D4VD: The Murder Case Of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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  What D4vd's Interscope Deal Was Worth When Celeste Spoke Up 03.08.2026 16мин

  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 evidence picture for the first time: chainsaws bought under an alias, an inflatable pool with cuts matching the victim's clothing, eleven air fresheners in a Tesla where remains sat for months, bodycam from February 2024 where a deputy said she was thirteen, Uber records placing her at his door the night she vanished, texts about pregnancy and abortion when she was thirteen, and a notarized consent form from her parents allowing international travel with him.Tony takes on the ten questions this audience will not stop asking. The money. The bodycam. The parents. The platforms. The missing chainsaw. The Uber records. The defense strategy. Everything the hearing revealed and everything it left unanswered.End Links: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/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This 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.Hashtags:#D4vd #CelesteRivas #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LosAngeles #Interscope #MurderTrial #JusticeForCeleste #ListenerQA #DavidBurke
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  D4vd's Lawyer Says Celeste's Death Was WHAT?! 03.08.2026 36мин

  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 two very different stories. LAPD Detective Corey Farell testified that both families knew about the relationship — a notarized consent form, a Las Vegas trip with Celeste's sister, VIP concert seats, even church together. Celeste's father has since told reporters he never had any contact with Burke at all, a claim that doesn't match what's now on the record. Then came the defense. Attorney Blair Berk pressed the medical examiner on whether Celeste's wounds could have happened after she was already dead, and had a detective read messages where Celeste referenced harming herself, an early look at how Burke's team plans to fight this at trial. The physical evidence sits in the middle of it all. Prosecutors have mapped a twenty-one-minute window between Celeste's Uber arrival and her phone going permanently silent. Three chainsaws recovered from Burke's home tested negative for blood and were never collected by LAPD. His Interscope deal was reportedly worth up to nineteen million dollars. Burke faces the death penalty and has pleaded not guilty to everything. Arraignment is set for August 31st. For anyone following this case closely, the next hearing is where the real fight over evidence begins. 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/TrueCrimePod This 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. #CelesteRivas #D4vd #TrueCrime #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #JusticeForCeleste #MurderTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalJustice #DeathPenalty
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  What d4vd Allegedly Removed From Celeste's Hand 02.08.2026 45мин

  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 County, a call went out from David Burke's phone to Celeste's number, hours after prosecutors say she was already dead. An LAPD criminalist testified about Bluestar reactions on rubber mats in Burke's garage, the bricks underneath, a rowing machine, a tarp, a cord, and a bag of wipes, all presumptive positive. Defense attorney Blair Berk got her to admit she can't call it definitively blood, and pointed to two chainsaws never swabbed for touch DNA. Then the hearing's final session. A medical examiner testified Celeste died from two sharp-force wounds and had been dead for weeks before she was found. A detective walked the court through her phone, messages tracing back to when she was eleven, close to fifty images labeled illegal material involving a minor, and texts from January 2024 indicating she was thirteen and pregnant. Her mother cried in the gallery. Her father looked at the floor. Burke has pleaded not guilty to every count. A judge now decides whether this case reaches a jury, and we go through what the record actually shows. None of it is settled. A judge still has to decide if a jury ever hears it. Links 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/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer This 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. Hashtags #D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #DavidBurke #BlairBerk #PreliminaryHearing #TrueCrime #LAPD #JusticeForCeleste #CourtTV 
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  The Video d4vd Never Explained Before Celeste Died 01.08.2026 35мин

  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 inside Fortnite lobbies, a record deal and a billion streams four years later. Prosecutors say he met Celeste Rivas Hernandez online through gaming, both of them still teenagers, and the connection never drew the attention it should have from anyone around them. At seventeen, newly signed to Darkroom and Interscope, Burke built an alter ego named Itami, the Japanese word for pain, describing him as an agent of chaos who wears a blindfold, a concept from a manga about a detective whose double commits the murders he then investigates. He compared it to Tyler Durden. The character held a bloody knife in one video and took a woman's arm in another. Then came the forensic testimony. A trace analyst matched cuts on a garage pool to fragments recovered on Celeste's leggings. DNA from the Tesla and the home matched her. A criminalist described blood scrubbed from the garage near shelves stocked with fake blood. Cell tower records tracked the Tesla to Santa Barbara County three times in the weeks after Celeste allegedly died. She was fourteen when she went to Burke's Hollywood Hills home on April 23, 2025. Her remains were found in his Tesla months later. Burke has pleaded not guilty. We go through the persona he built, the machine around him, and the physical evidence now in front of a judge. Links 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/TrueCrimePod Disclaimer This 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. Hashtags #D4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #DavidBurke #Itami #PreliminaryHearing #TrueCrime #LACounty #JusticeForCeleste #MusicIndustry 
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  What Celeste's Dad Denied Knowing About D4vd 01.08.2026 17мин

