D4VD: The Murder Case Of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
This podcast covers the murder case of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, allegedly killed by recording artist D4VD (David Anthony Burke). It features expert interviews, grand jury coverage, and analysis of evidence including a burn cage incinerator and cryopreservation forensics. The series aims to provide thorough reporting on the investigation and legal proceedings.
Episodes
D4vd's Inner Circle Faces WHAT in Celeste's Suit?!
D4vd Celeste Rivas Hernandez lawsuit — the family's civil case expands the focus from David Anthony Burke to the adults, companies, money, and logistics around him. The complaint asserts 12 causes of action and names Burke along with his mother Colleen Burke, management figures, live-in security guard Sheldon Jacques, and business entities tied to his career. The family's allegation is broader th
D4vd's Bodyguard Was Allegedly Doing WHAT?!
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez against D4vd goes far beyond the artist himself. The complaint names his personal manager, his day-to-day manager who lived at the same residence, his mother Colleen Burke, his recording company, and his publishing company. Each is accused of playing a role in what the family alleges was a system of concealment.The lawsuit
d4vd's Manager Helped Arrange WHAT?!
Human trafficking. False imprisonment. Aiding and abetting. The wrongful death lawsuit names ten defendants — the allegations against the people around d4vd match the charges against Burke himself.Filed the day after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's sixteenth birthday. The complaint names Colleen Burke, Josh Marshall, Sheldon Jacques, and their companies.Jacques — Burke's live-in security guard — faces
D4vd and JP Miller Allegedly Used the SAME Method
D4vd and JP Miller — a musician and a pastor. The connection between them is not obvious until you hear it from a former FBI agent.David Anthony Burke faces murder charges with special circumstances and is held without bail. His former financial manager testified to earnings exceeding ten million dollars. Weeks after fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were discovered, Burke trans
Celeste's Family Filed THIS Lawsuit on Her Birthday
Celeste Rivas Hernandez wrongful death lawsuit — on the week Celeste would have turned sixteen, her family filed a lawsuit reaching beyond the man charged.Filed September 8, 2026, twelve causes of action. Nine target David Anthony Burke. Three target the adults around him: his mother Colleen Burke, manager Josh Marshall, security guard Sheldon Jacques, and business entities. The family alleges Bu
What Happened To D4vd's Money Before His Arrest
D4vd made over ten million dollars between 2022 and 2025 according to testimony at his preliminary hearing. On August 31, a Los Angeles court determined he's indigent. His celebrity defense team — led by Blair Berk, the attorney who's represented Harvey Weinstein, Mel Gibson, and Britney Spears — withdrew, and the LA County Public Defender's Office stepped in. Benjamin Greger, Burke's former fina
What D4vd's Interscope Deal Was Worth When Celeste Spoke Up
An executive from Interscope Records testified under oath that d4vd's recording contract was worth up to nineteen million dollars. His financial manager put his total earnings above ten million. Prosecutors allege that Celeste Rivas Hernandez — fourteen years old — was threatening to expose their relationship and that the money is the motive for her death.The five-day hearing produced the full ev
D4vd's Lawyer Says Celeste's Death Was WHAT?!
Everything connected to the d4vd murder case is moving fast, and this covers exactly where it stands. David Anthony Burke, known to millions as d4vd, has been held to answer on first-degree murder with special circumstances in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, plus charges tied to illegal conduct with Celeste and unlawful mutilation of her remains. The hearing has surfaced tw
What d4vd Allegedly Removed From Celeste's Hand
What d4vd allegedly removed from Celeste Rivas Hernandez's hand is a detail sitting in a prosecution court brief that most people following this case still haven't seen. Two of her fingers, prosecutors wrote, were removed because of what was inked on them. That's where this breakdown starts. Work backward from there. At 12:04 in the morning, from an empty road off Highway 154 in Santa Barbara Coun
The Video d4vd Never Explained Before Celeste Died
Before the arrest, before the garage, before any of it, d4vd filmed a music video of his character dragging a body and loading it into a car. That video exists on the internet right now, and prosecutors allege he later did the real version to a fourteen-year-old girl. David Burke's rise started small and fast. A homeschooled kid recording on an iPhone in his sister's closet, building an audience i
What Celeste's Dad Denied Knowing About D4vd
After d4vd's arrest, Celeste Rivas Hernandez's father released a statement through his attorney. "I never had any contact with this guy." That denial — given to Rolling Stone, TMZ, and other outlets — ran headfirst into what surfaced at the preliminary hearing. A notarized London travel form. A Vegas trip with Celeste's sister tagging along. Burke sitting with the family in VIP sections and atten
What D4vd’s Lawyer Claimed About Celeste In Court
After five days of preliminary hearing testimony that included DNA evidence, purchase records for chainsaws and body bags, and a twenty-one-minute timeline on the night Celeste Rivas Hernandez disappeared, defense attorney Blair Berk made moves the prosecution didn’t expect. She pressed the medical examiner on self-inflicted wounds. She introduced messages from Celeste. She highlighted three chai
Celeste’s Father Claimed WHAT About D4vd?!
