November 19, 2025 • 16 mins
Police have finally, and officially named singer D4vd a suspect in death of a teenager found dismembered and decomposing in the front trunk of his Tesla more than two months ago. Police are still waiting for the LA medical examiner to determine Celeste Rivas’ cause of death, but once that happens, officials expect the investigation will move quickly. Amy and T.J. go over the latest new details in the case, including information from police, that more than one person may be involved, and their belief that Rivas might have been dead since last spring.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, they're folks. It is Wednesday, November the nineteenth. Singer
David is now finally and formally being called a suspect
and the death of a fifteen year old girl who
was found in the trunk of his car, And with that,
welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. This
is the story we have been following from the absolute
(00:23):
very beginning, and from the beginning people were scratching their
heads about why he hasn't been called a suspect the
past several months.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, there have been a lot of curious and interesting
questions around this case. Number one, yes, why was David
not named a suspect immediately or at least within a
few days or weeks? And number two, why have they
not ruled this a homicide yet? Those are two questions.
And look, we understand it takes time for police to
(00:51):
run the test they have to run and obviously make
sure that they have all of their evidence in a
row before they make these announcements. But it's been months.
Her body was found early September, so that's quite some
time to be waiting, especially if you're the family.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So they finally, it took a while before they even
spoke of a homicide, that that word was even used
in this case. And again we're talking about a fifteen
year old girl in the trunk. How does she get
in the trunk? What dismembered, dismembered and body decomposing is
how she was found. But if folks don't know what genre,
(01:31):
do we say of music? Neo soul. He's twenty years old.
David Anthony Burke is his name, but he goes by David.
And it's spelled D for v D right, Yes, so
spelled it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, I actually in my head have to say to forbid,
so I know how to spell it when I'm actually
googling or searching this story.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And we and I laughed at you the first time
you did it, and now that's what I do every
single to have to write his name to forbid, but
he helps. It's David, is how you say it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes? Yes, But now we are starting to get some
information from the police department, and we haven't had much
at all, but we do know. Yes, they have acknowledged
that David is officially a suspect, and they have told
some media that they are certain they are going down
the right path for a suspect so that was the
(02:22):
closest we got to them saying we got our guy.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We know who he is, and they haven't announced what
the cause of death is. Now I don't know how
much robes they might know about the cause of death.
But once that is announced, once that's released, things might
move really quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, they said, once the medical examiner makes that determination,
then things will progress very quickly. And according to members
of the media who have spoken to police, they mentioned
they actually got specific about Celeste and her name. By
the way, have we said her name Celeste Reevas Hernandez
fifteen years old. She actually turned fifteen the day before
(03:00):
or her body was found. Police believed that she had
been dead for weeks and now they're even saying potentially months,
So she never made it to fifteen. She was actually
fourteen when she died. But police say that they believed
the way her body was dismembered, the process by which
it was dismembered, they don't think that one person could
have done it by themselves, so they say they are
(03:21):
talking to other people who they believe may have been
a part of the cover up or the aftermath of
this crime. So that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That detail expands this story makes it in that moment.
It's one thing to say he's a suspect. Now we're
talking about suspects, possibility of several people being a part
of what the death or the dismemberment, we don't know.
But this story, it never ever sounded. It's tough to
explain this type of thing. It's his car registered to him,
(03:51):
parked up the street from where he's living. Her body's
in the trunk. Okay, there could be some explanations ropes,
but from the very beginning and then his behavior, what
we were expecting and what we were wanting from the
beginnings to come out. I cannot believe this has happened,
this poor girl. I want to get to the bottom
of what happened. Stone cold silence. Have we even heard
(04:12):
from a rep of his through this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, only that he was cooperating with police early on.
They did say that. But here's you said, stone cold. Look,
if he has something to do with this, if he
loved this girl, if he knew this girl the day
her body was found. The following day, he's on a
stage in Minneapolis, continuing his tour. Yes, that is cold.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
We were scratching our heads about and look a lot
of things. He could have been on stays to honor her.
He could have. I don't. We just didn't know. But
in the moment, in that moment, it seemed we say cold,
but it seemed borderline tacky, just out of respect to
bad taste. That's the what I'm looking for. This is
(04:54):
your car.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
At the end of the day, if you had nothing
to do with it, a young girl who had been
missing for a year and a half was found dismembered
and decomposing in your car, you don't go on stage
and seeing and you know, be adored by fans.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We were trying to understand at the time. And I'm
not sure who we were talking about the other day,
but you said, this young girl we forget, don't we
see her picture? Child? A child child was in the
trunk of his car.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
She was fourteen. Yeah, and when she went missing, when
her mother put up the flyers and went to police,
I mean she had been missing, went missing several times.
