November 23, 2025 • 18 mins
The latest reports show the body of 15 year old Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been frozen after it was dismembered before eventually being placed in singer D4vd’s Tesla. Police say that has made determining a cause of death that much more difficult, and now there are competing reports that the L.A. medical examiner will either have a determination in a matter of days or weeks or, according to one source, possibly never. All this, as investigators say they are looking at more than one suspect for different roles in the death and dismemberment of Rivas Hernandez.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, that folks sit is Sunday, November twenty third, and
it has been a week of fast moving and pretty
gruesome developments and updates in the case of singer David
who had a teenage girl's dead and dismembered body found
in the trunk of his car. And with that, welcome
(00:31):
to this episode of Amy and TJ. Roobs. I mean,
this story sounded weird from the very beginning, and now
it gets in some cases, weirder and more gruesome.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It absolutely has, And just when you think that you've
heard the worst detail, you get more trickling out. And
I think that's been the tough one of the tough
parts about this case. We heard in September a young
teenage girls decomposed and dismembered body was found in the
trunk of David's car, and then there was nothing, I
(01:05):
mean almost no information coming out of the LAPD And
now once we've gotten the confirmation that David, Singer David
is in fact a suspect, now we're starting to get
more information coming out. And the the details we got
over the weekend were exceptionally tough to hear.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, people, we're wondering, quite frankly, I am not necessarily
surprised by some of the details because it fits with
the story we got at the beginning. They just didn't
fill in any blinks, right right, So now I'm hearing, Okay,
she was the why she was decomposing, she was dismembered.
(01:49):
And now the new updates we're getting Robes and we
were going to get into is that she was possibly
they believe frozen her dismembered body parts at some point.
So Robes, Yes, all, this is gruesome and awful, but
it fits with some of the little information we had,
which is that they thought she was dead for a
(02:10):
while before she was found. That would explain why maybe, God, again,
this is gruesome, maybe there wasn't an odor initially coming
from the car. It's awful to say that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It is you have to actually take it for the
facts in this case. So we started hearing that police
initially said this has been a body that has been
decomposing for weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Now they're saying months. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There are reports that she may have died as early
as the spring, like we're talking April. So if her
body hasn't been discovered until September, where has it been,
where has it been?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And so what we're hearing, Yeah, what we're hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now is it seems as though she was dismembered and
then frozen, and for whatever reason, it did time out
with David then having to leave for his scheduled tour.
But then it's believed that perhaps those frozen body parts
were moved into the front trunk of his Tesla suv
(03:11):
and that they literally started to melt, and once it
became unfrozen, the smell happened pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Nothing you could do to cover that up. But if
someone's been dead for that long, there's note what do
you do? How do you store a body? So, like
I said, some of the details now seem to fit,
and folks will take you back. This is September eighth.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, she was discovered.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Her birthday was September seventh, So her body was discovered
on September eighth.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And we're talking about and make sure I get the
right ropes. Fourteen year olds c lested reevest because her
birthday was the day. What'd you say?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
On September seventh was her birthday?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Her?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That would have been her fourteenth, sorry, her fifteenth birthday, And.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Police do not believe she made it to her fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But you will see plenty of articles out there you
understand why it said fifteen year old, fifteen year old,
fifteen year old. I know there's what's the difference, fourteen fifteen.
It is a difference. It really is in fourteen and fifteen,
ten to eleven, eleven to twelve. I mean, he's a
fourteen year old child. But she was found in the
trunk of a Tesla southern California. The car is registered
(04:21):
to singer David And I always keep explaining we do
how his name is spelled for the sake of performing.
I think it makes a difference because people might recognize
it if they saw it, and might not recognize us
just saying David d four v D.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Goes by David.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We even talked about how we just said to Forvid,
so we can remember how it's spelled. But he's even
joked before all of this came up, he had done
some interviews and he joked about how some people actually
only knew his name based on seeing it on Spotify
or seeing it show up on some streaming service, and
so some people actually really did believe his name was
to forbit and he said, you know what, I answer
(05:02):
to it. So he's even joked about the fact that
I realized that he knows Some people don't even know
his name the way it's spelled is pronounced David. His
actual given name is David Anthony Burke. And he's twenty
years old, twenty young kid and on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The way up. Considered a top rising star in mini circles.
I keep saying neo soul the right way to describe
some of his music. But he got popular on social media,
started going viral on TikTok, has put together a career,
a tour fans. He was on his way up at
twenty years old. We mentioned her body was found in
(05:40):
the trunk of a car registered to him September eighth.
