D4VD: The Murder Case Of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

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 f...

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...

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 a...

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...

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 t...

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...

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...

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 some...

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 t...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ye...

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...

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...

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 — 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...

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 ar...

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...