Tesla Tomb: The D4vd and Celeste Rivas Story

Three missing persons reports in early 2024. Three times Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly brought back into the orbit of the man prosecutors now say was grooming her since she was eleven years old. Three chances the system allegedly had to protect a child — and three alleged failures that ended with her dismembered remains reportedly found in the front trunk of a Tesla.Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analysis expert Robin Dreeke dig into the alleged failures that cut deepest. Was someone allegedly supposed to dispose of the body while Burke was on tour? Who allegedly provided a minor with fake identification for international travel? How did the alleged thousand-dollar payment to a classmate not trigger an investigation? Why did an entire entourage allegedly connected to a rising music star reportedly look the other way while a child was allegedly being groomed?Robin breaks down the alleged grooming architecture — the matching "Shhh..." tattoos, the "David" tattoo allegedly on a child's ring finger, the alleged financial control, the deliberate separation from family. D4VD's childhood and whether alleged early behavioral indicators existed get a full analysis. The comparison between alleged antisocial patterns in this case and other high-profile cases sparks one of the most compelling behavioral discussions of the case. Celeste allegedly needed one adult to speak up. According to prosecutors, the adults closest to the situation reportedly chose silence — and a fourteen-year-old girl allegedly paid for it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #JusticeForCeleste #DavidBurke #ChildGrooming #HollywoodHillsMurder #TonyBrueski

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a child. Her parents knew something was wrong. They took her phone. They reported her missing — not once, but twice. Deputies went to David Anthony Burke's door and reportedly told him directly that she was thirteen. According to prosecutors, none of it stopped what was happening to her. This Hidden Killers Week in Review brings together two episodes honoring Celeste's story and examining every alleged failure that left her unprotected.She was reportedly eleven when Burke first allegedly entered her life. By thirteen, prosecutors say the relationship had become sexual. People around Burke reportedly believed Celeste was a nineteen-year-old USC student — she was in middle school. When her parents intervened and took her phone, prosecutors allege Burke drove to her community in Lake Elsinore and paid one of her classmates a thousand dollars to put a new phone back in her hands. She was a kid whose family was fighting to keep her safe, and according to the prosecution's account, every barrier they put up was allegedly circumvented.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the welfare check that should have changed everything and explains why the systems designed to protect children like Celeste allegedly failed at every level. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott addresses the alleged pattern of exploitation prosecutors describe — someone who allegedly maintained sustained access to a child while concealing her true age from everyone around him. Prosecutors allege Celeste threatened to expose the relationship and end Burke's career, and that she was subsequently fatally stabbed in his Hollywood Hills garage. She was fourteen years old. Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. His defense attorneys say he is innocent and did not cause Celeste's death. Celeste's family continues to seek justice for their daughter.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #ShavaunScott #LakeElsinore #HollywoodHills

"Victoria Mendez." That's the alias prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke used to order chainsaws, a body bag, and an inflatable pool from Amazon after fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly stabbed to death. Blue plastic fragments embedded in Celeste's remains were reportedly matched to that pool by the LAPD forensic lab. Prosecutors say he drove to a remote highway near Lake Cachuma three separate times. And on the morning after the alleged killing, they say he ordered a shovel — then gave a radio interview.This week's review brings together the most essential D4VD case conversations — centered on Celeste, on the prosecution's timeline, and on the questions this community has been asking since the People's Brief went public.Celeste was fourteen. Prosecutors allege she was reported missing multiple times before she was killed. They allege law enforcement told Burke her age directly during a welfare check. According to the filing, he said he'd only met her once. Prosecutors allege the relationship began online when Celeste was eleven and became sexual when she was thirteen. Every system that should have intervened allegedly didn't — and the People's Brief makes clear that multiple people reportedly had proximity to what was happening and said nothing.Burke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. His attorneys maintain he is innocent and did not cause Celeste's death. These are allegations. But the questions they've generated are the ones that matter most — and they're the ones this community has been asking since the filing dropped.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the prosecution's evidence roadmap and what fifty-four search warrants reveal about the scope of this investigation. Robin Dreeke answers the listener questions directly — about what allegedly happened in the days after, about who allegedly knew, and about how a fourteen-year-old girl allegedly disappeared through every crack in every system that was supposed to catch her.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #PeoplesBrief #VictoriaMendez #BethSilverman #LAPD #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

She loved Hello Kitty. She had thick dark curls and a soft smile. Neighbors in Lake Elsinore remember her walking to the corner store with her backpack. Her parents reported her missing three times. She was fourteen years old — and according to prosecutors, the person who allegedly took her from that life is facing first-degree murder charges with special circumstances that could carry the death penalty.Celeste Rivas Hernandez allegedly met David Burke when she was eleven. Prosecutors say a sexual relationship allegedly began when she was thirteen and he was eighteen. They allege she was brought on trips to Las Vegas, London, and Texas, introduced to his family, given matching tattoos — and then, when she reportedly threatened to tell the truth about everything, allegedly murdered. The People's Brief describes an alleged stabbing, followed by months of alleged concealment while Burke reportedly launched a world tour and released music.Her dismembered remains were allegedly found in the trunk of Burke's Tesla. She was discovered one day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday. Her family issued a statement through their attorney calling Burke's arrest "a first step toward justice."Former felony prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers to examine every legal dimension — the charges, the alleged evidence, the defense strategy that just reversed itself, and the road to the preliminary hearing set for May 26. But at the center of all of it is a girl from Lake Elsinore whose family has been fighting for answers since the first time she went missing. Her parents reported her missing three times. Three times. This case is about Celeste. It always has been.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #EricFaddis #LakeElsinore #MurderCharge #DeathPenalty

She was five-foot-two. She had braces. She loved Hello Kitty. And prosecutors allege the adults around David Anthony Burke — the singer known as D4vd — accepted his story that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a nineteen-year-old college student without question.Three separate grand juries heard from Burke's friends, his manager, and his family. His manager was reportedly overheard saying that calling police after learning about remains was not his job — the tour was his job. Burke's parents and brother were all subpoenaed. Prosecutors allege Celeste traveled to Texas to meet the family. In his Discord server, someone reportedly referenced "the missing girl Celeste Rivas Hernandez" — and nobody reported it. Nobody acted. Nobody asked the question that was sitting in the open.A psychotherapist explains how professional loyalty, financial stakes, group conformity, and the strange diffusion of responsibility that happens online allegedly allowed an entire circle of people to stand close enough to this case to be questioned under oath. The hardest question in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case is not about the person charged — it is about everyone who was reportedly standing right there. Burke has pleaded not guilty and maintains his innocence through counsel.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CriminalPsychology #CelesteRivas #ChildPredator #LosAngeles

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was eleven years old. She reportedly loved Hello Kitty. She had braces. And prosecutors allege that is when David Anthony Burke — a rising singer building a career under the name D4vd — first entered her life.By thirteen, prosecutors allege the contact became sexual. By fourteen, she was reportedly living in his Hollywood Hills home, traveling with him, embedded so deeply in his world that when she allegedly threatened to expose everything, prosecutors say Burke made a calculation that cost Celeste her life. When law enforcement had already contacted him — already told him she was a minor and missing — prosecutors allege he paid a thousand dollars to get a phone to her through a classmate so they could keep communicating. After she allegedly died, prosecutors describe weeks of reported purchases under a fake name: chainsaws, a body bag, an inflatable pool. Forensic evidence allegedly connects those materials to injuries on Celeste's remains.A psychotherapist breaks down what the alleged behavior prosecutors describe reveals about the psychology reportedly at work — from alleged first contact with a child to the reported cover-up that prosecutors allege lasted months while Celeste's body remained in Burke's Tesla. Burke has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys say he is innocent and did not cause her death.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CriminalPsychology #CelesteRivas #ChildPredator #LosAngeles