  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 attending their church.A judge held David Anthony Burke to answer on all counts July 27th — first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous illegal conduct with a child under fourteen, and mutilation of remains. No bail. The DA is weighing the death penalty and says what was presented was only a fraction of the evidence. But the testimony about what Celeste's parents knew — and what they facilitated — opened a question the DA himself wouldn't answer when reporters asked.Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Celeste never got to see her fifteenth birthday.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.#CelesteRivas #D4vd #DavidAnthonyBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CelesteRivasHernandez #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalJustice #TrueCrimeCase
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  What D4vd’s Lawyer Claimed About Celeste In Court 31.07.2026 18мин

  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 chainsaws that tested negative for blood.Former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what Berk is building for trial — a genuine defense theory or a reasonable-doubt machine — and what the defense’s carefully worded claim means: “He did not murder her and he was not the cause of her death.”Bodycam from February 2024 shows Burke was told she was thirteen. The relationship allegedly continued. The Interscope deal was worth up to nineteen million dollars. Faddis on whether financial-gain special circumstances actually fit this case and what it means for the death penalty.Burke has pleaded not guilty. Celeste was fourteen.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 #CelesteRivas #BlairBerk #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #DeathPenalty #MurderTrial #JusticeForCeleste
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  Celeste’s Father Claimed WHAT About D4vd?! 31.07.2026 16мин

  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 London with a grown man.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines the legal fallout for Celeste’s parents — whether a father’s provable public denial, combined with signed documents and testimony about a pregnancy at thirteen, gives California prosecutors enough for an endangerment case.Teachers tried to warn authorities. Deputies visited Burke’s home and left. The question Faddis answers: do the people who were supposed to protect Celeste face charges for what they allegedly signed off on?Burke has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Celeste was fourteen.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 #CelesteRivas #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidAnthonyBurke #TrueCrime #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #JusticeForCeleste
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  D4vd's Reply To Celeste's Pregnancy Had A Laugh In It 29.07.2026 21мин

  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 texts at its core. August 2022, the first messages, when Celeste was eleven. November 2023, the point Farell testified the relationship changed, two months after her thirteenth birthday. January 2024, texts indicating a pregnancy, a procedure two days away, a question Burke said his mother advised him to ask, and an answer from Celeste that carried his name. Then April 23, 2025, and silence. Alongside the texts, Farell described nearly fifty images from Burke's devices that investigators labeled illegal material involving a minor, described to the court but never displayed. Earlier in the session, Dr. Grant Ho of the county medical examiner's office testified that Celeste died from two sharp-force wounds and had been dead at least weeks before anyone found her in the Tesla, and that decomposition closed doors no examination can reopen. Prosecutors say the tattoo of Burke's name in red ink explains the two fingers missing from her hand, and their brief says so in writing. Burke has pleaded not guilty to every count. His defense contested the evidence collection throughout the hearing, and Judge Charlaine Olmedo decides whether the case is held to answer. The texts are the spine of this case, from the first message to the last. This is where they end, and this is what was said before they did.Pinned Comment:Prosecutors put on days of evidence when probable cause needed far less. Smart pressure before trial, or showing the defense their whole hand?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.#CelesteRivas #D4vd #TrueCrime #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #TrueCrimeCommunity #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #CourtNews #JusticeForCeleste
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  D4vd Signed At 17 And Celeste Was HOW Old?! 28.07.2026 17мин