After David Anthony Burke’s arrest, Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s father made a public claim through his attorney: he’d never had any contact with the singer. The preliminary hearing produced sworn testimony that said the opposite — church attendance together, a Las Vegas trip with her sister, and a notarized travel form bearing the parents’ signatures that sent their thirteen-year-old daughter to Lo
D4vd's Reply To Celeste's Pregnancy Had A Laugh In It
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was pregnant at thirteen, and when she told d4vd that neither of them could care for the baby, his reply came back with a laugh attached. Those words were read into the record at the July 24 session of the preliminary hearing, by LAPD Detective Corey Farell, the prosecution's final witness. This update walks the timeline the way the courtroom heard it, with the pregnancy t
D4vd Signed At 17 And Celeste Was HOW Old?!
By seventeen he was signed to Interscope and still in high school. Prosecutors say that by then he had already met Celeste Rivas Hernandez online through gaming, and the age they put on that first contact is the fact that changes how the whole rise reads.This one is for everybody who has followed the d4vd case from the beginning and keeps circling the same question: who was David Burke before any
D4vd's Phone Called Celeste's Number From WHERE?!
Day three of the preliminary hearing produced the detail that stopped the room. Cell records and Tesla data put Burke's phone and his car off Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County the night prosecutors say Celeste died, and at 12:04 in the morning that phone dialed her number.For everyone following the d4vd case day by day, this is the evidence conversation. Tony and Robin take the state's exhibits
Where Police Found D4vd's Missing Pool Fragments
Fragments from a blue inflatable pool in d4vd's Hollywood Hills garage were found on Celeste Rivas Hernandez's leggings. Day 3 of the preliminary hearing against David Anthony Burke put the forensic connection into the court record through testimony from three LAPD criminalists.Lisa LaHendro, a trace analyst with over twenty years of experience, described the pool's cuts as "scalloped and straigh
d4vd Had Three Chainsaws And NONE Had Blood?!
d4vd case — the preliminary hearing revealed prosecutors' full digital timeline for the first time: chainsaws, a cadaver bag, laundry bags, a shovel, an inflatable pool, and a burn cage allegedly ordered under aliases but paid for with the defendant's own accounts and shipped to his own address. The digital paper trail is extensive.But the defense established a fact that prosecutors have not expl
d4vd's Route Led Straight To WHAT On A Remote Highway?!
Day 2 of d4vd's preliminary hearing opened the financial books and then followed a trail ninety-five miles into the mountains. Prosecutors called two financial witnesses who testified Burke earned above $10 million from Interscope and brand deals between 2022 and 2025 — establishing how much he allegedly stood to lose if Celeste Rivas Hernandez exposed their relationship. Then the questioning swe
D4VD Used Postmates To Order WHAT After Celeste Was Killed?!
The first day of David Anthony Burke's preliminary hearing put evidence that had been under seal into a public courtroom for the first time. LAPD Detective Joshua Byers testified about a sequence of purchases prosecutors allege Burke made under fake names in the weeks and months after the alleged death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Every item was allegedly paid for with his own financial accounts a
What D4VD's Deputies Actually Missed That Day
The D4VD case starts with a welfare check that got everything right except the one thing that mattered, and it ends with a first-degree murder charge. Tony Brueski lays out the complete timeline of what happened to Celeste Rivas Hernandez, from her first missing person report to the arrest. Celeste disappeared from Lake Elsinore three times in early 2024. Riverside County deputies traced her phone
D4vd: His Biggest Song Title Hits Differently After a Murder Charge
David Burke's breakout hit has a title that now reads like something pulled directly from a prosecutor's filing. His debut album dropped two days after prosecutors allege Celeste Rivas Hernandez was killed. A 2025 music video depicts imagery that mirrors the prosecution's allegations almost point for point. This episode looks at the art, the charges, and the uncomfortable question of whether any
D4vd: Fake Amazon Name, Real Address — The Digital Trail He Left Behind
Prosecutors allege David Burke used the alias "Victoria Mendez" to order items from Amazon in the weeks following Celeste Rivas Hernandez's alleged murder. The name was fake. The shipping address wasn't. Every package went straight to his Hollywood Hills home.Here's the thing about trying to hide behind a fake name while ordering to your own front door — Amazon has records. Delivery drivers have
D4vd Case: Two Sheriff's Departments Had His Name and Still Did Nothing
David Burke — known to millions as the artist D4vd — had his name, number, and address in the hands of two separate sheriff's departments. Both were actively investigating a missing child. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen years old.Deputies allegedly called Burke. They went to his home. According to prosecutors, they were told directly how old she was. And then — here's where it gets hard to
Why Did The Defense Try To Seal The D4VD People's Brief?
