and his girlfriend,
describing Burke as a very shy, quiet person. Friends said
they saw Burke and Celeste together a lot as a
romantically involved couple. Thinking Celeste was a student at usc
friends of Burke saw Celesti at age restricted venues and clubs.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So apparently she was being passed off as much older
than she actually was. And I've noticed in all the
photos that are posted off her, she's always covering her face.
Very curious crime Stores with Nancy Grace, we learned that
(20:11):
overnight the musician known as David flees his three plus
million dollar mansi, and he was paying twenty thousand dollars
a month and breaks a lease, so getting out of
that mansion was more important to him than losing a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Burke was living in a home leased by his manager,
Josh Marshall, but since police served a search warrant looking
for blood at the residents, the singer decided not to
live in the twenty thousand dollars a month home. The owner,
Laden Tryfuonevic says Marshall signed the lease in February and
he didn't know Burke was living in the house. After
the raid, Tryffuonevick says, they didn't want to live there
anymore and are breaking the lease. The home was previously
(20:55):
owned by halle Berry.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You're not seeing really good shot of it, the beautiful
side of the front. Oh, by the way, these shots
are from our friend Harvey Levin over at TMZ. Take
a look at this. So he leaves and breaks a lease. Coincidentally,
Melissa McCarty joining US investigative reporter and host of Killer
(21:19):
Jeans podcast. He breaks the lease to the tune of
tens of thousands of dollars. He may have had to
pay out the lease. I don't know how many years
it what twenty thousand a month for how long? How
many months? How many years? He breaks the lease and
flees in the middle of the night. Tell me about
the search of that mansion that just went down, the
(21:41):
mansion that once belonged to halle Berry.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
Well, police officers are looking for anything to help build
a case at this point, so they're looking for traces
of blood throughout the property. They're also collecting all kinds
of electronics because they also a.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Huge issue here.
Speaker 13 (21:57):
They need to prove the extent of this relationship that
he had with this child, you know, So they're looking
at communications, so when they met, what age was she
when they connected, So anything that could help them build
a physical and digital forensic pathway.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Laden Travunevik, the owner of the home Burke was renting
for twenty thousand dollars a month, has hired a private investigator,
Steve Fisher, to try and find out what was happening
in the home he owns. Fisher was hired shortly after
a forced search entry search warrant was served at the home.
Nobody was home when police served a search warrant.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
The LAPD says Celeste had been deceased for weeks before
being discovered in Burke's tesla. Private investigator Steve Fisher says
he has seen surveillance video from neighbor homes and knows
exactly when the tesla was last moved and who moved
it to the location from where it was towed in
very late.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
July and the only way to amass that information. To
gather it is from the cams in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Listen surveillance cameras in the Hollywood Hill built a complete
timeline showing when Burke's tesla was parked on Bluebird Avenue,
who parked it, and whether anything was placed in the
vehicle after it was parked. There's also no evidence indicating
Celest's body was transferred into the tesla after it was
parked on the street.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Joining me right now, private investigator Steve Fisher. He's been
on the case from the very very beginning. Missing person's
private investigator, search and rescue specialist and owner of Search Investigations.
He is the one hired by the Hollywood Hills property renter,
(23:37):
the leaser where the four VD David Burke was living.
You claim that you have amassed cam camera video camera
evidence from the neighborhood, and that having looked at that,
you've placed you've pieced together a timeline and you know
when Burke's tesla with a dead body in it, I
(23:58):
think was first part in the neighborhood. When was that
first part in the neighborhood.
Speaker 15 (24:05):
It moved to that last spot on July twenty ninth,
at about eleven something in the morning, and I'll tell
you it was in the same shape that we saw
it in those toe photos where it was completely dirty
and trashed. I could tell that they had run the
windshield wiper ones just so they could see out of it,
and they had rolled the window down to move it,
even though they're moving about a block and a half.
(24:26):
But it was in that condition still, so it had
not been used in a long time. They had clearly
been just moving it around different areas of the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
July twenty nine, eleven, am Burke's tesla was moved to
its last location. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay? Do you know where it was parked before that?
Speaker 8 (24:49):
That?
Speaker 15 (24:49):
I don't know, because from the house that was taken
from is a little bit down the hill, but on
the same street that the rental house is on.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Okay, So you're telling me the tesla that hell Celeste
decomposing body is on the same was ultimately left on
the same street where he was living.
Speaker 15 (25:08):
It looked like it was coming from the rental house.
He can't see for sure, but there's only a few
houses on that street because that's like an off street.
And it came down that road and was turning onto
where you go up the Bluebird there where it was left.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, are you telling me on a video you can
see the tesla coming from the direction of his house.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (25:30):
So how the road is curved, and so the house
that captured that is kind of at the base of
the curve, so you can't see you can see it
coming down the road, you can't see exactly where it started,
and you can't see the driveway of the rental house.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It stops right before that the camera angle does wow?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, did you see any cam video camera video on
any nature that showed the tesla a part in that
area prior to July twenty nine.
Speaker 15 (26:04):
I have seen the images that I obtained from the
Department of Transportation on the day it was ticketed and toad,
which was September fifth, And then I have seen a
video that shows it in May of twenty twenty five,
very clean, but actually parked on that Bluebird Street that
(26:24):
one was ultimately towed from, but it was clean at
that time.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Joining me now Scott Iiker, who has actually performed experiments
with a tesla. Founding member FBI Cellular Analysis Serve a
team former police officer, homicide detective with Norfolk, Virginia currently
precision Cellular Analysis. Scott, thank you for being with us.
(26:52):
Explain what you learned about this tesla other than the
fact that the trunk is open over ten minutes, an
alert is sent by text email to the owner.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (27:03):
And the tesla, as we have talked to before, has
numerous cameras on it so that you get these alerts
when the trunk is open, or the front front trunk
they call it the fronk. And and there's a small
area in front of in the in the front of
the car there in the front that you can put
(27:24):
baggages or groceries. That's what I use it for. But
in this in this case, you know, her body was
found inside the front of this of the tesla. It's
a very small area and you can see some of
the pictures.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Is my daughter here, that's your re enact Okay, yes.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Yes, ma'am, that's my daughter. She's about one hundred pounds,
so it's pretty tight in there for her. But as
if you know, if the victim in this case with Celeste,
you know she's already deceased, they're more foldable and bendable
at that point.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
In time, Scott, Iiker, how tall was your daughter?
Speaker 14 (28:09):
Five two pounds?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, that's generally the same size as Celeste. Generally speaking, Scott,
it's almost a three hundred and sixty degree video of
the surroundings of the car. What all would the cameras catch?
Speaker 14 (28:27):
They catch numerous aspects front, back, inside of views of
the camera. And this is me reenacting bringing a bag
to the to the front of the car, opening the hood,
placing that bag into that front area, that little space
that we saw earlier, and then showing as you can see,
that's the dash camera in front of the car and
(28:50):
right by the mirror, and it's facing right down the
front of the car, so anybody coming to the front
of that car will get viewed clearly as you can see.