He was on tour at the time. Do I have
right rhobes with my recall? How soon after the discovery
did he get back on stage the next night set?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Actually, you know what, let me let me take that back.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He got back on stage the night after her body.
Her identity was confirmed, the body was found, and he
kept touring. It wasn't until it took authorities. This is
just this, This is tough to say, but just to
give a clear picture of just how bad the condition
(06:17):
was that this body. Initially, police didn't even know if
it was male or female. They didn't know the gender
of the body. So it took them several days up
to a week, I believe, for them to be able
to actually identify the remains. And when they named her
as Celeste Rivas Hernandez, he still went on stage the
following day, and then after that he ended up slowly
(06:41):
canceling the rest of his tour because a lot of
folks immediately connected her name with him.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
They started pointing to those photos, they.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Saw the song he has that Celeste, and certainly people
in his inner circle said that the girl in the
photos released by her family resembled the girl who he
was with. They thought she was nineteen, they thought she
was much older. And so when that's as soon as
her name became public, it took He still went on
stage the next day, but that's when he.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Canceled his tour.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The internet slews really got to work, and there were
several things you pointed out. You just said some that
triggered another memory. Oh, his family was saying that he oh,
she's not his family. Her family didn't a couple of
them name and say she had a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And David yes, yes, So immediately there was a connection.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So people start putting this stuff together. He finally stops
his tour and do I have right forgive me Robe?
I keep leaning on you. I'm forgetting something because I
think this is right. We have not heard a peep
out of him personally a comment about any of this,
not one.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Thing, only from his reps initially that he was cooperating
with police, and now we hear the very opposite from
the police. They have formally and officially and told many
news outlets that David Singer David is no longer cooperating
with them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, he may, or I should say, they may never
find out that they're saying. Another headline where we're getting
robes is that at least I think it was TMZ
reporting that they have a direct source related to this
investigation that's telling them that they might not be able
to ever determine the cause of death for celestreebus. But
(08:25):
you just saw totally different reporting. Was it not from
ABC out in La about a determination of the cause
of death?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yes, So ABC seven out in La KTLA absolutely said
that they are hearing this from the medical examiner's office.
That they believe the cause of death will be determined
in the next days to weeks, so it won't be immediate,
but they believe that within the next days or weeks,
we will get a cause of death.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And as soon as they say.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Investigators told their reporter, as soon as they determine that
cause of death, things will start moving quickly. That was
the quote they gave, an investigator telling their reporter, once
we get the cause of death from the medical examiner,
things will start to move quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, Well, it took them a while to confirm this
was a homicide, right, This is a body that has
been chopped up, yes, say decapitated. The limbs were cut off,
the torso is intact. Forgive me you all with These
are just the reporting and the facts of what's out there.
Limbs cut off, and the limbs were actually in pieces
(09:33):
as well. I was struck role. It was very early on.
Her funeral was quite some time back, and they released
her remains to the family and trying how do they
determine a cause of death? If they have released they
must be done in some way. And I was trying
to figure out how they could still be working on that.
(09:54):
That must mean are there no physical wounds? That would be.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
One way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The other idea that folks have floated out there in
terms of what investigators are looking for, and certainly the
medical examiner is a toxicology report. Those do take a
lot longer. But the other thought is could she have
overdosed and then someone panicked?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So could she?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So if they can determine that there were a certain
amount of potentially lethal drugs in her system within the
tissue that they were able to test, could that then
perhaps rule out a murder charge. But obviously someone dismembered
her body, someone placed it in a freezer or in
some way to buy time, and someone put it in
(10:38):
that vehicle. So I think the toxicology report might, if anything,
rule out an overdose or something else that could be
explained away. And if you don't have any sort of
chemical inside of you that says, hey, this could have
been it's I'm guessing they might end up just having
to like rule out what could have happened to try
(11:00):
and figure out what did happen.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I don't know how they're piecing this and how they're
going to do this, but it is possible. And there
are cases, and there's a current one going on right
now where guy's arguing, Yep, I cut my wife up,
but I didn't kill a I mean, so you if
you can't prove a murder, somebody would much rather go
to jail for one to three years for dismembering a
(11:23):
body than for the rest of your life for murder.
So that's an option. And maybe he had nothing to
do with any of this. Robes, you innocent to a
proven guilty. But good god, all this stuff is stacking
up and he's not speaking, so people are filling in blanks,
which is awful. But he might be getting advised by
damn good lawyer not to say a thing. But Robes,
you said something to me. It was the first time
(11:45):
I thought, oh, maybe he didn't do it. That is
the best reasoning I have heard so far. And folks,
stay here. I will tell you what Robots said to
me earlier that finally made me think, Okay, maybe he's innocent.
