#585: The Tragic Death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez part 2

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Jim and Kathy continue their discussion of the possible Homicide of teenage Celeste, Rivas Hernandez, and the discovery of her body in the trunk of a car owned by D4VD - David Anthony Burke.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Kathy Canning Mello, retired FBI agent and profiler. And with me is
0:20.6	Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler,
0:23.3	former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal minds and bluebeard on Audible.
0:28.2	And also, Kathy and I did FBI Profilers, Criminal Archives, on Audible. It's great to have you back,
0:37.2	Kathy. Yes, this is a fascinating discussion about this case
0:40.7	that hasn't gotten nearly the media attention that it should. So I'm really pleased it will
0:45.5	be able to do this for our audience and appeal to them for more information if they have it on
0:50.8	this individual called David Anthony Burke or David D number four VD, as he's known.
0:59.1	Right. And this is about the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. And her body was found in the frunk of a
1:08.0	Tesla Model X owned by David.
1:12.6	And it was on the street, right down from the home where he lived.
1:20.6	He rented this multi-million dollar home for 20,000 plus a month.
1:25.6	And this Tesla was just left out front of that home for a while
1:33.0	and then moved down the street a little bit and left there for weeks. The neighbors complained.
1:38.3	It was towed. The tow lot noticed a really foul smell coming from it.
1:45.2	They called the police and they discovered Celeste's body,
1:49.3	wrapped in a plastic bag in the front of that car,
1:53.7	in the front trunk of that car.
1:56.6	Yeah, that's a new word on me, Frunk.
1:59.1	I hadn't heard that before.
2:00.3	If you were not familiar with Tesla's, I guess that's a new word for our vocabulary.
2:05.0	Yeah. So we continue in our conversation, can you give me a little background history of David Anthony Burke? How did he become popular and his music become popular? I know there are different genres
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