Celeste Rivas Hernandez loved to sing and dance. Friday nights were movie nights with her family. She had thick dark curls, a soft smile, and Hello Kitty slippers on the day she went missing. She was fourteen years old.Her family said she was beautiful and strong and that she always told them she loved them. She is not here to say any of it herself.The People’s Brief filed in the case against David Anthony Burke alleges that Celeste met him online when she was eleven. Prosecutors say the sexual abuse began when she was thirteen. They say she was isolated from her family, traveled with Burke to Las Vegas, London, and Texas, and was killed after she allegedly threatened to expose the relationship. Her body was reportedly found months later in a Tesla, so decomposed the medical examiner had to use dental records to identify her. She still had braces.Burke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. His attorneys say he did not cause her death.Your questions about this case are personal. You’re asking how a girl gets reported missing multiple times and nobody connects the dots. You’re asking how an adult man allegedly takes a child across state lines and to another country and no system intervenes. You’re asking what it means that people around him reportedly smelled something for weeks and never called anyone. You’re asking about the school friend who was allegedly paid a thousand dollars to deliver a phone.Robin Dreeke and I take on the questions that keep coming back to one truth: Celeste deserved every adult around her to do better.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ListenerQA #ProtectOurChildren #DavidBurke #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillersLive

The most detailed breakdown of the People's Brief against David Anthony Burke — covering every major piece of evidence prosecutors plan to present at the preliminary hearing.Deputy DA Beth Silverman filed a nine-page roadmap this week alleging Burke texted Celeste Rivas Hernandez's phone after she was allegedly already dead. The brief describes purchases made under the fake name "Victoria Mendez" — chainsaws, a body bag, a shovel, an inflatable pool. It details three separate trips to a remote area in Santa Barbara County. And it reveals that blue plastic fragments in Celeste's remains were matched to that pool by the LAPD forensic lab.The filing also outlines what prosecutors call years of sexual exploitation — meeting Celeste at eleven, a relationship at thirteen, and a thousand dollars paid to a classmate to maintain access after Celeste's parents intervened.Burke's defense team initially demanded a fast hearing, then reversed course and asked for a delay after the discovery started arriving. They tried to seal the brief. The judge denied it.Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski for a three-part analysis of premeditation, grooming, and the defense reversal.All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #JenniferCoffindaffer #PeoplesBrief #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #BlairBerk #BethSilverman #MurderCase

David Anthony Burke's defense demanded speed — then asked for time. The reversal happened in open court, and the prosecution made sure the judge knew they'd warned the defense it was coming.At Burke's arraignment, lead attorney Blair Berk invoked California's right to a preliminary hearing within ten court days. She projected confidence. She wanted the evidence tested publicly. But when discovery started arriving — wiretap results, three grand juries' worth of compelled testimony, forty terabytes of data, material from fifty-four search warrants — attorney Marilyn Bednarski asked for a delay to May 26.They also tried to seal the prosecution's nine-page evidence brief. The judge denied that too.Deputy DA Beth Silverman told the court only about thirty percent of the evidence had been uploaded to the defense's system. The scope of what investigators compiled — across Burke's phone, iCloud, Tesla data, Amazon purchases, Uber records, and surveillance footage — is staggering.Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what the discovery revealed, what the wiretap tells us, and what matters most heading into the May 26 hearing.Part 3 of 3.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #JenniferCoffindaffer #BlairBerk #PreliminaryHearing #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DefenseStrategy #BethSilverman

Eleven years old. That's the age prosecutors say Celeste Rivas Hernandez was when she first met David Anthony Burke. By thirteen, the People's Brief alleges they were in a sexual relationship. By fourteen, she was allegedly living parts of her life inside a celebrity's world — Hollywood Hills weekends, Las Vegas trips, flights to London and Texas — while her family in Lake Elsinore was left wondering where their daughter was.The filing describes text messages pulled from Burke's iCloud containing references to sex, pregnancy, abortion, and emergency contraception. It describes explicit photographs prosecutors say document the relationship. And it describes a moment that should have stopped everything — when Riverside County deputies told Burke directly that Celeste was thirteen years old and had been reported missing.According to prosecutors, Burke's response was to drive to Lake Elsinore and pay one of Celeste's junior high classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a phone he'd purchased for her.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the grooming pattern, the systemic failures, and how the alleged exploitation timeline is the prosecution's foundation for murder motive.Part 2 of 3.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #JenniferCoffindaffer #Grooming #ChildExploitation #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #LakeElsinore #SystemFailure

A shovel the day after. Chainsaws a week later. A body bag and inflatable pool ten days after that. A burn cage two months later. All allegedly ordered by David Anthony Burke under the fake name "Victoria Mendez."The People's Brief filed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman this week describes what prosecutors call a calculated, months-long cover-up following the alleged murder of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The filing alleges Burke sent texts to Celeste's phone after she was allegedly already dead, drove to a remote highway near Lake Cachuma three times, and used the tools he purchased to dismember her body in the garage of his Hollywood Hills rental.Blue plastic fragments found embedded in Celeste's remains were reportedly matched by the LAPD forensic lab to the inflatable pool. Her passport card was discovered in the same Santa Barbara County area Burke allegedly visited. And law enforcement executed fifty-four search warrants across the investigation.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what the prosecution's evidence roadmap reveals about how they're building premeditation — and what every piece of it means.Part 1 of 3.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #JenniferCoffindaffer #PeoplesBrief #Premeditation #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #BethSilverman #VictoriaMendez

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing three times in fourteen months. She had not been in school for a year. She was a seventh grader from Lake Elsinore with long curly black hair and braces who weighed seventy-one pounds when the medical examiner received what was left of her. And people in the orbit of the man now charged with her murder reportedly believed she was a nineteen-year-old college student. Nobody checked. Nobody verified. Nobody protected her.Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke killed Celeste on or around April 23, 2025. Within days, he released an album and launched a world tour. He performed across the country for months. On September 8, a tow yard worker in Los Angeles reported a foul odor from Burke's impounded Tesla. Inside was a bag containing Celeste's dismembered remains — arms and legs severed, blue plastic fragments embedded in the cuts, two stab wounds to her torso from a sharp instrument, one perforating her liver. Toxicology found benzodiazepines and what screened presumptive for meth or MDMA. The next night, Burke took the stage at The Fillmore in Minneapolis.His team initially said he was cooperating. LAPD later stated he was not cooperative and that investigators believe he had help disposing of the body. The Tesla was reportedly held for only forty-eight hours before being released. The autopsy was sealed at LAPD's request — reportedly over the medical examiner's own objection — while Celeste's family waited months for answers about what happened to their daughter.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines every layer of this case — what Burke's alleged behavior after the crime reveals about the person investigators believe they are dealing with, what it takes to allegedly build and maintain a false identity around a child, and why the forensic evidence in the autopsy may be devastating for the defense. She breaks down what the wound patterns indicate about intent, what the embedded physical material means for connecting Burke to the dismemberment, and how over forty terabytes of digital evidence — including alleged exploitation material — changes the scope of everything.But Coffindaffer also confronts what failed. Law enforcement had missing person reports. Schools had an absent student. People close to the situation had a child in front of them who did not match the story being told about her. Celeste deserved better from every single one of them.Burke faces first-degree murder with special circumstances. He has pled not guilty. His attorneys say the evidence will prove his innocence.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #JusticeForCeleste #D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CelesteRivas #FBI #DeathPenalty #TrueCrimePodcast

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing three separate times. She was fourteen years old. She had braces, long curly black hair, and weighed seventy-one pounds when her dismembered remains were recovered from a Tesla registered to the singer known as D4vd. The autopsy sat sealed for months. When it was released, it confirmed she died from penetrating wounds to her torso. Someone should have found her sooner. Someone should have been looking harder.David Anthony Burke, 21, faces first-degree murder with special circumstances that put the death penalty on the table. Prosecutors allege continuous abuse of Celeste beginning when she was thirteen, exploitation material on his phone, and a motive built around protecting a music career she allegedly threatened to expose. Over forty terabytes of digital evidence have been identified. Three separate grand juries were convened. None indicted him. The DA filed a criminal complaint.Burke has pled not guilty. His defense team says the evidence will prove his innocence.Trial attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down every pressure point in the felony complaint — from whether the financial-gain special circumstance can hold to why defense attorney Blair Berk is forcing prosecutors to show their evidence as fast as possible. He explains what Burke's carefully worded denial actually sets up, and why the absence of a grand jury indictment after months of proceedings may become the centerpiece of the defense.Retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke takes listener questions on the year that passed between Celeste vanishing and Burke's arrest, the systems that had a chance to protect her and didn't, and what the scale of this investigation reveals about what is still sealed.Celeste's family has asked for privacy. Their attorney has said they are committed to ensuring her voice is heard and her memory honored. She deserved better than what happened to her. She deserved better than the system that was supposed to find her.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #JusticeForCeleste #D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CelesteRivas #DeathPenalty #BlairBerk #TrueCrimePodcast