And then there's cameras on each side of the car
and the rear of the car too.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I want to remind everyone that as we go to
air tonight, David Anthony Burke aka D four VD is
innocent in the eyes of the law, and he remains
innocent unless the presumption of innocence is pierced and overcome
by evidence that proves him guilty. Take a look at
(29:30):
thee lest little middle school boyfriend.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
She said how her mom didn't treat her well or whatever,
and she didn't like where she was at. We were
at pe and she told me, my friend, that she
was running away, and she said it was because of
her parents, and she was like joking about it, and
she was like happy, like joking like she always was,
(29:54):
and like it didn't seem real because she was like
playing around, joking about it, And the next day she
wasn't at school, and then like that's the last time
I saw her. My heart job. I was like, I
don't know. I just couldn't believe it. I thought, I mean,
I kind of had a feeling when I saw, like
(30:15):
the first thing, I was like, what if it is her?
I just like brushed it off. But when I saw
it really was, I was like, yeah, I really knew.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That's my friends over at GMZ that Celeste revs Little
middle school boyfriend describing how years in the making she
had trouble at home. Why did Celeste Rivas continue to
run away from home? How did everybody know that there
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was trouble at home? As a matter of fact, on
this occasion that she ran away from home. Her sister
went looking for her, even poking her head. The sister
into a liquor store asking if they could look at
the surveillance video and see if Celeste had walked by,
(31:06):
and sure enough, Celeste was caught on video cam on
the incident when she ran away from home. To Dave Mac,
Crime Stories investigative reporter, what happened in that instance?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, in that instance, Nancy, we actually can see
that Celeste is kind.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Of doing a walk run.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Hey, Dave, look at your monitor. We're showing the video
the sister got from the store and there she is
literally running away from home. Let me be clear, Celeste
was not in the liquor store. The surveillance video showed
her going by. This little girl running away from home,
and I got to ask why in this video from
(31:49):
our friend Harvey Levin at TMZ. Now, what were you saying,
Dave Mac? I just wanted you to see the video.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I just wanted to point out that that video was
at seven am. That's when it was taken at a
time when he killed one. Nor will be going to school,
but so instead Celeste is clearly kind of in a
confused state. If you watch her stride she's partially walking,
partially running. It's like she's not quite sure what she's
going to do, but she that's the last they see it,
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or she takes off. And it's a fascinating reading to
the thirteen year old that is trying to figure out
what to do. And as you just pointed out, Nancy,
this is a child who spoke about being unhappy at home,
not being treated well at home, and wanting to be away.
And when I see her walking and understopping kind of
and then running, it just breaks my heart.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Imagine this Celeste, a little girl sister, also a little girl,
goes looking for her sister, asking stores and homes along
the way if they had seen her sister. Even a
young girl going in a liquor store asking if they
had seen Celestia because she looked at the surveillance video.
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And here is Celeste seven a running away from home.
Now I'm certainly not the church lady, but I can
tell you this. You need to know where your twelve
year old daughter is at seven AM.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
A friend of Celestial Mother, Mercedes Martinez says the family
was aware of the relationship with Burke. She doesn't know
why they didn't ask where she had been staying. Celeste
left again and went back to him. Someone called Celeste's
mother and said, stop looking for her. She's fine. Take
down social media post about Celeste being missing. She felt
scared and took down a social media post asking for
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help finding Celeste.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
As we go to air tonight. David Anthony Burke aka
David aka D four VD who by the way, his
music is Through the Roof on Spotify. Amazing the irony
that said he is radio silent, although we are learning
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he's going on social media and monitoring Reddit users everybody
posting about Celeste's murder, and he is trying to control
the narrative as it relates to him. So he's not
totally quiet. He can go online and do that, but
not mention a word of condolence. Speaking of remaining silent,
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did he not notice Celeste wasn't there? Did nobody say hey,
we're Celeste? Apparently not, because she was never reported missing
by either him or her parents. Yeah, digest that for
a minute. Nor was his car reported stolen? Interesting? Right,
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That's called circumstantial evidence. And again, Burke is innocent. He
will not be guilty unless he has been charged and
proven guilty. In a court of law by a jury
of his peers. Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
This is real?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Has this enormous gift to the defense just dropped into
their lap It all goes to a myriad of pill
bottles found in D four vdaka David Anthony Burke's home,
A myriad of pill bottles belonging to we here, to
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a myriad of people that we're living there, in and
out and in and out based on those pill bottles
and so far a lack of a cod be cause
of death. Does this mean no one will answer up
for a dead teen girl decomposing in a hot car trunk?
Speaker 16 (35:48):
Listen bottles of prescription pain medication and drug pair of
fenilia are recovered inside the home, not by LAPD but
by Steve Fisher. The LAPD did not publicly disclose finding
prescription drugs or drug paraphernalia. Other people were staying there
as well, men and women, their personal belongings in guest bedrooms,
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bathroom cabinets, and bedside tables. A neighbor reported seeing Celeste
sitting on the curb in front of the house as
if she was waiting for someone to let her inside.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
What does it all mean, we know, based on neighbor
accounts and war that Celeste was living in the home
of David Anthony Burke aka D four VD. He says
David straight out to special guest Steve Fisher, joining us
missing person's private investigator, search and rescue specialist, owner of
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Search Investigation who is hired by the owner of Burke's mansion. Now,
I want to get to the fact that there is
no cod right now. In my experience, a toxicology report,
a screening would have come back by now, which leaves
me concerns Steve Fisher that we're not going to get
an accurate toxicology report. Why because she basically baked and
(37:06):
melted in that Tesla trunk. What did you find in
D four VD, David Anthony Burk's rented mansion specifically, so.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
There was opiate prescription medication.
Speaker 15 (37:20):
Uh, there was a few bottles of that, and then
there was perphernalia they used to smoke different types of drugs.
You know, it's not for you know, one type, it's
something you find in a smoke shop, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Steve Fisher, without divulging names, were their names on the
pill bottles of opiates they.
Speaker 15 (37:41):
Were and they were hydro codone, they were lard Tab,
generic lord Tab, opiates, pink killers.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
To Luke Kenton, joining a senior investigative reporter with Daily Mail,
Luke Kenton, thank you for being with us. You see
where I'm going with this, right, Luke. If there weren't
multi pull pill bottles of opiates, and you know from
what I've seen, and it hasn't all made it into
mainstream media, there were a lot of people in and out,
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a core group living there, but a lot of people
in and out of Burke's home. There were a lot
of pill bottles reportedly in Burke's home. Where I'm going
with this is if we don't get a cod cause
of death, if she's too decomposed to get a good
toxicology screen, the argument is going to be Luke Kenton. Oh,
(38:37):
she voluntarily, all on her own, does gobble down a
bunch of opiates and she died. That's how she died.
Everybody we had nothing to do with it, and then
out of fear we hit her body. That's where this
is going, Kenton. Do you have any idea, Luke Kenton,
who the people were going in and out. It was
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like Grand Central Station at Burke's mansion and who were
the core people actually living there? Any idea on that.
Have they been identified? And that has just not been released.
Speaker 17 (39:11):
They haven't been publicly named. There has been obviously, as
I'm sure you're where, a lot of online sleuthing going
on around this case and trying to piece together the
blanks that the LAPD aren't currently filling in for us publicly.
Some of these individuals and I can't speak to the
people that may or may not have been living at
the home, but there was a group that David was
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often seen with in social media. On social media, one
close friend in particular that appeared to be involved in
his music team in some capacity.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay, so basically what you're telling me, there's a lot
of people in and out and nobody can confirm it.
We'll see that shot control room that we got from
our friend Harvey leven Over at TMZ. The mansion is
covered in security camps, so we know who goes in
it stays overnight on a daily basis. It's not rocket science, Fisher.
(40:05):
To figure out who's living there. All you have to
do is ping their phone and see is it there
night after night after night. I mean, do I have
to connect the dots here.
