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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

CLOSING IN: REPORTS D4VD FINALLY VIEWED AS SUSPECT, TEEN CELESTE'S BODY IN TRUNK, HAD 'HELP' DISMEMBERING

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Shocking information uncovered by the LAPD has the investigation spotlight finally pointing on David Anthony Burke.

Investigators have developed new information leading to the belief that Celeste likely died in the spring of this year, and the death is being tentatively treated as a possible homicide, but officials are waiting on an official cause of death from the medical examiner.

The LAPD has been working on a timeline of activity for Celeste Rivas Hernandez and Burke, and an insider with the police investigation says they have been able to determine that in the spring of this year, Burke took a secret trip in the middle of the night to a remote area of Santa Barbara County. Burke remains in the area for several hours.

As Burke becomes a suspect in the possible homicide of a child, police say it is likely Burke had help in dismembering and disposing of Celeste’s body. Burke still has not made a public announcement about Celeste being found in his car, and after initially saying Burke was cooperating with the investigation, the singer has not been cooperative during the last two months.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

  • Jo-Anna Nieves - Criminal Defense Attorney and Founder of The Nieves Law Firm; Instagram, Facebook and X: nieveslawfirm, YouTube and TikTok: thenieveslawfirm
  • Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter - Clinical Psychologist Specializing in Psychological Evaluations and Risk Assessments for Individuals Involved in the Criminal Justice System, Author of, “Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addition,” and “Aftershock: How Past Event Shake Up Your Life Today;" Producer of “Utter Nonsense,” a documentary of exploration of addition and severe mental illness, available to stream on Apple TV and Prime Video; Instagram & Facebook: DrGeriLynnUtter
  • Moses Castillo - Private Investigator for the Dordulian Law Group, Former Supervisor Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department
  • Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author of "Blood Beneath My Feet," and Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" Instagram @JoScottForensic,
  • Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories’

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:08.6

Closing in.

0:10.6

Reports are surfacing that the musician D4VD, known as David, David Anthony Burke,

0:17.7

is finally being viewed as a suspect in teen girl Celeste's murder.

0:24.5

Her body found in his Tesla trunk amidst more reports, the killer had help dismembering the little

0:34.4

girl.

0:35.3

I'm Nancy Grace.

0:36.5

This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. Oh, yo, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, look it. Answer that one. That's so mean if you don't answer. Which one? Which one? We don't even know really when Celeste was last seen alive. We don't know how long she was dead for. We don't know how Celeste died. We know that she was dismembered, but how did she die?

0:56.3

It's obviously a homicide.

0:59.2

Reports emerging from sources within the LAPD

1:04.3

that musician David Anthony Burke,

1:08.4

aka D4VD, David, is finally being viewed as a suspect in the murder of teen girl Celeste's death.

1:17.8

As we all recall, her body found largely decomposed in his trunk.

1:25.8

That vehicle moved and moved and moved from one spot to the next within a ritzie

1:32.7

neighborhood. Why? Because we know the owners of those mega mansions would report the filthy car

1:42.1

as being parked outside their home. So someone was moving and moving and

1:48.0

moving D4VD's Tesla inside Celeste's decomposing body. What has changed? What has happened? Why is

1:57.8

D4VD David now reportedly being viewed as a suspect?

2:03.8

Will this result in murder charges?

2:06.0

How can this be without a toxicology report as of yet?

2:09.8

But to Dave Matt, Crime Stories investigative reporter, what I consider to be really validating

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