Receipts. Records. DNA. Forensic matches. A dead girl's own text messages. And a digital trail prosecutors say David Anthony Burke left behind at every step.The People's Brief filed by Deputy DA Beth Silverman is nine pages of the most detailed and damning allegations in this case to date. Tony Brueski reads through the entire filing and breaks down what the prosecution says it can prove against Burke in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.From the alleged grooming that started when Celeste was eleven, to the sexual relationship prosecutors say began at thirteen, to the night of April 23, 2025 — and the months-long alleged aftermath that prosecutors describe as both horrifying and meticulously documented. Uber records that place Celeste at Burke's home. Texts prosecutors call staged. Amazon orders under a fake name. Three trips to a disposal site. Plastic fragments matched to Celeste's body. DNA in the garage. And a body allegedly left in a Tesla while Burke threw an album release party and left the country on tour.The defense tried to seal this. The judge said no. Here's what's in it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #PeoplesBrief #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #BethSilverman #MurderEvidence #PreliminaryHearing #NathanHochman

She was thirteen when she disappeared. Fourteen when prosecutors say she died. She had braces. She weighed seventy-one pounds when her body was finally found — months after she was last seen alive, dismembered inside a vehicle registered to a man seven years older than her. And for nearly a year between her disappearance and an arrest, the adults who should have protected Celeste Rivas Hernandez allegedly failed her at every turn.The singer known as D4vd — David Anthony Burke, 21 — now faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances, continuous abuse of a minor under fourteen, and unlawful mutilation of remains. He’s pled not guilty. His attorney says the evidence will prove his innocence. But prosecutors paint a different picture: forty terabytes of data, a wiretap, exploitation material on his phone, and an alleged motive rooted in protecting a career built while a child was reportedly living in his rental property.Your questions drove this episode. You asked about the three grand juries. The year-long gap. The drugs found in a minor’s system. The sealed autopsy that Celeste’s own family had to wait months to see. And the question underneath all of it — the one nobody wants to answer — is who was supposed to be watching, and why weren’t they?Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program Chief, helps us work through what the evidence reveals, what the defense’s strategy might be, and what this case exposes about how the system handles missing children.All individuals discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4vd #JusticeForCeleste #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivas #D4vdCase #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #D4vdCharges #MissingChildren

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing three times in fourteen months. She hadn’t been enrolled in school for a year. She was allegedly living in a rental property with an adult man while people in his circle believed she was a nineteen-year-old college student. She was thirteen when prosecutors allege the contact began.And for seven months after her remains were found in the trunk of his Tesla, the man prosecutors say killed her — David Anthony Burke, the musician known as D4vd — walked free. He performed concerts. He built a career. He stood on stages while Celeste’s family in Lake Elsinore waited for answers the system was actively withholding from them.Burke now faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances. But the charges against him are only part of this story. The other part is every institution and every person who allegedly had an opportunity to intervene for Celeste and didn’t.LAPD held the Tesla containing her remains for 48 hours, then released it. It was later retrieved under Burke’s name. Burke’s team claimed cooperation; LAPD said otherwise. The autopsy was sealed for months over the medical examiner’s objection. And the people around Burke allegedly accepted a fiction about who Celeste was without question.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the behavioral profile of a suspect who allegedly never broke stride, the institutional failures that left a missing child unprotected, and what the investigative decisions in this case reveal about how seriously Celeste’s disappearance was treated before her body was found. She deserved more than what she got from every system that was supposed to protect her.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SystemFailure #FBI #MissingChildren #ProtectChildren

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. She liked Friday movie nights with her family. She had a brother who loved her and parents who searched for her. And according to the autopsy that was sealed for months and only recently made public, she was stabbed twice, her liver was perforated, and her body was dismembered — her limbs severed with enough force to embed blue plastic fragments in the cut surfaces.Her remains weighed seventy-one pounds when the medical examiner received them. Toxicology found drugs in her system that no fourteen-year-old should have access to. And prosecutors allege that the man responsible — David Anthony Burke, the musician known as D4vd — killed her to protect his career, then allegedly continued performing concerts while her body remained in the trunk of his Tesla.Burke now faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances, including lying in wait and financial gain. Prosecutors also revealed that his devices contained what they described as a significant amount of child exploitation material — part of forty terabytes of evidence seized during the investigation.The autopsy was finished months ago. LAPD kept it sealed. The medical examiner publicly objected, stating the information should be made available. Celeste’s family spent those months waiting for answers about what happened to their daughter.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to walk through what the autopsy findings tell us about what Celeste endured, what the forensic trace evidence means for the prosecution’s case, and why the decisions made during this investigation deserve scrutiny. Celeste deserved protection. She deserved answers. Her family still does.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Autopsy #FBI #MurderCase #ProtectChildren

She was fourteen years old. She walked into a Hollywood Hills home, and according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, she was never heard from again.Celeste Rivas Hernandez was from Lake Elsinore. Her parents immigrated from El Salvador. She was reported missing three separate times in the final year of her life. And the connection that allegedly pulled her into David Anthony Burke's world was visible for years. Discord messages dating to 2022. Twitch livestreams. Photos near her home. Backstage at his concerts. Matching tattoos. A girl reported missing three separate times who kept showing up in the same orbit. And nobody with authority intervened.Twelve days before prosecutors say Celeste walked into that Hollywood Hills home for the last time, Burke was on stage at Coachella doing backflips. His album was dropping. The career was accelerating. According to prosecutors, that career is exactly what he was allegedly protecting — and a fourteen-year-old girl was allegedly treated as a threat to it.Burke has been charged with first-degree murder with three special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains. He has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys say the evidence will show he did not cause Celeste's death. The death penalty is a possibility. Prosecutors allege Celeste was killed because she threatened to expose Burke's conduct. Her dismembered remains were found months later in the trunk of his Tesla — a car that had been sitting abandoned on a residential street before it was towed.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the prosecution's stacked charges, where the case could fracture, and what five months of decomposed evidence means for a circumstantial prosecution. Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine the digital trail that was hiding in plain sight for years — and what it means that every system designed to protect Celeste failed her before prosecutors ever got involved. Her family is watching. They are not going away.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #JusticeForCeleste #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LakeElsinore #Coachella #CelesteDeservedBetter #ProtectOurChildren

For a year, the country was told Celeste Rivas Hernandez was missing. She wasn't — not for most of it. She was at her cousin's high school graduation in May of 2024. She was on surveillance video in her own backyard in September of 2024. She was back at her mother's house at least twice in the year before she died — once alone, once brought home by police. She was coming and going. And nobody with authority kept her safe.Eleven sheriff's department calls to the Rivas Hernandez home in fourteen months. A seventh-grader enrolled in no school for a full year. An ex-boyfriend on the record saying she had been telling friends she wanted out. A licensed private investigator publicly asking whether certain family members knew more than they told police. A verified GoFundMe organized by the same cousin that investigator is questioning. This is the story that has been sitting in the public record, waiting for someone to read it out loud.David Anthony Burke — known as D4VD — now faces first-degree murder with three special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains. He has pleaded not guilty. His defense team says he "was not the cause of her death." Prosecutors allege he killed Celeste because she threatened to expose his conduct and end his career. The special circumstances mean this case carries the most severe penalties available under California law.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the defense strategy and whether it can hold. Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski examine the year before the Tesla — the calls, the missing school year, the surveillance footage, and the systems that were supposed to protect a child and didn't.Celeste was fourteen years old. She was failed by people who were supposed to love her and by systems designed to keep her safe. Both of those stories matter. Both of them are told here.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #JusticeForCeleste #DavidAnthonyBurke #LakeElsinore #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SystemsFailure #CelesteDeservedBetter #ProtectOurChildren

