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00:00:01: Today, we're going to be addressing the case of the arrest of twenty-year old rising pop and R&B singer David Anthony Burke known globally by his stage name D for VD marking one of the most chilling legal cases in recent music history.

00:00:27: In the summer of David Anthony Burke, known to tens of millions of Spotify listeners as the indie pop sensation David was at the peak of his music career.

00:00:40: His very amazing tracks filled areas and social media following hovered in.

00:00:51: But while his music played on airwaves worldwide, a ticking clock was counting down in the dusty impound Los Angeles known as LA.

00:01:03: On September eighth two thousand twenty-five workers at Hollywood Toe called that LAPD to report a foul odor and imitating.

00:01:15: from An abandoned Tesla Model X, the luxury electric vehicle had been towed from a Hollywood Hills neighborhood after sitting stationary for weeks near a rental property leased by the singer David.

00:01:37: When police popped with front trunk known as The Frunk they didn't find stranded luggage.

00:01:45: They uncovered an It was the dismembered body of a young girl.

00:01:56: The car was registered directly to David Burke.

00:02:00: SFX, sudden musical transition A sharp dramatic beat drop.

00:02:07: We are going to address that by as in what we think really happened to his music.

00:02:17: now we do get a lot of questions about why We call it that and Why would say SFX for that?

00:02:24: because?

00:02:27: the way, he's music just stopped.

00:02:32: who was Celeste Rivas and Hernandez host?

00:02:41: The host or thee host Was known as the girl on the front.

00:02:53: It took weeks four Teams to officially identify her.

00:02:59: She was fourteen years old.

00:03:00: Celeste Rivas Hernandez and we are going to just say Celeste.

00:03:05: We're not gonna say full name for the rest of this because it's just very long from Riverside Country, California.

00:03:12: Celeste was voluntarily a teenager.

00:03:16: According to our family in middle school teachers.

00:03:20: she had faced a difficult home life And had been reported missing multiple times.

00:03:25: She ran away in early to.

00:03:28: Twenty twenty four was found in the Hollywood Hills and returned home, only to vanish completely In April of twenty twenty-four.

00:03:40: for seven months her mother searched desperately for her.

00:03:45: when news broke out about a body found in a Tesla Her mom provided crucial tips to investigators.

00:03:51: she told police distant red tattoo on Celeste's right index finger.

00:03:59: She also mentioned that Celeste had been in contact with an older boy named David.

00:04:07: when the LA County medical examiner released the auto autopsy report, The details shook the public.

00:04:18: Celeste weighed just seventy one pounds at time of her death.

00:04:24: Her toxicology reports Report showed Okay, so I don't know if i should say this or not because?

00:04:38: might say the word wrong but we're just gonna go ahead and say pre pre-sumptive positive for Benzodia pines in MDMA.

00:04:52: The cause of death multiple Penetrating injuries.

00:04:56: she had been stabbed twice once on a left chest.

00:04:59: And Once In the right abdomen piercing her liver, but the horror didn't stop at her murder.

00:05:06: The medical examiner's comfort of body has been dismembered into several parts.

00:05:11: Forensic analysis found fragments of blue plastic embedded directly in to bones and cut surfaces.

00:05:26: Former director of LA Sheriff's Department crime lab suggests these fragments likely came from the tools or plastic materials used during the mutilation.

00:05:41: The horrifying timeline as an investigation deepened between late, twenty-twenty five and early two thousand twenty six Pro prosecutors building massive strengthening digital Matt mattress mat matrix, sorry against David Burke.

00:06:01: They alleged That they uncovered over four hundred.

00:06:09: I don't really know what that means.

00:06:10: um I Don't know.

00:06:16: with that says something of evidence.

00:06:19: Um according to court filing and also you're probably like what do you mean redis?

00:06:24: Why do not know what it means?

00:06:25: i wrote this all out And use some words that they used in the investigation so I don't know really what to do about that.

00:06:33: So yeah just don't mind, divine.

00:06:37: that thing says terabytes of evidence.

00:06:43: according to court filings some submitted by LA County Pro Prosecutors Burke this list first met when she was just eleven years old.

00:06:56: By the time she was thirteen prosecutors alleged The Burke entered into an illegal Continuous sexual relationship with her.

00:07:12: The Hollywood Hills take down.

00:07:14: for months police played a quiet game of cat and mouse.

00:07:17: They tracked Berks movements while waiting for the final iron clad homicide rulings from the medical examiner.

00:07:25: LAPD captain Scott Williams later stated We did the best we can to keep tabs on him, but once we develop probable cause we were on him pretty diligently.

00:07:37: The moment came on Thursday, April sixteen twenty-twenty six.

00:07:43: Burke had quietly returned to California and was staying at home on Merrimont Avenue in the Hollywood Hills.

00:08:01: TMZ captured dramatic tense Surveillance footage of the rents arrest.

00:08:11: Days later he appeared in an LA courthouse.

00:08:14: The charges levered again, okay levered like oh my gosh I don't even know what that says.

00:08:21: i cannot say That the charges against him were monumental.

00:08:27: first-degree murder was a first one.

00:08:31: Continuous sexual abuse of child is second.

00:08:34: Newt.

00:08:36: new deletion of human remains is the third one.

00:08:44: David's high-profile legal team including powerhouse defense Attorneys Blake Burke and multiple others Blair Burke And multiple other spelling his or ever.

00:09:02: Oh my gosh Resignment, okay The primary hearings underway to determine if the forty terrible terabytes of state evidence will hold up before jerry.

00:09:27: we Will continue to follow this case as it moves toward a div of divine.

00:09:32: Oh my goodness a Div definitive Trial, thank you for listening to this episode.

00:09:40: if you or someone You know is a victim or child abuse?

00:09:44: Or Exploitation please reach out to the Child Help National Child Abuse Hotline at one eight hundred four two, too Four four five three and we just want to take a couple more things before We end this.

00:10:02: A lot of people are saying that he Was definitely apart Of Making a new Song about the girl But we have no-we Have No proof of That.

00:10:21: I Just Want To Say One More Thing Two Before We End This.

00:10:26: There is a joint statement that his lawyers released.

00:10:32: This is the same it.

00:10:34: Let us be clear.

00:10:35: The actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste free of his hand Hernandez and he was not the cause for death.

00:10:44: David has only been detained under suspicion.

00:10:48: people are thinking that it is not him.

00:10:51: There's a possibility he might have life in prison, but as I said now so until next time stay safe and watch out for those crazy.