D4VD GOES RADIO SILENT AS CELESTE MURDER INVESTIGATION INTENSIFIES
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The night the decomposed remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found in David Anthony Burke's Tesla, police in Hempstead, Texas, were dispatched to Burke's parents' home.
After receiving a 911 call of shots fired, a woman screaming in the background, and a report of a dead person at the location, officers approach the house with guns drawn. Burke's shocked parents open the door, and Burke's father says, "Someone is messing with us."
The details adding fuel to the mystery of the death of the troubled girl as we learn deputies were called to her home 11 times in one year, including three times, March 19, 2024. This is the day Celeste is seen on surveillance video near a liquor store on the same block as her house, walk-running around 7 a.m.
The investigation escalated as investigators seized electronics and computers from Burke's rented Hollywood Hills mansion. Their purpose was to locate signs of blood.
Using Luminol, a chemical spray that reveals traces of blood, investigators focused their search on the floors, drains, and other surfaces inside the home.
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: When to work on a relationship and when to walk away” 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; X: @SF_Investigates (helping in the search for Riley)
- Scott Eicher - A founding member of the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (C.A.S.T); Historical Cellular Analysis Expert; Former FBI agent of 22 years; Former Police Officer and Homicide Detective with Norfolk Virginia Police Dept. having served 12 years; Currently with Precision Cellular Analysis handling Criminal, Defense and Civil case
- Jeffrey Gentry - Forensics-Certified Bloodstain Pattern Analyst, Sr. Crime Scene Analyst & Death Investigator, Former Toxicology Lab Analyst, Author: "Forensic Science: Applications to Death&Crime Scene Investigations" ; "Bloodstain Pattern Analysis" ; "Death Investigation: Information to Obtain During a Forensic Death Investigation;" TikTok:@jeffreygentryBPA, FB: Jeff Gentry Bloodstain Pattern Analyst
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of NEW Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue”, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Melissa McCarty - Reporter & Host of the “Killer Genes” Podcast, Author of “The Making of a Crime Reporter;" TikTok: McCarty143, Instagram: MelissaMcCarty1
- Dave Mack - Crime Stories, Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.4 | D4VD, aka David Burke, goes radio silent as the Celeste murder investigation boils over. |
| 0:20.6 | This is a Celeste body double rocks the investigation. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:27.6 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:28.7 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:31.1 | There is a dead body in there 150 feet away from his house. |
| 0:36.5 | Her body was an advanced state of decontosure. It's not just |
| 0:41.0 | a car. This is a car containing his girlfriends, allegedly, dead, dismembered body. As we go to air |
| 0:50.7 | tonight, David Burke, aka the artist known as David, but spelled D4VD, okay, |
| 0:57.7 | whatever, remains radio silent as the murder investigation into the little teen girl found |
| 1:06.4 | in his Tesla trunk boils over. |
| 1:10.7 | Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we are learning tonight. |
| 1:13.8 | But first, a new theory rocking online sleuths and beyond. |
| 1:19.9 | The theory that there is a body double being used. |
| 1:25.8 | Let me explain the theory. Melissa McCarty joining us, investigative reporter, |
| 1:31.5 | host of killer genes, and author of a book, The Making of a Crime Reporter, Melissa, |
| 1:36.2 | the working theory is that don't poo poo it. Melissa McCarty joining us, what is the body double theory? What's the story, Melissa? |
| 1:48.2 | Nancy, definitely plausible. I've seen similar elaborate cover-ups in other cases. Now, the sleuthing |
| 1:54.7 | is they are pretty much stripping everything he's ever done online. And one of the things, |
| 2:00.1 | not only the two Celeste theory, |
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