D4VD: What Prosecutors Allege Will Haunt This Case Forever
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Some filings lay out a theory. This one lays out an alleged horror.
Tony Brueski reads through the People's Brief against David Anthony Burke — the nine-page prosecution roadmap that the defense tried to seal and the judge made public. What Deputy DA Beth Silverman put on the record describes an alleged sexual relationship with a child that started at thirteen, a murder prosecutors say was driven by career preservation, and a cover-up so detailed that prosecutors say it included staged text messages to a dead girl's phone, Amazon orders under a fake name, three separate trips to a remote disposal site, and a teenage girl's dismembered body allegedly left in a Tesla for months.
The forensic evidence prosecutors describe is devastating — DNA in the garage, plastic fragments embedded in Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains matched to materials from Burke's home, and Celeste's own text messages now being used to build the case.
No guests. No filter. Just the filing, read in full, with Tony breaking down what every allegation and every piece of evidence means heading into the May 26 preliminary hearing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, it's been a little while since we've done a little breaking news story, but we got one for you right now. |
| 0:12.8 | In the David case, the document that was just dropped by the state of California and the evidence that they say they have against David. |
| 0:25.8 | Whoa. |
| 0:26.6 | Oh. |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.7 | And it's disturbing because just up until about a couple days ago, you could actually, your children could get the avatar of David on Fortnite and go play as |
| 0:39.9 | him, you know, killing people in the game. But the reality of what he did, allegedly, by the |
| 0:48.6 | state of California, oh my God. We're about to go through this document. I'm just going to read it for you. We'll probably |
| 0:56.4 | pause a couple times, but you're going to hear the whole damn thing and drop your thoughts in the |
| 1:03.4 | comment section on Substack and YouTube as we go through this. I want to let you know on Friday |
| 1:08.3 | morning on the show at 11 a.m. Central, we go live, |
| 1:12.4 | we go live every single day, 11A. Central on YouTube and X and Facebook. But join us, |
| 1:20.3 | Robin Drake, retired FBI special agency for the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program |
| 1:24.9 | and Jennifer Kaufen-da, retired FBI special agent, |
| 1:28.4 | both going to be on with me. We're going to go through this document, all three of us, |
| 1:34.1 | and break it all down. But I wanted to get it to you right now so you can kind of absorb this, |
| 1:38.6 | and then we'll do a full breakdown with our expert panel on Friday morning here on the podcast. All right. So before we get |
| 1:46.1 | into this, let's kind of set it up so you understand what this is. Let me tell you exactly |
| 1:50.0 | what you're about to hear. On April 29th, Deputy District Attorney, Beth Silverman, |
| 1:54.4 | filed a document called the People's Brief regarding preliminary hearing evidence in the case |
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