There definitely was some issues for her and her family life.
But she was thirteen when her mother last saw her.
She was a child child, So this is really interesting.
So we know that what we got this fall the
(05:43):
only details we had we knew police went to the
house that David was renting twenty thousand dollars a month.
He broke his lease I believe went back home, but
they were seen taking boxes of evidence out of that house.
TMC had reported that they were looking for blood evidence
in the home, so we know that they have been
on the case. We just have had almost zero weeks
(06:05):
about what's been happening with the case. And yes, David
has obviously he canceled his tour. He had a big
tour set for Europe as well, canceled that, so he
has just really gone underground at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah. Really, I haven't seen a report of where he
is or hearing anything from him lately at all. Can
imagine we are going to hear anything anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The only thing we did here, which is a complete
reversal from earlier police have said now that he is
no longer cooperating with police.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
This all looks bad, but he is innocent until proven otherwise,
and always have to caution and pump the brakes no
matter how bad something might look. We just don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We just don't know now. We still actually don't even
have full confirmation that David was in a relationship with Celeste.
But there is some evidence out there that has been mounting.
Of course, you've got all these online sluice looking for
any sign sign of their relationship in his work, in
any photos that may have been online, and those are
(07:06):
all surfacing. There is a song called Celeste that he
had out in twenty twenty three, and people are pointing
to some of the lyrics. Have you read the lyrics?
And so just to prove at least there was a
girl that he sung about in twenty twenty three name Celeste.
The name of his song is Celeste.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, And people piece all these things together and now
this proves anything, and now this proves any type of relationship.
But given where we are, I mean, people just start
to connect some dots and that could be all kinds
of coincidences, but damn, there are these are stacking up
with the tattoos and the songs and the pictures and
(07:45):
the lyrics and the name and that I mean, yes,
their connection seems clear. The affection, even, I would argue,
seems that way.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes, in the pictures. And then even her own mom,
Celest's mom said that her daughter went missing in April
of twenty twenty four and had a boyfriend named David.
Her brother has been talking as well, Matthew Reeves, and
he said that the family knew that the teen girl
knew David. By all accounts, they believe they met online
and they think she might have been as young as
(08:13):
eleven when she first started talking with him online. He
was young too, so he was a teen at that
point too, so he was probably sixteen seventeen, but still
a big age gap between the two and her brother
says that his sister vanished when she was on her
way to see a movie with David. He said she
(08:34):
was going to the movies with singer David and that
is the last time he saw his sister.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's tough, I mean, obviously this girl had some issues
with just who knows what her life has been like?
It seems like nobody knows. Her family hadn't seen her
in a year or year and a half. What has
her life been? Where has she been, what has she
been doing, How's she taken care of herself? How's she eating?
Where does she get a roof over her head? Where
has she been?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
According to people around David circle, they said that she
looked older so she was able to. She would go
out with him, she was in clubs with him, she
was living with him. This is according to folks who
are around him, but nothing has been substantiated. I have
to say, though, I was looking at some of his work,
and we're not huge fans of his music at all,
(09:19):
not our genre, and nothing against him specifically, but there
is a video called Rehab of one of his songs,
and he was into anime. He loved all of that.
He in this video, this music video. His anime character
is very violent and actually dismembers a girl in this video,
so people are pointing to that. Then with the situation
(09:41):
at hand, with what happened to Celeste, it's really eerie.
And there might not that could be a coincidence, but
that is so eerie.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They're really stacking up here. This is one of those
all this stuff on. All you can say is, Okay,
I know what you're thinking, but let me explain. And
I would love to hear the explanation, but yeah, I
just don't just don't want to get too far ahead
of it. And we were always cautious when we first
heard this story and when we first heard about his
behavior and the concerts, and it just nothing made since
(10:13):
and we were waiting to hear something ropes and we've
heard nothing from police. So I don't know what else,
how else to what else to make of these facts,
including the last one you're giving about a video. It
just all looks awful.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And the lyrics of some of his songs. Romantic Homicide
is his number one song in fact, and here's the other.
I just want to point out something about us human nature.
