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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

D4VD Was Told She Was Thirteen — Prosecutors Say He Continued

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Riverside County deputies called David Anthony Burke. They conducted a welfare check. They told him Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a thirteen-year-old runaway. And according to the People's Brief filed this week, Burke allegedly responded by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one of Celeste's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a phone he'd bought — so he could stay in contact after her parents took hers away.

The filing describes a pattern that prosecutors say started when Celeste was eleven years old and escalated through international travel, weekends at Burke's Hollywood Hills home, and a sexual relationship that allegedly produced text messages about pregnancy, abortion, and Plan B — all pulled from Burke's own iCloud.

Celeste's family reported her missing to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department twice. Deputies contacted Burke both times. And prosecutors allege every system that should have caught what was happening failed to stop it.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the exploitation pattern prosecutors laid out, how a child was allegedly kept hidden in a celebrity's world, and why the abuse timeline is the foundation for the murder motive.

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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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