Stay here, all right? We continue now here on Amy
(12:18):
and TJ. Robes this. I didn't know where this story
was going to go, but we've been covering singer David
since September when it came out. We weren't familiar with
him or his music, but we have been following this
case with intrigue from the very beginning and here we
are now with a we got nothing, and now it
seems like we're getting so much with yes, trickling, but
(12:39):
these are some pretty earth shattering details that are coming out.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
There have been daily headlines ever since police acknowledged that
David in fact is a suspect in the death of
Celestrivas Hernandez. And once that became known, and official reporters
are having better luck, I guess, so to speak, to
get investing to give them some information because everyone's running
to their sources to find out exactly what the latest is.
(13:06):
And yes, we got some pretty gruesome details about what
happened after Celeste Reeves's death. We don't know how she
died yet, but we know what happened to her body afterwards,
and they are tough details to process. And yes, it
did start to raise some questions about if you've been
(13:26):
able to get away with and I hate to say
it that way, but she'd been missing for a year
and a half and if she hadn't been found, and
even though people were looking for her, somehow it was
all still under the radar. It didn't feel like there
was any pressure. So now, okay, something happens. I don't
know how she died, but if you've been able to
(13:48):
hide her body for months, why then put her body
somewhere where it would be directly attributable to you?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And there it is. Folks, When you said that to me,
I said, nobody is that dumb, not even a twenty
year old Nope. When you said, I swear to you
that might sound wild, that is the best defense I
have heard for the possibility of him having nothing to
do with anything. Is that No one in God's green
(14:20):
earth the car I'm going to put this dead teenager
in the trunk of my car and park that car
on a prominent street a block from where I'm living.
No nobody does that in.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A car registered to me with legal plates yeah from Texas,
where I'm from. Then number goes straight to me, and
I'm going to go put it a block from my
home and go. Then I'm going to go on tour
and think no one's gonna notice.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I mean things. That's when you said, I say, Obviously
nobody is that stupid. And by that, I'm telling you
that is the best case I have heard for why
there's got to be something else going on.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
The only other thing I thought about, well, because here's
the deal. Obviously, whoever did this to her body. I
can't get my head around who has that in them
to do that to any human body.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But to go through all.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That work with what police police have said it was
and I don't even need to know how, but they
just said because of the way her body was dismembered,
they don't think one person could have done it alone.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So whatever that means, You've gone.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Through this much work and now you've hidden the body
in a freezer. Now you're leaving to go on tour
for months, not just in the country, in this country,
but you're going to Europe. Oh okay, you're gonna go
ahead and just now take that and put it in
a cross That makes no sense. But I'm now thinking accomplices.
I'm not thinking riffs. I'm not thinking he thinks if
(16:01):
it's if it's even David, if he thinks it's safe
in a freezer in a home that he's paying rent on,
that he's not there for who's going to disturb it,
who's going to do anything with it? I'm the only
Oh wait, there's an accomplice. According to police, Could he
have angered somebody enough where they said, I know how
to ruin his life, I know how to I know
how to make somebody pay the ultimate price, And they
(16:24):
could have then taken what he thought was safely in
a freezer or a refrigerator and then put it in
his car, knowing it would directly link him. Could it
be a setup, could it be someone trying to frame him,
or could it be somebody who he upset or it's wild?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
All these scenarios explain any scenario that makes sense. What
if somebody didn't do their job and they were supposed
to take care of that car while he was gone,
and they never got it off the street, never got
around to it, it didn't take Oh I don't know. Maybe
they didn't know the urgency. Maybe he told him to
pick it up and didn't say what was that? Who?
The All of this assumes his involvement. But I'm telling you, Robes,
(17:09):
that argument you make nobody is that stupid is the
best argument I could hear for why he's an innocent man,
and he is right now. That needs to be said
at the beginning of the middle. In the end, he
is an innocent man until otherwise proven guilty. But it's
a fascinating case. It's a sad when it's a tragic
when it was tragic before this young girl died. We's
(17:32):
gone missing since eleven, as early as eleven or twelve.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Apparently been reported missing up to four times up until
her thirteenth year. So yes, there there was a lot
of disruption and upheaval on her.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Life, a tragedy. Before the tragedy, it was yeah, man, God,
this poor girl. But folks will keep our eyes on
this one. We always appreciate you spending some time with us.