  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 of this happened?Tony and Robin build the timeline. Homeschooled after seventh grade. Gospel music only until he turned thirteen. Almost every relationship he had ran through a screen. A mother who told him to stop crying about copyright strikes on his gaming clips and go write his own songs. A deal with Darkroom and Interscope at seventeen, signed while he was still in high school.And an alter ego named Itami, which is pain in Japanese. Burke described him on camera as an agent of chaos, an evil version of himself in a blindfold, lifted from a manga about a detective who has to solve the murders his other self commits.He filmed the character with a bloody knife. He animated him taking a woman's arm. He released a video in which he personally drags a body and loads it into a car.There is a serious counterargument here and it gets made: violent material proves nothing by itself, and plenty of artists build entire careers on darkness and never hurt anyone.But prosecutors allege Burke did what his character did, and now the whole persona reads differently to everyone who bought it.Tony and Robin also put the industry on the table. A label valued him in the millions and sold the darkness as the product. Does anyone in that building own a piece of this?Burke has pleaded not guilty. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old.END_LINKSJoin 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/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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.HASHTAGS#D4vd #DavidBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #Itami #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RomanticHomicide #CaseUpdate #MusicIndustry #TrueCrimeCommunity
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  D4vd's Phone Called Celeste's Number From WHERE?! 28.07.2026 23мин

  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 one at a time and hand each one to the defense.An LAPD criminalist testified that Bluestar reacted strongly on the rubber mats covering the Hollywood Hills garage floor and on the bricks beneath them. A rowing machine, a green tarp, a charging cord, and a trash bag containing wipes all tested presumptive positive. A blue inflatable pool in the same garage showed nothing to the eye, smelled almost like laundry months later, and still produced a glow in one area. Another criminalist physically matched plastic fragments taken during the autopsy to the cuts in that pool.And in the same room, out in plain view, were jugs. Tested. Negative. Written up. Left in the report.The defense has a name for what those jugs were, and the whole question is whether that explanation survives being in the same room as everything else the state put on the table.Blair Berk's cross has been built on absence. Two chain saws whose handles were never swabbed for touch DNA, and a third saw found in a closet that investigators decided was not worth collecting. There were also possible footwear impressions on the pool that were never lifted or compared to any shoe.Testimony also placed a phone and a Tesla traveling together from that house to a remote part of Santa Barbara County on three separate occasions.Burke has pleaded not guilty and denies all wrongdoing. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was fourteen years old.END_LINKSJoin 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/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis 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.HASHTAGS#D4vd #DavidBurke #CelesteRivasHernandez #HiddenKillers #BlairBerk #TrueCrime #CaseUpdate #LosAngeles #Evidence #TrueCrimeCommunity
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  Where Police Found D4vd's Missing Pool Fragments 27.07.2026 17мин

  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 straight," made by a sharp object. The missing pieces were recovered from Celeste's clothing. Samantha Tosch confirmed the DNA collected from the Tesla and the rental home matched Celeste. Lauren Wallace described blood cleanup across the garage and noted the presence of jugs of fake blood — which the defense attributes to Burke's music video production for his alter ego Itami.Blair Berk, Burke's attorney, pressed police on what they didn't test. The handles of two small chainsaws in the garage were never swabbed for touch DNA after the blades came back negative for blood. Berk established that multiple people lived in the residence. Under redirect, prosecutors noted that testing for the suspect's own DNA in his own home would be meaningless.Detective Roecker's testimony placed Burke's Tesla and phone on the road to Santa Barbara County three times — April 23–24 (the night of the alleged killing), and twice more in May. Celeste's passport card was found along that Highway 154 corridor. Burke charged his EV in Santa Ynez during one trip.Burke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder with special circumstances and other charges. Celeste was fourteen. She went to Burke's home on April 23, 2025. She was never heard from again. The bindover ruling is imminent.END_LINKS: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/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This 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.Hashtags:#D4vd #CelesteRivas #D4vdCase #TrueCrime #PreliminaryHearing #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #LACounty #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimeCommunity
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  d4vd Had Three Chainsaws And NONE Had Blood?! 24.07.2026 16мин

  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 explained: all three chainsaws came back negative for blood. No DNA testing was ordered. The prosecution calls these tools central to the alleged cover-up. The defense says the prosecution's own lab work contradicts that claim.Court testimony also covered matching tattoos between the defendant and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, prosecutors' allegation that two fingers bearing his name tattoo were removed from her body and never found, and financial earnings exceeding ten million dollars — with the defense establishing that his mother and financial manager controlled virtually all spending.Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, examines whether the defense is building a real foundation for trial or just scoring preliminary hearing points — and what three special circumstances look like when the prosecution's physical evidence has gaps.Links: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/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This 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 #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DavidBurke #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #EricFaddis #Murder #BlairBerk
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  d4vd's Route Led Straight To WHAT On A Remote Highway?! 24.07.2026 18мин

