D4VD's Best Friend Fled the Country to Avoid Testifying
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Between the night Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly last seen alive and the day her remains were discovered in a tow yard in Hollywood, David Anthony Burke allegedly kept living his life. He reportedly traveled to a remote area of Santa Barbara in the middle of the night. He performed at Coachella. He released his debut album. He launched a world tour.
And the people around him — his manager, his close friend Neo Langston, his family — allegedly said nothing.
When the grand jury came calling, Neo Langston fled to Montana. He was arrested and extradited back to Los Angeles. Burke's parents filed court papers in Texas trying to block their own subpoenas. And for months, while the public demanded answers about a dead child found in a celebrity's car, the people closest to Burke reportedly stayed silent.
In Part 2 of this three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski to examine the psychology of that silence. What allows someone to allegedly perform for thousands of people while carrying knowledge of something this extreme? What does the alleged act of dismemberment reveal about someone's psychological state? What happens inside a person like Neo Langston when loyalty finally collapses into cooperation? And when a family fights this hard to avoid answering questions — is that love, denial, or something darker?
Scott has spent three decades in forensic mental health and violence psychology. She doesn't speculate. She reads behavior. And what the behavior in this case allegedly reveals is deeply disturbing.
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| 1:02.4 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Drey. |
| 1:09.0 | Let's continue our conversation. |
| 1:11.2 | Prosecutors alleged Celeste walk into David Burke's Hollywood Hills home on April 23rd, |
| 1:15.8 | 2025 and was never heard from again. |
| 1:19.3 | Her dismembered remains turned up months later in his Tesla in between Burke reportedly |
| 1:23.8 | made a middle of the night trip to a remote spot in Santa Barbara, performed at Coachella, you know, like you do, after someone's missing or dead in your presence, released a debut album or was about to, and launched a world tour, including a show in Minneapolis the same night her body was found in Los Angeles. The charges are brutal, but the thing that eats at people |
| 1:45.8 | is the silence, the months of normal, the people who knew him and said nothing. And the question, |
| 1:51.4 | nobody can shake, how? And let's get into this. He was on stage in Minneapolis the night her body |
| 1:58.1 | was found in the trunk in L.A. months of shows, smiling, |
| 2:02.6 | performing his love songs. I think that's the interesting thing. We were just talking in our last |
| 2:08.2 | segment about this way of thinking, about the compartmentalization that people of this age seem to |
| 2:15.8 | have because it's just the atmosphere of which they grow up in, |
| 2:18.8 | especially if it's mainly online, the lack of depth. When also you have the lack of depth, |
| 2:23.9 | I think you also seem to lack the ability to understand the weight of the events that are |
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