D4VD Wrote a Song Called Romantic Homicide. Then This.
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
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"Romantic Homicide." That's the name of the song that made David Anthony Burke famous. Lyrics about killing someone in the back of his mind and not regretting it. An unreleased track that reportedly references "Celeste" by name and describes obsession. A music video with a dark-haired girl and blood. An album called "Withered."
And now, charges that include first-degree murder, continuous sexual acts with a child under 14, lying in wait, and mutilation of remains — with prosecutors alleging a financial motive tied directly to protecting the career that produced all of that art.
In Part 3 of this three-part interview series, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to confront the question at the center of this case: Is David Burke a young person who made a catastrophic mistake, or does the combination of the charges, the alleged pattern of behavior, and the creative output point to something fundamentally darker?
Scott examines the psychological significance of art that this closely mirrors the violence its creator is later charged with. She unpacks what it means when someone is allegedly linked publicly to a missing child and reportedly shows no reaction. She addresses the "young and dumb" defense head-on — and explains why the pattern of allegations described by prosecutors is inconsistent with impulsivity. And she speaks directly to what this case does to the millions of young fans who built a piece of their identity around Burke's music.
This is the installment that goes where most people are afraid to look.
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| 1:06.9 | Robin Drey. Let's go to another piece of this case. |
| 1:11.5 | Some people want to call this a tragic mistake by a kid who was in over his head. |
| 1:16.1 | David Burke, he was 21. |
| 1:17.8 | His fans point out he was barely an adult when all this allegedly started, but prosecutors |
| 1:22.2 | didn't charge a scared kid. |
| 1:23.7 | They charged a first-degree murder with special circumstances, lying in weight, financial motive, murdering a witness, a continuous S-axe, mutilation of remains, and then there's the music, romantic homicide. What a fitting track for a person with these accusations against him. |
| 1:41.3 | An unreleased track, reportedly naming Celeste, a video with a dark-haired |
| 1:45.7 | girl in blood and someone going into a trunk dead. And an album called Withered. So which is it? |
| 1:52.2 | A young man who panicked or someone who the art was warning us about. Shavon Scott, psychotherapist, |
| 1:59.7 | an author with us today. |
| 2:01.6 | As always, also Robin Drake, retired FBI Special Agency for the Counterintelligence |
| 2:06.6 | Behavioral Analysis Program. |
| 2:08.6 | Let's start with the music, Romantic Homicide. |
| 2:12.6 | I mean, yeah, I mean, and this is released years before all this happened, and it wasn't like it happened, then he wrote the song. |
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