D4VD: Every System Failed Celeste Rivas Hernandez
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The charges against David Anthony Burke in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez are staggering — first-degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child, mutilation of remains. But the psychological questions underneath those charges start years before the alleged crime.
How does a 13-year-old end up living with a 19-year-old celebrity? How does an online connection on a Discord server allegedly evolve into cohabitation and exploitation? What does repeated runaway behavior actually mean — and what was Celeste running toward that made her so vulnerable to someone who allegedly knew exactly what to offer?
In this first part of a three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott brings more than three decades of clinical expertise to the table. She's worked in forensic settings, domestic violence shelters, and crisis teams. She's the author of The Minds of Mass Killers. And she sits down with Tony Brueski to dissect the conditions that allegedly allowed a child to disappear into a celebrity's orbit — while every system that should have intervened looked the other way.
This is about the before. The family dynamics. The platform accountability. The gap between a Lake Elsinore family and the Hollywood Hills. And the uncomfortable truth about why the "she fooled everyone" defense falls apart the moment you understand how exploitation actually works.
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| 0:39.8 | forensic demonstrations and dive deep into the criminal mind with your favourite authors, experts, |
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| 0:54.8 | CrimeCon London, partnered by True Crime Channel, 3rd and 4th of October, 2026. |
| 1:02.4 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Green. |
| 1:09.9 | So last day with Hernandez was reported missing three times in one year while she was allegedly |
| 1:18.1 | having some form of a relationship with artist David. She was 13 the first time she allegedly ran. |
| 1:27.1 | Some reports say that it might have been even earlier than that. |
| 1:30.7 | By 14, she was allegedly living inside a Hollywood Hill's home with a rising music star, seven years older. |
| 1:37.3 | The charges against David Anthony Burke are horrific. |
| 1:40.7 | But the part of the story that should terrify every parent listening is everything that |
| 1:44.4 | happened before. |
| 1:47.3 | A child disappeared into a celebrity's world, and nobody stopped it. |
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| 2:00.6 | Shavon Scott, psychotherapist, X, wherever you're watching us. |
| 2:05.2 | Shavon Scott, psychotherapist and author, is joining myself and Robin Drake, retired FBI Special Agency for the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. |
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