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. She'd been reported missing from Lake Elsinore three separate times. Her family — immigrants from El Salvador — watched for over a year as sealed proceedings, gag orders, and a secret grand jury kept them on the outside of the investigation into their daughter's death. The only reason Celeste was found at all is because a tow yard worker noticed something wrong with the way a car smelled. That car was registered to David Anthony Burke, the singer known as D4VD. Celeste's remains were inside the front trunk.Burke has been charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege he killed Celeste when she threatened to expose his conduct — conduct they say would have ended his music career. The special circumstances mean this case carries the most severe penalties available under California law.His defense team chose their words carefully. They didn't say he was innocent. They said he "was not the cause of her death." And the people around this case are telling their own story through their behavior. Burke's manager allegedly testified for three days before the grand jury and was reportedly overheard saying his job was to keep the tour going, not call police. A female associate went into hiding and had to be threatened with arrest. Another associate allegedly fled to Montana.The grand jury heard all of it and didn't indict. Charges came through a criminal complaint filed by the DA. Tracking data allegedly places Burke in a remote area of Santa Barbara County in the middle of the night during the window investigators believe Celeste died. His circle allegedly believed she was nineteen. She was a child hidden in plain sight.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down every phase of this investigation — what the witness behavior reveals, why the defense language matters, and what accountability looks like for a child who was failed by every system designed to protect her. Celeste's family has spoken publicly. They are watching. They are not going away.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #JusticeForCeleste #DavidAnthonyBurke #LAPD #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LakeElsinore #GrandJury #CelesteDeservedBetter

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old. She'd been reported missing from Lake Elsinore three separate times. She was gone for over a year before anyone found her — and the only reason anyone did was because a tow yard worker noticed something wrong with the way a car smelled. That car was registered to David Anthony Burke, the singer known as D4VD. Celeste's remains were inside the front trunk.She was a child. Reports indicate she was connected to Burke through Discord as early as 2022. His circle allegedly believed she was a nineteen-year-old college student. She wasn't. She was a kid from Lake Elsinore who was hidden in plain sight inside someone else's world — attending age-restricted events, moving through spaces where no one questioned whether she belonged there, because no one knew the truth about how old she was.Burke has been charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege he killed Celeste when she threatened to expose his conduct. The special circumstances — lying in wait, financial motive, killing a witness — mean this case carries the most severe penalties available under California law.Tracking data allegedly places Burke in a remote stretch of Santa Barbara County in the middle of the night during the window investigators believe Celeste died. Detectives seized electronics from his rental property, found a burn cage incinerator on the premises, and carried evidence boxes out of a separate address the night they arrested him. The medical examiner's office publicly fought LAPD's gag order on the autopsy, arguing they were being prevented from serving the community with transparency.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down every phase of this investigation — what the evidence trail reveals, why LAPD moved when they did, and what accountability looks like for a child who was failed by every system designed to protect her. Celeste's family has spoken publicly for the first time. They are watching. They are not going away.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #JusticeForCeleste #DavidAnthonyBurke #LAPD #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LakeElsinore #HollywoodMurder #CelesteDeservedBetter

Part 2 of our two-part legal deep-dive with Eric Faddis on the David Anthony Burke case. This episode is focused entirely on the charging document and the defense strategy already taking shape around it.Eric breaks down the three special circumstances, explains whether DA Hochman's financial-gain theory actually fits the statute, and compares trying a case on a complaint versus an indictment, something Blair Berk flagged publicly after the grand jury failed to indict across four months of proceedings. He walks through the discovery fight over more than forty terabytes of evidence, the newly unsealed autopsy, and what each of those pieces could do to the defense theory.He closes on the specific language the defense keeps using. "He did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death." Two separate claims. Eric explains the trial theory that language signals and how the prosecution has to build against it.If you have not watched Part 1 on the inner circle and who is still legally exposed, watch that first. Subscribe for every filing and every hearing as this case moves toward trial.#D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #BlairBerk #FelonyComplaint #DeathPenalty #SpecialCircumstances #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #CaseUpdateJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Welcome back to the D4vd case channel. This is Part 1 of our two-part legal breakdown with former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis, focused entirely on the people around David Anthony Burke. The manager. The best friend. The parents. The witnesses who fought subpoenas. The lawyer who appears to represent more than one of them.Prosecutors have reportedly said Burke did not dispose of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains alone. So why is Burke the only one charged? Eric walks through the legal threshold between witness and defendant, the specific cooperation-agreement language in Neo Langston's attorney statement, the multi-day grand jury testimony by Robert Morgenroth, and the conflict-of-interest problem with attorney Evan Jenness appearing to represent more than one witness in the same investigation.We cover the Burke family's Texas subpoena fight, the appeals-court ruling that compelled them to testify, and whether the defense can keep that compelled testimony out at trial. Eric closes on whether anyone in Burke's inner circle is still in legal jeopardy today, or whether cooperation has already quietly closed the door on any additional charges.Part 2, posted separately, covers the felony complaint itself and the defense strategy already taking shape around the three special circumstances. Subscribe so you don't miss it.#D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #D4vdCase #EricFaddis #GrandJury #Accessory #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CaseUpdateJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The full three-part interview series with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — examining every psychological dimension of the case against David Anthony Burke in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.Scott has spent over 30 years in forensic mental health, trauma recovery, and the psychology of violence and criminal behavior. She's the author of The Minds of Mass Killers. She's worked in domestic violence shelters, crisis teams, and with both survivors and perpetrators. And in this complete series with Tony Brueski, she takes on the case from three distinct angles.The vulnerability: How a 13-year-old who was running away from an unhappy home allegedly ended up living with a rising celebrity — and how every system meant to protect her allegedly failed. The silence: How Burke allegedly performed on a world tour for months after Celeste was last seen alive, while his inner circle reportedly said nothing until forced. The darkness: Whether the combination of the charges, the alleged behavioral pattern, and the art — "Romantic Homicide," an unreleased "Celeste" track, an album called "Withered" — point to a young person in crisis or to something the music was revealing all along.This is the complete package. Three parts. Every angle. For anyone following this case who wants to understand the psychology behind the allegations — not just the facts, but what they mean.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #Tr

The song was called "Romantic Homicide." The lyrics described killing someone and feeling no regret. There's an unreleased track that reportedly uses the name "Celeste" and talks about obsession. The music video features a dark-haired girl and imagery of blood. The album was called "Withered."And now David Anthony Burke faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstances — lying in wait, financial motive, murdering a witness — along with continuous sexual acts with a child under 14 and mutilation of remains.In the final installment of a three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine the question millions of people are asking: Was the art warning us? Scott — author of The Minds of Mass Killers, with over 30 years in forensic and clinical psychology — breaks down where creative darkness ends and psychological revelation begins. She examines the alleged composure Burke displayed when confronted publicly about a missing child. She takes on the "young and dumb" narrative and explains why the pattern of charges tells a fundamentally different story. And she addresses the trajectory from gospel-music-only homeschooled kid to world-famous artist charged with the most extreme allegations imaginable — and what that psychological journey means.For the fans trying to process this: Scott speaks directly to what this kind of betrayal does to young people who built their identity around an artist's work. Because that damage is real — and somebody needs to say it out loud.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #RomanticHomicide #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ShavaunScott #Withered #JusticeForCeleste #ViolencePsychology

Months. That's how long prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke carried on after Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly last seen alive at his Hollywood Hills home. A late-night trip to Santa Barbara. Coachella. Album release. World tour. Smiling on stage in Minneapolis while her remains sat in a trunk across the country in Los Angeles.And around him, an inner circle that allegedly knew pieces of the story — and said nothing until a grand jury forced the issue.In Part 2 of a three-part interview series, psychotherapist and violence psychology expert Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski to unpack the psychology of silence, compartmentalization, and the behavior of those allegedly connected to the aftermath. What does it mean clinically when someone can allegedly function publicly after extreme violence? What drove Neo Langston from silence to fleeing to eventual cooperation and public hostility toward Burke? What is actually happening inside a family that fights to avoid testifying about their own child's alleged actions?Scott is the author of The Minds of Mass Killers and brings three decades of forensic and clinical experience to every question. This is the installment that examines not just what allegedly happened — but what the behavior afterward reveals about the people involved.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivas #DavidAnthonyBurke #NeoLangston #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #GrandJury #JusticeForCeleste #ShavaunScott #CrimePsychology

