#612: D4VD Charged with Murder 1!
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
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Jim and Kathy revisit the murder of 14-year-old Celeste and the case against D4VD, who was charged with murder in the first degree...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to real crime profile. |
| 0:14.6 | This is Ching Plymante, retired FBI profile of former New York City |
| 0:17.4 | Prosecutor, writer-producer of Criminal Minds in season 20 now and Bluebeard on Audible. |
| 0:25.1 | And with me today is Kathy Canning-Meller, retired FBI agent and profiler in, oh, my goodness, 20, 20 seasons. |
| 0:33.2 | That's crazy. |
| 0:34.2 | It's pretty crazy. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah, we just started, yeah, we just started the writer's room now. |
| 0:41.1 | And, wow, it's pretty amazing. |
| 0:44.4 | 20 years. |
| 0:45.7 | 20 seasons, more than 20 years because of COVID intervening. |
| 0:50.5 | But, yeah. |
| 0:51.4 | But anyway, it's great to see you kathy see you too and uh we're back to talk |
| 0:59.8 | about a case that has we knew we were going to come back and talk to talk about because uh when we |
| 1:07.9 | last left it there was a lot of unanswered questions, but a lot of very, very suspicious behavior. |
| 1:13.6 | So why don't you tell us about this case and who it's concerning? |
| 1:20.6 | Right. So we talked about this months ago when it started coming to the news. |
| 1:25.6 | An individual by the name of David Anthony Burke, |
| 1:29.2 | who goes professionally by the name of D4VD, American singer and songwriter. And in 2022, he had these |
| 1:38.6 | hit singles, Here With Me, and Romantic Homicide. Right. And we talked about those songs and videos associated with them and especially romantic homicide |
| 1:51.3 | where it really looked like a fantasy about killing with a knife, a young lady that looked a lot like Celeste, who I'm not going to say her last name, |
| 2:08.3 | but she is the victim in this case of multiple crimes. But those videos where he literally had had you know bloody knives he was |
| 2:21.9 | rolling a body in a in a suitcase he had he had he had bloody shirts on and you know |
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