Speaker 15 (40:17):
No, it's like I said, it's not part to do.
In fact, they put it on their own sociudia. There's constantly,
you know, photos in the house. There's this group of
four or five of them that are always always there
and they're kind of David's you know, groupies or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
You know, they work with them, but they're always around.
Speaker 15 (40:35):
So these are people that were definitely using the house
kind of as the home base at least.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
You know what, Fisher, Let's just cut it, Let's just
cut through it. All I need is one witness, one
witness to crack one of Burk's insiders to tell the
truth about the night Celeste died. Otherwise no one is
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going to be held responsible. That's the way it's heading
right now. Things could change. When you say a core group,
what does that mean. Are you referring to the two
to four people we think lived there with Burke.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Yeah, or at least we're staying there often.
Speaker 15 (41:18):
They might have had their own residence too, but they
had to think belongings there. The nightstands were being used
in the master bedroom, there was female products, and the
bathroom was completely filled with things where it wasn't just
an overnight type of thing.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Conspiracy theories abounding on line as to what really happened.
Speaker 18 (41:38):
Listen, the David is the last thing is the most
obvious Hollywood satsandic ritual I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
That actually hurt my ear. My ears are bleeding. And
that is from at Supreme Tings on TikTok. There's more. Listen.
Speaker 19 (41:56):
I'm gonna be honest that David's situation is all the
purest Okay, you guys are all falling for him.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Do you not notice all of us literally singing in
the back of my mind like bo it's a literal
p orsunt. He hit number one on iTunes. Okay, he
lost me with the Kreuella hair right there. I'm out. No,
I'm not putting him on the stand with another crazy theory,
and that is from at light l I g h
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T sun Zaane on TikTok. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 18 (42:29):
If this is a setup, what a perfect person to
put it on. Right, He's got sad, depressing songs, He's
got songs about murdering. He is the perfect candidate to
set up and frame for a murder.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I don't think David did it.
Speaker 18 (42:46):
I know the ruffleson feathers, y'all might get mad, but
I really don't think he did it.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I'm gona be honest. David did not do it. Man,
David did not do it. Like y'ally spread the Newsman,
David did not do it.
Speaker 16 (42:58):
I think it's safe to say that David did not
kill nobody from did it do it?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Gang Yong borrow? Just think about it, bro. That is
from AT Killer A three. It is from AT que
Co two, from AT taking hooks, and from AT in
case stacks all on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Shocking information uncovered by the LAPD has the investigation spotlight
finally pointing on Burke. Investigators have developed new information that
leads them to believe Celeste likely died in the spring
of this year, and the death is being tentatively treated
as a possible homicide.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
What has changed? What has happened? Why is dfour VD
David now reportedly being viewed as a suspect. Will this
result in murder charges? How can this be without a
toxicology report as of yet? But to Dave Matt Crime stories,
investigative report of what I consider to be really validating
(43:59):
what court viewers knew that D four VD is being
considered as a suspect, although it has not been officially announced.
Is the change in the timeline Now we are learning
that police sources believe Celeste was killed back in the
spring and Bob Shell tonight police also looking at a
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road trip taken into a remote area by D four
VD in the spring, where he stayed in that remote
area for hours before returning back. I can only assume
this information is coming from his NAV system or is
there a rat within Burks Camp because tonight I definitely
(44:47):
smell a rat. Let's start at the beginning, Dave Mac,
what do you know.
Speaker 19 (44:51):
Well, Nancy, we know that D four VD took a
trip to Santa Barbara County, which is about one hundred
miles from the house that he was renting and taking
about two hours to drive. Okay, so he takes this
drive in the middle of the night in the spring
of this year and he stays there for a couple
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of hours. Now they say remote area of Santa Barbara.
You've ever been to Santa Barbara. Remote area can include
probably eighty percent of the surrounding area, big area, and
you could actually be there and not be seen for
a long time. He was there for hours. Now they're
also saying they believe I'm talking about. The police investigation
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is saying to this source they believe ce Less died
sometime in the spring of twenty twenty five. So we
have Burke driving in the middle of the night to
Santa Barbara County in the spring of twenty twenty five,
and we have them saying Celeste died in the spring
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
I told Jesse mel Errat because we know, according to
the lea, he the killer did not do this alone.
He had to have help dismembering the body. According to
the report, if she is in fact dead since the spring,
which coincides with that late night trip out to the
remote area near Santa Barbara, You're gonna have to have
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a witness. You're gonna have to have somebody rapped. An
arrest is eminent in the dfour VD case as a
witness is refusing to testify in front of a grand jury.
What does that mean now? Unlike a defendant who cannot
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be forced to testify, a witness can be put in
jail if they refuse to testify. Straight out to Alexis Tereschuk,
Crime Stories investigative reporter Alexis, this is what I know.
I know it's a state's witness, which means it's a
witness that will testify against David Anthony Burke aka d
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four VD. It's a female witness against Burke who is
refusing to testify, and she has lawyered up. She's got
the same lawyer as the record exec that just got
a let's see technical legal term in front of the
grand jury. Just wait, guys until you hear what he said.
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That said, she's lawyered up female testifying against the four VD,
refusing to come in and she's about to end up
in the can in the pokey for her recalcitrants. What
do you know, Well, you're exactly right.
Speaker 20 (47:39):
So there has been a grand jury that has been
called in Los Angeles County and Robert Morgenroth, who is
an executive who's in charge of David's record label, he
testified in front of the grand jury and he was
heard in the hallway outside the grand jury room talking
to his attorneys saying, I didn't even feel like I
needed to be calling the police after she was found
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dead because we were on tour. I didn't want to
jeopardize the tour.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
Dave mac the person that's getting arrested is the female witness,
and I'm betting, I'm betting that it's somebody that lives
in that house that basically checks up in there and
knows what happened.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Nancy. We were given a huge clue on this a
couple of weeks ago when in some of our reporting
it was that the end of the police had run
that search warrant inside the house and they were able
to determine which person in that house had been sleeping
in which room rere. They talked about how D four
VD had this very tight inner circle. Well, there are
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three or four people that were with him constantly and
stayed in that house with him. One of those people,
I guarantee you is a female that they're trying to
get in court. There was also another one, another Kip
that we had and it goes back to when they
said he had help. Whoever cut up the last had help.
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It went out, remember on the long drive in the
middle of the night, out in the middle of nowhere,
had help. So we've got a couple of hints here
as to who it is. The scary part of it
is that the same attorney representing his manager also represents
this unnamed female that they're trying to bring into court
to testify it in front of the grand jury.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Let me remind everybody, so, let's was just thirteen years
old when this whole thing cranked up with David Anthony Burke.
She's dead, dismembered, turning into nothing but go and someone
doesn't want to testify, really, someone that potentially stood by
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and watched all this happen and did nothing. You can run,
but you can't hide. That female prosecutor knows you your name, dob,
your SSN, social Security number, your address, your mama's name,
your brother's name, your boyfriend's name, your tag number. Go ahead,
(50:10):
go in, go under oath and tell the truth. A
little girl is dead and you're refusing to testify, and
you know another thing to D four f D David
Anthony Burk's manager. Shame on you. You actually said out in
the courthouse hall that you didn't have any duty to
(50:34):
call and report a dead girl in a trunk. All
you wanted to do was continue with the tour. You
know what, conscious pilot just washing your hands and looking
the other way. It ain't working. This time. If you
know or think you know anything about the brutal death
(50:58):
of this little girl, so let's three please call LAPD
two one three four eight six six eight nine zero.
