BOMBSHELL ARREST IN D4VD CASE, WITNESS REFUSES TO 'RAT': RECORD EXEC GRILLED BY GRAND JURY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The president of "D4vd" David Anthony Burke's touring company is grilled by a deputy district attorney in front of a grand jury.
The grilling focuses on why he didn't call the cops after the body of Celeste was discovered in his client's car. A grand jury is hearing evidence in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
Robert Morgenroth, the general manager of Mogul Vision, D4vd's record label, is also the president of Zara Brothers Travel, D4vd's tour company.
Reports say Morgenroth testifies all day before the L.A. grand jury. At one point, with people in the hallway, Morgenroth comes out into the hallway and talks to his lawyer so loud others can hear.
He says, referring to Beth Silverman, the deputy D.A. presenting the case, "She was very pushy on why I didn't call police."
Also, a female witness in the Celeste Rivas death case faces arrest after refusing grand jury testimony in the D4vd murder investigation.
Reports suggest LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division is considering D4vd a suspect in the alleged homicide of Celeste.
Joining Nancy Grace:
- Philip Dubé - Former Court-appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public Defenders: Criminal & Constitutional Law; Forensics & Mental Health Advocacy; X: PhilipCDube, IG: PhilipDube, YouTube: PhilipDube3922
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker: When to work on a relationship and when to walk away,” and Featured in Hit Show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
- Rob Dick - Bounty Hunter, Private Investigator, Former Deputy Sheriff for Sacramento County Sheriff's Dept., Owner of Renegade Investigations, and Casey Anthony's Former Bodyguard
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue," and Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Alexis Tereszcuk - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
- Scott Eicher - Digital Forensics Expert, Founding Member of the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (C.A.S.T); Historical Cellular Analysis Expert, Former FBI Agent of 22 Years, and Former Police Officer and Homicide Detective with Norfolk Virginia Police Dept. (having served 12 years and has worked several missing persons cases); Currently with Precision Cellular Analysis handling Criminal, Defense and Civil Cases
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:09.8 | A bombshell arrest in the D4VD, |
| 0:13.8 | a K.A. David Anthony Burke case as a witness refuses to rat out David Burke as a record executive is grilled by a grand jury. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:31.4 | David is finally being viewed as a suspect of teen girl Celeste's death. You're going to have to have somebody |
| 0:38.8 | rat. How can she be missing all this time, even possibly dead since the spring? |
| 0:45.5 | An arrest is imminent in the D4VD case as a witness is refusing to testify in front of a grand jury. |
| 0:55.2 | What does that mean? |
| 0:56.8 | Now, unlike a defendant who cannot be forced to testify, a witness can be put in jail |
| 1:04.6 | if they refuse to testify. |
| 1:07.2 | Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we are learning tonight. |
| 1:11.5 | Straight out to Alexis Tereschuk, crime stories investigative reporter. |
| 1:15.6 | Alexis, this is what I know. |
| 1:17.1 | I know it's a state's witness, which means it's a witness that will testify against |
| 1:22.3 | David Anthony Burke, aka D4VD. |
| 1:25.9 | It's a female witness against Burke who is refusing to testify, |
| 1:31.3 | and she has lawyered up. She's got the same lawyer as the record exec that just got a, let's |
| 1:38.1 | see, technical legal term in front of the grand jury. Just wait, guys, until you hear what he said. |
| 1:46.1 | That said, she's lawyered up, female testifying against a four VD, refusing to come in, |
| 1:53.6 | and she's about to end up in the can, in the pokey, for her recalcitrance. What do you know? |
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