I get that this happens, but there were many articles
when after the body was found, and when they were
rating his home within a few weeks of one another,
his songs which had not even been they had been
so low on any sort of Spotify chart they didn't
(10:51):
even really register. All of a sudden, for the first
time in David's musical career, his song Romantic Homicide shot
into the top ten in late September on Spotify's charts,
so people started getting I think there was another artist,
and it was in terrible taste. Was complaining that he
wished he could get some publicity. Like David. Maybe he
(11:11):
needed to have something happen so that he could get
his music played more. But it's disturbing to think that. Yes,
people were so fascinated by him and the mystery surrounding
this young girl, his music shot up the charts.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Look I was I am guilty of that. As a
matter of research, I didn't know who he was, and
I think a lot of people didn't know who he was.
I'd never seen the name David before, so being knew
who he was, She knew that song Romantic Homicide, So
I jumped on to figure out who he was, what
kind of music if I jumped on to see if
we had heard any of his songs before, which we
(11:47):
had not. So yeah, there was a lot of curiosity,
morbid and otherwise.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yes, I suppose right now and just trying to figure
out who this guy is and if what people were
saying or implying could possibly be true. When we come back,
we're going to talk about the victim in this case,
Who is Celeste, who was she, who loved her? And
how did she go missing for so long? And continuing
(12:19):
now with this fairly breaking story, we've been waiting to
hear what might happen in the case of David and
the young girl who was found dismembered and decomposing in
the front trunk of his Tesla level. David is now
officially a suspect in the investigation into her death. We
still don't have it ruled as a homicide. We are
(12:40):
waiting for the La County Medical Examiner to make the
determination what her cause of death was. But this is
a young girl who actually really had a mysterious upbringing.
There isn't a lot about her out there. We know
that she was reported missing from her hometown of Lake elsen, Or, California.
(13:01):
Do you are you familiar with that area. I understand
it's about a ninety mile drive from Los Angeles, or
at least from where her body was found. She was
last seen on April fifth, twenty twenty four, and as
we reported, her brother said, she was supposedly going to
the movies with David. And wow, it's just so ironic
(13:22):
and sad that her body was found the day after
what would have been her fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What were they looking for her? I mean, I just
wonder who I think we said this at the very
beginning when we heard she'd been missing so long, Like,
who loved her as a kid in southern California? A child?
What were we talking about? She started going missing? At
time thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They believe she may have started talking to David online
around the age of eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So, I mean, just to think a kid does Yeah,
it's just it's tragic, Okay, it ended tragically, but it
was tragic before she ever got to Tesla.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Look, she had a history of running away, according to
family members. One of her actually a cousin of hers,
went on to TikTok. You know, it's interesting people in
the family, some of them have spoken out a little bit,
but she claims that she had run away at least
four times before the last one in April, and that
she would go and live with extended family. She would
go and live with an aunt or an uncle or
(14:20):
someone other than her immediate family. But everyone who described
her described her as bubbly and sweet and look, we
have a few pictures that we can go by that
we can see of her, and she did look older
than thirteen, for sure, but she did have that sweet smile.
She was a young girl who had a future. It's
just incredibly tragic, incredibly sad. And I don't know, I
(14:44):
just I have gotten more and more concerned by the
lyrics I have been reading in some of his songs.
They are violent. They are about being upset about a
girl finding someone else or leaving him. Or he's even
put some things on TikTok himself that we're disturbing about
what he would do ha ha joke lol, if he
(15:07):
caught his girl looking at another guy. I mean, it's
a little scary.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Supposed to be art, all right, supposed to just be art.
Folks are now wondering if there's more. Look, we always
know this. When there is a lack of information or
official information, people will fill in the blanks. And a
lot of people are filling in blinks. The story has
gone a little wild in a lot of areas I'm
sure you've seen on the internet. But the facts still remain,
(15:32):
and the fact is now robes. I'm probably sure plenty
of police officers the moment this girl was found, had
in their mind that he was their suspect.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, yes, and of course they have to make sure
they've checked out and exhausted all other potential suspects. But
now we are talking about suspects with an s potentially here.
And I am curious because we did have so many
months of complete silence, two weeks, no information, nothing, I
think TMZ was finding things here and there, but they
were getting their information from family members, from folks who
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knew David, folks who knew Celeste. They weren't getting it
from police. Now that they have officially gone on the
record and said that David is a suspect, I'm curious
if more information will be coming out quicker. They know
that once they make a declaration like this or they
acknowledge something like this now, the media is going to
be even more hungry for details and what happens next
(16:28):
and where this is headed. So I have a feeling
this is just the beginning and we are going to
be getting a lot more information in the coming days
and weeks for sure, and we will of course make
sure we pass that along to you all because this
is a developing and morbid but it is a fascinating
case nonetheless, and we will be on top of it.