There will be justice in this case. Two one three
four eight six six' eight nine. Zero you can either
get involved be a part of the, solution or you
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can stand back and do nothing and be part of the.
Problem tonight we remember An american Hero, Officer Hayesu's corona
Of POLLIER, Pd, california just twenty nine killed in the
line of, duty leaving behind his wife and a little.
Girl American Hero Officer Hazus. Corona thank you to our
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guests for being with, us especially to you for being with.
Us Nancy gray signing off for, tonight But i'll see
you tomorrow, night and until, then good, night, friend
Crime stories with Nancy Grace decomposing, partially dismembered, and a
Star's Tesla trunk.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
He was left literally to ront.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It goes beyond the pale of what any human being
ever would to another human being.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
One of the dumbest people in the world.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
That's controversial to leave the body of his girlfriend in
a trunk of his car.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I definitely smell a rat. A dead body in your
trunk can really hurt your reputation.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Residents in Hollywood Hills grow tired of a dusty twenty
twenty three Tesla model why where the Texas plate parked
on the street for a month and report the vehicle.
Days later, Employees a Hollywood Toe notice a foul odor
coming from the car and call police. Officers discover a
decomposing body found in a bag in the front of
the Tesla. Human remains wrapped in plastic, placed in a
(01:12):
bag and hidden in the front trunk of the Tesla
are severely decomposed and partially dismembered.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Lise.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
The person was a female five foot two, weighing seventy
one pounds, with wavy black hair, and was wearing a
tube top in black leggings. The person appears deceased inside
the vehicle for an extended period of time before being found.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
A missing little girl celested just thirteen years old, which
he goes missing, found decomposing, partially dismembered, and a star's
tesla trunk who is now whining because his tour is canceled.
(01:55):
The music star I'm talking about has gone multi platinum.
But before I talk about all of his musical success
and how much money he's making and how famous he is,
can I show you what he just reposted? Okay of
a guy chopping up lunching me and he says me,
(02:18):
if I see her talk with other dudes, you know,
not a good look when you're then thirteen year old
girlfriend is found dismembered and decomposing in your tesla. And
as I recall to Israel Sala Frodriguez joining a senior
(02:38):
news reporter, us son not just dismembered and decomposing, I
mean you, by the way, that video is from at
Brian on TikTok, you could smell the trunk as you
approached the tesla. And isn't this true, Israel Sola Rodriguez
(03:00):
that the tesla was noticed by the neighborhood because it
was so dusty and it had been sitting there for
so long. My point is, how could somebody put a
a then thirteen year old little girl in a trunk
and leave the car there for weeks on And how
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long was that car sitting in there?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Israel, that's right, Nancy, So the car was reportedly sitting
there for weeks, and then the fluent neighborhood in Los Angeles,
the Hollywood Hills neighbors complained about a foul older coming
from the Tesla. However, it wasn't until early September when
authorities finally impounded that vehicle from the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Was the Tesla moved a couple of times when it
was sitting out on the street.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
That's unclear right now, Nancy. However, there was of reports
from neighbors that the Tesla was parked in a home
in that same area in the Hollywood Hills, and then
days later it was parked on this walk.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It's a little weird to see a car that I
haven't seen here for a long time, had a big
dent on it had a Texas plate on it, so
all a little odd. One neighbor says, the distinct looking
Tesla was parked on the street for some time in
front of the house that was searched, and later in
two other spots on the street. The vehicle stood out
because it has a Texas plate and a big dent.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That from our friends at WABC seven to Dave mac
joining me Crime Stories investigative reporter, isn't it true, Dave,
that she was so decomposed she had to be forensically identified.
Isn't that true?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Absolutely correct? Nancy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay again, jos Gott Morgan, I'm just a felony prosecutor.
Could you explain what that means. I mean, I'm guessing
that means that they didn't open the trunk and look
at her and go, that's a little missing girl. Celested.
She had to be forensically identified.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Yeah, to give you to kind of frame this out
a little bit, Nancy, her Celeste measurements her weight specifically
in life be ready for this was one hundred and
twenty pounds. The remains that they have are somewhere in
the neighborhood of seventy, So no, they could not have
been able to actually visualize her and say, yeah, this
(05:23):
is Celeste, this is who we've been looking for. No,
they're going to go at this. I do understand that
she has specific tattoos and they were able to use that.
I can only assume her family's involved in put them up.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Please okay. Specifically one tattoo, a tiny tattoo on the
inside of her finger. It says sh sh and you
could only see it if that finger was held up
there it is, there's a sh. Now. I just saw
another tattoo and I'd like to see it again. That
(05:56):
was the other tattoo on her finger, So Mom and
I couldn't see her tattoos. David, Wow, David, David the musician,
and it's on her ring finger. Hello, David the musician,
and it's on a ring configure. But you know what's interesting?
(06:19):
Can I see Joe Scott please? The sh tattoo? What
a co ink? You think that he David? Some people
look at his name and it looks like D four
VD and he pronounces it David. He has the same
(06:39):
tattoo on his index finger. What a coincidence? Isn't that odd?
Joe Scott Morgan?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
What else is odd is that a child, a child
this age has tattoos. All right, So just let that
sink in just for a second. The fact that she
does have this tattoo, though, was certainly beneficial as far
as getting her remains identified. And listen, you can't just
go based upon the tattoo. There are other elements here we.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Have and that just got We were just showing her
with the ring on her ring finger that's on her
left hand. This when she goes mission. She's thirteen years old.
Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
The thirteen year old became friends with singer David on
social media and ran away to Hollywood deceive the rising star.
Celestia was returned home to Lake elson Or by police.
Celestia remained in school for a month. Then in May,
David picks thee lest up in a tesla to go
to the movies and she has been gone ever since.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
This little girl disappears for the first time when she
is just thirteen years old, after she goes to meet
musician who has gone multi platinum and they start talking online.
She goes to a concert somehow with him and they
start talking online. That's the working theory. He's not charged
with anything, and I'm very curious about that decision. Let's
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hear it all from the Horse's Mouth.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Hello.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
My name is David pronounced David, not d four VD.
I'm from Queens, New York. I'm in Houston now. I
own a gamer. I love video games. I wanted to
be a professional gamer before music. That's actually what pushed
me into music was getting copyright strikes on YouTube and
I kind of just use my own music and my
montages after my mom told me too, so I was
(08:32):
crying to her about it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That is from the Genius YouTube channel.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
The twenty year old became a YouTube star, playing his
favorite game, Fortnite and commentary. His channel was defunded due
to his use of popular music he used on his
videos that he did not license. He says his mother
told him to make his own music for his videos.
He downloaded a free music app for his phone, and
his music career was born. Using his own music in
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his gaming montages, Burke begins uploading his tracks to sound Cloud.
His music gained more attention than his gaming montages. Self
produced song Romantic Homicide goes viral, leading to a record deal.
Romantic Homicide is certified multi platinum.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Has anybody actually looked at the lyrics of Romantic Homicide?
Let's put it up on the screen so we can
all take a look. Okay, we definitely need to shrink
on this. In the back of my mind, I killed
you and I didn't even regret it. I can't believe
I said it, but it's true. Do I love you?
Speaker 10 (09:29):
Know?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I hate you? In the back of my mind? You
died and I didn't even cry. No, not a single tear.
