D4VD: The Cover-Up, the Exploitation, and the Retreat
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Everything the prosecution plans to present against David Anthony Burke — laid out in a nine-page filing made public over the defense's objection.
The People's Brief describes what prosecutors call a premeditated cover-up: staged texts to a dead girl's phone, purchases under the fake name "Victoria Mendez," three trips to a disposal site, and forensic evidence tying an inflatable pool to Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains.
It describes years of alleged exploitation — a child met at eleven, a sexual relationship at thirteen, international travel at fourteen, and a thousand dollars paid to a classmate to maintain contact after Celeste's parents took her phone.
And it reveals a defense in retreat. Blair Berk demanded a fast hearing. The discovery started arriving — wiretap results, forty terabytes, fifty-four search warrants. The defense asked for a delay. They tried to seal the brief. Both requests denied.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski for a three-part breakdown of the prosecution's blueprint, the grooming timeline, and what the defense reversal tells us heading into the May 26 preliminary hearing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree. |
| 0:08.8 | Here we are. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office just filed a nine-page brief laying out in public for the first time. |
| 0:16.7 | Exactly what they say, David, D4VD, David Anthony Burke, did to Celeste Rebus Hernandez. |
| 0:24.4 | Not a leak, not an unnamed source. |
| 0:26.5 | Deputy DA Beth Silverman put her name on it, and what it describes isn't just an alleged |
| 0:31.3 | murder. |
| 0:32.4 | It's an alleged cover-up that prosecutors say started within minutes of Celeste's arrival at Berks Hollywood Hills home |
| 0:40.1 | and stretched on four months staged text messages a fake name on Amazon orders three trips to a |
| 0:48.1 | remote highway in the middle of the night and a teenage girl's body left to decompose in a Tesla |
| 0:53.1 | parked just around the corner. |
| 0:56.4 | We're going to go through all of it today, as promised. |
| 1:00.0 | Robin Drake, retired FBI special agency for the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program |
| 1:03.9 | is with us. |
| 1:04.7 | And Jennifer Coffendaffer, retired FBI special agent, break the case, Jennifer Coffendaffer, |
| 1:09.4 | the podcast, get it wherever you get |
| 1:11.3 | podcasts and on YouTube. As promised, I've been excited to have both of you on here to break |
| 1:17.8 | all this down because when this thing came out yesterday, oh, yeah. Yeah, no kidding. |
| 1:25.4 | The email's flying, because Tony forwarded us all the court docs last night, I was like, oh, my God. I did a piece on it yesterday. I just read through it verbatim. And there's so many times I went through it, I'm like, Coffendaffer was right on that. Coffendaffer was right on this. Coffindaffer, because you really have called most of this for what it is. |
| 1:45.2 | It really kind of has been Occam's razor on this one where it's like, if it looks like it looks like it, it probably is. And it seems like it was. I'm going to poke at you a little, Jen. I think it's even worse than you thought it was. Could be. Oh, my God. He is horrible. I mean, prosecutors say Burke texted Celeste's phone at 10.30 p.m. asking where she was. |
| 2:03.5 | She was doing the classic, oh, I just killed her, but if I call her phone, it couldn't possibly |
| 2:08.3 | be me because I'm wondering where she is. That's my alibi. At least that's what the attempt was. |
| 2:14.6 | They're calling it premeditative cover for the story. Let's start there, Jen, |
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