D4VD DEFENSE BOMBSHELL: CELESTE WASN’T 'KILLED' BY ANYONE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Private Investigator Steve Fischer is on the David Anthony Burke case out of Hollywood, California, investigating what took place in a mansion rented by Burke and his manager.
The owner of the mansion tasks Fischer with determining if Celeste ever stayed in the mansion and when the last time she was seen on the property was. During this PI job, Steve uncovers strange, sadistic items allegedly even for a Hollywood mansion. Fischer turned the items over to LAPD.
Bottles of prescription pain medication and drug paraphernalia are recovered again, not by LAPD when they served a search warrant after Celeste was identified as the body found in Burke's Tesla, but by Private Investigator Steve Fischer.
During the time Burke was living in the mansion, other people were staying there, as well as men and women. Their personal belongings were recovered in the guest bedrooms, bathroom cabinets, and bedside tables.
Fischer has been studying surveillance footage, talking to neighbors, and gathering a timeline around Celeste and Burke's Tesla to determine when she was last alive.
Burke was in town the day the unkempt Tesla was last moved, July 29. Fischer has identified the driver.
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. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker," and featured in hit show "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
- Steve Fischer - Missing Persons Private Investigator, Search & Rescue Specialist, & Owner of Search Investigations [He has been hired by the owner of the Hollywood Hills property where D4vd had been staying to look into this case - he was at the house just a few days ago]; Facebook: SearchInvestigations, X: @SF_Investigates
- 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)
- Luke Kenton - Senior Reporter, Daily Mail
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories’
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.6 | A D4VD, David Burke, defense bombshell. |
| 0:17.0 | Teen Girl Celeste wasn't killed by anyone? |
| 0:21.6 | Then how does she end up dead and dismembered |
| 0:26.6 | ND4VD, Berks, Tesla? |
| 0:30.6 | How does that happen? |
| 0:32.6 | Am I hearing now that no one will be held accountable |
| 0:36.6 | for this little girl's death and dismemberment, |
| 0:40.5 | much less leaving her out in the hot weather in a car trunk to rot? |
| 0:46.3 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:48.3 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:49.3 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:51.3 | A dead body in your trunk can really hurt your reputation. |
| 0:56.5 | Did he ever report his Tesla missing? |
| 0:59.4 | Absolutely not. |
| 1:00.7 | Okay, did he ever report Celeste missing? |
| 1:03.9 | Absolutely not. |
| 1:07.1 | Is this real? |
| 1:10.0 | Has this enormous gift to the defense just dropped into their lap? It all goes to a myriad of pill bottles found in D4VD, aka David Anthony Burke's home. |
| 1:29.3 | A myriad of pill bottles belonging we here to a myriad of people that were living there in and out and in and out. |
| 1:40.3 | Based on those pill bottles and so far a lack of a COD cause of death, does this mean no one will answer up for a dead, teen girl decomposing in a hot car trunk? |
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