And I'm sick of waiting patiently for someone that won't
even arrive. Take a listen to David promoing his song
Romantic Homicide.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
So when inspired the hook in the back of my
Mind you died, It's kind of like the storytelling aspect
of the lyrics that came before it in a way
that it builds up to the big moment where she
died in the back of my mind and killer physically
in the back of my mind. She died and I
didn't even cry, not a single tear.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is from the Genius YouTube channel. A lot of
you may not be familiar with his music. It's not rap,
it's more like R and B. I've listened to a
lot of it, specifically Romantic Homicide. He's also ventured into clothing.
I'd like you to see some of the shirts that
(10:28):
he David has offered online for sale. Oh wait, hold on,
wait are those blood spattered shirts? It looks like is
it in a car? I don't know where it is,
but that's him with blood spattered shirts. To Joanna Nevis,
veteran criminal defense attorney, Joanna, you are fully versed in
(10:54):
guilty conscience. Sometimes the cleanup is worse than the crime,
the cover up, so to speak. Why would he suddenly
remove shots of him with bloody T shirts. It looks
like it's even in a car. Why why would he
do that suddenly? No, Nancy.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
So many people, especially celebrities, are represented by what we
say like public relations representatives who will advise them to
do certain things so that a kind of attack thing
before the damage happened. And you know, this is somebody
who was in the spotlight. He's already being attacked about
(11:33):
his lyrics. He's already being painted as the person who
is you know, likely responsible for this because he had
a relationship with this person, and he is likely being
told that he should take these images down. Although these
images are a part of his overall brand. We're talking
about creative expression.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I can't wait, I can't wait for you to try
that on the jury. This was his artistic expression. What
more do we know about this guy?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Burke has released several singles, including Here with Me. They
charted on the Billboard Hot one hundred. He has recorded
two EPs, and last April released his first full album, Withered,
with the Withered world tourist starting last month and canceled
the day the body in his Tesla was identified as Celast.
His deluxe album is shelved. His record label Interscope, suspended
(12:23):
the album's release and paused all promotional activities related to David.
His endorsement deals are canceled.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
What do I have? This correct to Dave Matt, Crime
Story's investigative reporter that after Celeste butchered remains are found
in his tesla trunk, he continues touring for several weeks
until the outcry online it becomes too noisy to ignore.
Speaker 11 (12:54):
It's unbelievable, Nancy, that bloody remains are found in a
vehicle registered to you, Yet you continue on this world
tour like nothing was found in your car, and only
stop when the remains are identified.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
As a missing child from Lake Elsinor. He went on
about his daily business after a bloody chopped up, decomposed, course,
was found in his abandoned guard. Nancy, think about all
of this, and it goes beyond the pale of what
any human being ever would do to another human being.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You know, Dave, Matt Apparently you and I are the
only ones concerned because as of this moment when we
go to air tonight, there have been no charges at all. Okay,
he's in a relationship with her. She's a runaway times two.
She's been gone over a year with him. I bet
(13:59):
if we timed the those photos would find out how
long she's been with him and now she's dead. Now, okay,
look at this livestream video of David and Celeste. Oh yo,
what way? Wait?
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Look one.
Speaker 12 (14:19):
Family? Oh thank you, Mitch, Mitchel Kanzio Mas can we
delete alls? And then as soon as the stream too.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's around friends at the Daily Mail. An integral part
of any homicide investigation is a time line. It's critical.
Based on a timeline, you can alibi people, you can
unalibi other people that you're looking at as a suspect.
(14:55):
It changes everything. And in the last hours, a video
has emerged potentially placing this little girl just thirteen years
old when she goes missing at a David d four
VD concert in Maryland on August twenty four. Significance very quickly,
(15:18):
Dave mac When was Celeste's body found in David Burke's
Tesla Trump.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
She was found on September the eighth, and it had.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Been sitting out on the street in posh Hollywood Hills
for weeks that we know of. So that gives me
a timeline, That's what I'm getting at. So if she
is alive, if this is in fact her in the
video August twenty four, and then we've got September seven,
that gives me a timeline. Let's take a look at
(15:51):
the video right now. This video has been circulating video
from at clips of David on TikTok Now. Is isn't
it true? Melissa McCarty joining me, I investigative reporter, host
of the Killer Jeans podcast, author of the Making of
a Crime Reporter, Melissa, Thank you for being with us.
(16:11):
Isn't it true that Celeste's body was found in a
black tube top and ripped jeans? Isn't that true? Melissa?
Speaker 13 (16:18):
She was about seventy five miles away from where she
was living with her family in Lake elsinor in the
Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Now I'm gonna come back to you on that Melissa,
because I don't think she was living with her family anymore.
She was at one time and then she goes missing,
and according to neighbors that we have heard about tonight,
she had been living with this grown man, David Anthony
Burke aka David for a long time. Some sources date
(16:48):
her relationship back to her age eleven. Did you see
that picture of her as a little girl, Yeah, age eleven,
we can establish age thirteen. You are seeing video from
atclips of David on TikTok. I want to see that
again because now we are learning. We are learning. Moses
(17:13):
Castillo joining me, former supervisor detective at LAPD, private investigator
for the Dordellian Law Group. Castillo, Look at this. People
are saying, no, that's not her. So it's a woman
that a young girl that looks just like her, that
is wearing her clothes, that is in a balcony reserved
(17:33):
for special guests and family aunt. Moses Castillo. Uh oh,
by the way, this is from atclipse of David on TikTok,
Moses same clothes. People are saying, oh, wait, I don't
think that's her. Sure looks like her. Who should? I
believe them are my lying eyes.
Speaker 14 (17:51):
Yes, I believe it is her, and I believe many
people also believe it's her.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Guys. This is from a Silver Springs, Maryland concert August
twenty four, and if true, these photos create a timeline
from August twenty four until her decomposing body is found
in Burke artist known as David Tesla in an en
pound lot on September eight. Is reported the Tesla was
(18:20):
parked on the street for about a month before being
reported abandoned. There is I assume that is the front
of the to loot. It was reported abandoned September three.
Now we now have a timeline from August twenty four
to September three, not when the body was discovered in
(18:45):
the parking in the toe lot, but when it was abandoned.
The body was already in there. We have now narrowed
the timeline down from August twenty four to September three.
I want to show you another video that we dug up.
Take a look at this. The words I got time
to kill, you got time to fill, We got blood
(19:08):
to spill all over the new car seats that I'm
sleeping on. Okay, let that sink in just for a moment.
You got time to feel. We got blood to spill
all over the new car seats that I'm sleeping on.
Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Friends of Burke thought Celeste was nineteen and his girlfriend,
describing Burke as a very shy, quiet person. Friends said
they saw Burke and Celeste together a lot as a
romantically involved couple. Thinking Celeste was a student at usc
friends of Burke saw Celesti at age restricted venues and clubs.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So apparently she was being passed off as much older
than she actually was. And I've noticed in all the
photos that are posted off her, she's always covering her face.