From now, I'm TJ. Holmes alongside my partner Amy Roepike.
Will talk to you all real real soon. The d
Hey, that folks sit is Sunday, November twenty third, and
it has been a week of fast moving and pretty
gruesome developments and updates in the case of singer David
who had a teenage girl's dead and dismembered body found
in the trunk of his car. And with that, welcome
(00:31):
to this episode of Amy and TJ. Roobs. I mean,
this story sounded weird from the very beginning, and now
it gets in some cases, weirder and more gruesome.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It absolutely has, And just when you think that you've
heard the worst detail, you get more trickling out. And
I think that's been the tough one of the tough
parts about this case. We heard in September a young
teenage girls decomposed and dismembered body was found in the
trunk of David's car, and then there was nothing, I
(01:05):
mean almost no information coming out of the LAPD And
now once we've gotten the confirmation that David, Singer David
is in fact a suspect, now we're starting to get
more information coming out. And the the details we got
over the weekend were exceptionally tough to hear.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Well, people, we're wondering, quite frankly, I am not necessarily
surprised by some of the details because it fits with
the story we got at the beginning. They just didn't
fill in any blinks, right right, So now I'm hearing, Okay,
she was the why she was decomposing, she was dismembered.
(01:49):
And now the new updates we're getting Robes and we
were going to get into is that she was possibly
they believe frozen her dismembered body parts at some point.
So Robes, Yes, all, this is gruesome and awful, but
it fits with some of the little information we had,
which is that they thought she was dead for a
(02:10):
while before she was found. That would explain why maybe, God, again,
this is gruesome, maybe there wasn't an odor initially coming
from the car. It's awful to say that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It is you have to actually take it for the
facts in this case. So we started hearing that police
initially said this has been a body that has been
decomposing for weeks.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Now they're saying months. Now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There are reports that she may have died as early
as the spring, like we're talking April. So if her
body hasn't been discovered until September, where has it been,
where has it been?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And so what we're hearing, Yeah, what we're hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now is it seems as though she was dismembered and
then frozen, and for whatever reason, it did time out
with David then having to leave for his scheduled tour.
But then it's believed that perhaps those frozen body parts
were moved into the front trunk of his Tesla suv
(03:11):
and that they literally started to melt, and once it
became unfrozen, the smell happened pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Nothing you could do to cover that up. But if
someone's been dead for that long, there's note what do
you do? How do you store a body? So, like
I said, some of the details now seem to fit,
and folks will take you back. This is September eighth.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, she was discovered.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Her birthday was September seventh, So her body was discovered
on September eighth.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And we're talking about and make sure I get the
right ropes. Fourteen year olds c lested reevest because her
birthday was the day. What'd you say?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
On September seventh was her birthday?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Her?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That would have been her fourteenth, sorry, her fifteenth birthday, And.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Police do not believe she made it to her fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But you will see plenty of articles out there you
understand why it said fifteen year old, fifteen year old,
fifteen year old. I know there's what's the difference, fourteen fifteen.
It is a difference. It really is in fourteen and fifteen,
ten to eleven, eleven to twelve. I mean, he's a
fourteen year old child. But she was found in the
trunk of a Tesla southern California. The car is registered
(04:21):
to singer David And I always keep explaining we do
how his name is spelled for the sake of performing.
I think it makes a difference because people might recognize
it if they saw it, and might not recognize us
just saying David d four v D.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Goes by David.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We even talked about how we just said to Forvid,
so we can remember how it's spelled. But he's even
joked before all of this came up, he had done
some interviews and he joked about how some people actually
only knew his name based on seeing it on Spotify
or seeing it show up on some streaming service, and
so some people actually really did believe his name was
to forbit and he said, you know what, I answer
(05:02):
to it. So he's even joked about the fact that
I realized that he knows Some people don't even know
his name the way it's spelled is pronounced David. His
actual given name is David Anthony Burke. And he's twenty
years old, twenty young kid and on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The way up. Considered a top rising star in mini circles.
I keep saying neo soul the right way to describe
some of his music. But he got popular on social media,
started going viral on TikTok, has put together a career,
a tour fans. He was on his way up at
twenty years old. We mentioned her body was found in
(05:40):
the trunk of a car registered to him September eighth.
He was on tour at the time. Do I have
right rhobes with my recall? How soon after the discovery
did he get back on stage the next night set?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Actually, you know what, let me let me take that back.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He got back on stage the night after her body.