  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 swerved. A money manager admitted knowing Celeste's first name. The prosecutor pressed him on Burke taking her to London and to nightclubs with fraudulent identification. The defense objected and the judge cut it off. A CHP officer then testified that a Caltrans worker found Celeste's passport card in tall grass along State Route 154 in Santa Barbara County. Prosecutors allege location data shows Burke drove to that spot twice after the alleged killing. An LAPD criminologist described the Tesla at the tow yard — dust, insects, decomposition, and air fresheners stuffed throughout the vehicle. The hearing continues.Links: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/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This 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.Hashtags:#CelesteRivasHernandez #d4vd #d4vdCase #TrueCrime #DavidBurke #PreliminaryHearing #LosAngeles #MurderCase #Interscope #Justice
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  D4VD Used Postmates To Order WHAT After Celeste Was Killed?! 24.07.2026 19мин

  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 and shipped to his own address.Prosecutors presented body camera footage from a February 2024 encounter where a sheriff's deputy informed Burke that Celeste — whose family had filed a missing persons report — was thirteen years old. According to the footage, Burke claimed he had met her once and that she said she was eighteen. Prosecutors say the relationship was already well established by that date.Burke's former financial director took the stand and put numbers to the career prosecutors allege Burke was protecting: more than ten million dollars in gross income between 2023 and 2025. The same witness described a pivot to encrypted communications within Burke's team after the body was discovered, discussions about transferring property titles, and a retainer arrangement with Burke's mother that continues to this day.The defense challenged how key evidence was preserved and processed, securing testimony that three chainsaws recovered from the home tested negative for blood and that the cadaver bag was not fully retained. The hearing resumes with additional prosecution witnesses expected.LINKS: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/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This 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.HASHTAGS:#d4vd #CelesteRivasHernandez #DavidBurke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #LAPrelimHearing #BlairBerk #TeslaCase #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrimePodcast
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  What D4VD's Deputies Actually Missed That Day 19.07.2026 20мин

  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 records to musician David Burke and called him directly. LA County deputies then conducted a welfare check at Burke's West Hollywood home, where he showed them a yearbook photo and said he'd only met her once. Deputies confirmed to him that she was thirteen and a runaway. Then they left. Prosecutors say that's when Burke allegedly paid one of Celeste's junior high classmates a thousand dollars to hand her a new phone so the two could keep in touch. Over the next year, she reportedly traveled with him to Las Vegas, London, and Texas, met his family, got matching tattoos, and wore his name on her ring finger, all while she was in seventh grade. The unsettling overlap between Burke's public persona and the allegations against him is hard to ignore. His breakout song, his album title, and the alter ego built around both all echo what prosecutors now allege happened inside a Hollywood Hills home. Seven months passed between the discovery of Celeste's remains and Burke's arrest, a window that included three grand jury panels, a friend fleeing to Montana to dodge a subpoena, and Burke's family fighting the grand jury in a Texas courtroom. Burke now faces first-degree murder with special circumstances, including lying in wait, murder for financial gain, and murder of a witness. The financial gain charge is the one prosecutors say connects the case most directly to Burke's public career. 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/TrueCrimePod This 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. Hashtags #D4vd #DavidBurke #CelesteRivas #TrueCrime #WelfareCheck #SystemFailure #GrandJury #TrueCrimePodcast #HiddenKillers #JusticeForCeleste 
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  D4vd: His Biggest Song Title Hits Differently After a Murder Charge 14.07.2026 10мин

  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 of it will matter when a jury is seated.It also looks at what happened in the seven months between the discovery of remains and an arrest. Three grand juries. A close friend who reportedly fled across the country rather than take the stand. Burke's own parents, who allegedly challenged subpoenas in a Texas court instead of answering questions about a child who had visited their home.When the DA finally filed, they didn't go small. First-degree murder with special circumstances: lying in wait, financial gain, murder of a witness. Prosecutors also allege illegal material involving minors was found on his iCloud. Forty terabytes of evidence total. The preliminary hearing is set for July 21, 2026.This is Part Three of Hidden Killers' investigation into the D4vd case — where the music, the timeline, and the charges all land in the same place.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 #HiddenKillers #RomanticHomicide #DavidBurke #TrueCrime #GrandJury #Murder #LosAngeles #JusticeForCeleste
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  D4vd: Fake Amazon Name, Real Address — The Digital Trail He Left Behind 13.07.2026 10мин