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So thanks for listening to us, everybody. I'm Amy Roboch
alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
Hey, they're folks. It is Wednesday, November the nineteenth. Singer
David is now finally and formally being called a suspect
and the death of a fifteen year old girl who
was found in the trunk of his car, And with that,
welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. This
is the story we have been following from the absolute
(00:23):
very beginning, and from the beginning people were scratching their
heads about why he hasn't been called a suspect the
past several months.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, there have been a lot of curious and interesting
questions around this case. Number one, yes, why was David
not named a suspect immediately or at least within a
few days or weeks? And number two, why have they
not ruled this a homicide yet? Those are two questions.
And look, we understand it takes time for police to
(00:51):
run the test they have to run and obviously make
sure that they have all of their evidence in a
row before they make these announcements. But it's been months.
Her body was found early September, so that's quite some
time to be waiting, especially if you're the family.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So they finally, it took a while before they even
spoke of a homicide, that that word was even used
in this case. And again we're talking about a fifteen
year old girl in the trunk. How does she get
in the trunk? What dismembered, dismembered and body decomposing is
how she was found. But if folks don't know what genre,
(01:31):
do we say of music? Neo soul. He's twenty years old.
David Anthony Burke is his name, but he goes by David.
And it's spelled D for v D right, Yes, so
spelled it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, I actually in my head have to say to forbid,
so I know how to spell it when I'm actually
googling or searching this story.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And we and I laughed at you the first time
you did it, and now that's what I do every
single to have to write his name to forbid, but
he helps. It's David, is how you say it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes? Yes, But now we are starting to get some
information from the police department, and we haven't had much
at all, but we do know. Yes, they have acknowledged
that David is officially a suspect, and they have told
some media that they are certain they are going down
the right path for a suspect so that was the
(02:22):
closest we got to them saying we got our guy.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We know who he is, and they haven't announced what
the cause of death is. Now I don't know how
much robes they might know about the cause of death.
But once that is announced, once that's released, things might
move really quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yes, they said, once the medical examiner makes that determination,
then things will progress very quickly. And according to members
of the media who have spoken to police, they mentioned
they actually got specific about Celeste and her name. By
the way, have we said her name Celeste Reevas Hernandez
fifteen years old. She actually turned fifteen the day before
(03:00):
or her body was found. Police believed that she had
been dead for weeks and now they're even saying potentially months,
So she never made it to fifteen. She was actually
fourteen when she died. But police say that they believed
the way her body was dismembered, the process by which
it was dismembered, they don't think that one person could
have done it by themselves, so they say they are
(03:21):
talking to other people who they believe may have been
a part of the cover up or the aftermath of
this crime. So that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That detail expands this story makes it in that moment.
It's one thing to say he's a suspect. Now we're
talking about suspects, possibility of several people being a part
of what the death or the dismemberment, we don't know.
But this story, it never ever sounded. It's tough to
explain this type of thing. It's his car registered to him,
(03:51):
parked up the street from where he's living. Her body's
in the trunk. Okay, there could be some explanations ropes,
but from the very beginning and then his behavior, what
we were expecting and what we were wanting from the
beginnings to come out. I cannot believe this has happened,
this poor girl. I want to get to the bottom
of what happened. Stone cold silence. Have we even heard
(04:12):
from a rep of his through this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, only that he was cooperating with police early on.
They did say that. But here's you said, stone cold. Look,
if he has something to do with this, if he
loved this girl, if he knew this girl the day
her body was found. The following day, he's on a
stage in Minneapolis, continuing his tour. Yes, that is cold.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
We were scratching our heads about and look a lot
of things. He could have been on stays to honor her.
He could have. I don't. We just didn't know. But
in the moment, in that moment, it seemed we say cold,
but it seemed borderline tacky, just out of respect to
bad taste. That's the what I'm looking for. This is
(04:54):
your car.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
At the end of the day, if you had nothing
to do with it, a young girl who had been
missing for a year and a half was found dismembered
and decomposing in your car, you don't go on stage
and seeing and you know, be adored by fans.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We were trying to understand at the time. And I'm
not sure who we were talking about the other day,
but you said, this young girl we forget, don't we
see her picture? Child? A child child was in the
trunk of his car.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
She was fourteen. Yeah, and when she went missing, when
her mother put up the flyers and went to police,
I mean she had been missing, went missing several times.