Her identity was confirmed, the body was found, and he
kept touring. It wasn't until it took authorities. This is
just this, This is tough to say, but just to
give a clear picture of just how bad the condition
(06:17):
was that this body. Initially, police didn't even know if
it was male or female. They didn't know the gender
of the body. So it took them several days up
to a week, I believe, for them to be able
to actually identify the remains. And when they named her
as Celeste Rivas Hernandez, he still went on stage the
following day, and then after that he ended up slowly
(06:41):
canceling the rest of his tour because a lot of
folks immediately connected her name with him.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
They started pointing to those photos, they.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Saw the song he has that Celeste, and certainly people
in his inner circle said that the girl in the
photos released by her family resembled the girl who he
was with. They thought she was nineteen, they thought she
was much older. And so when that's as soon as
her name became public, it took He still went on
stage the next day, but that's when he.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Canceled his tour.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The internet slews really got to work, and there were
several things you pointed out. You just said some that
triggered another memory. Oh, his family was saying that he oh,
she's not his family. Her family didn't a couple of
them name and say she had a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And David yes, yes, So immediately there was a connection.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So people start putting this stuff together. He finally stops
his tour and do I have right forgive me Robe?
I keep leaning on you. I'm forgetting something because I
think this is right. We have not heard a peep
out of him personally a comment about any of this,
not one.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Thing, only from his reps initially that he was cooperating
with police, and now we hear the very opposite from
the police. They have formally and officially and told many
news outlets that David Singer David is no longer cooperating
with them.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay, he may, or I should say, they may never
find out that they're saying. Another headline where we're getting
robes is that at least I think it was TMZ
reporting that they have a direct source related to this
investigation that's telling them that they might not be able
to ever determine the cause of death for celestreebus. But
(08:25):
you just saw totally different reporting. Was it not from
ABC out in La about a determination of the cause
of death?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yes, So ABC seven out in La KTLA absolutely said
that they are hearing this from the medical examiner's office.
That they believe the cause of death will be determined
in the next days to weeks, so it won't be immediate,
but they believe that within the next days or weeks,
we will get a cause of death.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And as soon as they say.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Investigators told their reporter, as soon as they determine that
cause of death, things will start moving quickly. That was
the quote they gave, an investigator telling their reporter, once
we get the cause of death from the medical examiner,
things will start to move quickly.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, Well, it took them a while to confirm this
was a homicide, right, This is a body that has
been chopped up, yes, say decapitated. The limbs were cut off,
the torso is intact. Forgive me you all with These
are just the reporting and the facts of what's out there.
Limbs cut off, and the limbs were actually in pieces
(09:33):
as well. I was struck role. It was very early on.
Her funeral was quite some time back, and they released
her remains to the family and trying how do they
determine a cause of death? If they have released they
must be done in some way. And I was trying
to figure out how they could still be working on that.
(09:54):
That must mean are there no physical wounds? That would be.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
One way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The other idea that folks have floated out there in
terms of what investigators are looking for, and certainly the
medical examiner is a toxicology report. Those do take a
lot longer. But the other thought is could she have
overdosed and then someone panicked?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So could she?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So if they can determine that there were a certain
amount of potentially lethal drugs in her system within the
tissue that they were able to test, could that then
perhaps rule out a murder charge. But obviously someone dismembered
her body, someone placed it in a freezer or in
some way to buy time, and someone put it in
(10:38):
that vehicle. So I think the toxicology report might, if anything,
rule out an overdose or something else that could be
explained away. And if you don't have any sort of
chemical inside of you that says, hey, this could have
been it's I'm guessing they might end up just having
to like rule out what could have happened to try
(11:00):
and figure out what did happen.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I don't know how they're piecing this and how they're
going to do this, but it is possible. And there
are cases, and there's a current one going on right
now where guy's arguing, Yep, I cut my wife up,
but I didn't kill a I mean, so you if
you can't prove a murder, somebody would much rather go
to jail for one to three years for dismembering a
(11:23):
body than for the rest of your life for murder.
So that's an option. And maybe he had nothing to
do with any of this. Robes, you innocent to a
proven guilty. But good god, all this stuff is stacking
up and he's not speaking, so people are filling in blanks,
which is awful. But he might be getting advised by
damn good lawyer not to say a thing. But Robes,
you said something to me. It was the first time
(11:45):
I thought, oh, maybe he didn't do it. That is
the best reasoning I have heard so far. And folks,
stay here. I will tell you what Robots said to
me earlier that finally made me think, Okay, maybe he's innocent.