  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 GPS logs. And according to prosecutors, investigators now have forty terabytes of evidence.The alleged cover-up, as laid out by prosecutors, reads like someone who thought digital breadcrumbs disappear on their own. An album release party the day after the alleged murder. A shovel ordered via Postmates that same morning. Geotagged Instagram content posted on a date investigators say remains were being dismembered. And a Tesla — parked on a Hollywood street for over a month — with what prosecutors allege was inside it.Multiple friends and associates allegedly noticed a strong smell coming from that car. Reportedly said nothing.The case broke open when a tow yard worker noticed the smell and made a call.This is Part Two of a three-part Hidden Killers investigation tracing every alleged move David Burke made — and every digital receipt he allegedly left behind while making them.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 #HiddenKillers #DavidBurke #TrueCrime #Amazon #CoverUp #Tesla #Murder #JusticeForCeleste
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  D4vd Case: Two Sheriff's Departments Had His Name and Still Did Nothing 13.07.2026 10мин

  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 square — they moved on.Celeste had been reported missing three times. Three times. And yet prosecutors allege that over the following year, she traveled with Burke to Las Vegas, London, and Texas. She allegedly met his family. She and Burke allegedly got matching tattoos. She had his name permanently inked on her ring finger.Prosecutors also allege Burke paid a thousand dollars to one of Celeste's junior high classmates to hand her a replacement phone — a workaround after her parents cut off contact. A thirteen-year-old. A burner phone. And two law enforcement agencies with his name already in their files.This is Part One of a three-part Hidden Killers investigation into the D4vd case — and into the adults who allegedly watched every red flag sail right past them.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 #DavidBurke #TrueCrime #SystemFailure #WelfareCheck #LakeElsinore #JusticeForCeleste #MissingChild
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  Why Did The Defense Try To Seal The D4VD People's Brief? 12.07.2026 35мин

  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 old. By thirteen, they were allegedly involved. Deputies told Burke directly that she was thirteen during a welfare check. Prosecutors say he continued. By fourteen, she was reportedly spending time at his Hollywood Hills home, traveling with him across the country, while people in his world apparently believed she was a nineteen-year-old college student. When her parents took her phone, prosecutors allege Burke drove to Lake Elsinore and paid a classmate a thousand dollars to deliver a replacement.The filing goes further — laying out the specific digital evidence prosecutors pulled from Burke's cloud accounts, the sequence of events the night Celeste allegedly died, a purchase timeline prosecutors say demonstrates planning, and the forensic evidence that allegedly connects specific items to the condition of her remains. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what the pattern described in the filing reveals, how the alleged timeline connects directly to the murder motive, and what the evidence looks like from a federal investigative perspective. Burke has pleaded not guilty. His defense team says the evidence will prove his innocence. We revisit where the case stood at the time of our reporting. This is what they tried to keep sealed.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 #PeoplesBrief #BethSilverman #JenniferCoffindaffer #Unsealed #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #TheD4VDCase
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  Who Failed Celeste Before D4VD Was Ever Charged? 11.07.2026 51мин

  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. And when her remains were found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to the singer known as D4VD, her family reportedly wasn't told for days. This look back examines every layer of that failure.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer analyzes the alleged post-crime behavior — months of touring, performing, and public appearances while Celeste's remains allegedly sat in a vehicle — and what it reveals about the kind of person investigators believe they're dealing with. She addresses LAPD's reported forty-eight-hour hold on the Tesla and what it means for the evidence. She examines what it takes to allegedly build a false identity around a child and how that deception reportedly held for as long as it did.Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke takes your listener questions — on the three grand juries, the year-long gap between disappearance and arrest, who failed this child, and what the sealed evidence tells us about what may still be ahead. Burke faces first-degree murder with special circumstances, additional charges related to the victim's age, and a count related to the condition of her remains. He has pleaded not guilty. His defense team says the evidence will show he did not cause her death. We revisit where the case stood at the time of our reporting. Celeste was fourteen. She deserved better 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=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 #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #SystemsFailure #JusticeForCeleste #TrueCrime #LAPD #TheD4VDCase