The defense called the People's Brief "entirely one-sided" and tried to seal it. The judge disagreed. This look back walks through what prosecutors put on the record in that filing — and why the defense didn't want the public to see it.According to Deputy DA Beth Silverman's filing, the alleged relationship between David Anthony Burke and Celeste Rivas Hernandez began when she was eleven years ol
Who Failed Celeste Before D4VD Was Ever Charged?
Every system that should have protected Celeste Rivas Hernandez allegedly failed. Law enforcement responded to calls about her family eleven times in fourteen months — and she was still reported missing three separate times. She wasn't enrolled in school for a full year. People in Burke's circle reportedly believed the fourteen-year-old from Lake Elsinore was a nineteen-year-old college student.
D4VD's Phone Evidence Reveals WHAT, Say Investigators
A status conference just wrapped in the case against D4VD, and a new Hulu documentary dropped right alongside it, reigniting the conversation about what happened to fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Legal analyst Eric Faddis joins us for a deep focus on where this case stands, what the documentary got right, and where Faddis sees real bias in how it was presented.We start with the pretri
What Did D4VD Do The Day After Prosecutors Say Celeste Died?
Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke killed Celeste Rivas Hernandez on April 23, 2025. Two days later, he released his debut album. He performed at Coachella days before. He launched a world tour. For months, according to the prosecution's timeline, he allegedly stood on stages and smiled for cameras while investigators were quietly building a case behind him. Then a tow-yard worker in Los Ange
What Drives D4VD's Inner Circle From Loyalty To Silence To Complicity?
The silence in this case is its own story. A close friend who fled to another state to avoid testifying. A manager who reportedly testified for days. Parents who fought their own subpoenas through an appeals court. And prosecutors who have reportedly said David Anthony Burke did not act alone in what happened to Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains. This look back sits with the question that haunts
Why Did No One Stop D4VD From Being Connected To A Missing Child?
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. But the hardest part of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's story isn't the ending — it's everything that came before it, in plain sight, while every system meant to protect her failed.A livestream where he allegedly told a thirteen-year-old to delet
Why Did Prosecutors Say D4VD Killed Celeste To Protect His Career?
The DA's office didn't just charge David Anthony Burke with first-degree murder. They alleged he did it for financial gain — that a fourteen-year-old girl was treated as a liability to a brand and allegedly eliminated because she was threatening to expose a relationship that could destroy his career. This look back sits with that allegation and everything it carries.Criminal defense attorney Bob
What Does The Year Before D4VD's Tesla Reveal About Celeste's Case?
For a year, the public has been told one version of this story: a thirteen-year-old ran from home, vanished into the world of a rising musician, and was found in the front trunk of his Tesla. This look back goes into the year before that discovery — and what it reveals is harder to hold than the headline version.Celeste Rivas Hernandez was not actually missing for most of the timeline. She attend
How Did A Parking Ticket Lead To D4VD's Murder Charges?
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen when she was first reported missing from Lake Elsinore. She was reported missing three separate times. She was gone for roughly seventeen months. And she was only found because a car got a parking ticket, was towed, and a worker at the lot noticed something wrong. The vehicle was registered to the singer known as D4VD. Her remains were inside.This look back tr
How Was Celeste Rivas Hernandez Missing For 17 Months Before Anyone Found Her?
Celeste Rivas Hernandez was thirteen when she was first reported missing from Lake Elsinore. She was found roughly seventeen months later — and only because a car got a parking ticket, was towed, and someone at the lot opened the front trunk. She was fourteen years old. This look back at the D4VD case starts with the question the headlines keep glancing past: how does a child go missing for that
How Did D4VD Go From A Gospel-Only Household To Being Charged With Killing Celeste Rivas Hernandez?
Before he was opening for SZA, D4VD was a homeschooled kid in Houston recording music in his sister's closet. The only music allowed in the house was gospel until he was thirteen. His mother was his teacher. His social world. The person who reportedly suggested he start making music. Then the internet opened everything up and nobody was apparently standing between a sheltered teenager and unlimit
Was Anyone Actually Watching D4VD When Everything Went Wrong?
David Anthony Burke was thirteen when the internet opened up a world his strictly religious household had kept sealed. He was seventeen when he signed with Darkroom and Interscope. He was opening for SZA, touring globally, making real money. He was still a kid. And prosecutors now allege that by twenty, he had killed fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez to protect the career that had consume
Did D4VD Show Us Who He Was Before Anyone Knew to Look?
