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D4VD's Grooming Pattern Prosecutors Just Put on Record

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Tony Brueski

True Crime, News, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The People's Brief filed against David Anthony Burke this week doesn't just describe an alleged murder. It describes what prosecutors call years of calculated exploitation of a child.

According to the filing, Burke met Celeste Rivas Hernandez when she was eleven years old. By thirteen, prosecutors allege they were in a sexual relationship. By fourteen, she was allegedly spending summers at his Hollywood Hills home and traveling with him internationally — while people around Burke reportedly had no idea she was underage.

The brief details how Burke was contacted by law enforcement after Celeste was reported missing, how deputies told him she was thirteen during a welfare check, and how he allegedly responded by paying a classmate a thousand dollars to deliver a phone so he could maintain contact after her parents stepped in.

Prosecutors are building the murder motive directly on this foundation — alleging Burke killed Celeste because she was the witness to his own crimes and threatened to expose the relationship that could end his career.

Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what the exploitation pattern reveals and how investigators connect it to the night Celeste allegedly died.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink.

0:07.8

The brief, the document that just dropped in the David case doesn't just describe an alleged murder.

0:14.3

It describes a prosecutor say was years of exploitation.

0:18.9

David Anthony Burke allegedly met Celeste Revis Hernandez when she was just

0:23.2

11 years old. By 13 prosecutors say they were in a S relationship. By 14, she was allegedly

0:31.3

spending weekends at his Hollywood Hills home traveling with him to Las Vegas, London, and Texas.

0:36.7

And people in his circle reportedly believe she was 19 years old, a 19-year-old college student.

0:42.5

She was actually in middle school, in seventh grade.

0:46.2

And every system that should have caught this allegedly did not catch this.

0:53.0

Joining me to discuss Robin Drake, retired special agent and Jennifer Kaufendaff,

0:57.5

a retired FBI special agent as we continue to break this case down.

1:01.6

Let's go here after law enforcement told Burke directly that Celeste was a 13-year-old runaway

1:07.6

when they made their call to him, kind of, you know, poking him a little bit,

1:12.3

tickling the wire. Yeah, I've learned a, would this be considered a tickling the wire where

1:17.7

they're just kind of poking a little bit, you know, shaking the wire? They say prosecutors,

1:23.7

prosecutors said that he drove to Lake Elsinore and paid one of her classmates a thousand

1:28.7

dollars to deliver a phone that he'd bought for her because her parents had taken hers.

1:34.9

Well, that's the first thing in this story that we've heard of some sort of parental activity

1:38.5

on her parents' part of taking her phone away. But then he finds a way in. I mean, kids are crafty this way.

1:45.8

This is not necessarily anything super unique. Kids do this sort of stuff a lot.

1:49.6

Not necessarily paying each other $1,000 to do it, but they find their ways around roadblocks.

1:56.3

What does that tell you here about what is going on? And also, I guess, consciousness of guilt that he is looking at this and knowing that it's wrong.

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