Stay here, all right? We continue now here on Amy
(12:18):
and TJ. Robes this. I didn't know where this story
was going to go, but we've been covering singer David
since September when it came out. We weren't familiar with
him or his music, but we have been following this
case with intrigue from the very beginning and here we
are now with a we got nothing, and now it
seems like we're getting so much with yes, trickling, but
(12:39):
these are some pretty earth shattering details that are coming out.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
There have been daily headlines ever since police acknowledged that
David in fact is a suspect in the death of
Celestrivas Hernandez. And once that became known, and official reporters
are having better luck, I guess, so to speak, to
get investing to give them some information because everyone's running
to their sources to find out exactly what the latest is.
(13:06):
And yes, we got some pretty gruesome details about what
happened after Celeste Reeves's death. We don't know how she
died yet, but we know what happened to her body afterwards,
and they are tough details to process. And yes, it
did start to raise some questions about if you've been
(13:26):
able to get away with and I hate to say
it that way, but she'd been missing for a year
and a half and if she hadn't been found, and
even though people were looking for her, somehow it was
all still under the radar. It didn't feel like there
was any pressure. So now, okay, something happens. I don't
know how she died, but if you've been able to
(13:48):
hide her body for months, why then put her body
somewhere where it would be directly attributable to you?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And there it is. Folks, When you said that to me,
I said, nobody is that dumb, not even a twenty
year old Nope. When you said, I swear to you
that might sound wild, that is the best defense I
have heard for the possibility of him having nothing to
do with anything. Is that No one in God's green
(14:20):
earth the car I'm going to put this dead teenager
in the trunk of my car and park that car
on a prominent street a block from where I'm living.
No nobody does that in.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A car registered to me with legal plates yeah from Texas,
where I'm from. Then number goes straight to me, and
I'm going to go put it a block from my
home and go. Then I'm going to go on tour
and think no one's gonna notice.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I mean things. That's when you said, I say, Obviously
nobody is that stupid. And by that, I'm telling you
that is the best case I have heard for why
there's got to be something else going on.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
The only other thing I thought about, well, because here's
the deal. Obviously, whoever did this to her body. I
can't get my head around who has that in them
to do that to any human body.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But to go through all.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That work with what police police have said it was
and I don't even need to know how, but they
just said because of the way her body was dismembered,
they don't think one person could have done it alone.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So whatever that means, You've gone.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Through this much work and now you've hidden the body
in a freezer. Now you're leaving to go on tour
for months, not just in the country, in this country,
but you're going to Europe. Oh okay, you're gonna go
ahead and just now take that and put it in
a cross That makes no sense. But I'm now thinking accomplices.
I'm not thinking riffs. I'm not thinking he thinks if
(16:01):
it's if it's even David, if he thinks it's safe
in a freezer in a home that he's paying rent on,
that he's not there for who's going to disturb it,
who's going to do anything with it? I'm the only
Oh wait, there's an accomplice. According to police, Could he
have angered somebody enough where they said, I know how
to ruin his life, I know how to I know
how to make somebody pay the ultimate price, And they
(16:24):
could have then taken what he thought was safely in
a freezer or a refrigerator and then put it in
his car, knowing it would directly link him. Could it
be a setup, could it be someone trying to frame him,
or could it be somebody who he upset or it's wild?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
All these scenarios explain any scenario that makes sense. What
if somebody didn't do their job and they were supposed
to take care of that car while he was gone,
and they never got it off the street, never got
around to it, it didn't take Oh I don't know. Maybe
they didn't know the urgency. Maybe he told him to
pick it up and didn't say what was that? Who?
The All of this assumes his involvement. But I'm telling you, Robes,
(17:09):
that argument you make nobody is that stupid is the
best argument I could hear for why he's an innocent man,
and he is right now. That needs to be said
at the beginning of the middle. In the end, he
is an innocent man until otherwise proven guilty. But it's
a fascinating case. It's a sad when it's a tragic
when it was tragic before this young girl died. We's
(17:32):
gone missing since eleven, as early as eleven or twelve.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Apparently been reported missing up to four times up until
her thirteenth year. So yes, there there was a lot
of disruption and upheaval on her.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Life, a tragedy. Before the tragedy, it was yeah, man, God,
this poor girl. But folks will keep our eyes on
this one. We always appreciate you spending some time with us.
From now, I'm TJ. Holmes alongside my partner Amy Roepike.
Will talk to you all real real soon. The d
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