Celeste Rivas Hernandez was reported missing three separate times before she was allegedly last seen alive walking into David Burke's Hollywood Hills home. She was 13 the first time. Fourteen the last.

Her parents are immigrants from El Salvador. They lived in Lake Elsinore — a world apart from the $20,000-a-month rental in the Hollywood Hills where their daughter allegedly ended up living with a rising music star. And nobody in any system — not law enforcement, not the platforms where the connection reportedly began, not the adults in Burke's orbit who saw a young girl living with a famous man — stepped in.

In this first installment of a three-part interview series, psychotherapist and violence psychology expert Shavaun Scott sits down with Tony Brueski to examine the before. Not the charges — the conditions. How does a child become this vulnerable? What does repeated runaway behavior actually signal about what's happening inside a home? How does prior exploitation by other adults create a pattern that makes the next predator's job easier? And why is the narrative that Celeste "fooled everyone" with fake IDs not just wrong — but dangerous?

Scott brings more than three decades of clinical experience working with both victims and perpetrators of violence. She's the author of The Minds of Mass Killers. She's worked in domestic violence shelters, forensic settings, and crisis teams. And she has no interest in being polite about what went wrong here.

This conversation is about the failures that came before the crime — and why those failures keep repeating.

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