D4VD Toured for Months. His Circle Said Nothing.
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Prosecutors allege David Anthony Burke performed on a world tour for months after Celeste Rivas Hernandez was allegedly killed — including the night her body was discovered in Los Angeles. His close friend Neo Langston fled to Montana rather than testify before a grand jury. His parents tried to quash their subpoenas. His manager testified over several days. And through all of it — months of public silence while a family grieved and a community demanded accountability.
In Part 2 of a three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the psychology behind the alleged coverup and the wall of silence that surrounded this case for months. What psychological mechanisms allow someone to allegedly compartmentalize extreme violence and maintain a public persona? What does the behavior of those in Burke's orbit — the fleeing, the legal maneuvering, the eventual cooperation — reveal about what they were carrying? And when loyalty to a friend allegedly crosses the line into enabling the concealment of a child's death — what drives that choice?
Scott brings over 30 years of clinical experience in trauma, violence psychology, and forensic mental health to this conversation with Tony Brueski. She's the author of The Minds of Mass Killers and has sat across from both victims and perpetrators of violence throughout her career. She reads the behavior in this case the way only someone with her depth of experience can — and what she sees is chilling.
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| 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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