Very curious crime Stores with Nancy Grace, we learned that
(20:11):
overnight the musician known as David flees his three plus
million dollar mansi, and he was paying twenty thousand dollars
a month and breaks a lease, so getting out of
that mansion was more important to him than losing a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Burke was living in a home leased by his manager,
Josh Marshall, but since police served a search warrant looking
for blood at the residents, the singer decided not to
live in the twenty thousand dollars a month home. The owner,
Laden Tryfuonevic says Marshall signed the lease in February and
he didn't know Burke was living in the house. After
the raid, Tryffuonevick says, they didn't want to live there
anymore and are breaking the lease. The home was previously
(20:55):
owned by halle Berry.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You're not seeing really good shot of it, the beautiful
side of the front. Oh, by the way, these shots
are from our friend Harvey Levin over at TMZ. Take
a look at this. So he leaves and breaks a lease. Coincidentally,
Melissa McCarty joining US investigative reporter and host of Killer
(21:19):
Jeans podcast. He breaks the lease to the tune of
tens of thousands of dollars. He may have had to
pay out the lease. I don't know how many years
it what twenty thousand a month for how long? How
many months? How many years? He breaks the lease and
flees in the middle of the night. Tell me about
the search of that mansion that just went down, the
(21:41):
mansion that once belonged to halle Berry.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
Well, police officers are looking for anything to help build
a case at this point, so they're looking for traces
of blood throughout the property. They're also collecting all kinds
of electronics because they also a.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Huge issue here.
Speaker 13 (21:57):
They need to prove the extent of this relationship that
he had with this child, you know, So they're looking
at communications, so when they met, what age was she
when they connected, So anything that could help them build
a physical and digital forensic pathway.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Laden Travunevik, the owner of the home Burke was renting
for twenty thousand dollars a month, has hired a private investigator,
Steve Fisher, to try and find out what was happening
in the home he owns. Fisher was hired shortly after
a forced search entry search warrant was served at the home.
Nobody was home when police served a search warrant.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
The LAPD says Celeste had been deceased for weeks before
being discovered in Burke's tesla. Private investigator Steve Fisher says
he has seen surveillance video from neighbor homes and knows
exactly when the tesla was last moved and who moved
it to the location from where it was towed in
very late.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
July and the only way to amass that information. To
gather it is from the cams in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Listen surveillance cameras in the Hollywood Hill built a complete
timeline showing when Burke's tesla was parked on Bluebird Avenue,
who parked it, and whether anything was placed in the
vehicle after it was parked. There's also no evidence indicating
Celest's body was transferred into the tesla after it was
parked on the street.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Joining me right now, private investigator Steve Fisher. He's been
on the case from the very very beginning. Missing person's
private investigator, search and rescue specialist and owner of Search Investigations.
He is the one hired by the Hollywood Hills property renter,
(23:37):
the leaser where the four VD David Burke was living.
You claim that you have amassed cam camera video camera
evidence from the neighborhood, and that having looked at that,
you've placed you've pieced together a timeline and you know
when Burke's tesla with a dead body in it, I
(23:58):
think was first part in the neighborhood. When was that
first part in the neighborhood.
Speaker 15 (24:05):
It moved to that last spot on July twenty ninth,
at about eleven something in the morning, and I'll tell
you it was in the same shape that we saw
it in those toe photos where it was completely dirty
and trashed. I could tell that they had run the
windshield wiper ones just so they could see out of it,
and they had rolled the window down to move it,
even though they're moving about a block and a half.
(24:26):
But it was in that condition still, so it had
not been used in a long time. They had clearly
been just moving it around different areas of the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
July twenty nine, eleven, am Burke's tesla was moved to
its last location. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay? Do you know where it was parked before that?
Speaker 8 (24:49):
That?
Speaker 15 (24:49):
I don't know, because from the house that was taken
from is a little bit down the hill, but on
the same street that the rental house is on.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Okay, So you're telling me the tesla that hell Celeste
decomposing body is on the same was ultimately left on
the same street where he was living.
Speaker 15 (25:08):
It looked like it was coming from the rental house.
He can't see for sure, but there's only a few
houses on that street because that's like an off street.
And it came down that road and was turning onto
where you go up the Bluebird there where it was left.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, are you telling me on a video you can
see the tesla coming from the direction of his house.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (25:30):
So how the road is curved, and so the house
that captured that is kind of at the base of
the curve, so you can't see you can see it
coming down the road, you can't see exactly where it started,
and you can't see the driveway of the rental house.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It stops right before that the camera angle does wow?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, did you see any cam video camera video on
any nature that showed the tesla a part in that
area prior to July twenty nine.
Speaker 15 (26:04):
I have seen the images that I obtained from the
Department of Transportation on the day it was ticketed and toad,
which was September fifth, And then I have seen a
video that shows it in May of twenty twenty five,
very clean, but actually parked on that Bluebird Street that
(26:24):
one was ultimately towed from, but it was clean at
that time.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Joining me now Scott Iiker, who has actually performed experiments
with a tesla. Founding member FBI Cellular Analysis Serve a
team former police officer, homicide detective with Norfolk, Virginia currently
precision Cellular Analysis. Scott, thank you for being with us.
(26:52):
Explain what you learned about this tesla other than the
fact that the trunk is open over ten minutes, an
alert is sent by text email to the owner.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (27:03):
And the tesla, as we have talked to before, has
numerous cameras on it so that you get these alerts
when the trunk is open, or the front front trunk
they call it the fronk. And and there's a small
area in front of in the in the front of
the car there in the front that you can put
(27:24):
baggages or groceries. That's what I use it for. But
in this in this case, you know, her body was
found inside the front of this of the tesla. It's
a very small area and you can see some of
the pictures.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Is my daughter here, that's your re enact Okay, yes.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Yes, ma'am, that's my daughter. She's about one hundred pounds,
so it's pretty tight in there for her. But as
if you know, if the victim in this case with Celeste,
you know she's already deceased, they're more foldable and bendable
at that point.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
In time, Scott, Iiker, how tall was your daughter?
Speaker 14 (28:09):
Five two pounds?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, that's generally the same size as Celeste. Generally speaking, Scott,
it's almost a three hundred and sixty degree video of
the surroundings of the car. What all would the cameras catch?
Speaker 14 (28:27):
They catch numerous aspects front, back, inside of views of
the camera. And this is me reenacting bringing a bag
to the to the front of the car, opening the hood,
placing that bag into that front area, that little space
that we saw earlier, and then showing as you can see,
that's the dash camera in front of the car and
(28:50):
right by the mirror, and it's facing right down the
front of the car, so anybody coming to the front
of that car will get viewed clearly as you can see.
And then there's cameras on each side of the car
and the rear of the car too.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I want to remind everyone that as we go to
air tonight, David Anthony Burke aka D four VD is
innocent in the eyes of the law, and he remains
innocent unless the presumption of innocence is pierced and overcome
by evidence that proves him guilty. Take a look at
(29:30):
thee lest little middle school boyfriend.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
She said how her mom didn't treat her well or whatever,
and she didn't like where she was at. We were
at pe and she told me, my friend, that she
was running away, and she said it was because of
her parents, and she was like joking about it, and
she was like happy, like joking like she always was,
(29:54):
and like it didn't seem real because she was like
playing around, joking about it, And the next day she
wasn't at school, and then like that's the last time
I saw her. My heart job. I was like, I
don't know. I just couldn't believe it. I thought, I mean,
I kind of had a feeling when I saw, like
(30:15):
the first thing, I was like, what if it is her?