The story of Celeste Rivas Hernandez and David Anthony Burke doesn't start with charges or a courtroom. It starts with a child who was running — and a series of doors that should have been closed but weren't.Celeste was reported missing three times. She was allegedly on Burke's Discord server as early as 2022, when she was approximately 12. By 2024, she was reportedly living in his Hollywood Hills home. His friends believed she was 19 and in college. She had fake IDs. And no one — not the platforms, not the adults around Burke, not the systems designed to protect kids — intervened.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent over 30 years working with trauma survivors and perpetrators of violence. She's the author of The Minds of Mass Killers. She's worked in forensic mental health, domestic violence shelters, and crisis response. In this first part of a three-part interview series with Tony Brueski, she examines the psychological conditions that allegedly made Celeste a target — the family dynamics, the prior vulnerability, the resource gap between a working immigrant family and a celebrity infrastructure, and the platform failures that allegedly let a child get pulled into an adult's world with zero friction.This is the conversation about what happened before the crime — and why it matters more than most people realize.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ChildExploitation #CelesteRivas #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimePodcast

The formal charges against David Anthony Burke have been filed. And the picture prosecutors are painting is one of alleged calculation, not impulse.Burke — the twenty-one-year-old singer known as D4VD — faces first-degree charges with special circumstances in connection with the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The additional allegations include continuous abuse of a minor, inappropriate acts with a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains.The three special circumstances are the backbone of the prosecution's case. Lying in wait — alleging premeditation. Acting for financial gain — prosecutors say Burke was protecting a music career worth millions that Celeste allegedly threatened on the night of April 23, 2025. And silencing a witness — because Celeste was the person who could testify about their alleged relationship.DA Nathan Hochman called it "brutal and horrific." LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell confirmed detectives learned Celeste had been in an alleged relationship with Burke while she was a minor. The Medical Examiner has ruled her death a homicide, though cause of death remains sealed — for now.The relationship was documented across platforms for years. A 2024 Twitch livestream. Discord messages going back to 2022. Photos near her Lake Elsinore home and backstage at his shows. Matching tattoos. Her mother confirmed her daughter had a boyfriend named David. Her brother said she went missing after Burke picked her up in his Tesla. She was reported missing three separate times. Each time, the system failed to keep her safe.Twelve days before prosecutors say Celeste arrived at Burke's Hollywood Hills home for the last time, he was on stage at Coachella. His debut album was days from release. The world tour was booked.Burke's attorneys maintain his innocence and say the evidence will show he did not cause Celeste's death. The arraignment has proceeded with charges now filed. Burke remains held without bail.This episode covers every charge, the prosecution's full theory, and what comes next.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #CelesteRivas #HiddenKillers #LAPD #Coachella #TrueCrimeCommunity

D4VD has money. He has fame. He has Blair Berk—one of the most connected defense attorneys in Los Angeles. Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s family has a memorial in Lake Elsinore and months of unanswered questions that are only now starting to get answers.The charges filed are the most serious California law allows. First-degree murder. Special circumstances. The possibility of a death sentence. And D4VD’s defense team has already told the world: he “was not the cause of her death.”Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to explain how D4VD’s team fights charges built on this theory—and what it means for the people who loved Celeste.Prosecutors say D4VD killed a 14-year-old girl because she was threatening his career. The defense will argue he had a hundred ways to handle that problem without violence. Motta explains where that argument works and where it falls apart.The harder question: Celeste’s body was dismembered. Head and torso separated from her limbs. Sealed in bags. Left in a trunk for months. Even if the defense creates doubt about the cause of death, someone has to explain what happened to her body. Motta walks through whether the killing and the disposal can live in separate categories in a juror’s mind—or whether one answers the other.Everyone in D4VD’s circle has resisted this investigation. His parents fought subpoenas. His associate was arrested for refusing to testify. Motta explains what that pattern looks like to a jury—and whether the death penalty changes the defense strategy entirely.For Celeste’s family, this is the fight for everything. This is what they’re up against.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForCeleste #BobMotta #FirstDegreeMurder #LAPDArrest #TrueCrimePodcast

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was 14 years old. Reported missing three times. Found dismembered in the trunk of a Tesla registered to one of the biggest young artists in music—sealed in bags, decomposing for months while the man whose name was on that car was out playing sold-out shows.Now prosecutors have filed the most serious charges California law allows. First-degree murder with special circumstances. Lying in wait. Financial gain. Killing a witness. Lewd acts with a child under 14. Mutilation of human remains. The death penalty is on the table.The DA said Celeste walked into D4VD’s Hollywood Hills home on April 23rd of last year and was never heard from again. And the financial gain allegation cuts deep—prosecutors say D4VD allegedly killed a 14-year-old girl because she was threatening his music career. A child’s life, according to the prosecution, was worth less than a brand.Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke to explain what these charges mean for the case, how prosecutors intend to prove that the sexual relationship with a minor created the motive for murder, and whether the evidence can support the weight of what they’re alleging.Five months of decomposition destroyed evidence. The cause of death is only now being unsealed. The DA says they have physical, forensic, and digital evidence. But circumstantial cases carrying charges this serious have to be airtight—and Motta explains where the cracks could form.For Celeste’s family, the charges are the first step. The fight for accountability is just beginning.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForCeleste #BobMotta #FirstDegreeMurder #LAPDArrest #TrueCrimePodcast

With David Anthony Burke, known as D4VD, now arrested on suspicion of murder and held without bail, the focus is almost entirely on him, his Hollywood Hills house, his manager, his tour, his lyrics, his tattoos. Every angle points toward him.This episode points somewhere else. It points at Lake Elsinore, before any of it.Because Celeste Rivas Hernandez was not actually missing for most of the year the public thinks she was. She was at her cousin's high school graduation in May of 2024. She was on surveillance video fighting with neighbors in her own backyard that September. She was back at her mother's house at least twice in the year before her body was found — once alone, once brought home by police. She was coming and going.This one lays out the other half of the D4VD case. Eleven sheriff's calls to the Rivas Hernandez home in fourteen months. A thirteen-year-old seventh-grader enrolled in no school for a full year. An ex-boyfriend on record saying her parents were "mean" and that she was telegraphing her plan to leave for months. A neighbor of almost three years who had never met the family. A licensed private investigator, Steve Fischer, publicly asking whether certain relatives knew exactly where Celeste was the whole time she was officially categorized as a runaway. A verified GoFundMe organized by the exact cousin Fischer has asked by name about attending events with Celeste and D4VD.D4VD has not been indicted. No criminal complaint has been filed. His attorneys deny his involvement. He is presumed innocent.But the Celeste story — the real one, the one the entertainment media is refusing to touch — has been sitting in the record the whole time.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #DavidBurke #LakeElsinore #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MissingTeen #HollywoodHills #SteveFischer #SystemsFailure

A child who ran away three times in a year. A family that reported her missing every single time. A system that treated her like a statistic instead of a girl in crisis. And now, a pop star sitting in a jail cell while a fourteen-year-old’s dismembered remains tell a story that every adult in Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s life should have heard long before it ended like this.David Burke — the musician millions know as D4vd — was arrested on April 16, 2026, on suspicion of Celeste’s killing. He is being held without bail. His defense attorneys maintain he did not cause her death. No formal charges have been filed yet. But the facts that have emerged paint a portrait of alleged grooming that reportedly began when Celeste was as young as twelve, a relationship hidden inside Discord servers and rental properties, matching tattoos, and a girl who vanished from her family’s life and into a world no child should ever enter.Her remains were found inside Burke’s impounded Tesla, one day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday. Her family reportedly was not notified for eleven days after the discovery.You have been flooding our comments, DMs, and inboxes with questions that refuse to look away from the hardest parts of this case. You want to talk about what grooming looks like when it hides behind fame. You want to know why immigrant families and low-income communities get treated differently when their children go missing. You want to understand how Celeste screamed for help through three disappearances and nobody caught her.Robin Dreeke and I sit down with your questions — and we hold nothing back.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4vd #DavidBurke #JusticeForCeleste #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TonyBrueski #RobinDreeke #MissingChildren #TrueCrimePodcast