There definitely was some issues for her and her family life.
But she was thirteen when her mother last saw her.
She was a child child, So this is really interesting.
So we know that what we got this fall the
(05:43):
only details we had we knew police went to the
house that David was renting twenty thousand dollars a month.
He broke his lease I believe went back home, but
they were seen taking boxes of evidence out of that house.
TMC had reported that they were looking for blood evidence
in the home, so we know that they have been
on the case. We just have had almost zero weeks
(06:05):
about what's been happening with the case. And yes, David
has obviously he canceled his tour. He had a big
tour set for Europe as well, canceled that, so he
has just really gone underground at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah. Really, I haven't seen a report of where he
is or hearing anything from him lately at all. Can
imagine we are going to hear anything anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The only thing we did here, which is a complete
reversal from earlier police have said now that he is
no longer cooperating with police.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
This all looks bad, but he is innocent until proven otherwise,
and always have to caution and pump the brakes no
matter how bad something might look. We just don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We just don't know now. We still actually don't even
have full confirmation that David was in a relationship with Celeste.
But there is some evidence out there that has been mounting.
Of course, you've got all these online sluice looking for
any sign sign of their relationship in his work, in
any photos that may have been online, and those are
(07:06):
all surfacing. There is a song called Celeste that he
had out in twenty twenty three, and people are pointing
to some of the lyrics. Have you read the lyrics?
And so just to prove at least there was a
girl that he sung about in twenty twenty three name Celeste.
The name of his song is Celeste.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, And people piece all these things together and now
this proves anything, and now this proves any type of relationship.
But given where we are, I mean, people just start
to connect some dots and that could be all kinds
of coincidences, but damn, there are these are stacking up
with the tattoos and the songs and the pictures and
(07:45):
the lyrics and the name and that I mean, yes,
their connection seems clear. The affection, even, I would argue,
seems that way.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes, in the pictures. And then even her own mom,
Celest's mom said that her daughter went missing in April
of twenty twenty four and had a boyfriend named David.
Her brother has been talking as well, Matthew Reeves, and
he said that the family knew that the teen girl
knew David. By all accounts, they believe they met online
and they think she might have been as young as
(08:13):
eleven when she first started talking with him online. He
was young too, so he was a teen at that
point too, so he was probably sixteen seventeen, but still
a big age gap between the two and her brother
says that his sister vanished when she was on her
way to see a movie with David. He said she
(08:34):
was going to the movies with singer David and that
is the last time he saw his sister.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's tough, I mean, obviously this girl had some issues
with just who knows what her life has been like?
It seems like nobody knows. Her family hadn't seen her
in a year or year and a half. What has
her life been? Where has she been, what has she
been doing, How's she taken care of herself? How's she eating?
Where does she get a roof over her head? Where
has she been?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
According to people around David circle, they said that she
looked older so she was able to. She would go
out with him, she was in clubs with him, she
was living with him. This is according to folks who
are around him, but nothing has been substantiated. I have
to say, though, I was looking at some of his work,
and we're not huge fans of his music at all,
(09:19):
not our genre, and nothing against him specifically, but there
is a video called Rehab of one of his songs,
and he was into anime. He loved all of that.
He in this video, this music video. His anime character
is very violent and actually dismembers a girl in this video,
so people are pointing to that. Then with the situation
(09:41):
at hand, with what happened to Celeste, it's really eerie.
And there might not that could be a coincidence, but
that is so eerie.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
They're really stacking up here. This is one of those
all this stuff on. All you can say is, Okay,
I know what you're thinking, but let me explain. And
I would love to hear the explanation, but yeah, I
just don't just don't want to get too far ahead
of it. And we were always cautious when we first
heard this story and when we first heard about his
behavior and the concerts, and it just nothing made since
(10:13):
and we were waiting to hear something ropes and we've
heard nothing from police. So I don't know what else,
how else to what else to make of these facts,
including the last one you're giving about a video. It
just all looks awful.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And the lyrics of some of his songs. Romantic Homicide
is his number one song in fact, and here's the other.
I just want to point out something about us human nature.
I get that this happens, but there were many articles
when after the body was found, and when they were
rating his home within a few weeks of one another,
his songs which had not even been they had been
so low on any sort of Spotify chart they didn't
(10:51):
even really register. All of a sudden, for the first
time in David's musical career, his song Romantic Homicide shot
into the top ten in late September on Spotify's charts,
so people started getting I think there was another artist,
and it was in terrible taste. Was complaining that he
wished he could get some publicity. Like David. Maybe he
(11:11):
needed to have something happen so that he could get
his music played more. But it's disturbing to think that. Yes,
people were so fascinated by him and the mystery surrounding
this young girl, his music shot up the charts.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Look I was I am guilty of that. As a
matter of research, I didn't know who he was, and
I think a lot of people didn't know who he was.