I just like brushed it off. But when I saw
it really was, I was like, yeah, I really knew.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That's my friends over at GMZ that Celeste revs Little
middle school boyfriend describing how years in the making she
had trouble at home. Why did Celeste Rivas continue to
run away from home? How did everybody know that there
(30:44):
was trouble at home? As a matter of fact, on
this occasion that she ran away from home. Her sister
went looking for her, even poking her head. The sister
into a liquor store asking if they could look at
the surveillance video and see if Celeste had walked by,
(31:06):
and sure enough, Celeste was caught on video cam on
the incident when she ran away from home. To Dave Mac,
Crime Stories investigative reporter, what happened in that instance?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, in that instance, Nancy, we actually can see
that Celeste is kind.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Of doing a walk run.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Hey, Dave, look at your monitor. We're showing the video
the sister got from the store and there she is
literally running away from home. Let me be clear, Celeste
was not in the liquor store. The surveillance video showed
her going by. This little girl running away from home,
and I got to ask why in this video from
(31:49):
our friend Harvey Levin at TMZ. Now, what were you saying,
Dave Mac? I just wanted you to see the video.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I just wanted to point out that that video was
at seven am. That's when it was taken at a
time when he killed one. Nor will be going to school,
but so instead Celeste is clearly kind of in a
confused state. If you watch her stride she's partially walking,
partially running. It's like she's not quite sure what she's
going to do, but she that's the last they see it,
(32:15):
or she takes off. And it's a fascinating reading to
the thirteen year old that is trying to figure out
what to do. And as you just pointed out, Nancy,
this is a child who spoke about being unhappy at home,
not being treated well at home, and wanting to be away.
And when I see her walking and understopping kind of
and then running, it just breaks my heart.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Imagine this Celeste, a little girl sister, also a little girl,
goes looking for her sister, asking stores and homes along
the way if they had seen her sister. Even a
young girl going in a liquor store asking if they
had seen Celestia because she looked at the surveillance video.
(32:57):
And here is Celeste seven a running away from home.
Now I'm certainly not the church lady, but I can
tell you this. You need to know where your twelve
year old daughter is at seven AM.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
A friend of Celestial Mother, Mercedes Martinez says the family
was aware of the relationship with Burke. She doesn't know
why they didn't ask where she had been staying. Celeste
left again and went back to him. Someone called Celeste's
mother and said, stop looking for her. She's fine. Take
down social media post about Celeste being missing. She felt
scared and took down a social media post asking for
(33:35):
help finding Celeste.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
As we go to air tonight. David Anthony Burke aka
David aka D four VD who by the way, his
music is Through the Roof on Spotify. Amazing the irony
that said he is radio silent, although we are learning
(33:57):
he's going on social media and monitoring Reddit users everybody
posting about Celeste's murder, and he is trying to control
the narrative as it relates to him. So he's not
totally quiet. He can go online and do that, but
not mention a word of condolence. Speaking of remaining silent,
(34:19):
did he not notice Celeste wasn't there? Did nobody say hey,
we're Celeste? Apparently not, because she was never reported missing
by either him or her parents. Yeah, digest that for
a minute. Nor was his car reported stolen? Interesting? Right,
(34:41):
That's called circumstantial evidence. And again, Burke is innocent. He
will not be guilty unless he has been charged and
proven guilty. In a court of law by a jury
of his peers. Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
This is real?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Has this enormous gift to the defense just dropped into
their lap It all goes to a myriad of pill
bottles found in D four vdaka David Anthony Burke's home,
A myriad of pill bottles belonging to we here, to
(35:27):
a myriad of people that we're living there, in and
out and in and out based on those pill bottles
and so far a lack of a cod be cause
of death. Does this mean no one will answer up
for a dead teen girl decomposing in a hot car trunk?
Speaker 16 (35:48):
Listen bottles of prescription pain medication and drug pair of
fenilia are recovered inside the home, not by LAPD but
by Steve Fisher. The LAPD did not publicly disclose finding
prescription drugs or drug paraphernalia. Other people were staying there
as well, men and women, their personal belongings in guest bedrooms,
(36:11):
bathroom cabinets, and bedside tables. A neighbor reported seeing Celeste
sitting on the curb in front of the house as
if she was waiting for someone to let her inside.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
What does it all mean, we know, based on neighbor
accounts and war that Celeste was living in the home
of David Anthony Burke aka D four VD. He says
David straight out to special guest Steve Fisher, joining us
missing person's private investigator, search and rescue specialist, owner of
(36:42):
Search Investigation who is hired by the owner of Burke's mansion. Now,
I want to get to the fact that there is
no cod right now. In my experience, a toxicology report,
a screening would have come back by now, which leaves
me concerns Steve Fisher that we're not going to get
an accurate toxicology report. Why because she basically baked and
(37:06):
melted in that Tesla trunk. What did you find in
D four VD, David Anthony Burk's rented mansion specifically, so.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
There was opiate prescription medication.
Speaker 15 (37:20):
Uh, there was a few bottles of that, and then
there was perphernalia they used to smoke different types of drugs.
You know, it's not for you know, one type, it's
something you find in a smoke shop, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Steve Fisher, without divulging names, were their names on the
pill bottles of opiates they.
Speaker 15 (37:41):
Were and they were hydro codone, they were lard Tab,
generic lord Tab, opiates, pink killers.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
To Luke Kenton, joining a senior investigative reporter with Daily Mail,
Luke Kenton, thank you for being with us. You see
where I'm going with this, right, Luke. If there weren't
multi pull pill bottles of opiates, and you know from
what I've seen, and it hasn't all made it into
mainstream media, there were a lot of people in and out,
(38:11):
a core group living there, but a lot of people
in and out of Burke's home. There were a lot
of pill bottles reportedly in Burke's home. Where I'm going
with this is if we don't get a cod cause
of death, if she's too decomposed to get a good
toxicology screen, the argument is going to be Luke Kenton. Oh,
(38:37):
she voluntarily, all on her own, does gobble down a
bunch of opiates and she died. That's how she died.
Everybody we had nothing to do with it, and then
out of fear we hit her body. That's where this
is going, Kenton. Do you have any idea, Luke Kenton,
who the people were going in and out. It was
(38:58):
like Grand Central Station at Burke's mansion and who were
the core people actually living there? Any idea on that.
Have they been identified? And that has just not been released.
Speaker 17 (39:11):
They haven't been publicly named. There has been obviously, as
I'm sure you're where, a lot of online sleuthing going
on around this case and trying to piece together the
blanks that the LAPD aren't currently filling in for us publicly.
Some of these individuals and I can't speak to the
people that may or may not have been living at
the home, but there was a group that David was
(39:31):
often seen with in social media. On social media, one
close friend in particular that appeared to be involved in
his music team in some capacity.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay, so basically what you're telling me, there's a lot
of people in and out and nobody can confirm it.
We'll see that shot control room that we got from
our friend Harvey leven Over at TMZ. The mansion is
covered in security camps, so we know who goes in
it stays overnight on a daily basis. It's not rocket science, Fisher.
(40:05):
To figure out who's living there. All you have to
do is ping their phone and see is it there
night after night after night. I mean, do I have
to connect the dots here.
Speaker 15 (40:17):
No, it's like I said, it's not part to do.
In fact, they put it on their own sociudia. There's constantly,
you know, photos in the house. There's this group of
four or five of them that are always always there
and they're kind of David's you know, groupies or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
You know, they work with them, but they're always around.
Speaker 15 (40:35):
So these are people that were definitely using the house
kind of as the home base at least.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
You know what, Fisher, Let's just cut it, Let's just
cut through it. All I need is one witness, one
witness to crack one of Burk's insiders to tell the
truth about the night Celeste died. Otherwise no one is
(41:02):
going to be held responsible. That's the way it's heading
right now. Things could change. When you say a core group,
what does that mean. Are you referring to the two
to four people we think lived there with Burke.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Yeah, or at least we're staying there often.