His defense team didn't say he was innocent. They said he "was not the cause of her death." Read that again. Not that he didn't know Celeste. Not that he wasn't there. Not that he had nothing to do with what happened. They denied causing her death — specifically, surgically, and nothing more.David Anthony Burke sits in a Los Angeles jail without bail. A grand jury heard months of testimony and declined to indict. But LAPD arrested him anyway, and the DA's Major Crimes Division is deciding right now whether to file formal charges. If they do, this goes to trial — and every juror will hear that another panel already said the evidence wasn't enough.The people around Burke are telling their own story through their actions. His manager allegedly testified for three days and was reportedly overheard saying his job was to keep the tour going — not contact police. A female witness disappeared and had to be threatened with arrest to come back. Another associate allegedly ran to Montana and had to be dragged back to testify. That's not the behavior of people with nothing to hide.Celeste Rivas Hernandez was 14. She was reported missing three times. She was gone for over a year. Her family — immigrants from El Salvador — has spent months watching a sealed investigation while a defense team with deep resources controlled the narrative. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what the defense strategy reveals, what the witnesses are afraid of, and whether justice for Celeste can survive what happens next.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #D4VDDefense #JusticeForCeleste #WitnessTestimony #GrandJury #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #RivasFamily

She was reported missing three times. She was 14 years old. She was gone for over a year, and nobody found her until a tow yard worker noticed something wrong with the way a car smelled. That car was a Tesla. It was registered to David Anthony Burke — the singer known as D4VD. And Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were inside it.Seven months after that discovery, LAPD arrested Burke at a Hollywood Hills home on suspicion of her death. No grand jury indictment. No criminal complaint. Detectives built their case and went directly to a judge for a warrant. Burke is being held without bail.Celeste's family — immigrants from El Salvador, living in Lake Elsinore — spent those seven months watching a sealed investigation unfold behind closed doors. A secret grand jury. A sealed autopsy. A defense team with resources most families will never see. Celeste's friends allegedly believed she was 19. She was a child who was hidden inside someone's world, at age-restricted events, living in a rental property, with matching tattoos linking her to a man seven years older.Tracking data, seized electronics, a burn cage incinerator, and evidence still being pulled on the night of the arrest — the investigative picture is sprawling and still developing. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what this arrest means for the Rivas family and what comes next as prosecutors decide whether to formally charge Burke.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VD #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCeleste #D4VDArrest #TeslaTrunkCase #LakeElsinore #LAPD #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

D4VD — David Anthony Burke — was arrested on April 16 by LAPD Robbery-Homicide for the alleged murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He's held without bail. No grand jury indictment. No criminal complaint filed. A probable cause warrant signed by a judge — the details of which have not been released.This episode is a complete breakdown of where this case stands. I walk through what we know, what's been sealed, and what Monday's DA filing decision means for everyone involved.Celeste's remains were found September 8, 2025, in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke at a Hollywood tow yard. For seven months, investigators reportedly couldn't determine how she died because of the condition of the body. ABC News sources say that barrier has now been cleared — they believe they can prove murder. But the specific evidence that got them there remains under seal.I cover the matching finger tattoos, the reports that D4VD's circle allegedly believed Celeste was a 19-year-old USC student, the Discord server records allegedly placing her in his orbit as early as 2022, the LAPD tracking data from a middle-of-the-night trip to remote Santa Barbara County, the burn cage and electronic devices seized from his rental, the secret grand jury that heard from his manager and his family, and the medical examiner's office that publicly objected to being silenced by court order.I also break down the defense team's first public statement — what it denies, what it doesn't, and what that framing tells us about the legal fight ahead. The DA reviews the case Monday. Charges or release. No in-between.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurkeArrested #LAPD #TrueCrime #JusticeForCeleste #RameyWarrant #SealedEvidence #GrandJury #MondayFiling

For months, Neo Langston said nothing. Then on March 13th, he posted to his Instagram Close Friends — and the screenshots went everywhere within hours.He says he's legally fine. He says he has receipts. He called D4VD a dickhead. And in everything he wrote, he never once said the name Celeste Rivas Hernandez.This episode covers the full story of Neo Langston's role in this investigation — his arrest by seven officers at his mother's home in Montana, his 40-minute appearance before the Los Angeles grand jury, and the private Instagram posts that represent the first real public crack in D4VD's inner circle.Statement analysis expert Jack Fox reviewed every word Neo wrote and found deliberate vagueness throughout — carefully constructed language designed to avoid naming the crime, the victim, or the suspect. His conclusion: Neo's prime concern was himself. PI Steve Fischer added his own public callout: people who weren't involved in something don't have a side of the story.Neither of them missed the most damning detail. In paragraphs about how unfair this has been to Neo personally, Celeste Rivas Hernandez's name appears zero times.D4VD's family is still fighting grand jury subpoenas across two state court systems. The cause of Celeste's death is still officially undetermined. The autopsy remains sealed. No charges have been filed.Neo says he has receipts. The grand jury is still sitting. Every day that passes without answers is another day for a family that has been waiting far too long.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #NeoLangston #TrueCrime #GrandJury #TeslaTrunk #DavidBurke #NeoTheAsian #D4VDCase #MurderInvestigation

This is the update that changes everything in the D4VD case.Court documents unsealed this week officially designate David Anthony Burke — the 20-year-old singer known as D4VD — as the target of a Los Angeles County grand jury investigation into the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The filings state he "may be involved" in one count of murder.The documents were sealed in California. They became public through Texas court proceedings after D4VD's parents and brother fought subpoenas to testify before the grand jury. Their legal challenge failed — and exposed what prosecutors have been building since November.The grand jury filings describe what was found in D4VD's Tesla on September 8, 2025: a cadaver bag containing Celeste's decomposed head and torso, a second bag containing her severed limbs, flies, and an overwhelming odor of decay. The car had been parked on Bluebird Avenue in the Hollywood Hills since July 29th. D4VD performed in Minneapolis the day after the discovery.Witnesses have included D4VD's manager Robert Morgenroth, who testified for three days and was questioned about why he didn't contact police. Friend Neo Langston was arrested in Montana after ignoring a subpoena. A burn cage incinerator and chainsaw were found at D4VD's rental property — items a private investigator said "you would expect to find on a farm rather than in a home in the Hollywood Hills."Celeste Rivas Hernandez was 14 years old. She was last photographed alive on January 2, 2025. Police believe she died in spring 2025. Her family says she went to see a movie with D4VD in April 2024 and never came home.D4VD has not been arrested or charged with any crime. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #CelesteRivasHernandez #GrandJury #MurderTarget #DavidAnthonyBurke #BethSilverman #NeoLangston #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #LAPD