I'd never seen the name David before, so being knew
who he was, She knew that song Romantic Homicide, So
I jumped on to figure out who he was, what
kind of music if I jumped on to see if
we had heard any of his songs before, which we
(11:47):
had not. So yeah, there was a lot of curiosity,
morbid and otherwise.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yes, I suppose right now and just trying to figure
out who this guy is and if what people were
saying or implying could possibly be true. When we come back,
we're going to talk about the victim in this case,
Who is Celeste, who was she, who loved her? And
how did she go missing for so long? And continuing
(12:19):
now with this fairly breaking story, we've been waiting to
hear what might happen in the case of David and
the young girl who was found dismembered and decomposing in
the front trunk of his Tesla level. David is now
officially a suspect in the investigation into her death. We
still don't have it ruled as a homicide. We are
(12:40):
waiting for the La County Medical Examiner to make the
determination what her cause of death was. But this is
a young girl who actually really had a mysterious upbringing.
There isn't a lot about her out there. We know
that she was reported missing from her hometown of Lake elsen, Or, California.
(13:01):
Do you are you familiar with that area. I understand
it's about a ninety mile drive from Los Angeles, or
at least from where her body was found. She was
last seen on April fifth, twenty twenty four, and as
we reported, her brother said, she was supposedly going to
the movies with David. And wow, it's just so ironic
(13:22):
and sad that her body was found the day after
what would have been her fifteenth birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What were they looking for her? I mean, I just
wonder who I think we said this at the very
beginning when we heard she'd been missing so long, Like,
who loved her as a kid in southern California? A child?
What were we talking about? She started going missing? At
time thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They believe she may have started talking to David online
around the age of eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So, I mean, just to think a kid does Yeah,
it's just it's tragic, Okay, it ended tragically, but it
was tragic before she ever got to Tesla.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Look, she had a history of running away, according to
family members. One of her actually a cousin of hers,
went on to TikTok. You know, it's interesting people in
the family, some of them have spoken out a little bit,
but she claims that she had run away at least
four times before the last one in April, and that
she would go and live with extended family. She would
go and live with an aunt or an uncle or
(14:20):
someone other than her immediate family. But everyone who described
her described her as bubbly and sweet and look, we
have a few pictures that we can go by that
we can see of her, and she did look older
than thirteen, for sure, but she did have that sweet smile.
She was a young girl who had a future. It's
just incredibly tragic, incredibly sad. And I don't know, I
(14:44):
just I have gotten more and more concerned by the
lyrics I have been reading in some of his songs.
They are violent. They are about being upset about a
girl finding someone else or leaving him. Or he's even
put some things on TikTok himself that we're disturbing about
what he would do ha ha joke lol, if he
(15:07):
caught his girl looking at another guy. I mean, it's
a little scary.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Supposed to be art, all right, supposed to just be art.
Folks are now wondering if there's more. Look, we always
know this. When there is a lack of information or
official information, people will fill in the blanks. And a
lot of people are filling in blinks. The story has
gone a little wild in a lot of areas I'm
sure you've seen on the internet. But the facts still remain,
(15:32):
and the fact is now robes. I'm probably sure plenty
of police officers the moment this girl was found, had
in their mind that he was their suspect.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, yes, and of course they have to make sure
they've checked out and exhausted all other potential suspects. But
now we are talking about suspects with an s potentially here.
And I am curious because we did have so many
months of complete silence, two weeks, no information, nothing, I
think TMZ was finding things here and there, but they
were getting their information from family members, from folks who
(16:08):
knew David, folks who knew Celeste. They weren't getting it
from police. Now that they have officially gone on the
record and said that David is a suspect, I'm curious
if more information will be coming out quicker. They know
that once they make a declaration like this or they
acknowledge something like this now, the media is going to
be even more hungry for details and what happens next
(16:28):
and where this is headed. So I have a feeling
this is just the beginning and we are going to
be getting a lot more information in the coming days
and weeks for sure, and we will of course make
sure we pass that along to you all because this
is a developing and morbid but it is a fascinating
case nonetheless, and we will be on top of it.
(16:49):
So thanks for listening to us, everybody. I'm Amy Roboch
alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
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