Everyone’s covering the evidence. The charges. The alleged timeline. This episode asks the question underneath all of it: who was David Anthony Burke before any of this allegedly happened, and what about the way he grew up allegedly made it possible?This episode strips the case back to the person. Burke grew up homeschooled and isolated in Houston. He told multiple interviewers he’d never experie
Who Reportedly Knew About Celeste And Allegedly Said Nothing?
The alleged murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez is the center of this case. But the people who were allegedly around David Anthony Burke — who reportedly saw, heard, and still didn't act — are the reason this story won't let go.Three separate grand juries heard testimony from friends, managers, and family. Burke's manager was reportedly overheard telling his attorney that calling police after alleg
Why Is Everyone Reading D4vd's Music Like A Confession?
This is the D4vd case at its strangest. David Anthony Burke stands charged in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, he has pleaded not guilty, and a preliminary hearing is coming that will decide whether this goes to trial. But this episode isn't about the calendar. It's about the question that has taken over every comment section: was Burke looking to other corners of macabre pop cul
Celeste Was Reported Missing Three Times And Allegedly Returned To D4VD Every Time
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 retir
Why Celeste Rivas Hernandez's Parents Took Her Phone — and What D4VD Allegedly Did Next!
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
D4VD Allegedly Used a Fake Name to Buy What Prosecutors Say Hid Celeste
"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 C
Celeste Rivas Hernandez Was Reported Missing Three Times Before She Was Found
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
Celeste Was Right in Front of D4vd's Circle — Nobody Allegedly Acted
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
Celeste Was Eleven When D4vd Allegedly Made First Contact
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
Celeste Still Had Braces — D4VD Faces Her Murder Charges
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 Dav
D4VD's Prosecution Blueprint Fully Broken Down
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"
Why D4VD's Legal Team Delayed Their Own Hearing
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
D4VD Met Celeste at Eleven — Here's What Prosecutors Allege
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 wonde
D4VD's Purchase Timeline Prosecutors Say Proves Intent
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 Celest
D4vd: Every System That Should Have Protected Celeste Failed
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 co
D4vd: Who Failed Celeste Rivas Hernandez Before It Was Too Late
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
D4VD: The Evidence Prosecutors Say Proves Everything
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
Celeste Rivas Hernandez Deserved Better Than Every Adult Around Her
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
D4vd: Every System Failed Celeste — Here’s How
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 T
D4vd: What Celeste’s Autopsy Revealed About Her Death
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
D4VD Faces the Most Serious Charges — Celeste Was Fourteen
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 wor
D4VD Charged With Murder — But Nobody Kept Celeste Safe
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 wit
Celeste Rivas Deserved Protection From D4VD — Every System Failed Her
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 som
Celeste Rivas Was Fourteen — She Deserved So Much More
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
D4vd Case Part 2: The Felony Complaint and the Blair Berk Defense Strategy
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, som
D4vd Case Part 1: The People Around David Anthony Burke and Who's Exposed
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 He
D4VD: The Art, the Silence, and the Alleged Monster
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 viole
D4VD: Scared Kid or Something Far Worse?
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,
D4VD Performed at Coachella After Celeste Allegedly Died
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 t
D4VD: How a Child Vanished Into His World
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 Hill
Celeste Was the Witness: Why Prosecutors Say D4VD Silenced Her
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, ina
How D4VD Plans to Fight Celeste’s Murder Charges
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 D4V
D4VD Charged: What Justice Looks Like for Celeste
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 circumstan
Before D4VD: Why Celeste Rivas Kept Running Home
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 yea
Celeste Rivas Deserved Better: Your Questions, Our Answers
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 musicia
D4VD's Own Team Is Running — What They Know
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 de
Celeste Was 14 — Inside D4VD's Arrest for Her Death
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 Hollywoo
D4VD Arrested: The Sealed Evidence Behind the Celeste Rivas Case
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 kn
Neo Langston Finally Speaks — What He Said About D4VD Is Explosive
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 arr
D4VD Murder Target: Unsealed Documents Expose Grand Jury Case
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 p
D4VD Grand Jury + Nancy Guthrie FBI Investigation: Fmr. Agent Breaks Down Both Cases
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
D4VD: Inside the Grand Jury — Arrests, Forensic Battles, and What Comes Next
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 pres
Neo Langston's 40 Minutes: The Grand Jury Question Nobody Can Answer
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 fl
Neo Langston Arrested in Montana — Grand Jury Closing In on D4VD in Celeste Rivas Death
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 Morg
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