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer — twenty-two years with the Bureau — breaks down the D4VD grand jury investigation alongside the Nancy Guthrie FBI kidnapping case in one comprehensive episode.In the D4VD case, the grand jury is intensifying. Neo Langston was arrested in Montana and compelled to testify. Label head Robert Morgenroth was grilled for days about why he never contacted police after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's dismembered remains were found in D4VD's Tesla. Outside forensic experts were brought in. The Medical Examiner's chief publicly pushed back. The Tesla was held for only forty-eight hours. No charges have been filed.In the Guthrie case, the FBI is jointly running the investigation with over a hundred investigators. Ransom demands were sent to media, not family. No proof of life. The crime scene was re-entered with canine units. The doorbell camera yielded nothing.Coffindaffer explains the prosecutorial pressure campaign in D4VD, why the silence in Guthrie is the loudest signal, and what needs to break next in both cases.#D4VD #D4VDCase #CelesteRivasHernandez #NancyGuthrie #GrandJury #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #LAPD #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The grand jury investigation into D4VD and the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez is intensifying. Neo Langston was arrested in Montana by seven officers on an LAPD Robbery-Homicide warrant for failing to appear as a witness. He testified for roughly thirty to forty minutes. Robert Morgenroth — head of D4VD's label Mogul Vision — testified for multiple days and was reportedly pressed on why he never contacted police after the body was discovered.Outside forensic experts have been brought in amid conflict between the DA's office and the LA County Medical Examiner. The ME's chief has publicly criticized a court-ordered hold on autopsy findings. D4VD's Tesla was processed for only forty-eight hours. Private investigator Steve Fischer has raised concerns the vehicle could be destroyed. Attorney Mark Geragos says investigators have reconstructed a minute-by-minute digital timeline.The grand jury has been running since mid-November 2025. Multiple sources say an indictment is likely. No charges. No arrest. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer explains what the prosecutorial pressure campaign reveals about where this case is headed, what short compelled testimony means, and when the length of a grand jury itself becomes a problem.#D4VD #D4VDCase #CelesteRivasHernandez #GrandJury #NeoLangston #RobertMorgenroth #LAPD #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Neo Langston appeared before the Los Angeles grand jury investigating Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death on February 4, 2026—and left after roughly 40 minutes. For context: D4VD's manager Robert Morgenroth testified for three consecutive days. The math doesn't add up, and prosecutors aren't talking.Langston, one of D4VD's closest personal friends, was arrested January 22 in Helena, Montana, after fleeing a grand jury subpoena. Police executed a warrant at his mother's home and transported him to Los Angeles, where he posted $60,000 bail. His brief testimony has ignited speculation about whether he invoked Fifth Amendment protections, whether prosecutors already have sufficient evidence, or whether sealed cooperation is underway.Private investigator Steve Fischer has publicly stated he's "certain" who moved D4VD's Tesla in late July 2025 based on neighborhood surveillance footage from July 29. According to online analysis of the footage, the driver reportedly opened all windows and installed an air freshener—behavior suggesting awareness of what was inside the vehicle. Fischer hasn't named the individual.Fischer also discovered an unopened 55-pound burn cage incinerator and an unused chainsaw at D4VD's former Hollywood Hills rental—both reportedly delivered under a false name. The incinerator is capable of reaching 1,600 degrees, hot enough to cremate human remains. Neither was used. The body was found in the Tesla trunk.LAPD has confirmed D4VD is a suspect. A second individual has been identified as allegedly involved "before, during, and after" Celeste's death. TMZ reports murder charges are likely. The grand jury continues through February. No arrests. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.#D4VD #NeoLangston #CelesteRivas #DavidAnthonyBurke #GrandJury #BethSilverman #LAPD #JusticeForCeleste #CelesteRivasHernandez #TrueCrimeJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The circle around David Anthony Burke is tightening. LAPD Robbery-Homicide just arrested Neo Langston—D4VD's close friend and content creator known online as NeoTheAsian—at his mother's home in Montana for failure to appear as a grand jury witness. He's sitting in an LA jail on $60,000 bail. Back in December, a female witness went into hiding and faced a body attachment order. Manager Robert Morgenroth spent days testifying and admitted his priority was keeping the tour going—not calling police when Celeste's body was found. Prosecutors are done waiting. Sources confirm the grand jury has full authority to indict, and prosecutor Beth Silverman reportedly believes D4VD was involved in the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and is building toward murder charges. Investigators have identified a second suspect who may have been involved "before, during, and after" the killing. Digital evidence from D4VD's Tesla allegedly shows two people may have been present during a late-night trip to Santa Barbara County last spring. The physical evidence tells its own story. A chainsaw still in its protective sheath. A burn cage incinerator capable of 1,600 degrees—boxed, unopened. Both discovered inside the Hollywood Hills home where Celeste's dismembered body was found in D4VD's Tesla. Private investigator Steve Fischer's assessment: "Whatever happened here, this wasn't a finalized plan. She was not meant to be left in that Tesla. The plan got upended." Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to analyze what the evidence reveals—what unused disposal tools suggest about intent, how advanced decomposition affects forensics, and how circumstantial murder cases succeed or fail. The timeline: Celeste was last confirmed alive January 2nd, 2025. The Tesla was parked July 29th. Her body was found September 8th—the day after what would have been her 15th birthday. D4VD has not been charged. He remains legally presumed innocent.#D4VD #NeoLangston #CelesteRivas #DavidAnthoneyBurke #GrandJury #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #NeoTheAsian #LAPDRobberyHomicide #JusticeForCelesteJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The walls are closing in. Neo Langston — D4VD's friend, fellow gamer, and Twitch streamer — was just arrested in Montana and transported to Los Angeles on a felony warrant. He's sitting in Metropolitan Detention Center tonight on $60,000 bail because he didn't show up when prosecutors called him to testify.This is the D4VD case accelerating. A grand jury has been hearing witnesses since November in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The 15-year-old's body was found in D4VD's Tesla — dismembered, decomposing, abandoned in the Hollywood Hills. Sources say prosecutors believe D4VD was involved. Sources say there's a second suspect who may have helped. And now D4VD's friend is in handcuffs.Neo isn't the first person around D4VD to give prosecutors problems. His manager testified that keeping the tour going mattered more than calling police. A female witness disappeared and had to be threatened with arrest. D4VD himself has been completely silent since September.The grand jury continues through February. An indictment could come at any time. And now the people closest to David Anthony Burke are being tracked across state lines and dragged into courtrooms.D4VD has not been charged with any crime. Neo Langston is charged only with failure to appear. All individuals are presumed innocent. But someone knows what happened to Celeste Rivas — and prosecutors are running out of patience.#D4VD #NeoLangston #CelesteRivas #DavidAnthoneyBurke #CelesteRivasCase #GrandJury #TeslaTomb #NeoTheAsian #JusticeForCeleste #D4VDCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

Everything we covered this week on the D4VD investigation — the evidence analysis, the inner circle testimony, and the grand jury proceedings moving toward a potential indictment.Inside D4VD's Hollywood Hills rental, investigators found disposal tools that were never used — a chainsaw still in its protective sheath, a burn cage incinerator capable of 1,600 degrees still boxed and unopened. Fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's dismembered body was found in his Tesla, parked on a residential street. PI Steve Fischer's assessment: "Whatever happened here, this wasn't a finalized plan. She was not meant to be left in that Tesla. The plan got upended."Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joined us to analyze what these findings mean — what unused tools suggest about intent versus execution, how advanced decomposition affects forensic conclusions, why prosecutors would seal autopsy findings, and how circumstantial murder cases are built. The grand jury has full authority to indict. Prosecutor Beth Silverman reportedly believes D4VD was involved and is building toward murder charges.We broke down manager Robert Morgenroth's stunning grand jury testimony — admitting his priority was keeping the tour going, not calling police. An uncooperative female witness now faces arrest to compel her testimony. D4VD made asset transfers days after police raided his home. Toxicology results remain pending and could change the direction of charges.The timeline: Celeste was last confirmed alive January 2nd, 2025. The Tesla was parked in its final spot July 29th — the day D4VD allegedly left for tour. Her body wasn't discovered until September 8th, the day after what would have been her 15th birthday. D4VD has not been arrested or charged. He remains legally presumed innocent. The grand jury continues through February 2026.#D4VD #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #GrandJury #HollywoodHills #D4VDCase #WeekInReview #JusticeForCelesteJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The grand jury continues. The witnesses keep coming. And D4VD hasn't said a word. Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was found in the trunk of D4VD's Tesla on September 8th, 2025, after sitting in a residential Los Angeles neighborhood for over a month in summer heat. Inside his Hollywood rental, investigators discovered a chainsaw with the protective sheath still on and a burn cage incinerator still in the box, never opened. PI Steve Fischer says the plan got upended. The cause of death remains officially "deferred" pending toxicology. But prosecutor Beth Silverman isn't waiting for a clean ruling—she's building a case.D4VD's manager Robert Morgenroth testified before the grand jury for days. He was reportedly overheard saying Silverman was "very pushy" about why he didn't call police when he allegedly learned about the body. His response? That wasn't his job. His job was keeping the tour going. A female witness—identity unknown—failed to appear for her scheduled testimony. Silverman requested a body attachment to compel her. She shares legal counsel with Morgenroth.Within days of the September 17th police raid, D4VD allegedly transferred two Houston-area properties to his mother and broke his $20,000-a-month lease on the Hollywood rental. Reports indicate he traveled to the Santa Barbara area during spring 2025, though the purpose remains under investigation. The last confirmed sighting of Celeste alive was January 2nd, 2025. The Tesla was reportedly parked in its final location on July 29th—the same day D4VD allegedly left for tour.Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what prosecutors are building, what the inner circle's behavior reveals, and what happens if an indictment comes down.#D4VD #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #D4VDCase #GrandJury #BethSilverman #LAPDInvestigation #TrueCrime #MurderInvestigation #FBIAnalysisJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