Speaker 15 (41:18):
They might have had their own residence too, but they
had to think belongings there. The nightstands were being used
in the master bedroom, there was female products, and the
bathroom was completely filled with things where it wasn't just
an overnight type of thing.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Conspiracy theories abounding on line as to what really happened.
Speaker 18 (41:38):
Listen, the David is the last thing is the most
obvious Hollywood satsandic ritual I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
That actually hurt my ear. My ears are bleeding. And
that is from at Supreme Tings on TikTok. There's more. Listen.
Speaker 19 (41:56):
I'm gonna be honest that David's situation is all the
purest Okay, you guys are all falling for him.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Do you not notice all of us literally singing in
the back of my mind like bo it's a literal
p orsunt. He hit number one on iTunes. Okay, he
lost me with the Kreuella hair right there. I'm out. No,
I'm not putting him on the stand with another crazy theory,
and that is from at light l I g h
(42:24):
T sun Zaane on TikTok. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 18 (42:29):
If this is a setup, what a perfect person to
put it on. Right, He's got sad, depressing songs, He's
got songs about murdering. He is the perfect candidate to
set up and frame for a murder.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I don't think David did it.
Speaker 18 (42:46):
I know the ruffleson feathers, y'all might get mad, but
I really don't think he did it.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I'm gona be honest. David did not do it. Man,
David did not do it. Like y'ally spread the Newsman,
David did not do it.
Speaker 16 (42:58):
I think it's safe to say that David did not
kill nobody from did it do it?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Gang Yong borrow? Just think about it, bro. That is
from AT Killer A three. It is from AT que
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Speaker 5 (43:19):
Shocking information uncovered by the LAPD has the investigation spotlight
finally pointing on Burke. Investigators have developed new information that
leads them to believe Celeste likely died in the spring
of this year, and the death is being tentatively treated
as a possible homicide.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
What has changed? What has happened? Why is dfour VD
David now reportedly being viewed as a suspect. Will this
result in murder charges? How can this be without a
toxicology report as of yet? But to Dave Matt Crime stories,
investigative report of what I consider to be really validating
(43:59):
what court viewers knew that D four VD is being
considered as a suspect, although it has not been officially announced.
Is the change in the timeline Now we are learning
that police sources believe Celeste was killed back in the
spring and Bob Shell tonight police also looking at a
(44:24):
road trip taken into a remote area by D four
VD in the spring, where he stayed in that remote
area for hours before returning back. I can only assume
this information is coming from his NAV system or is
there a rat within Burks Camp because tonight I definitely
(44:47):
smell a rat. Let's start at the beginning, Dave Mac,
what do you know.
Speaker 19 (44:51):
Well, Nancy, we know that D four VD took a
trip to Santa Barbara County, which is about one hundred
miles from the house that he was renting and taking
about two hours to drive. Okay, so he takes this
drive in the middle of the night in the spring
of this year and he stays there for a couple
(45:12):
of hours. Now they say remote area of Santa Barbara.
You've ever been to Santa Barbara. Remote area can include
probably eighty percent of the surrounding area, big area, and
you could actually be there and not be seen for
a long time. He was there for hours. Now they're
also saying they believe I'm talking about. The police investigation
(45:35):
is saying to this source they believe ce Less died
sometime in the spring of twenty twenty five. So we
have Burke driving in the middle of the night to
Santa Barbara County in the spring of twenty twenty five,
and we have them saying Celeste died in the spring
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
I told Jesse mel Errat because we know, according to
the lea, he the killer did not do this alone.
He had to have help dismembering the body. According to
the report, if she is in fact dead since the spring,
which coincides with that late night trip out to the
remote area near Santa Barbara, You're gonna have to have
(46:18):
a witness. You're gonna have to have somebody rapped. An
arrest is eminent in the dfour VD case as a
witness is refusing to testify in front of a grand jury.
What does that mean now? Unlike a defendant who cannot
(46:40):
be forced to testify, a witness can be put in
jail if they refuse to testify. Straight out to Alexis Tereschuk,
Crime Stories investigative reporter Alexis, this is what I know.
I know it's a state's witness, which means it's a
witness that will testify against David Anthony Burke aka d
(47:01):
four VD. It's a female witness against Burke who is
refusing to testify, and she has lawyered up. She's got
the same lawyer as the record exec that just got
a let's see technical legal term in front of the
grand jury. Just wait, guys until you hear what he said.
(47:22):
That said, she's lawyered up female testifying against the four VD,
refusing to come in and she's about to end up
in the can in the pokey for her recalcitrants. What
do you know, Well, you're exactly right.
Speaker 20 (47:39):
So there has been a grand jury that has been
called in Los Angeles County and Robert Morgenroth, who is
an executive who's in charge of David's record label, he
testified in front of the grand jury and he was
heard in the hallway outside the grand jury room talking
to his attorneys saying, I didn't even feel like I
needed to be calling the police after she was found
(48:02):
dead because we were on tour. I didn't want to
jeopardize the tour.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
Dave mac the person that's getting arrested is the female witness,
and I'm betting, I'm betting that it's somebody that lives
in that house that basically checks up in there and
knows what happened.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Nancy. We were given a huge clue on this a
couple of weeks ago when in some of our reporting
it was that the end of the police had run
that search warrant inside the house and they were able
to determine which person in that house had been sleeping
in which room rere. They talked about how D four
VD had this very tight inner circle. Well, there are
(48:47):
three or four people that were with him constantly and
stayed in that house with him. One of those people,
I guarantee you is a female that they're trying to
get in court. There was also another one, another Kip
that we had and it goes back to when they
said he had help. Whoever cut up the last had help.
(49:07):
It went out, remember on the long drive in the
middle of the night, out in the middle of nowhere,
had help. So we've got a couple of hints here
as to who it is. The scary part of it
is that the same attorney representing his manager also represents
this unnamed female that they're trying to bring into court
to testify it in front of the grand jury.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Let me remind everybody, so, let's was just thirteen years
old when this whole thing cranked up with David Anthony Burke.
She's dead, dismembered, turning into nothing but go and someone
doesn't want to testify, really, someone that potentially stood by
(49:48):
and watched all this happen and did nothing. You can run,
but you can't hide. That female prosecutor knows you your name, dob,
your SSN, social Security number, your address, your mama's name,
your brother's name, your boyfriend's name, your tag number. Go ahead,
(50:10):
go in, go under oath and tell the truth. A
little girl is dead and you're refusing to testify, and
you know another thing to D four f D David
Anthony Burk's manager. Shame on you. You actually said out in
the courthouse hall that you didn't have any duty to
(50:34):
call and report a dead girl in a trunk. All
you wanted to do was continue with the tour. You
know what, conscious pilot just washing your hands and looking
the other way. It ain't working. This time. If you
know or think you know anything about the brutal death
(50:58):
of this little girl, so let's three please call LAPD
two one three four eight six six eight nine zero.
There will be justice in this case. Two one three
four eight six six' eight nine. Zero you can either
get involved be a part of the, solution or you
(51:20):
can stand back and do nothing and be part of the.
Problem tonight we remember An american Hero, Officer Hayesu's corona
Of POLLIER, Pd, california just twenty nine killed in the
line of, duty leaving behind his wife and a little.
Girl American Hero Officer Hazus. Corona thank you to our
(51:44):
guests for being with, us especially to you for being with.
Us Nancy gray signing off for, tonight But i'll see
you tomorrow, night and until, then good, night, friend
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