D4VD hasn't said a word publicly since Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was discovered in his Tesla. But the people around him are talking—whether they want to or not.His manager Robert Morgenroth testified for days. He was reportedly overheard saying prosecutor Beth Silverman pressed him hard on why he didn't call police. His alleged response: it wasn't his responsibility. His job was to keep the tour going. A female witness didn't show up at all—and now faces a body attachment order to compel her testimony. She shares legal counsel with Morgenroth.In Part 2 of this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines what the behavior of D4VD's inner circle tells us about where this case is heading. We discuss what prosecutors were trying to establish with Morgenroth, what witness resistance signals, and how D4VD's alleged asset moves—two properties transferred to his mother days after the raid—factor into an investigation.Jennifer explains why the shift from cooperation to silence matters, what typically cracks cases like this open, and what comes next if the grand jury hands down an indictment: arrest, arraignment, bail, and a potential trial timeline.The grand jury has full authority to indict and is expected to continue through February 2026. D4VD has not been charged. He remains presumed innocent. But prosecutors are tightening the circle.Watch Part 1 for the breakdown of physical evidence and timeline.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

No eyewitnesses. No confession. A cause of death still listed as "deferred." And yet prosecutors are presenting to a grand jury with full authority to indict D4VD for murder in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.What exactly do they have? And what does it mean?In Part 1 of this interview, retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the physical evidence and investigative timeline in the D4VD case. We examine the unused chainsaw and boxed burn cage incinerator found inside his Hollywood Hills rental—and what PI Steve Fischer meant when he said "the plan got upended" and Celeste "was not meant to be left in that Tesla."Jennifer explains what the timeline reveals: Celeste was last confirmed alive January 2nd, 2025. The Tesla was allegedly parked in its final spot July 29th—the day D4VD left for tour. Her body wasn't discovered until September 8th, severely decomposed after sitting in summer heat for over a month.We discuss how decomposition affects forensic analysis, why prosecutors pushed to seal autopsy findings, what travel to secondary locations might indicate, and how murder cases built on circumstantial evidence succeed or fail in court.D4VD has not been arrested or charged with any crime. He remains legally presumed innocent. But prosecutors are building something—and Jennifer Coffindaffer helps us understand what the evidence actually tells us versus what it doesn't.Part 2 covers the grand jury and D4VD's inner circle.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

This is the most significant update in the D4VD case since Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body was discovered in September. Multiple sources now confirm the grand jury has full authority to indict—and prosecutor Beth Silverman is pushing for murder charges.In this breakdown, we cover every major development from December 2025: Private investigator Steve Fischer's discovery of an unused chainsaw and a burn cage incinerator inside D4VD's Hollywood Hills rental. The disturbing grand jury testimony from manager Robert Morgenroth, who admitted his priority after learning about the body was continuing the tour—not contacting police. The female witness who failed to appear and now faces a body attachment order compelling her testimony. And the detailed timeline Fischer has constructed showing Celeste was last seen alive in January 2025, with the Tesla parked in its final location on July 29—right as D4VD departed for his Withered World Tour.We also examine D4VD's asset moves: two Houston-area homes transferred to his mother within days of the police raid, his broken lease on the $20,000/month Hollywood rental, and reports he's retained high-profile criminal defense counsel.The cause of death remains pending toxicology. D4VD has not been charged and is presumed innocent. But the grand jury process continues into February, and the trajectory of this investigation is clear. We'll continue covering every development as this case moves toward what increasingly appears to be an inevitable courtroom showdown.#D4VD #CelesteRivas #D4VDCase #D4VDUpdate #GrandJury #MurderIndictment #CelesteRivasCase #D4VDNews #DavidAnthonyBurke #JusticeForCelesteJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

The investigation into the death of thirteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez has reached a critical turning point. A Los Angeles County grand jury is now in its third week of testimony, and the people closest to singer D4VD are beginning to fracture under pressure.Robert Morgenroth, general manager of D4VD's record label and president of his touring company, spent three consecutive days being questioned by Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman. Three days for a non-target witness is extraordinary. According to reports, Morgenroth was overheard in the courthouse hallway telling his attorney that Silverman was aggressive about one question in particular: why did he never contact police after learning a decomposing body had been discovered in his client's Tesla? His reported answer was that he wanted to continue with the tour.Meanwhile, a second witness connected to the case allegedly refused to appear before the grand jury. Prosecutors responded by seeking a body attachment order, authorizing law enforcement to detain her and compel testimony. She is represented by the same attorney as Morgenroth, raising questions about coordination within D4VD's inner circle.Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing from Lake Elsinore, California in April 2024. Her dismembered remains were discovered in the trunk of D4VD's abandoned Tesla in September 2025, one day after what would have been her fifteenth birthday. LAPD has officially identified D4VD as a suspect. Investigators have reportedly identified a second suspect believed to have assisted in disposing of her body. The case has been built using cellphone data, Tesla GPS logs, and social media location tracking.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what these moves signal, why extended testimony often means prosecutors are hunting for inconsistencies, and what legal exposure witnesses face when they withhold critical information. The cracks are widening.#D4VD #CelesteRivas #TrueCrime #GrandJury #LAPD #CelesteRivasHernandez #JusticeForCeleste #RobertMorgenroth #HollywoodHills #TrueCrimeNews #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimePodcast #WitnessTampering #LegalAnalysis #LACounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #CriminalInvestigation #BreakingNewsWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

A stunning new revelation in the D4VD case: private investigator Steve Fischer has confirmed that an industrial-grade "burn cage" incinerator was discovered inside the Hollywood Hills rental where singer D4VD was living when 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's dismembered remains were found in his Tesla. The incinerator, still unopened and in its original packaging, burns at 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit — 200 degrees hotter than what's required for human cremation. Fischer says the device was delivered under a false name but accepted at the residence, and notes that such incinerators are illegal to operate within Los Angeles County. The discovery comes as a grand jury continues hearing testimony in the case. Last week, D4VD's record label executive Robert Morgenroth testified for three days and was reportedly grilled by prosecutors about why he didn't contact police after Celeste's body was discovered. An uncooperative female witness now faces arrest after failing to appear for her scheduled testimony. Meanwhile, investigators have reportedly built a detailed digital timeline using Tesla data, phone records, and geolocation evidence — including tracking D4VD to a remote area of Santa Barbara County in the middle of the night last spring. A second suspect has been identified who authorities believe was involved before, during, and after Celeste's death. D4VD, who has not spoken publicly since the case began, is reportedly considered a suspect by investigators, though no arrests have been made. The cause of death remains under a court-ordered security hold. This video breaks down every new development, what the burn cage discovery means for the investigation, and why the walls appear to be closing in on everyone connected to this case.#D4VD #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #TrueCrime #BurnCage #GrandJury #HollywoodHills #LAPD #TeslaCase #JusticeForCelesteWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video?Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

Three cases. Three explosive developments. One of the nation’s most respected former FBI agents breaking down what it all means.In this extended episode, Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to analyze the newest revelations in the D4VD / Celeste Rivas Hernandez investigation, the shocking identification of a second suspect, and the devastating domestic-violence failure surrounding the murders of Charity Beallis and her children.PART ONE: The Inner Circle CracksD4VD’s record-label GM, Robert Morgenroth, spent three days on the stand before a grand jury — an extraordinary sign that prosecutors believe he has information he either can’t or won’t fully give up. Another witness reportedly refused to appear, triggering a body attachment order. The message is clear: prosecutors are done waiting for cooperation.PART TWO: The Second Suspect EmergesAccording to Mark Geragos, investigators have identified a second suspect involved “before, during, and after” Celeste’s death. Digital forensics — cell data, Tesla GPS, app tracking — allegedly place this individual at critical moments, including a late-night trip to a remote Santa Barbara location. Coffindaffer explains how digital evidence builds timelines prosecutors can take to trial.PART THREE: The Charity Beallis TragedyCharity spent nearly a year warning the system she would be killed — and one day after her abuser was granted joint custody, she and her two children were murdered. With federal agencies now involved and the suspicious death of his first wife reopened, this case reveals painful truths about strangulation risk, judicial blind spots, and the consequences of ignoring lethality indicators.Three investigations, three pressure points, and one expert who’s not afraid to cut through the noise.#JenniferCoffindaffer #D4VD #CelesteRivas #SecondSuspect #CharityBeallis #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimePodcast #DigitalForensics #JusticeMattersWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video?Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872